WEBVTT 00:01.330 --> 00:08.200 Hi there in this land, shall we get a nice mix of things, kind of. 00:10.090 --> 00:15.180 It's got ingredients of removing the defender and deflecting defenders. 00:15.790 --> 00:18.390 So we're trying to get access to key squares. 00:18.400 --> 00:25.000 There's a game of chess and there's a tactical game of chess, the tactical game of chess. 00:25.000 --> 00:32.440 We can play here to win access to square off the square and also illustrate the so-called diagram of 00:32.440 --> 00:36.610 death, which statistically wins a ton of games. 00:36.620 --> 00:44.230 And the more resourceful you are tactically, the more you'll see that even if it seems really defended 00:44.230 --> 00:47.950 and no hope of actually using this diagram of death, I like to call it that. 00:48.700 --> 00:51.400 Sometimes you can use sacrifices in chess. 00:51.640 --> 00:53.800 So, hey, have a look at this position. 00:53.800 --> 00:59.860 I'll give you five seconds, pause the video for as long as you want and see if you can make use of 00:59.860 --> 01:01.390 the so-called Triangle of Death here. 01:02.080 --> 01:03.610 What would you do to start off with. 01:06.610 --> 01:13.380 OK, first we can gain access to C4, we can stick it on this diagonal if it wasn't for this night, 01:13.630 --> 01:16.120 OK, we'll use removal the defender for that. 01:16.870 --> 01:21.640 So Rook takes B6 removing the defender Aztec's. 01:21.700 --> 01:25.690 And so we stick our special on C4 and actually we're friends thing immediately. 01:26.110 --> 01:27.730 Bishop takes F7 Checkmate. 01:28.420 --> 01:29.260 So that's pretty nice. 01:29.620 --> 01:31.420 So Blacklight Bishop ESX. 01:31.900 --> 01:35.020 Now how do we get access to key squares. 01:36.820 --> 01:42.730 First of all, that is quite the defender of F7, so we want to soften up the diagonal a little bit 01:42.730 --> 01:43.140 more. 01:44.500 --> 01:46.060 And how can we do that. 01:49.890 --> 01:50.520 OK. 01:54.520 --> 02:02.640 We can play Rook takes ESX now Blankfort It was best to play offtakes Essex that was tried. 02:03.160 --> 02:08.680 I don't want to get too much in the details of the game but we have this position now, so there is 02:09.250 --> 02:15.130 potentially a very, very interesting square which even as you know, we start in chess and look at 02:15.130 --> 02:19.240 a lot of the opening traps they revolve around F7, but here the King's Castle. 02:19.690 --> 02:21.490 So F7 is still an issue. 02:21.640 --> 02:27.700 Any square really that the King is protecting is a very, very interesting kind of soft spot, a very, 02:27.700 --> 02:32.750 very interesting square to try and gain access to resourcefully if needed. 02:33.280 --> 02:36.610 So first, how do we put some more pressure on F7? 02:40.010 --> 02:47.360 OK, we can do that with force, so that becomes a potential killer common square when Queen blackmail 02:47.370 --> 02:49.190 the fans of Queen D7. 02:49.790 --> 02:51.200 So what's the punch line here? 02:53.930 --> 02:54.920 What ends the game, 02:58.250 --> 03:06.680 can we use a deflection tactic, can we say to the queen, please go on holiday, Queen, come let me 03:06.680 --> 03:08.590 have access to F7. 03:09.200 --> 03:11.090 How can we get the Queen's go on holiday here? 03:14.100 --> 03:22.430 OK, again, pause the video, I'll give you five cents pause video again if you need some time here. 03:23.790 --> 03:28.970 Yeah, we can encourage the queen to step away with Bishop five. 03:30.000 --> 03:33.040 Yeah, we want to be able to take with him some some black resigns. 03:33.930 --> 03:39.060 So if Queen thanks be five, queen of seven is checkmate. 03:42.330 --> 03:49.360 If Rooker finds, then Bishop takes the seven rotating four bishops, 86 will be amazing. 