WEBVTT 00:00.890 --> 00:05.900 Either in this election, we're going to have a look at Larsons opening, also sometimes called the 00:05.900 --> 00:07.270 Nimsoft launched an attack. 00:07.610 --> 00:13.670 So it's one of my favorite weapons of choice instead of 844 or the English opening, which is CIFOR, 00:13.670 --> 00:20.130 you can play Be Free, a wild maverick move to try and get the opponent on their own resources and off 00:20.150 --> 00:24.890 quite often found fantastic results with this with these unusual moves. 00:24.890 --> 00:30.220 But Lawson, if you look him up, scored nearly 75 per cent with white with be free. 00:30.230 --> 00:34.940 This was a much higher win percentage than his other more standard openings. 00:35.240 --> 00:38.150 And he has a reasonable sample number of games of this. 00:38.360 --> 00:40.400 And it's against world class obsession. 00:40.640 --> 00:44.960 And we're not talking about bullets as we're talking about Classico one day chess. 00:45.350 --> 00:50.150 So if it works for loss and I mean, it's a dangerous weapon of choice. 00:50.690 --> 00:55.280 And also I covered actually Nakamura when he won the ICC open. 00:55.280 --> 00:55.970 It's on YouTube. 00:55.970 --> 01:02.630 If you want to find that Nakamura wins ICC open Kings Cross, there's over an hour and a half of example 01:02.630 --> 01:04.240 games that you could just play for. 01:04.570 --> 01:08.690 You know, if you want to have a look at that video for how to play, be free. 01:08.690 --> 01:14.350 And also he played it, you know, B6 with black as well, and he was crushing grandmasters with it. 01:15.080 --> 01:20.420 For me, it's a great point scorer because quite often there's pressure points, the Kingside and quite 01:20.420 --> 01:25.730 often I play it in a certain attacking flavor like this where I can if I move my airport, I can move 01:25.730 --> 01:30.170 my queen here or here and I'm off the meeting on G7 or getting really vicious attacks. 01:30.680 --> 01:33.140 Certainly it's one of my big point scores with White. 01:33.640 --> 01:37.700 I find that in general, the more you can get the opponents improvising, you find out the difference 01:37.910 --> 01:42.770 between those players that have a really solid understanding of chess in terms of opening the game and 01:42.770 --> 01:46.730 then game and those which may be spread too much time memorizing stuff. 01:47.600 --> 01:52.400 You know, those guys that spend time memorizing stuff, they're your targets, especially if you play 01:52.400 --> 01:57.860 Maverick, OK, things like B for a night C free or Jeoffrey had over 50 percent as well. 01:57.860 --> 02:03.890 Banquo's opening Benko himself, Pål Benko, you know, beat talent Fisher with Jeoffrey. 02:03.890 --> 02:06.530 So sometimes there's nothing wrong with these maverick moves. 02:06.710 --> 02:07.700 They're actually quiet. 02:09.140 --> 02:14.990 They're very, very interesting to to consider before is one of the most solid, unusual opening choices. 02:15.320 --> 02:16.730 It's got the great thing. 02:16.730 --> 02:18.080 You know, Ben Lawson behind it. 02:18.080 --> 02:22.010 He was one of the strongest players in the Western world, along with Fisher. 02:23.660 --> 02:30.740 OK, he did lose to Fisher s.L in the run up to Fisher, challenging Spassky in the nineteen seventy 02:30.740 --> 02:31.790 two world championship match. 02:32.090 --> 02:36.410 But nevertheless, you know, he's one of the greatest players in the West the at the time and before 02:36.410 --> 02:38.090 he sold them extremely well. 02:38.450 --> 02:41.450 So I have a few names rations to show you here. 02:42.050 --> 02:49.160 So the modern ration e5 this tries to blunt the back up and what you can do is hit that pawn and play 02:49.160 --> 02:50.660 a modest looking move here. 02:50.660 --> 02:57.500 Believe it or not, you can play fres if you're playing almost a reverse Nîmes engine. 