WEBVTT 00:01.420 --> 00:11.350 Hi there in this introduction lecture, I want to highlight to you one of my core philosophies for playing 00:11.350 --> 00:15.700 tactics, for enjoying transects, what they actually represent. 00:17.590 --> 00:22.570 When we improve on Chattaway, we find out about our own strengths and weaknesses. 00:23.110 --> 00:29.650 And actually relative to computers, we definitely do have weaknesses tactically compared to, say, 00:29.650 --> 00:37.660 computers who can analyze rather which can analyze millions of positions per second. 00:38.260 --> 00:41.540 And we have no hope of competing, which has engines nowadays. 00:41.920 --> 00:47.830 Nevertheless, chess is still popular and nevertheless, we can still play beautiful tactics and combinations. 00:48.580 --> 00:57.160 We can compensate for actually being human with our limited, calculating ability by prioritizing, 00:57.160 --> 01:05.950 forcing moves, by having a very, very keen eye when we actually do the process of calculating for 01:05.950 --> 01:13.040 the opportunities that exist on every single move that we calculate or every half move or play piano. 01:13.040 --> 01:20.620 Why every move often creates new opportunities which didn't exist before. 01:22.120 --> 01:30.580 One of the key techniques for making sure you do prioritise forcing moves is the expression Chacal Shax 01:31.120 --> 01:37.900 chacal captures and chacal frat's, especially major threats like a threat of making one or two and 01:37.900 --> 01:45.430 even very, very beautiful combinations can arise just by the prioritization of forcing moves, which 01:45.430 --> 01:51.700 is in a way, it's a compensation mechanism because we can't look at millions of possessions. 01:51.700 --> 01:56.950 But we what we do want to find out are those very, very important details. 01:56.950 --> 02:00.550 The possession which can enable us to sometimes win by force. 02:01.090 --> 02:07.030 Now, here this is a very interesting position, quite aesthetically beautiful in my view. 02:08.740 --> 02:14.290 And really, as I say, the emphasis of this introduction video is just to get into that mindset that 02:14.290 --> 02:19.440 we're really compensating for being human when we do prioritise forcing moves. 02:19.720 --> 02:28.510 So here we're not forcing moves coming to mind, which might be at all useful to actually end up winning 02:28.510 --> 02:29.950 material on this occasion. 02:32.260 --> 02:39.970 So if we tackle checks and within that, you know, we check with checks and move in, that we see kind 02:39.970 --> 02:40.730 of weaknesses. 02:40.750 --> 02:45.110 The last moves, you might find something beautiful you might want to. 02:45.160 --> 02:46.720 I'll give you time to pause the video. 02:46.840 --> 02:49.120 I'll give you five cents because we and spend as long as you want. 02:49.510 --> 02:52.150 Can you see what the knockout combination here is? 02:57.670 --> 03:07.390 OK, it starts with rookie AIJAC, so Black has very, very limited replies, essentially. 03:09.520 --> 03:10.960 If black, actually. 03:13.080 --> 03:16.350 Takes this --, then we have Queenie's sex chat. 03:16.950 --> 03:19.730 So that's like killer common squares, what I call the common squares. 03:20.310 --> 03:26.790 So I emphasize greatly when you calculate, you know, look for weaknesses of the last of the common 03:26.790 --> 03:32.130 squares and the in effect cause the effects all around the board, basically like the discovery effects 03:32.130 --> 03:37.050 of pieces, which can sometimes be easily overlooked, because when you move, you might not realize 03:37.050 --> 03:38.510 you've opened up all this stuff. 03:39.120 --> 03:45.960 So anyway, here, yeah, there's a killer common square on hair, so black can't do that. 03:45.960 --> 03:49.740 So black is limited in replies and plays rotates aids. 03:51.240 --> 03:56.370 Now here chacal checks again and you might find something truly magical 04:00.120 --> 04:01.200 in this position. 04:05.690 --> 04:10.220 So, again, I'll give you five cents for that, can you find something truly magical in this position? 04:19.670 --> 04:25.160 OK, there's a move which is really, really powerful, it makes it very, very clear that it's winning 04:26.660 --> 04:29.000 and it's actually the move coincides G7 change. 04:29.020 --> 04:31.430 So, again, we're limiting the potential points to severely. 04:34.750 --> 04:37.300 So of the King-Size, what's the point here? 04:40.040 --> 04:43.610 Is it just to be the so-called exchange up when you work for Knight or Bishop? 04:43.640 --> 04:46.580 That's like being the exchange up, or is there another point? 04:47.000 --> 04:49.790 What if I told you to check all checks again? 04:50.660 --> 04:52.850 So you because it all came across this route. 04:52.860 --> 04:59.260 Jiwon Jack, is is there another check in this position if you really took this seriously about checking 04:59.260 --> 04:59.810 all checks? 05:01.030 --> 05:05.240 So if you really, really try hard to compensate for being human, you've got to check all checks, 05:05.240 --> 05:10.640 at least those high priority for moves, those captures, those major threats of making one or two. 05:10.640 --> 05:14.480 But there's actually a key check in this position. 05:15.080 --> 05:18.560 And it's not a fake queening necessarily. 05:18.560 --> 05:22.550 That is not a check or a fight on promoting a bishop. 05:22.550 --> 05:23.730 That will be a check. 