03:49.860 --> 03:52.470 It's a very unfortunate configuration now for the king. 03:52.770 --> 03:54.150 And this bishop doesn't really help. 03:54.150 --> 03:55.530 It takes out an escape square. 03:55.980 --> 04:05.820 So this is an absolutely marvelous example from the former women's world champion Shimon Dunant's. 04:06.840 --> 04:07.950 Excuse the pronunciation. 04:08.580 --> 04:09.120 I did. 04:09.120 --> 04:14.160 I did try and check out how that's pronounced that I'm not so brilliant a pronunciation, but I hope 04:14.160 --> 04:17.590 you get the core point of this lecture. 04:18.000 --> 04:20.640 I think it's actually Shiban that done it. 04:22.350 --> 04:25.160 But anyway, the right pronunciation science to get this right. 04:25.650 --> 04:32.640 But the core point is for me, though, in terms of the chess, it's this triangle of death. 04:33.150 --> 04:37.460 We've got a combination of removal of the vendor to gain access to Seaforth. 04:37.680 --> 04:44.850 So we're systematically gaining access to a very, very like soft spot in Black's position. 04:45.060 --> 04:52.830 This makes it even softer when you remove a kind of bishop and you've got a bishop without a counterpart. 04:52.830 --> 05:00.750 Now that then you can look out for excitement on the squares of that color, you know, so there's more 05:00.750 --> 05:02.880 pressure now on the screen generally. 05:03.540 --> 05:08.000 And so there's Queena for putting even more scrutiny on F7. 05:08.130 --> 05:10.280 It's a real crushing blow. 05:10.620 --> 05:14.010 And by the way, you might think, OK, Brooke, have I? 05:14.640 --> 05:20.070 But here, you know, actually, we've got a sweet little forcing move heavy if you tackle checks. 05:20.460 --> 05:22.680 There's a sweet thing we can do here as well. 05:25.660 --> 05:26.680 What can we do here? 05:29.160 --> 05:31.810 OK, we can actually play Queen takes our check. 05:32.450 --> 05:37.470 So another little sub puzzle bishop takes a sex change and it's very limited replies. 05:37.860 --> 05:38.610 Very, very neat. 05:39.420 --> 05:39.930 Is that. 05:40.350 --> 05:46.100 So anyway, yeah, after the queen of all, we have Queen the seven and the key deflection move. 05:46.350 --> 05:51.360 But I'll show you a little bit earlier how that was obtained and the whole diagram of that thing going 05:51.360 --> 05:55.620 on, which statistically will win you a ton of games if you play your cards right. 05:56.670 --> 06:02.310 So there's certain, you know, tactical liabilities in chess and that's one of them because by default 06:02.320 --> 06:04.040 will tend to cancel Kingside. 06:04.620 --> 06:08.670 And so by default, back bromates and smothered are quite common. 06:08.850 --> 06:11.790 But also, you know, Diagne of death tactics are quite common. 06:12.120 --> 06:15.510 It's those defaults of chess which create default downsides. 06:16.170 --> 06:21.690 A lot of players will pass through this traffic and even, you know, experienced players like Magnus 06:21.690 --> 06:25.150 Carlsen will even fall for that matrix. 06:25.560 --> 06:27.870 But definitely, you know, this digable look out for it. 06:27.870 --> 06:32.220 And the combinations of what this is a sparkling example, actually, because the whole thing seems 06:32.220 --> 06:38.610 pretty well defended at the moment, but it's all taken out for removal, removing the defender or kind 06:38.610 --> 06:39.930 of moving the defender. 06:39.930 --> 06:41.820 In a way, we're moving the defender. 06:41.820 --> 06:42.840 We don't have to remove the queen. 06:42.840 --> 06:44.010 We're moving the defender. 06:44.340 --> 06:47.670 So we're gain access to that f7 softball. 06:48.090 --> 06:52.920 And, you know, Brooke, Efate, as mentioned, you know, then we get this sweet continuation. 06:53.250 --> 06:54.060 So very, very sweet. 06:54.060 --> 06:57.270 I thought you enjoyed that as much as me, but so much.