WEBVTT 00:01.190 --> 00:10.310 Hi there, I'm a major chess addict, I confess I dream quite often bullet chess in the evenings and 00:10.310 --> 00:15.770 here I just played a check and I noted, hang on, you know, I'm going to take this rook. 00:15.770 --> 00:18.170 That's one of the reasons I played the check. 00:18.860 --> 00:22.220 My opponent played Quincy Fife. 00:23.930 --> 00:25.280 I mean, maybe there were better moves. 00:25.280 --> 00:28.010 By the way, I'm not saying Jack's even the best move. 00:28.490 --> 00:30.740 It seems as though I can actually take the queen. 00:30.740 --> 00:31.670 It's just a bullet game. 00:31.940 --> 00:36.320 But anyway, here I did play something which I felt quite beautiful. 00:36.680 --> 00:40.490 I got a bit of applause from the spectators on the stream. 00:41.030 --> 00:46.310 So I stream as Kings Cross reference, which, by the way, so instead of taking the rook, when you 00:46.310 --> 00:48.770 see a strong move, look for an even stronger one. 00:49.220 --> 00:52.520 And in fact, I found something quite beautiful. 00:52.850 --> 00:59.840 And an awareness of a mating pattern really helped, in particular the fundamentals of that mating pattern, 00:59.840 --> 01:06.740 the ingredients having bishops lurking around the opponents king, especially when you see a bishop 01:06.740 --> 01:13.610 like this controlling Kidscape squares, there's a particular mating pattern it could conjure up eventually 01:13.610 --> 01:17.240 in your own mind as you become more and more familiar with mating patterns. 01:17.570 --> 01:24.020 Certain mating patterns are associated with certain piece configurations and hair, which does have 01:24.020 --> 01:30.230 this bishop hair, which can be quite dangerous for mating opponents, especially with the so-called 01:30.350 --> 01:32.300 Boden's male pattern. 01:32.900 --> 01:36.110 And when I played it, it was actually identified by some of the audience as well. 01:36.620 --> 01:37.850 So I didn't take the rug. 01:38.030 --> 01:42.290 So guess what I played here if I give you five seconds portfolio. 01:46.350 --> 01:52.260 OK, I was checking all checks on this occasion instead of just taking the rock, when you take things 01:52.260 --> 01:58.230 that is very lucrative, but like we've recaptures any routine that's in your play, sometimes you miss 01:58.230 --> 02:03.360 out on that high resolution of possibilities that as a stronger and stronger tactician, you want to 02:03.360 --> 02:04.740 be more and more aware of. 02:05.670 --> 02:08.000 You want to be aware of your options essentially. 02:08.400 --> 02:09.450 And here there is an option. 02:09.450 --> 02:10.950 You don't have to just take the rock. 02:12.990 --> 02:19.620 In fact, Checker checks Roxxy sex check, so I played this, and this is even in the bullet game, 02:19.630 --> 02:25.350 so eventually, you know, even in bullet checks, you can leverage some of the key mating patterns. 02:25.350 --> 02:28.860 So the Bowdens bite is one of my favorites. 02:29.580 --> 02:35.520 But also, you know, the Blackburne male pattern comes up quite a lot for me because I play one before 02:35.520 --> 02:38.610 I end up with a black male pattern, which I can also show you. 02:39.120 --> 02:46.470 So here in this particular male pattern, we're kind of damaging blacks control of asix to try and get 02:46.470 --> 02:47.390 our bishop here. 02:47.700 --> 02:50.460 So you see, the bishops are complementary in the Bowdens, mate. 02:51.450 --> 02:58.410 My opponent took on C6, Cuéntame, C6, Jack Betis and Bishop Essex's Checkmate. 02:58.740 --> 03:02.700 So both Shammy and it was identified by some in the audience. 03:03.210 --> 03:04.290 So I really enjoyed that. 03:04.300 --> 03:05.970 That was kind of my game of the day. 03:06.630 --> 03:16.890 And also I felt that the next day I should extend my checkmate patterns, even in this beginner's course, 03:16.890 --> 03:26.640 because actually there are a lot of fun also to save yourself some more exercises, to set you guys 03:26.910 --> 03:29.850 some more exercises for finding the mates. 03:29.850 --> 03:33.580 That's going to be a fantastic key skill to drive your results forward. 03:33.840 --> 03:39.920 So here the Bowdens mate pattern is with the two bishops kind of criss-cross like this. 03:40.260 --> 03:47.550 So, yeah, you can leverage it during an actual game and you get kind of a whiff of it's like an acquired 03:47.550 --> 03:51.900 smell of the possession and the quiet downside of Black's position. 03:52.350 --> 03:59.010 Because you've got this Beshir power, you can try and invoke the Bowdens mate pattern. 03:59.430 --> 04:02.300 So, yeah, it really adds enjoyment. 04:02.310 --> 04:11.670 Chess, if you do manage to play some of these make patterns, the Blackburne pattern, you know, one 04:11.670 --> 04:18.930 of my favorites, I've often won games of the Blackburn mate pattern where games, you know, quite 04:18.930 --> 04:22.650 often go a little bit like this. 04:23.070 --> 04:25.110 The unsuspecting opponents. 04:25.650 --> 04:37.500 Let me kind of build up on that king, for example, if they play passively too passively, that is, 04:39.390 --> 04:43.320 and say, I mean, this is not an actual game. 04:43.320 --> 04:49.890 I'm just just saying the basics of it, that I get my queen, you know, across. 