WEBVTT 00:01.260 --> 00:03.420 Hi there in this sector online. 00:03.460 --> 00:07.010 Give you a brief overview and summary of the Corica on the fence. 00:07.320 --> 00:13.140 So when you play EFORE and they play C6, this can be the start of the second defense, especially if 00:13.140 --> 00:16.570 you play the main line defore the five. 00:16.590 --> 00:19.320 This is Corrick on defense main line. 00:20.040 --> 00:27.000 So the Kocon defense was described in the Queen's Gambit series on that Netflix as all pawns and no 00:27.000 --> 00:27.390 hope. 00:28.000 --> 00:32.190 I think it's actually quite a good weapon of choice for the player with the black pieces. 00:32.460 --> 00:36.570 It doesn't suffer the so-called bad bishop of the French defense. 00:37.020 --> 00:42.180 The bishop at least, is kept more active in the coracle, in the French defense. 00:42.210 --> 00:44.340 By contrast, you see the bishops close. 00:44.380 --> 00:50.940 Then the correction at least tries to keep this bishop on C8 kind of active quite often. 00:50.940 --> 00:56.400 The Kate Bishop and a variety of different things can be a problem piece for black. 00:57.120 --> 00:58.320 So bear that in mind. 00:58.350 --> 01:04.740 There are quite a lot of important strategies to do of trying to keep this C8 bishop locked in to its 01:04.740 --> 01:05.580 own -- chain. 01:05.820 --> 01:06.960 But here, the correction. 01:06.960 --> 01:11.720 In contrast, the French defense does give priority to that bishop being active. 01:12.240 --> 01:15.330 So what do you do here so well, after C6? 01:15.330 --> 01:17.280 Yeah, the main move is DeFore. 01:17.790 --> 01:19.830 So this is a principled opening move. 01:19.830 --> 01:24.540 They want to try and get two points to the center to look at those central squares. 01:25.590 --> 01:34.620 We see black most often playing D5 and now here you can either play 93 or 92 in the main variations. 01:35.580 --> 01:36.690 There are other stuff. 01:36.690 --> 01:38.220 I mean, there's other fun stuff. 01:38.220 --> 01:41.220 We'll have a look at that soon at. 01:43.240 --> 01:49.800 What else we can do it move free, but let's say we stick with these two main moves that move free, 01:50.250 --> 01:57.390 so noisy, free now black complaint details e4 after nine states, they can bring that out like this. 01:57.930 --> 02:01.730 And there's a lot of theory here in the so-called classical variation. 02:02.310 --> 02:09.000 So quite often, you know, it goes back and then moves like eight four eight six. 02:10.300 --> 02:16.690 My free 97 might be this one's quite common and, you know, sometimes the bishops chase back an exchange 02:16.750 --> 02:19.620 off and the ferry goes on and on and on. 02:19.720 --> 02:23.320 You need to look at ideally important monster games. 02:23.680 --> 02:30.830 But the classical version has been well worked out and is thought to be pretty playable for both sides. 02:30.940 --> 02:36.060 You've got to know the kind of imbalances and how they match your personality and interests. 02:36.490 --> 02:42.940 So if you like solid, reliable positions without any structural issues, the classical variation could 02:42.940 --> 02:48.700 be the one for you to choose with black for whites, you know the imbalances you might like the extra 02:48.700 --> 02:54.110 space and playing on with constant in Queensland later. 02:54.490 --> 02:59.970 So there is stuff of interest for both sides to find out about as well. 03:00.340 --> 03:08.320 So the classical version is that with that Bishop five, there's also the modern version with 97 and 03:08.320 --> 03:13.900 there's no trap in the trap section I've mentioned, which is Queene to foster time controls if they 03:13.900 --> 03:14.410 play this. 03:14.410 --> 03:21.760 Just to recap on that, you have 96 check and mate by Queene to OC is an interesting move. 03:22.180 --> 03:32.380 But the most official recommended move here after 97 is usually just night Afri not playing for that 03:32.380 --> 03:32.770 trap. 03:33.130 --> 03:38.830 And after they have sex, you can have either taking and there's other variations to check out as well. 03:39.910 --> 03:43.180 So that's on the modern generation. 