05:24.680 --> 05:33.440 Are there any other checks apart from Jiwon won a fight to either bishop or queen while the check could 05:33.680 --> 05:38.600 be in this position and hopefully. 05:40.730 --> 05:49.970 Five seconds will hopefully find offtakes and not queening here, but actually on the promoting a night 05:49.970 --> 05:54.170 and that's CHAC and in fact we're going to be a rock up. 05:54.500 --> 05:55.400 Very, very clever. 05:55.400 --> 05:56.530 Very, very clever indeed. 05:56.780 --> 05:58.190 We're Holbrook up here. 06:00.560 --> 06:03.560 So anyway, I thought this was an interesting example. 06:03.560 --> 06:10.640 But the key point I want to drive in this introductory video is this philosophy in each section of the 06:10.640 --> 06:14.630 game, there's primary philosophies, I would say. 06:17.530 --> 06:23.710 In the opening stage of the game, the primary philosophy for me is always at the moment, basically 06:24.040 --> 06:26.590 put oneself beyond the feet before going on the attack. 06:27.310 --> 06:29.920 And that attack is like an active operation. 06:29.930 --> 06:33.220 So try and develop pieces slowly and be optimal. 06:33.220 --> 06:39.220 When you develop pieces, don't move pieces, small ones generally, and don't move your moves unless 06:39.220 --> 06:40.970 it's kind of critically important. 06:41.590 --> 06:46.300 So, you know, there's a there's a philosophy which drives the more technical details later. 06:47.170 --> 06:51.130 And in the mental game, you know, there are driving philosophies. 06:51.760 --> 06:59.920 And underpinning them is this idea of compensating for our weaknesses of being human that we can't calculate 06:59.920 --> 07:00.820 like computers. 07:01.060 --> 07:06.640 And yet tactics, as I've said many times in this course, is like a major, major thing I would like 07:06.640 --> 07:08.640 to impart to you to be a tactical monster. 07:09.100 --> 07:12.760 So when we calculate forcing variations, we're kind of doing a track. 07:13.330 --> 07:16.260 Well, not having to calculate lots and lots of branches. 07:16.270 --> 07:18.970 It's like a bear trunk. 07:20.470 --> 07:22.300 If you look at this, this was actually a bad trunk. 07:22.300 --> 07:25.390 It's like a magic trick because the opponent was limited replies. 07:25.400 --> 07:29.770 It's our duty even on fast tanks or even bullet chairs. 07:29.920 --> 07:33.820 It's our duty to see some of the forcing variations. 07:34.450 --> 07:36.880 I try to and it really elevates the play. 07:37.250 --> 07:43.900 Sometimes you can play quite brilliant combinations, even in very, very fast chess time controls. 07:44.680 --> 07:45.490 But that's later. 07:45.490 --> 07:50.470 You know, maybe you need you do need a lot of time when you first start in chess to really take a time 07:50.470 --> 07:53.620 and clock to find these forcing move sequences. 07:54.820 --> 08:02.170 They are like the essential information to get as priority first things, first priority information 08:02.170 --> 08:03.400 to get from a position. 08:03.760 --> 08:06.640 It's like asking the question, can I actually just win by force? 08:06.940 --> 08:07.960 We're forcing those. 08:09.970 --> 08:15.490 So, OK, I hope you got the key points that I wanted to make and we could elaborate on those points 08:15.490 --> 08:17.380 about the prioritization of forcing moves. 08:18.280 --> 08:24.580 But, you know, one take away sentence during your actual games, Chacal Cheque's chacal captures Chacko 08:24.580 --> 08:27.820 major frat's like of make one or two will help you along way. 08:27.820 --> 08:30.100 Actually even that that one sentence. 08:30.100 --> 08:33.460 But practice in this course makes perfect as well for the examples. 08:34.360 --> 08:40.780 OK, so even though we're not computers, just in a nutshell now we can compensate for our limitations 08:40.780 --> 08:47.710 as human beings and also you can do so in other ways actually through navigating this course. 08:47.710 --> 08:53.650 Generally, context switching for most humans is a painful thing to change from one context to another, 08:53.650 --> 08:59.290 because you've got all your resources, your balance out, you're leveraging when a particular task. 08:59.590 --> 09:01.660 So I would say, you know, have fiends days. 09:01.660 --> 09:07.960 This is not the trick in general, where one day you focus on the openings section of this course, 09:07.970 --> 09:13.990 another the middle game, and on another day end games where you might have to field days in a row. 09:14.560 --> 09:19.000 So you've got all your kind of conceptual toolkit around. 09:19.960 --> 09:27.760 And so not only you minimize an overhead of contextual switching, because this course does have these 09:27.760 --> 09:30.880 multiple contacts to master the opening game and end game. 09:31.420 --> 09:35.320 But you also want to maximize your acceleration when you win a particular contest. 09:35.320 --> 09:41.320 You want to you want to maximize your acceleration, having the relevant resources in your mind, relevant 09:41.320 --> 09:42.190 priorities. 09:42.940 --> 09:48.040 But in this middle game section, the priority of forcing moves is a huge priority. 09:48.370 --> 09:48.940 Huge. 09:49.660 --> 09:56.350 And the underlying philosophy is to minimize the kind of weaknesses as human beings, we can't really 09:56.350 --> 09:57.490 calculate like computers. 09:57.910 --> 09:58.930 So what can we do? 09:58.960 --> 10:04.990 We can at least calculate the high priority, forcing those prioritization, OK? 10:06.120 --> 10:06.750 And so much.