WEBVTT 00:01.320 --> 00:01.960 Hi there. 00:02.490 --> 00:09.840 In this example, Black has just taken the pawn on E4 now as part of this lecture. 00:09.870 --> 00:16.170 I'm going to introduce you to something really, really important about chess, that you're going to 00:16.170 --> 00:18.930 win most games tactically. 00:20.550 --> 00:26.100 And that's why my course, the complete Glad's chess tactics, by the way, is so important that you 00:26.100 --> 00:27.660 check out after this course. 00:28.440 --> 00:31.740 It's essential because you're going to win most games tactically. 00:31.740 --> 00:34.230 You're going to force the opponent to react with tactics. 00:34.530 --> 00:36.180 It's not going to be some long term. 00:36.570 --> 00:38.940 You know, in 20 minutes time, you might win. 00:39.240 --> 00:41.100 Tactics are more immediate. 00:41.430 --> 00:44.460 You're getting an immediate reaction from the opponents. 00:45.540 --> 00:48.600 And here you can get an immediate reaction from the opponent. 00:49.050 --> 00:54.090 But to create wonderful tactics, you need to have a certain mindset. 00:55.710 --> 01:00.150 The mindset is the prioritization of forcing moves. 01:01.200 --> 01:04.950 One of the major tricks, like magic tricks about chess. 01:05.370 --> 01:07.440 And you'll see this from Beth Harman. 01:07.440 --> 01:13.860 The Queen's Gambit Netflix series is how she could visualize positions in advance, but that's often 01:13.860 --> 01:14.400 helped. 01:14.400 --> 01:21.360 If the number of choices of the opponents is reduced, you'll be able to see more moves ahead if there's 01:21.360 --> 01:24.960 actually less choices, if it was more or less forced. 01:25.860 --> 01:33.030 And as a result, you really need to prioritize looking at forcing moves and a common way to help you 01:33.030 --> 01:40.740 look at the most forcing moves is to consider the checks, the captures and the threats of Matsen. 01:40.740 --> 01:48.090 One or two, especially checks captures in France, is a common expression you could use in your games 01:48.420 --> 01:49.680 and in any possession. 01:49.680 --> 01:56.760 If you want to prioritize the forcing moves, look for the checks and the forcing moves and see where 01:56.760 --> 02:00.510 they lead, because sometimes you can literally win a possession by force. 02:00.970 --> 02:04.890 Now here, why its play can actually win this by force. 02:05.340 --> 02:07.380 Can you see an important check? 02:07.680 --> 02:15.480 And you have to disregard sometimes, by the way, the scores that we mentioned at the start of the 02:15.480 --> 02:17.880 course, that's an overview guide. 02:18.060 --> 02:21.420 It really depends on the position, what the value of the pieces are. 02:23.130 --> 02:31.020 So here, just be open minded and check all the channels, even the most outrageous checks, they need 02:31.020 --> 02:36.050 to be checked out and this will win you so many games, so many. 02:37.380 --> 02:42.960 And I say this to you now, because if you do start to get put off, if you lose a few games, just 02:43.260 --> 02:45.150 train this aspect of your chest. 02:45.150 --> 02:49.950 TotEx, train yourself to look at forcing mauves as a high priority. 02:50.460 --> 02:55.890 So check all the checks, all the captions, all friends of mine wanted to say, hey, is there a key 02:55.890 --> 02:57.870 check which might be useful? 02:58.260 --> 03:05.070 And we evoke a kind of back chromate pattern because if you notice here, the king hasn't got that much 03:05.070 --> 03:05.610 air. 03:05.940 --> 03:06.450 The king's on. 03:07.050 --> 03:08.220 So it's not like it's on. 03:08.550 --> 03:10.800 So it doesn't have access to F7. 03:10.800 --> 03:13.440 It's only got access to these two squares. 03:13.710 --> 03:17.760 But already the noise is actually controlling G-7. 