03:43.180 --> 03:49.920 When 97 is played, players play this to try and avoid any structural issue with their pawn structure. 03:50.590 --> 03:53.820 So these other two are much more exciting in that regard. 03:54.580 --> 04:01.910 So knights have sex immediately without like these seven is asking for 90s of sex check to double its 04:01.930 --> 04:04.300 --'s black and take two ways. 04:04.300 --> 04:05.970 Both of them are very interesting. 04:06.370 --> 04:08.410 I personally prefer it. 04:08.410 --> 04:16.300 My my tendency for this takes sex I've seen so many times in the last couple of years and GMs use this 04:16.300 --> 04:21.400 with great success on the force the time controls rather than safe sex. 04:21.970 --> 04:24.340 There's a lot of pressure on White's position. 04:24.340 --> 04:25.750 Blake has that same foul. 04:26.290 --> 04:27.790 Both sides are sharing this foul. 04:28.000 --> 04:30.100 There's a lot of pressure and opportunities for Blake. 04:30.580 --> 04:35.230 And, you know, quite often the fans, the time shows are not really about the end games and the end 04:35.230 --> 04:36.010 games in particular. 04:36.010 --> 04:42.850 You'd think that this these double pawns means, you know, White's got a queen size, poor majority 04:42.850 --> 04:45.310 for or against free later on in the end games. 04:45.610 --> 04:50.290 And you can use such a poor majority to create a passport, form a dangerous passport. 04:51.160 --> 04:55.900 But generally the middle game makes it usually worth it to play like this. 04:56.530 --> 05:00.550 So this variation, the course of action is very, very interesting to consider. 05:00.910 --> 05:08.290 Victor Cushiony was such an amazing player with a huge amount of games and databases, such an experienced 05:08.290 --> 05:11.560 Vosta experienced players, and this is named after him. 05:12.220 --> 05:19.440 So the great Victor cautionary, one of the so-called uncrowned kings or Chassy, many feel, you know, 05:19.480 --> 05:23.080 he was definitely up there with world champions in terms of strength. 05:23.910 --> 05:27.970 But for many, many years, it was a great challenge to Anatoly Karpov. 05:27.970 --> 05:29.320 So that's named after him. 05:29.830 --> 05:31.360 We have details. 05:31.360 --> 05:38.140 FDX, which is the bronze team, Lost Generation, and two very, very famous players, David Bronstein 05:38.290 --> 05:39.220 and Ben Nelson. 05:39.250 --> 05:43.620 So Getafe six, you can even check out their games with their seats. 05:43.630 --> 05:45.370 You know, they play there quite often. 05:45.370 --> 05:51.790 This goal can be dangerous for why if Whitecross was kingside later and Blatt might even cancel Queensland 05:51.790 --> 05:58.180 later, get some very, very exciting games are played that myself on occasion in the past and have 05:58.180 --> 05:59.380 had great fun of it. 05:59.800 --> 06:03.280 So doubling --'s is not the end of the world here. 06:03.280 --> 06:06.160 You don't have to play the modern version. 06:06.460 --> 06:09.040 You can venture double pawns. 06:09.370 --> 06:18.640 Chess is a very, very, very deep, fascinating game where you can deliberately create trade offs for 06:18.640 --> 06:25.150 pawn structure versus peace activity and opportunities and then factor in the dimension of what time 06:25.150 --> 06:30.220 control you're playing and how much opening for your opponent might not might know or not know. 06:30.610 --> 06:33.730 But yeah, if you want a very, very exciting game with the black pieces. 06:33.730 --> 06:33.990 Yeah. 06:34.000 --> 06:38.410 Having double points both ways is worth checking out and seeing what your results are. 06:38.770 --> 06:44.590 But when you do these experiments in your own games, make sure you do research a bit and have some 06:44.590 --> 06:48.520 general model games, you know, certain games they've checked out in advance. 