WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:02.860 Hi there in this thing. 00:03.000 --> 00:09.060 I just wanted to emphasize this in effect clause, there's looking at the whole position for liberation, 00:09.510 --> 00:19.050 opening up things vs. them being potentially closed up as they hope things can sometimes dictate how 00:19.050 --> 00:21.390 liberated pieces are. 00:22.830 --> 00:32.010 The pawns are the soul of chess, Philidor apparently said, All-staff adds that the very livelihood 00:32.010 --> 00:34.650 of the game, maybe there's another interpretation. 00:35.790 --> 00:42.420 When we play openings, all levels of liberation of the pieces are kind of set quite dramatically. 00:42.690 --> 00:45.570 Even then, the same names opening. 00:46.110 --> 00:53.070 So one example I'd like to give you is if you play E4 and they play the Sicilian offense, the main 00:53.280 --> 01:02.040 variation of the Sicilian defense is the Open Sicilian, and in it you play Not Afraid of the desex, 01:02.040 --> 01:04.380 you actually play defore. 01:05.130 --> 01:08.250 And this might seem as though, hold on, you're not developing your pieces. 01:08.280 --> 01:09.990 This is breaking and really not throwing pieces. 01:10.000 --> 01:11.520 So why would you do this? 01:11.850 --> 01:15.110 Well, let's look at it in terms of liberation. 01:16.260 --> 01:23.130 It actually liberates the queen opens up this bishop. 01:24.000 --> 01:29.430 It has the duration of fangs and it is one of the more popular variations on the Sicilian defense. 01:30.420 --> 01:32.220 So often she takes nine takes. 01:32.220 --> 01:39.480 Both sides have agreed this still that they've liberated certain pieces on both sides and it makes the 01:39.480 --> 01:42.690 games more tactical and dynamic in nature. 01:45.830 --> 01:52.790 --'s as things as you know, the fundamental constraint on pieces, but also any pieces you analyze 01:52.790 --> 02:00.170 or pawns in your process of calculation will liberate the possession and make the game in a way you 02:00.170 --> 02:04.160 could say or hopefully more tactical for you that your pieces are more alive. 02:04.550 --> 02:05.860 They have new opportunities. 02:06.230 --> 02:09.830 So it's almost like a tactical boost you've given yourself. 02:10.370 --> 02:18.050 If you contrast this to the closed Sicilian, the so-called closed Sicilian, it's 93. 02:18.050 --> 02:22.790 You know, for example, the position is more closed and we can see the pieces are not so liberated. 02:23.870 --> 02:26.210 The pawns are the fundamental constraint of the pieces. 02:26.210 --> 02:28.610 Austine says there's so many pawns. 02:28.910 --> 02:33.200 And here, if we look at the queen, it's not so liberated. 02:33.200 --> 02:37.130 It hasn't got a view on the defoliate. 02:37.140 --> 02:43.490 And later, when the queen moves and comes, that rook is not so open and neither has black got so many 02:44.150 --> 02:45.500 opportunities on the sea. 02:45.500 --> 02:48.080 Foliar, this is more closed in nature. 02:50.620 --> 02:52.960 So when we look at the in effect, Claus's. 02:55.050 --> 03:01.050 We're really seeing the liberation war phase, and that might actually sometimes encourages at the key 03:01.050 --> 03:03.300 moments when our pieces are in the right place. 03:03.900 --> 03:06.960 It's kind of liberate pieces often of a central pawn break. 03:08.820 --> 03:11.130 Often pawns will open up key pieces. 03:11.400 --> 03:18.510 So fundamentally, yeah, it's a very, very powerful tool in its own right, as well as the awareness 03:18.510 --> 03:19.890 of the new scope of pieces. 03:20.460 --> 03:28.760 That awareness might encourage you to look out for ways of opening up a position and then the opening. 03:28.770 --> 03:30.480 You know, it's it's your choice. 03:30.480 --> 03:38.040 But as you begin chess, old recommends making the positions more open in nature and quite often old 03:38.050 --> 03:42.630 things which remove pawns from the board by default. 03:44.360 --> 03:50.240 They have more liberated pieces and more pieces means you have more opportunities to calculate very 03:50.240 --> 03:54.960 specific, more technical, more tactical lines and variations. 03:55.790 --> 04:00.430 So, yeah, if you're playing against the SAS in the sense this is a popular variation, the Open Sicilian, 04:00.980 --> 04:05.570 but I just want to put this in the perspective of liberation. 04:07.820 --> 04:12.350 Liberating pieces, those one season I played quite close to opening. 04:15.790 --> 04:22.120 And I kind of regret that the fence, the fence and the next season, I chose to sit in the fence and 04:22.120 --> 04:27.950 I had some positions which suited my more tactical stance is much better. 04:28.600 --> 04:29.620 Just bear that in mind. 04:29.620 --> 04:35.640 That's my first golden claws, you know. 04:35.650 --> 04:37.810 So we look at when we calculate, we look at weakness. 04:37.820 --> 04:40.390 We lost both catacombs and liberation all thanks. 04:42.450 --> 04:48.930 That's profoundly sat in the opening that you choose from the start of the game, how open or closed 04:48.930 --> 04:56.730 the position is, and it's quite often the pawns which dictate how open or closed the position is. 04:59.590 --> 05:02.230 So just bear that in mind as well. 05:02.940 --> 05:03.490 OK? 05:04.600 --> 05:05.140 That's much.