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Why they're in this position, a lot of the initial legwork has been made for you.

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This is Raymond Keane finishing off someone in a semi, and he actually plays the most precise move

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in this position, which is a clearance stall tactic.

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So what would you play in this position if I give you five seconds to pull the video for the absolute

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best move, which actually forces a checkmate?

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In very short order.

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OK, the move is actually bishop G-7.

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It clears out this connection, if we look, the connection we want is essentially Queen seven, we

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don't want to give the opponent any micro upsides when we play on moves.

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And sometimes to do that, you know, it might involve a sacrifice like this.

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If you play Bishop takes our fate, although this is technically winning, it delays things because,

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you know, King takes off check night.

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We are still technically winning.

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Sure.

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But it's not as clear cut, you know, game on for a little bit.

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But with this move, this is really the end of game one is now threatening queen checkmate.

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So what does black do?

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It's very, very f, you know, winning in short order if a queen, 87 Shammi as well as Queen, I mean,

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if King takes, then Queen 87 is checkmate.

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So, yes, it's just sometimes we need to clear our pieces, but bear in mind, we we don't want to

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give the opponent any kind of micro upsides and do that.

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You know, we should be prepared to sometimes sacrifice material to make sure nothing is given to the

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opponent.

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This might have been a blitz game.

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You might need to finish the on, you know, just like that I was going to lose on time.

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So it's good sometimes to be optimal and efficient.

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It's always trade offs, though.

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In other situations, you might not want to use a sacrifice if you can't calculate it all very clearly

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and cleanly.

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So, I mean, it's all trade offs and chess, but this is a nice clarance start finish.

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Very precise on this particular in this particular position.

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It's absolutely crushing.

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OK, so I hope you found that a much.