06:49.150 --> 06:52.470 But yeah, they're named after famous players. 06:52.490 --> 06:55.300 You can even just check out those players, how they play that. 06:55.780 --> 06:58.930 Those two are so OK. 06:59.080 --> 07:00.490 Now, often I see free. 07:00.490 --> 07:06.950 There's also the so-called Gurgaon, these very rare. 07:07.210 --> 07:08.230 So that's G six. 07:09.580 --> 07:14.610 Now, you don't have to play 93 or 92, you can play the ComicCon advance for nation. 07:15.160 --> 07:22.090 Now, unlike playing against the French defense, black often here playing special hour five. 07:22.420 --> 07:28.270 And one thing not to do this is bad strategically and it's bad strategically because there's an iconic 07:28.270 --> 07:36.250 game where names which played Bishop Differe against Capablanca and it just solves Black's problems. 07:36.250 --> 07:41.650 It's like they've got an upgraded version of the French defense without a bad bishop. 07:41.980 --> 07:44.800 And then quite often, you know, EF five is weak. 07:44.800 --> 07:46.050 Seaforth week later. 07:46.560 --> 07:52.840 And so there are great games with there's this really doesn't offer way too much, in my view, to do 07:52.840 --> 07:53.230 this. 07:53.470 --> 08:00.430 So in more recent years, in the advance version, it has been revitalized with a shorter bishop move 08:00.760 --> 08:02.650 by Nigel Short Bishop Itou. 08:02.860 --> 08:05.200 That's well worth checking out Nigel Shaw's treatment. 08:05.440 --> 08:11.710 Where, Bishop Eita, if you are tempted to play the advanced version with A5 again, it's all about 08:11.710 --> 08:13.870 the follow ups, the strength of the follow ups. 08:14.080 --> 08:18.400 Your strength for the follow ups is is based on your research of the Standard Model games. 08:18.670 --> 08:20.740 So find the key exponents. 08:21.070 --> 08:26.860 So those are the major players who who make use of their top level grandmasters, ideally. 08:28.210 --> 08:31.600 So, you know, Nigel Short to look out for the advanced variation. 08:33.010 --> 08:42.850 So here are if we look again now at the five, though, we don't have to see late 1993, 92, or if 08:42.980 --> 08:49.840 we can play it 65, the exchange variation and the main line is Bishop Differe. 08:50.350 --> 08:52.420 And that has certain ideas. 08:52.720 --> 08:57.970 Sometimes it's trying to keep this bishop locked in and have a small edge. 08:57.970 --> 09:03.730 Sometimes there's also the pan of poverty panic attack. 09:04.300 --> 09:08.950 So make our bottleneck for the bottleneck part of that panel for the panel pass. 09:09.340 --> 09:15.370 And there's actually a famous Bobby Fischer game that was buried in The Sims with a panel of Bortman, 09:15.380 --> 09:16.990 that game of Bobby Fischer against Max. 09:16.990 --> 09:19.870 Oh, quite fascinating by The Sims. 09:19.870 --> 09:21.940 Use a cultural game like that. 09:22.450 --> 09:26.410 There's the there's also on the free here. 09:26.590 --> 09:30.370 There's the so-called Toccoa or Fancy variation. 09:30.880 --> 09:38.050 So Tasco is a great source of very witty chaske rotations and is worth checking out just for as kind 09:38.050 --> 09:40.210 of advice buried in his quotations. 09:40.210 --> 09:41.170 Very, very witty. 09:41.680 --> 09:45.220 Like, you know, chess is like a fairy tale of a thousand man blunders. 09:45.610 --> 09:48.490 The winner is the player that makes the loss but one mistake. 09:49.420 --> 09:53.260 So, yeah, check out Tasco as well, his quotations. 09:53.530 --> 09:54.940 But this is named after him. 09:55.180 --> 09:59.890 That's very nice tribute to him, to remember him and his contributions, that chance. 10:00.340 --> 10:02.890 So his legacy there in that name. 10:02.890 --> 10:06.610 So, yeah, chess has this rich cultural heritage. 