03:18.360 --> 03:24.390 So the king does seem to be in an awkward kind of back rotating position. 03:24.390 --> 03:26.190 If only we could somehow. 03:27.160 --> 03:29.720 Prove that that there is a risk. 03:30.130 --> 03:32.310 How can you prove that your opponent here? 03:32.650 --> 03:35.590 So if I give you five seconds, what would you play in this position? 03:35.740 --> 03:39.330 So prioritize forcing moves and what you come up with. 03:41.110 --> 03:45.580 And if you do, I'll give you a thousand virtual points if you find this next move. 03:49.820 --> 03:57.110 And I hope you start seeing the beauty of chess as well, Queen takes physics check very, very forcing. 03:57.440 --> 03:58.910 The opponent has to react. 04:00.740 --> 04:03.770 Now, if Kingsgate then we just play Queen G7 checkmate. 04:05.420 --> 04:10.190 So Rook takes and now we bring our rook down and it's a back row. 04:10.190 --> 04:10.820 Checkmate. 04:13.190 --> 04:14.360 It's going to be anyway. 04:14.360 --> 04:21.260 Black can technically delay with this and then with this, but we end up with Jack and the king can't 04:21.260 --> 04:21.770 escape. 04:23.660 --> 04:28.730 I really hope you like this example and the examples in this section. 04:29.690 --> 04:35.840 And then you're joining me to have a passion within a passion, which is chess tactics within the broader 04:35.840 --> 04:36.810 passion of chess. 04:37.220 --> 04:42.280 I really hope you join me in that passion within a passion and be strong tactically. 04:43.160 --> 04:44.830 That was one of my hallmarks. 04:44.840 --> 04:50.870 And, you know, later I even won a national under 18 in 1989, Lloyds Bank junior under 18. 04:52.310 --> 04:56.480 I was always strong, you know, from the get go tactically. 04:57.050 --> 05:04.100 And that's why I will put a spin on tactics in this course, because I want you to experience the joys 05:04.100 --> 05:07.520 that I did and you're going to get most results tactically. 05:07.520 --> 05:09.650 So try and be a tactical monster. 05:10.010 --> 05:13.340 That's your mission in the next few days and weeks. 05:13.610 --> 05:15.140 Become a tactical monster. 05:15.800 --> 05:21.170 Start solving a few tactical puzzles each day like this one. 05:21.170 --> 05:23.810 Try for accuracy, quality over quantity. 05:24.080 --> 05:25.640 Try and get 100 percent right. 05:25.640 --> 05:29.570 If you only tackle ten and it takes you hours, only tackle time. 05:29.690 --> 05:32.210 But make sure you try and get them 100 percent right. 05:32.480 --> 05:35.300 Don't try and tackle thirty and get something right. 05:35.540 --> 05:43.880 Go for quality accuracy to start off with and then later work on speed, but try and get them all 100 05:43.880 --> 05:46.880 percent right and ideally without guessing. 05:46.880 --> 05:52.940 So from the initial position, the ideal here is not to guess any moves to see the whole thing from 05:52.940 --> 05:53.780 the outset. 05:53.990 --> 06:00.320 If you're going to start doing that, you two will be taking your first steps to become a tactical monster 06:00.320 --> 06:03.050 in a good way, a tactical monster in a good way. 06:03.260 --> 06:08.450 So Queen takes physics, ignites this very important back from eight percent. 06:08.720 --> 06:10.940 And this is, by the way, you know, it's a historical game. 06:10.940 --> 06:17.540 A guy called Henry Byrd, a British spy against Johannes Zucker Tortes played in Nottingham, 1886. 06:17.990 --> 06:20.900 And we have it because chess is recorded with notation. 06:21.020 --> 06:22.400 That's the beauty of our game. 06:22.940 --> 06:26.120 These these move scores recorded from hundreds of years ago. 06:26.120 --> 06:27.110 Think about that as well. 06:27.500 --> 06:30.170 OK, hope you enjoyed this one. 06:30.620 --> 06:31.220 Thanks so much.