02:57.500 --> 03:01.220 The so you're controlling key squares here. 03:02.510 --> 03:09.320 And in fact the priority is just to pin potentially this night to say they played the five, then you 03:09.320 --> 03:11.270 can get this pin and it looks like a reverse. 03:11.270 --> 03:12.350 Them's the engine, the fans. 03:12.680 --> 03:13.700 You're renewing the frats. 03:13.700 --> 03:15.170 A bishop takes five. 03:16.010 --> 03:17.750 So this is very, very interesting stuff. 03:18.350 --> 03:24.620 So if Bishop desex, then they've interrupted the DFI -- and you complain to move C4. 03:24.620 --> 03:27.590 And it leads to very, very interesting games indeed. 03:28.400 --> 03:34.580 Also here after E3, if they play, might have sex then. 03:35.090 --> 03:47.120 So after be free of to be free of E3 rather E3 if they play night of sex, hair or move free, then 03:47.120 --> 03:50.150 we have Bishop B five here and let's say they defend the --. 03:50.150 --> 03:53.150 This is one of the main moves that looks strange, but this one of the main moves. 03:53.570 --> 03:59.150 I've played this for myself on a recommendation from my good friend and Teflon, but you still need 03:59.150 --> 04:01.130 to know what you're doing after a free. 04:01.140 --> 04:08.540 I later discovered because of this kind of frat's of nights before it's awkward, black actually theoretically 04:08.540 --> 04:14.930 plays quite often, you know, a five that just purry that four out of ninety four. 04:15.380 --> 04:18.470 So yeah, you need to know the theory of both sides. 04:18.470 --> 04:22.760 It can be a really, really dangerous weapon of choice of the white pieces. 04:23.060 --> 04:27.730 Let's go back and look at BFC with the classic Liberacion D5. 04:27.740 --> 04:29.630 Now this way does your favor. 04:29.900 --> 04:35.990 If your opponent has --'s on line squares, the adjacent squares, you can often grip them tighter 04:37.310 --> 04:39.410 and you can even just play nice Afri. 04:39.410 --> 04:41.630 And we're in a kind of Nîmes Olofsson territory. 04:42.290 --> 04:45.320 Nîmes used to start games with knights and free. 04:45.320 --> 04:49.520 The great acronyms of my system started games of my friend. 04:49.520 --> 04:54.730 If they played the and also, you know, Vladimir Kramnik, you know, would often play no. 04:54.750 --> 04:58.160 Our friend, if they play different play, be free because you're getting that nice thought. 04:58.230 --> 04:59.960 Screengrab with --'s. 05:00.070 --> 05:04.100 Online squares, that grip is, you know, unchallenged. 05:04.120 --> 05:05.800 So that's a very interesting idea. 05:06.520 --> 05:12.820 So basically, you know, be free DFI, you can just play this very solid position. 05:12.910 --> 05:14.170 Move movements have free. 05:14.800 --> 05:21.460 Now, if they play night after things, that's the called the Indian version named after like, you 05:21.460 --> 05:26.740 know, using King's Indian names and, you know, ethics, the noncommittal in terms of a poor move 05:26.740 --> 05:29.510 which Pomers irreversible, noncommittal lifesavings. 05:29.920 --> 05:32.470 English is like a reverse English like the English version. 05:32.830 --> 05:36.160 Dutch is like a Dutch defense against boofheads, the Dutch version. 05:36.700 --> 05:44.020 Now ESX, you can actually transpose it here if they play D5, you can play a Reti gambit so this you 05:44.020 --> 05:45.220 can get from a different move. 05:45.220 --> 05:50.500 Or you know, when you play the French defense you can play a Ratti, but which is in the Gambit session, 05:50.500 --> 05:55.180 if you sort of 846 be freed these five different move order. 05:55.450 --> 06:02.340 And if they sat set the pawn and try to cling onto it so hard they get can get really in big, big trouble. 