WEBVTT 00:01.090 --> 00:01.810 Hi there. 00:02.110 --> 00:08.200 In this election, I'd like to introduce you to the Royal Harpaz or Spanish game, as it's known, so 00:08.200 --> 00:16.960 845 if you play 94, you're exerting pressure on E5 and Black quite often replaced with 96. 00:16.970 --> 00:18.310 So this is the main move. 00:18.790 --> 00:22.450 And the most popular move at Grandmaster Level is B5. 00:23.200 --> 00:29.980 And your early stance in chess, you might play Bishop CIFOR, which is the Italian game and the Italian 00:29.980 --> 00:36.760 game in recent years has also experienced a kind of resurgence of interest even at the super grandmaster 00:36.760 --> 00:37.140 level. 00:37.480 --> 00:40.950 So both of these bishop moves are very, very good. 00:41.470 --> 00:46.450 So the way the pairs seems to flatten Y is actually going to win a pawn. 00:46.900 --> 00:47.980 This is not the case. 00:47.980 --> 00:48.190 Why? 00:48.250 --> 00:52.630 It seems to be trying to undermine Plank's protection of E5. 00:53.590 --> 01:01.660 But quite often the most popular move is ASX, which is the so-called Morphy defense named after Paul 01:01.660 --> 01:02.200 Morphy. 01:03.490 --> 01:06.880 So the ruler Pazz has a lot of name variations. 01:06.880 --> 01:14.530 A lot of the history and culture of chess has seen great contributions from all sorts of champions, 01:14.710 --> 01:20.350 world class players and uncrowned Kenz Kings of the game, like the Morphy defense named Nonsupport 01:20.350 --> 01:20.860 Morphy. 01:21.070 --> 01:23.170 He wasn't an official world champion yet. 01:23.170 --> 01:26.770 He was widely sort of acknowledged as being the strongest player in the world. 01:27.310 --> 01:30.130 So that is one of the strongest moves. 01:30.160 --> 01:37.600 A and we also have this initial wealth of named variations, which I can go over. 01:37.990 --> 01:42.100 But let me just point out to you something here of the Aztecs. 01:42.550 --> 01:48.380 If you play Bishopsgate C6, which is the so-called exchange variation, and you can delay it and it 01:48.400 --> 01:54.100 gets called to delay the exchange rate, but say you try and win a pawn, you should know that black 01:54.100 --> 02:01.000 and equalize with queen, the four here, hitting the light, hitting the pawn, and you've only kind 02:01.000 --> 02:02.200 of given them black. 02:02.200 --> 02:03.670 A small advantage here. 02:04.030 --> 02:06.620 If they take they've got the bishop power. 02:07.000 --> 02:12.820 So the bishops look after each other on the different squares, colors of squares and black could even 02:12.820 --> 02:14.080 cancel Queensland later. 02:14.080 --> 02:16.150 So that's actually quite good for black. 02:17.710 --> 02:22.360 The intention of the group has is not really to do that at all, especially on ASX. 02:22.360 --> 02:26.020 It's not it's not when that pawn are so. 02:26.800 --> 02:33.130 But there is a line with Bishop 66, which, you know, Fisher has played with great success, but it's 02:33.130 --> 02:33.960 not taken this morning. 02:34.070 --> 02:35.110 It's castling. 02:35.440 --> 02:41.020 And then later, quite often, for example, there's various moves here. 02:42.100 --> 02:47.200 But generally, you know, this is an interesting position where Defoe is later played. 02:48.430 --> 02:52.930 So that is a legitimate variation, but it's not with the intent of winning a pawn. 02:52.930 --> 02:56.050 So let me just that's a basic thing one should know. 02:57.550 --> 03:06.490 Now, quite often the bishop drops back to A4 and there is a move B five from black. 03:07.150 --> 03:10.690 This is an unusual treatments and it's called the Norwegian Defence. 03:11.170 --> 03:19.390 But because our current world chess champion is Norwegian, I thought I pointed out as the even before 03:19.390 --> 03:21.940 Magnus Carlson, it's good to know about the Norwegian fans. 03:22.300 --> 03:24.850 So you might want to check out some steam games. 03:24.850 --> 03:30.040 There's a lot of stuff to investigate that black can do that you could do as a sidestep. 03:30.460 --> 03:34.630 But yeah, an early science that is indeed the exchange version. 03:34.630 --> 03:41.200 I do want to point out as well that Bobby Fisher used this with fantastic success. 03:41.200 --> 03:47.860 There are many Fisher games with this early departure which will simplify your entire task of having 03:47.860 --> 03:50.950 a repertoire as long as you don't go in for the win in the pawn. 03:50.950 --> 03:58.360 If you cancel and then follow some Fisher template plans, you can get a really decent position with 03:58.360 --> 03:59.110 an advantage. 03:59.350 --> 04:02.950 So there is a way of pass the whole theoretical exercise. 04:03.370 --> 04:08.260 But here, Bishop A4, you need to know like potentially about the Norwegian defense. 04:08.740 --> 04:09.940 There's only a five. 04:09.940 --> 04:11.920 It looks as though sacrificing a pawn. 04:12.130 --> 04:16.140 Yeah, but black will get compensation if you take the pawn here as well. 04:16.810 --> 04:20.830 So another move of the A4 is desex. 04:22.090 --> 04:27.790 So this is the modern Stinnett's, the defense so named after William, it's the first official world 04:27.790 --> 04:34.750 champion after morphing and he contributed greatly to the game in terms of positional principles and 04:34.750 --> 04:40.900 the kind of periodic table of how a possession can be assessed in terms of its elements like Paul Structure, 04:41.200 --> 04:49.390 King Safety Piece, Activity Week and Strong Squares, etc. so, you know, kicked off the whole positional 04:49.390 --> 04:51.580 play kind of understanding. 