WEBVTT 00:01.070 --> 00:01.760 Hi there. 00:02.490 --> 00:09.460 You're playing black in this situation, can you spot anything really wonderful that you can do here 00:09.480 --> 00:11.350 if I give you five seconds to pull the video? 00:11.850 --> 00:21.210 Can you arrange the so-called smothered pattern, big clue so shackle checks doesn't matter how outrageous 00:21.210 --> 00:21.550 they are. 00:23.010 --> 00:30.150 Can we set the tone for this pattern so the king would be surrounded ideally by all of its own pieces 00:30.150 --> 00:31.640 taking up escape squares? 00:32.280 --> 00:34.680 So in this position, is there such a move? 00:35.820 --> 00:38.160 OK, so five seconds from now. 00:44.050 --> 00:47.040 OK, Queen Jiwon check. 00:47.680 --> 00:51.880 It doesn't matter how they recapture this, it's going to be a smothered meat pattern. 00:52.480 --> 00:56.290 If they take the night, it's night have to and that's checkmate. 00:58.000 --> 01:00.570 If they take the rook again, the king is surrounded. 01:00.580 --> 01:02.100 They have to is checkmate. 01:02.380 --> 01:03.970 So I love this map with my pattern. 01:04.390 --> 01:06.850 And believe it or not, you won't believe it. 01:06.850 --> 01:08.590 But this game is from sixteen. 01:08.590 --> 01:09.160 Twenty. 01:10.660 --> 01:11.260 That's right. 01:13.130 --> 01:21.610 16 20 is one of the earliest recorded smothered Mike Patterson games and no name Salatin, actually, 01:21.950 --> 01:27.670 but we like to call it nothing against the Sheikh Yassin El Greco. 01:28.070 --> 01:31.270 So Grecco, one of the earliest writers players of the game. 01:32.210 --> 01:37.730 So this is amazing kind of artifacts of chess history. 01:40.690 --> 01:49.120 I can't help but show you how the game, almost 84, is a good movie, five and both points came out 01:49.600 --> 01:54.940 and both bishops came out and this might be one of your games might look one of you like one of your 01:54.940 --> 01:55.360 games. 01:57.430 --> 02:01.760 And what happens for it to be such a disaster might push the pawn. 02:03.160 --> 02:07.840 1964 happened while 1964. 02:09.160 --> 02:15.520 You might want to put your 1964 is reCAPTCHA. 02:15.550 --> 02:23.860 Well, the Queen came in and hits both of these two pawns and it was a very difficult situation. 02:24.610 --> 02:30.400 We ended up playing my afraid, but we should have some empathy here if we don't play Jeoffrey. 02:33.150 --> 02:37.050 Yeah, can you spot how we shot my hair as a puzzle? 02:40.980 --> 02:46.700 OK, we'll have a more common garden as support checkmate where the queen is supported by the night. 02:47.760 --> 02:54.940 So, yeah, 1964 created a kind of weakness of the last move because the noise is no longer standing 02:54.940 --> 02:57.360 golden age for like the Kompong. 02:57.360 --> 03:03.780 Yeah, we're bouncing in on that new golden opportunity that we lost when we sacrifice the whole piece 03:03.780 --> 03:05.910 there to get the situation. 03:06.630 --> 03:08.370 And it's a very dangerous situation. 03:09.630 --> 03:12.870 And in fact, there's there's another kind of sad puzzle here. 03:13.290 --> 03:17.460 If Bishop takes there's another kind of mating pattern I haven't introduced yet. 03:17.850 --> 03:23.340 But if age takes one is black play here for 500 points bonus. 03:24.780 --> 03:28.260 It's another kind of mating pattern that they've been given names. 03:28.260 --> 03:29.640 There's loads of these mating patterns. 03:29.910 --> 03:36.480 But the two I want to introduce you in this particular course emphasises the background smothered by 03:36.480 --> 03:36.680 his. 03:36.680 --> 03:38.940 Here's another mating pattern just in this game. 03:39.330 --> 03:40.920 There's one game we have Queensrÿche for. 03:41.700 --> 03:45.390 It's delivering the checkmate and the king is stopped from using Jiwon. 03:46.050 --> 03:48.600 So yeah, this classic game from sixteen twenty. 03:48.600 --> 03:53.090 We learn all of this stuff about chess in this game in sixteen twenty. 03:53.430 --> 03:57.390 And believe me, there are millions of games being played each day now. 03:57.720 --> 04:01.440 So if we can get this level of insight from a game played in sixteen twenty. 04:03.120 --> 04:05.580 Yeah, there's a lot to learn in chess. 04:05.580 --> 04:11.100 But here I'm saying that the main crux of it is this mother, the main outcome of this particular game. 04:11.370 --> 04:12.390 So I hope you enjoyed that. 04:13.500 --> 04:18.510 And a historical artifacts from sixteen twenty. 04:19.290 --> 04:19.860 That's so much.