06:02.950 --> 06:07.600 So that's why your transpositional knowledge actually comes in handy. 06:07.900 --> 06:14.050 The more you know in terms of different things and different pawn structures, the more you can advantageously 06:14.050 --> 06:16.310 transpose into stuff, you know? 06:16.750 --> 06:23.430 So, yeah, if they play ESX like the French defense and then they play D5. 06:23.440 --> 06:23.620 Yeah. 06:23.620 --> 06:29.590 Bishop BE2 is a very, very exciting Rhatigan, but they might not have a clue about this possession 06:29.590 --> 06:30.790 after 93. 06:31.090 --> 06:34.330 So hopefully they do cling on to the pawn and you do blast them off. 06:34.330 --> 06:42.130 The board at C6 is like if they like trying to like they have a favor for the correction setups, there 06:42.130 --> 06:43.350 might be a correction plan. 06:43.360 --> 06:46.030 So if I see Sang's that's fine. 06:46.270 --> 06:49.980 You can still think Hatake Bishop you don't have to play this game here. 06:50.020 --> 06:56.050 It's a bit unsound, but given they've got --'s on positionally, you can go back to positional play 06:56.050 --> 06:59.310 and I'm not afraid just trying to intensify your dance. 06:59.320 --> 06:59.980 Choire grap. 07:01.180 --> 07:03.430 So this is, you know, potentially very nice. 07:03.430 --> 07:05.980 You know, maybe every defoliated should be free. 07:06.760 --> 07:14.070 And later if you have that stance quite a grip, you can even have a nine to five later an attack, 07:14.500 --> 07:18.220 very, a very good prospect for anaesthetize. 07:19.210 --> 07:23.230 So they might be cheeky and play the symmetrical variation. 07:23.230 --> 07:23.770 Fine. 07:25.720 --> 07:28.450 OK, the Polish fine. 07:29.480 --> 07:32.590 Ninety six is a variant of the defense. 07:32.590 --> 07:33.070 Fine. 07:34.540 --> 07:36.460 But anyway there's a lot of be behind. 07:36.460 --> 07:41.710 I certainly use it as one of my main weapons of choice, especially at the far the time Petrov's online 07:41.710 --> 07:43.090 in Blitz, Blitz and Bullett. 07:43.420 --> 07:52.060 So yeah, it's consistent with my own opening preferences and bias's this course. 07:53.230 --> 07:57.190 So you know, that's why also there's a strong Taxco bias in this course. 07:57.190 --> 08:02.080 I do want to make you guys tactical monsters in this course, even though it's because, of course, 08:02.320 --> 08:08.950 I believe that's the fastest way you'll see the passion and the glory of chess if you become a tactical 08:08.950 --> 08:14.830 monster from the mental game processes section in particular, and bolster that with the patterns, 08:14.830 --> 08:16.120 the game patterns section. 08:16.420 --> 08:21.520 And you have your basics, you know, covered in other sections and then but work your way outwards. 08:21.520 --> 08:24.780 Those outer circles work with the beginner sections. 08:24.940 --> 08:32.980 First, try and get a basic grounding in opening the game and then then later revisit these intermediate 08:32.980 --> 08:33.550 sections. 08:33.910 --> 08:36.250 But yeah, this is a great weapon of choice for me. 08:36.820 --> 08:41.860 I felt, you know, because opponents are not, you know, especially those bookworms, those memorizers, 08:42.190 --> 08:46.840 they think chess is all about memorizing opening theory because that's been hyped up by the chess industry. 08:47.140 --> 08:48.130 It's not ready. 08:48.130 --> 08:52.480 It's more about, for me, chess understanding. 08:52.990 --> 08:59.380 If you understand the philosophies, especially the powerful philosophies which I've tried to put across 08:59.380 --> 09:00.970 in various sections. 09:01.420 --> 09:06.220 You know, for example, in the opening, put yourself beyond the people going onto the attack and the 09:06.220 --> 09:08.320 basic principles that arise from that philosophy. 