WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.510 Hi there. 00:01.950 --> 00:09.690 In this example, I'm going to show you how the back row maids comes to be so popular as a way of people 00:09.690 --> 00:14.620 losing or winning in games of chess here or world chess champion Magnus Carlson. 00:14.970 --> 00:17.550 To be fair, he's low on time. 00:17.860 --> 00:21.110 So normally he'd see tactical issues like this. 00:21.990 --> 00:26.040 He is faced with this move C5 from Wesley. 00:26.040 --> 00:30.260 So so Wesley so is actually playing with the black pieces against our current world chess champion. 00:30.750 --> 00:34.650 Now, Magnus can't take this pawn because of Rook takes and that's losing material. 00:36.210 --> 00:39.270 So he actually plays Knight takes. 00:39.660 --> 00:47.400 Now Wesley so has a very nice Trócaire of the night takes Quintet's Guess What Wesley So plays in this 00:47.400 --> 00:54.210 position, which causes quite a angry reaction, shall we say, for Magnus, cos understandably. 00:54.480 --> 00:56.760 But he is low on time and this happens to us. 00:56.760 --> 00:58.770 We're all human to spare their minds. 00:59.190 --> 01:02.340 You know, when you lose just just try and get better for the next game. 01:02.340 --> 01:05.490 Training yourself tactically, you know, chess is that experience. 01:05.490 --> 01:07.950 It's you have to like learn from your losses. 01:07.950 --> 01:12.690 And even if you become a grand master later, you'll still be making mistakes as parts of the games 01:12.690 --> 01:14.190 when to lose or to draw. 01:14.190 --> 01:15.120 It's part of the game. 01:15.510 --> 01:21.480 So anyway, can you see a key move that Black can play here and exploit the fact that White has no heir 01:21.480 --> 01:22.230 for the king? 01:22.710 --> 01:26.430 So it's prone to a back row made in theory. 01:26.910 --> 01:31.800 But can that theoretical downside be brought into light here with Black's next move? 01:32.370 --> 01:37.140 Now, I'm going to give you five seconds to pause the video, if you like. 01:37.140 --> 01:42.750 This style, by the way, you know, check out my complete guide to chess tactics and we go over, you 01:42.750 --> 01:46.350 know, a huge amount of tactical puzzles. 01:47.400 --> 01:49.800 So I do I do love tactics in chess. 01:49.800 --> 01:52.020 It's one of my main areas. 01:52.020 --> 01:55.080 I like to think I'm strong tactically by here. 01:55.080 --> 01:57.030 There's a great tactical move Black played. 02:01.950 --> 02:05.380 OK, it's Rook's CSX, believe it or not. 02:06.060 --> 02:10.860 So it seems as though the routes just been offered, you know, just just able to be taken. 02:11.430 --> 02:14.220 But Magnis can't play this because of Queen takes. 02:14.220 --> 02:17.550 And if Rook takes this, Rook comes the A1. 02:18.150 --> 02:21.990 And look, we have that dreaded backroad male pattern. 02:22.720 --> 02:25.020 We can only delay being checkmated. 02:25.890 --> 02:29.120 So in the game, I mean, this is a disaster. 02:29.340 --> 02:38.010 This is a total disaster in the game was played instead of Queen Tangs, Mangahas played this offtakes. 02:40.200 --> 02:44.830 Instead of -- takes, there's rock takes, which still implies that black might be in trouble. 02:44.850 --> 02:50.340 Now, if blacks are not careful, there could be a black hole mate for the black king. 02:50.940 --> 02:52.200 And here was this. 02:52.200 --> 02:59.520 So just made some for the King Winsley with age five to avoid any such issue, you can imagine the same 02:59.520 --> 03:00.660 thing happening to black. 03:00.660 --> 03:07.230 If Black played this, then white could be on at least on the way to equalizing off the track here and 03:07.230 --> 03:13.000 then taking how the Queen would have to step back and give herself back so we could even be worse. 03:13.020 --> 03:20.280 It could be a worse situation where, say, here and then check unless the queen steps back here, this 03:20.280 --> 03:23.790 could end up meeting the black king. 03:24.060 --> 03:30.690 So creating Arul or lift, as it's sometimes called, it's very, very important, a square where your 03:30.690 --> 03:32.160 king can escape to. 03:32.460 --> 03:39.840 So sometimes your own pawns can be kind of a down side of your position, your own pawns, restricting 03:40.050 --> 03:40.830 your own king. 03:41.130 --> 03:46.920 And we see how these things can creep into a position unexpectedly. 03:47.850 --> 03:54.900 So sometimes because of our limits as human beings, sometimes we just before we reach such a position, 03:54.900 --> 03:58.080 you know, to make some effort, the king is a good precaution. 03:58.080 --> 04:02.940 Of course, we measure because we can't always, you know, think like a computer all the time. 04:03.240 --> 04:09.030 So, you know, Mangler should have maybe earlier taken some opportunity to make after the king. 04:09.330 --> 04:12.240 But, yeah, we end up in this position, which is very, very dangerous. 04:12.450 --> 04:12.950 To be fair. 04:12.960 --> 04:18.090 It's very, very dangerous off the C5 is played because it's threatening CIFOR. 04:18.690 --> 04:22.290 So it's already a very dangerous position because of the king being restricted. 04:22.590 --> 04:26.280 So we saw Knights takes, Knight takes and then this move. 04:27.180 --> 04:30.900 So yeah, Magnus lost his queen and eventually lost the game. 04:32.340 --> 04:35.640 OK, so very, very instructive game there. 04:35.760 --> 04:39.210 This is hot off the press actually from from the time of this recording. 04:39.210 --> 04:40.710 It just happened yesterday. 04:40.710 --> 04:43.830 Enough for our final topical example for you. 04:44.130 --> 04:48.300 And we should have a look at some classic back examples as well. 04:48.630 --> 04:49.710 The back chromate pats. 04:49.710 --> 04:54.900 There's one of the most fundamental checkmating patterns, the orange asare for I'd sprinkle a good 04:54.900 --> 05:00.870 selection of examples and then have made me look at another important mating pattern just to make sure 05:00.870 --> 05:05.100 this aspect of your game is is started in this course. 05:05.400 --> 05:10.740 It's a very fundamental aspect of chess, this knowledge and awareness of mating patterns. 05:11.160 --> 05:12.780 OK, and so much.