WEBVTT 00:01.430 --> 00:02.130 Hi there. 00:03.380 --> 00:08.720 Sometimes it's not about an unprotected piece, the downsides of the opponent's position as General 00:08.720 --> 00:16.490 King's safety issues, that you might suspect you might have a way of advantageously playing a certain 00:16.490 --> 00:16.990 position. 00:17.390 --> 00:23.420 Now, here it's white play and when material, I wonder if he can work it out. 00:23.420 --> 00:26.120 If I give you five seconds to pause video what you play her. 00:32.040 --> 00:39.330 OK, we can intuitively think there's something up with the black position here, because, you know, 00:39.330 --> 00:42.810 these pieces don't seem to be helping the Kings, the fans. 00:45.090 --> 00:46.170 The queen is Penns. 00:47.430 --> 00:50.300 We seem to have this nice open phone here. 00:51.360 --> 00:53.070 There's stuff going on, isn't there? 00:53.970 --> 00:57.720 But what if we just exchange of pieces? 00:58.750 --> 01:00.560 Black has nothing to worry about. 01:01.620 --> 01:02.180 What have we got? 01:02.360 --> 01:02.970 Zero. 01:02.970 --> 01:03.590 Zilch. 01:04.170 --> 01:06.480 We must look for stronger moves sometimes. 01:08.670 --> 01:09.680 And in fact, it seems. 01:09.690 --> 01:10.220 Hang on. 01:10.230 --> 01:15.240 You know, if we try and go for the opponents king, we end up losing all our pieces. 01:15.780 --> 01:21.810 In fact, relative to the time of this recording last night, I had this game myself and an online game 01:22.590 --> 01:26.940 where I rejected a certain check because I felt like it was pointless. 01:26.940 --> 01:33.180 But there was another check, which is very similar to this example, which kind of held the pieces 01:33.180 --> 01:37.440 together and let you know could have led to a knockout. 01:42.380 --> 01:49.340 Now, here is there is a major safety issue, I'll give you the first move, actually, we give up our 01:49.340 --> 01:52.550 Queen 51, we prompt. 01:54.330 --> 01:59.850 Queen at four, you might think, OK, this is a great way of losing all the pieces. 01:59.880 --> 02:04.290 Is that because the Queen's evil looking ah, one rook. 02:05.050 --> 02:06.540 Yeah, that's the fun of attacking. 02:06.570 --> 02:06.810 Yes. 02:06.810 --> 02:10.710 Sometimes it seems, you know, OK, we have this situation. 02:10.920 --> 02:12.810 We take our I'll make it simpler. 02:12.820 --> 02:19.810 But here there is a special move which holds things together and we can actually end up better. 02:20.610 --> 02:21.920 Can you see what that is? 02:21.930 --> 02:24.060 If I give you five cents pause video here. 02:33.360 --> 02:41.760 Yeah, we can leverage the special powers of a double check, which, you know, makes sometimes magic 02:41.760 --> 02:46.380 on the chessboard, we're holding the rug and this is immune because of that. 02:46.380 --> 02:50.180 Jack Black has to move the king here somewhere. 02:51.780 --> 02:52.890 So say they move the king's. 02:52.890 --> 02:54.450 But now we can just take on our form. 02:54.450 --> 02:56.880 We've just won a Holbrook. 02:58.470 --> 03:04.440 But sometimes you have to find these combinations, you do need to have sometimes and terms of encouragement 03:04.800 --> 03:13.560 that there are downsides and opponents position to celebrate, sometimes we need a kind of clue. 03:13.830 --> 03:15.870 Sometimes something might be up. 03:18.770 --> 03:23.050 So you could be looking for all the forcing moves, but sometimes, you know, the spirit isn't there. 03:23.180 --> 03:27.210 You really you don't sense the downsides as you become stronger and stronger. 03:27.230 --> 03:31.210 You do think, you know, things do need to be followed up. 03:31.220 --> 03:36.800 If you're, like, conscientious about this, losing the queen in an outrageous manner, you're actually 03:36.800 --> 03:43.070 literally losing weight, conscientious in an outrageous manner, and then to have most of your pieces 03:43.070 --> 03:46.040 hanging essentially in this position of the takes. 03:47.690 --> 03:50.840 Yeah, you do need to find Ninety-Six checking all Chiang's. 03:50.840 --> 03:52.710 You know, some checks will hold things together. 03:53.270 --> 03:59.240 So anyway, a major classic downside is dependent king safety. 04:01.600 --> 04:04.810 When the opponents king seems to be precariously placed. 04:08.220 --> 04:12.040 You know, there are often amazing options, you've just got to find them. 04:12.600 --> 04:16.140 Sometimes these checks do more than just check the opponent's. 04:16.140 --> 04:22.500 Can they also hold together your pieces to make sure you're not losing an entire rock and it's a double 04:22.500 --> 04:23.000 check. 04:23.010 --> 04:25.300 So that means that there's no time to take it. 04:25.320 --> 04:26.320 So check for the night. 04:26.760 --> 04:28.010 So, yeah, I hope you found this. 04:28.060 --> 04:30.720 That's a combination. 04:33.660 --> 04:39.540 And, you know, I'll get into this mindset as well, you know, that it's not just the case of Ford 04:39.990 --> 04:42.060 only calculation, you need some inspiration. 04:42.060 --> 04:47.920 Sometimes you need to start to get this intuitive sense for down sides in the opponent's position. 04:49.320 --> 04:51.030 OK, that's a much.