09:08.320 --> 09:13.960 If you can see those philosophies and principles, you're in a much better position to be a strong maverick, 09:13.960 --> 09:19.600 you know, like Bangalore's or Benko having fantastic results with unusual openings because you haven't 09:19.600 --> 09:23.650 spent all your time memorizing, you know, opening ferry. 09:24.640 --> 09:29.050 And there's a famous quote by Daniel King. 09:29.050 --> 09:33.070 You know, he wish he hadn't spent so much time learning. 09:33.070 --> 09:34.810 All the races are silly in my life. 09:35.080 --> 09:40.540 And in fact, if you play the cell in the fans, there's so many anti caecilians for people wanting 09:40.540 --> 09:41.740 to avoid opening Feri. 09:42.160 --> 09:44.050 It sometimes makes this whole thing. 09:44.320 --> 09:46.900 You do a lot of work in Chason with very little gain. 09:46.900 --> 09:53.770 Sometimes you've really got to wait until you're at that level of competition where you need to have 09:53.770 --> 09:55.270 sharper and sharper openings. 09:55.480 --> 09:59.740 Even Bobby Fischer carried through the Kings Indian attack system with White. 10:00.260 --> 10:05.060 You know, you know, avoiding a lot of opening very, you know, in the French, playing different 10:05.060 --> 10:06.020 things in that system. 10:06.260 --> 10:12.350 So Lawson, you know, he is a great example, one of those mavericks and the opening and his statistics 10:12.350 --> 10:19.010 are phenomenal, basically to have nearly 75 percent win right over a decent sample of games, very 10:19.010 --> 10:20.270 decent time control. 10:20.900 --> 10:23.290 You know, that didn't exist that time. 10:23.300 --> 10:25.100 It's it's just the great opening. 10:25.430 --> 10:28.490 So if you want to find game examples, yeah. 10:28.490 --> 10:32.660 There are two major sources that listen, have a look at them on chess. 10:32.670 --> 10:38.180 Gamescom, go to space and have a look how he plays with the white pieces and be free to check out those 10:38.180 --> 10:38.600 games. 10:38.780 --> 10:46.160 And also, you know, the ICC, Nakamura winning the ICC Open Channel and the Kings Cross your channel. 10:46.160 --> 10:52.010 So it's a very, very interesting thing I felt personally. 10:53.090 --> 11:02.630 I got an informational advantage for sure, by studying those Nakamura games and also I you know, I 11:02.630 --> 11:06.100 felt at every point interest you can learn more and more. 11:06.110 --> 11:12.590 I should really myself be studying more of the last 10 games to see more perhaps the positional treatments. 11:13.010 --> 11:19.610 And also, you know, Kramnik transposing into this, you know, via a free Vladimir Crumley, a former 11:19.610 --> 11:22.300 world champion, playing this with great success in some games. 11:22.700 --> 11:25.130 So it's a very, very formidable weapon. 11:25.520 --> 11:30.530 Even if you want to play the Ratti opening to start off with nine Afri, which is the Ratti opening 11:31.160 --> 11:34.220 named after its Ratti, you can transpose quite often into this. 11:34.520 --> 11:40.700 So be aware of these powerful transitions between opening's and game is everything you learn is like 11:40.700 --> 11:46.120 almost like transposed into each other and you want to get better versions of things sometimes. 11:46.520 --> 11:51.770 So some regard this as a good version of events because if the opponent's putting pawns on like squares, 11:51.770 --> 11:54.740 you're going to get that juicy dance going grab later. 11:55.220 --> 11:57.390 OK, so be free. 11:57.590 --> 11:58.840 Very, very interesting move. 11:59.540 --> 12:04.490 I'll definitely recommend that for fun entertainment and learning about chess generally. 12:04.910 --> 12:06.680 OK, that's very much.