WEBVTT 00:01.060 --> 00:06.400 Hi there in this long, I'd like to introduce you to the concept of clearance. 00:07.660 --> 00:14.320 Now, clearance has a relationship to disconnection tactics, i.e. interference. 00:15.220 --> 00:20.620 So with clearance, we usually want to get our own pieces out of the way. 00:21.250 --> 00:26.800 They might be disconnecting us from key squares and any active clearance. 00:26.800 --> 00:33.940 We might actually make it even more effective to actually get to that key square as well. 00:33.970 --> 00:40.050 Here is one such example of a really magical move from a kind of clearance perspective. 00:42.350 --> 00:50.480 In fact, if we look at also this from the view of opening up connections, it's like there's a connection 00:50.480 --> 00:54.260 that is currently closed and it has the opponents. 00:54.260 --> 00:56.690 HP is closing that connection. 00:57.770 --> 01:03.770 As you get more experience, you'll see that actually in a lot of games where the opponents king position 01:04.160 --> 01:09.680 is compromised, it's easier quite often to make the opponents king. 01:09.710 --> 01:16.130 The reason is there's more connections open, you know, instead of a defensive pawn that if that's 01:16.130 --> 01:24.530 removed, for example, then this connection is open to the more open connections around the opponents 01:24.680 --> 01:29.890 can, the more you can learn pieces through that kind of connection. 01:30.710 --> 01:38.510 Now here, can you see an amazing move which kind of does open up connections, essentially? 01:42.230 --> 01:44.990 Through a clearance tactic. 01:47.750 --> 01:55.160 OK, OK, it's two for the price of one, really, we want sometimes our queen to be on the phone, 01:55.160 --> 01:58.130 but it's currently that square is used up by the rock. 01:58.880 --> 02:04.860 And actually we can open up this connection as well in readiness for the queen to be there. 02:04.880 --> 02:07.730 So rock takes is really quite crushing. 02:08.840 --> 02:10.610 It threatens checkmate. 02:11.270 --> 02:19.960 You could have arrived at if you check all checks, the high priority forcing most chacal captious and 02:19.970 --> 02:21.630 sexual threats made him one or two. 02:21.650 --> 02:26.720 This is actually a frat's, this move of a mate, one with eight. 02:29.270 --> 02:36.530 In opening up that connection, yes, it's actually everything I make to one, and so the opponent takes 02:36.530 --> 02:42.890 and now we've cleared the way for the queen to use HRA as well and make use of that newly opened connection 02:42.890 --> 02:43.630 to chains. 02:44.120 --> 02:45.420 And it is devastating. 02:46.010 --> 02:53.040 So if King James we just played queen and ancient telecom and Square on a train and if Bishop and USX, 02:53.510 --> 02:57.440 well, what are we playing here? 03:00.200 --> 03:01.520 Is that the end of all fun? 03:10.530 --> 03:11.770 This is a little bit of violence. 03:11.810 --> 03:17.880 Actually, I'm being at naughty shining example, there's Queen Tate's age six, Jack, because actually 03:17.880 --> 03:21.460 we want to clear the way for the rook now to use a tree. 03:21.930 --> 03:24.170 Yeah, it's like multiple clearances here. 03:24.870 --> 03:27.840 So the rook wants to use this connection now. 03:29.340 --> 03:40.710 And blacks in a desperate state, Queen E5 is played, but we just play Ruhengeri anyway, queen aged 03:40.710 --> 03:41.190 five. 03:43.590 --> 03:46.340 And there's actually two ways to win from this position. 03:46.350 --> 03:47.520 I wonder if you can spot. 03:52.180 --> 03:53.220 One of those ways. 03:54.910 --> 04:01.060 If you check all checks, check, you know, high priority forcing most overresponse rotates, a five 04:01.060 --> 04:05.710 check is one of the ways and then G five is actually checkmate with the bishops. 04:07.600 --> 04:12.580 And the other way was actually just G five. 04:12.580 --> 04:21.640 Check is also winning because that's a pinpoint the power of the pen piece or poorness illusionary so 04:21.640 --> 04:26.400 we can snap off on page five and we can crash routes at age eight. 04:27.010 --> 04:30.810 So yeah, there are multiple clearances in this example. 04:30.820 --> 04:33.790 It's not such an easy example to be fair. 04:36.220 --> 04:42.160 But if you can play such occurrences, you're opening up connections around the king and you're not 04:42.160 --> 04:47.200 letting the technicality of your own pieces occupying squares being an issue. 04:47.200 --> 04:52.360 You're clearing the way, clearing a path to use the connections. 04:52.360 --> 04:58.990 Actually, in this example, which have been ripped open, leaving absolutely defenseless here. 04:59.320 --> 05:07.000 If Blackhead played rooked the one Shatterhand, by the way, then this just delays things. 05:08.410 --> 05:09.610 It's just delaying. 05:09.610 --> 05:12.570 We're still back to that basic Tadzhik idea. 05:14.260 --> 05:18.610 So, for example, on this so what if there's a work on this one doesn't actually do anything. 05:19.210 --> 05:20.170 OK, so yeah. 05:20.170 --> 05:24.550 Rotates seven startling kind of clearance tile combination. 05:24.550 --> 05:29.950 In fact, on this occasion, I hope you got some of the key points that sometimes you want to get your 05:29.950 --> 05:33.430 own pieces out of the way, out of key squares. 05:33.940 --> 05:38.410 And sometimes in doing so, you might also make. 05:39.700 --> 05:47.050 Even more effective for that clearance by damagingly opponents, Kingscote by opening up kind of connections, 05:47.860 --> 05:53.410 taking out the opponents key obstruction resources like this Paul H7. 05:54.100 --> 05:56.020 OK, and so much.