10:07.000 --> 10:10.420 And, you know, it's not all about the mercenary functionality. 10:10.780 --> 10:16.540 And the more you get engaged with the chess culture or chess, there's that rich set of pointers. 10:16.540 --> 10:21.550 If you want to research how to play certain types of positions and you knew which world champions were 10:21.550 --> 10:26.440 strong and weak, if you know the pros and cons of each world champion, you know, stylistically, 10:26.440 --> 10:32.350 relatively speaking, because they're masters on all aspects of chess, the world champions, but somewhat 10:32.350 --> 10:35.710 stronger in some some areas than other world champions in a way. 10:36.370 --> 10:41.350 But yeah, this rich cultural heritage is worth knowing, even from a mercenary point of view. 10:41.680 --> 10:43.900 If you know the names, do you know what to look up? 10:44.110 --> 10:45.460 You can find your own games. 10:46.180 --> 10:53.170 So culture and history is kind of important thing in my view, even for newcomers to the game. 10:53.500 --> 10:59.230 Certain international most coaches have alluded to this, that when they're training junior players, 10:59.230 --> 11:04.150 the more that the junior players knew about the famous players, the more they tended to do better. 11:04.150 --> 11:06.790 Later on, they have the pointers to go look up. 11:06.790 --> 11:14.290 Games concretely as one example is much more engaging to know about a bit about the history and culture 11:14.290 --> 11:14.800 of chess. 11:14.980 --> 11:18.850 And it's the opening names and the name Variations which do provide that to us. 11:19.270 --> 11:22.690 So here anyway, after default, the 593. 11:25.630 --> 11:27.700 So we'll put the five nicely frame. 11:29.440 --> 11:33.040 We have the two nights version. 11:36.240 --> 11:38.200 Pomi, sorry, 846. 11:38.430 --> 11:44.880 Now, this is a bit peculiar when you don't actually play DeFore and Fisher actually played Nazi free. 11:45.480 --> 11:51.870 So I found this a bit of a surprising choice in Bobby Fischer's repertoire, which I've deeply studied. 11:52.620 --> 11:57.570 Bobby Fischer escapes to my physical courses, but he played two nights. 11:57.570 --> 12:01.470 He freight's I moved to 93, then he played here. 12:01.590 --> 12:07.340 I am afraid this is the two nights vacation he had, you know, his ups and downs with this version. 12:07.350 --> 12:12.970 It's not like a totally amazing variation as a general point scorer. 12:12.990 --> 12:14.880 It gets an interesting mental game. 12:16.170 --> 12:20.610 So, yeah, the two nights variation is worth checking out games of, in particular. 12:20.940 --> 12:25.710 Bobby Fischer, if you want to have some example games of what happens here after this. 12:26.220 --> 12:30.960 Generally, Bobby Fischer has opponents, I can tell you now don't generally played for. 12:31.200 --> 12:34.050 I think you'll be able to like tango the night over here. 12:34.410 --> 12:37.200 And we're in my kind of tango territory. 12:37.440 --> 12:39.540 We have a nice bishop outside the pawn chain. 12:39.810 --> 12:41.040 Generally, they don't do that. 12:41.040 --> 12:46.410 They're not they realize that there's a trade off going on between this invitation to invitation's in 12:46.430 --> 12:53.310 space with the four and, you know, doing other things like, you know, because it weakens it weakens 12:53.310 --> 12:55.200 the line squares to do this in general. 12:56.610 --> 12:59.190 So they tend to do other things. 12:59.190 --> 13:03.360 You don't actually see too many examples of four in the two nights variation. 13:03.960 --> 13:08.430 You usually you know, you see things like Bishop G for getting that bishop out before he gets locked 13:08.430 --> 13:09.330 into the pawn chain. 13:09.600 --> 13:11.100 This would be super passive. 13:11.100 --> 13:12.640 You know that that would be great. 13:12.640 --> 13:17.250 You know, if we don't get this ideal -- center and then, you know, you get a possession, which 13:17.250 --> 13:22.350 is kind of like an improved version against the French defenses, like the bishops. 