04:51.970 --> 04:55.570 And this this line, VeraSun Desex is named after him. 04:56.740 --> 04:59.650 Schliemann very, very aggressive R5. 04:59.650 --> 05:00.150 So you might. 05:00.210 --> 05:06.310 Need to prepare against players that want to play like this, it's very aggressive treatments. 05:07.180 --> 05:09.280 There's also often they have sex. 05:09.280 --> 05:14.140 There's something you can do as early as Poshard D4 McKensie variation. 05:15.760 --> 05:20.140 There's nothing sex castling desex. 05:20.140 --> 05:21.490 This is the starting inspiration. 05:22.240 --> 05:22.930 The third. 05:25.300 --> 05:34.660 So deferring that desex move, which we saw earlier, that's delayed these things and then also we have 05:34.840 --> 05:45.530 often times things if castling B5 Bishop be free, there's Bishop Bisa, the Arkhangelsk defense and 05:46.150 --> 05:48.820 or archangels like Angel Gabriel. 05:48.820 --> 05:51.730 I'm my name's Gabriel, but there's Arcangel names. 05:52.180 --> 05:54.690 You know my names from an Archangel Gabriel. 05:55.840 --> 06:00.690 So you have a lot of angels in the in the Greek Cypriot tradition. 06:00.700 --> 06:03.070 I know this is of course, this is an aside. 06:03.340 --> 06:07.100 So there's also the more modern Arkhangelsk very defense. 06:07.540 --> 06:18.990 So if the bishop efore might have six castles b5 now we have some option as well. 06:19.020 --> 06:29.010 The modern Arkhangelsk, the fence is actually Bishop B and Bishop C five immediately bishops if I want 06:29.020 --> 06:36.910 Bishop B, so we also have the so-called open the fence. 06:38.710 --> 06:45.730 So if we go back Bishop A full of sex y consuls and black kind of takes a pawn in the census that opens 06:45.730 --> 06:49.570 up the center a bit like the civil defense operation, whatever. 06:49.570 --> 06:51.880 The center has some points taken from it. 06:52.730 --> 06:58.720 It makes the game more open to the open fence is a legitimate thing you should kind of know about. 06:58.720 --> 07:03.530 It's a lot to know about, which is why, you know, Bobby Fischer's only bishop take C6. 07:03.550 --> 07:07.690 The exchange version is worth dying if you want if you don't want the hassle and you might not want 07:07.690 --> 07:12.070 the hassle in your early stages of chess, player might want to just play the role of has the simple 07:12.070 --> 07:13.300 fashion start of it. 07:13.510 --> 07:14.740 So there's a lot to know. 07:15.220 --> 07:23.230 Now, if we if we're going down this rabbit hole of the Morphy defense, especially for this is coming 07:23.230 --> 07:29.800 to what we call the main line, the most front line, at least through the period of history trends 07:29.800 --> 07:30.550 in chess. 07:30.550 --> 07:35.020 You know, the main line you can have through the period of history or the main line in the last two 07:35.020 --> 07:37.510 years, the most popular line in the last two years. 07:37.780 --> 07:44.260 And you can get that in modern chess because chess engines will find innovations and openings and all 07:44.260 --> 07:46.510 of a sudden there's a trend. 07:46.510 --> 07:48.760 You move because it's winning people instead of winning. 07:49.000 --> 07:53.860 There's a move which, you know, maybe statistically in the past overall was bad, but all of a sudden 07:53.860 --> 07:55.780 it's winning because they found some amazing resource. 07:56.080 --> 08:00.920 So trends, you know, opening trends, they do change in chess, but. 08:02.350 --> 08:08.710 OK, we're having a look now at a very, very trendy, well, historically, historically important 08:08.710 --> 08:10.570 line, the close the fence. 08:11.500 --> 08:14.690 So this has been the main move for quite some time. 08:15.160 --> 08:25.330 So Bishop S7, so, again, you know, blacks allowing the possibility here with five seven minutes 08:25.740 --> 08:26.560 of white taking. 08:26.560 --> 08:30.760 But you don't want to do this because again, you know, Queen before just equalises. 08:31.000 --> 08:32.320 This is just going to be equal. 08:33.040 --> 08:39.340 You're giving up a potentially really valuable alliance coalition here, but they can be done deliberately 08:39.340 --> 08:42.170 as well, but not with the intention usually of winning that form. 08:42.850 --> 08:51.450 So Bishop S7 and the main line move here is rookie one actually now officially defending the E4 form. 08:51.820 --> 08:57.400 So this is a very important key position within the rite of passage as part of the most established 08:57.700 --> 09:00.860 mainline through the history of chess. 09:01.570 --> 09:04.320 Black is usually a bit fearful now. 09:04.330 --> 09:09.490 This is a signal that if was protected, that this is actually a move which is a frat's, a real threat, 09:09.940 --> 09:13.840 not just a kind of theoretical fight. 09:13.840 --> 09:16.690 It's a real threat to quite often black plays. 09:17.290 --> 09:21.540 B5 here B5. 09:22.120 --> 09:28.350 So we're going to start looking at the main meat and potatoes now of this initial action. 09:28.410 --> 09:29.630 So I hope you're with me on this. 09:30.100 --> 09:38.170 These are the main key like names of the world powers as an introduction to it, just as an introduction 09:38.170 --> 09:38.440 to it. 09:38.470 --> 09:39.880 OK, that's a much.