04:50.340 --> 04:53.030 I've got this bishop kind of looking down this diagram. 04:53.050 --> 04:58.320 And quite often I've had this so many times from this opening, you know, the Blackburn make pattern 04:58.320 --> 05:01.490 as I discover its official name later. 05:01.530 --> 05:07.710 I mean, I had played this mate quite a lot, but it's officially the Blackburn mate pattern where you're 05:07.710 --> 05:09.270 meeting with two bishops. 05:09.270 --> 05:12.420 Yeah, these are among my favourites when you meet with the two bishops. 05:15.000 --> 05:21.030 So here, can you see what WINZ plays, which is rather crushing if I give you five seconds to pull 05:21.030 --> 05:27.180 the video and this has been actually a huge point score, are they playing one before to just get this 05:27.180 --> 05:28.260 particular pattern? 05:28.260 --> 05:34.260 So sometimes you can even get your openings to try and get a particular make pattern or actually recommend 05:34.260 --> 05:36.720 one, be free for fun on the force. 05:36.720 --> 05:43.250 The time controls, by the way, that the Namsan arson attack system avoids a lot of opening theory 05:43.260 --> 05:47.070 and can get you a very dangerous, especially if you ever have a situation like this. 05:47.880 --> 05:51.990 So how you spota that you can play quintet's H5. 05:51.990 --> 05:54.780 And I've had this so many times of the details. 05:54.780 --> 06:00.870 Bishopsgate, a quick point scorer, especially for those Tilghman's you want to win and get to the 06:00.870 --> 06:01.290 next game. 06:01.290 --> 06:02.460 It's not that Suess format. 06:02.460 --> 06:04.860 It's more like an all you can eat format. 06:06.330 --> 06:08.230 So Bishop takes age as checkmate. 06:08.280 --> 06:08.510 Yeah. 06:08.520 --> 06:15.270 So the Blackburne make pattern so they add a lot of passion and enjoyment to the games to play them 06:15.690 --> 06:20.910 to make chess more fun with the patterns it enriches your chess. 06:21.600 --> 06:26.490 They are also quite often a cultural reference to famous players of the past. 06:26.790 --> 06:33.780 You can use a site like Chess Games to check out Morphy, Pillsbury and some of the others that I mentioned. 06:33.930 --> 06:37.980 As part of, you know, the names make patterns when their names for players. 06:37.980 --> 06:39.240 So there are cultural points. 06:40.860 --> 06:44.670 And that's so important when you look at games of pool, Morphy especially. 06:46.830 --> 06:51.870 Games end to end, you're getting an enrichments each time when you look at a complete game and enrichment 06:51.870 --> 06:58.260 of your opening, your middle game and the concentric circles, you want a solid inner circle, basic 06:58.260 --> 07:02.190 understanding of opening the game and game and a concentric circle. 07:02.200 --> 07:08.340 You want to increase your understanding a bit more specific, maybe openings, specific mental games, 07:08.580 --> 07:09.450 specific angles. 07:09.810 --> 07:18.330 So as you get into the more outer circles, you get more detailed, sophisticated knowledge and it's 07:18.330 --> 07:21.300 more and more connected perhaps to other things. 07:21.510 --> 07:22.890 It's more contextualized. 07:23.640 --> 07:28.340 So the concentric circle method generally is recommendable. 07:28.680 --> 07:33.990 So any cultural pointers you get in this course and I felt that was very, very important, not just 07:33.990 --> 07:39.870 to lay the foundation, the inner circle of the basics of opening and game, but the cultural pointers 07:40.140 --> 07:46.020 and in fact the mating patterns allude to the great players of the past quite often, like Pillsbury, 07:46.020 --> 07:47.860 the Morphy, etc.. 07:48.330 --> 07:50.690 Grecco, a much earlier player. 07:51.750 --> 07:54.750 The coach pointers are critical for you. 07:54.750 --> 07:58.140 Enriching these circles go through complete games. 07:58.740 --> 08:01.350 And it's not just the act of cheating, by the way. 08:01.350 --> 08:08.130 Each phase of the game in isolation, you know, you want opening's, which you do understand the resulting 08:08.130 --> 08:11.840 mental game plans and even end game structures you're likely to get. 08:12.450 --> 08:17.280 So there's a great fluency of transition between opening the game and that game is arbitrary. 08:17.280 --> 08:21.990 Otherwise always you just you could, for example, memorize a sequence of opening moves. 08:22.140 --> 08:24.300 But I have no idea what to do in the middle game. 08:24.660 --> 08:30.300 So in fact, I'm quite often playing before you have a view of mental game plans and tactics like this 08:30.300 --> 08:35.970 beautiful male pattern, the black the male pattern named after Henry Blackburn, a famous British player. 08:36.480 --> 08:38.370 So, yeah, mating patterns. 08:38.670 --> 08:39.780 There are a lot of fun. 08:40.950 --> 08:48.210 And if you do this strict discipline of checking all checks, even the totally outrageous, sometimes 08:48.210 --> 08:50.760 in some situations they do actually work. 08:51.870 --> 08:55.740 OK, so mating patterns, a lot of fun to be had there. 08:56.070 --> 08:57.960 And is it quite a few exercises? 08:58.800 --> 09:04.320 And they do add greatly to my enjoyment of chess and I hope they will add greatly to your enjoyment 09:04.590 --> 09:05.640 of chess as well. 09:06.270 --> 09:06.900 And so much.