13:22.350 --> 13:24.780 I mean, it's like a French defense structure here. 13:25.020 --> 13:31.470 And if blacks, you know, deLites, if you got other options here and, you know, quite often if they 13:31.470 --> 13:36.440 play like this, you can quite often, in my experience, get a stranglehold over 85. 13:36.450 --> 13:39.440 Even if you don't have the classic pawn chain, it doesn't really matter. 13:39.450 --> 13:43.710 You've got a big grip on E5 and that could be used as a basis for an attack later. 13:44.070 --> 13:46.680 So, yeah, the two nights federation is pretty interesting. 13:46.680 --> 13:48.660 It was a favorite of Bobby Fischer basically. 13:49.200 --> 13:53.220 So you start of the CCE, you just play nice free. 13:53.760 --> 13:59.700 So yeah, this is a great way of sidestepping a lot of Carnochan opening Ferrey. 13:59.910 --> 14:05.100 There's opening Ferrey everywhere you go to work out an experiment sometimes. 14:05.100 --> 14:06.840 What really excites you? 14:07.590 --> 14:11.400 So what floats your boat, what excites you, what interests you. 14:11.760 --> 14:13.320 But to give something a good sense. 14:13.320 --> 14:13.470 Yeah. 14:13.470 --> 14:16.230 Try and get those model games before you actually play. 14:16.380 --> 14:22.370 If it's the more serious you become as a chess player, the more kind of preparation maybe in your opening 14:22.370 --> 14:22.890 departments. 14:23.130 --> 14:28.080 It's like the performance opening's department middleground and games and then other skills. 14:28.080 --> 14:33.510 Psychology is a big, big skill and psychology as it relates to win probability. 14:33.930 --> 14:39.330 So if you know your opponent hates light and games, then maybe you're you're going to be fun playing 14:39.330 --> 14:41.280 games and beat them in the end game. 14:41.670 --> 14:49.440 So psychology has, as it relates to win problems in particular for me is is is a more specific use 14:49.710 --> 14:53.520 of psychology, which I've witnessed with many, many games of Bobby Fisher. 14:53.520 --> 14:58.500 You're choosing particular openings against particular opponents because he thought maybe they were 14:58.500 --> 15:01.470 more theoretically would have had to play more obscure thing against them. 15:01.680 --> 15:03.210 Maybe they like tactics more. 15:03.540 --> 15:05.850 And he may play in different ways. 15:06.060 --> 15:12.600 Like Mikoto in Blitz, Fisher would use an opening system, which is more Implats, you know, less 15:12.600 --> 15:16.110 Taxco and Queens coming off early and he beats with that. 15:16.120 --> 15:20.100 So basically, psychology is also another major skill set. 15:21.540 --> 15:29.040 There are multiple skill sets that link into each other and make the final success as a chess player. 15:29.490 --> 15:32.100 But it's not just what you might think. 15:32.880 --> 15:34.000 Okinu game and game. 15:34.020 --> 15:39.750 There's loads of other skills and psychology, this big one, the psychology as it relates to choosing 15:39.750 --> 15:46.200 which variations based on your opponent's strengths and weaknesses and that implication for win probability. 15:46.440 --> 15:50.640 It's something to really start seriously considering as you get more and more serious. 15:50.790 --> 15:56.190 I mean, Paul Georges of Alluded was torturing me with these positional choices because I knew I like 15:56.190 --> 15:56.820 tactics. 15:57.090 --> 16:01.710 So he wants to keep the game more kind of about the pawns and not about the tactics, you know, more 16:01.710 --> 16:03.630 close positional maneuvering. 16:03.930 --> 16:06.360 OK, so anyway, Corica on defense. 16:07.830 --> 16:08.100 Yeah. 16:08.100 --> 16:13.980 So there are these main variations if you want to kind of try and remember the names a little bit, 16:14.490 --> 16:15.090 OK? 16:16.450 --> 16:17.080 And so much.