WEBVTT 00:00.960 --> 00:06.870 Hi there in this election, I want to introduce you to the Spofford Mike Patton, as well as provide 00:06.870 --> 00:08.270 you with an example at the same time. 00:09.300 --> 00:15.330 So here there is an amazing so-called smothered meat pattern, which you might not be familiar at all 00:15.330 --> 00:23.850 with term, but it's usually, you know, a smothered meat is delivered with a that amazing ability 00:23.850 --> 00:29.790 to jump over pieces can create a very, very interesting mating pattern. 00:29.790 --> 00:33.000 And I dare hear the opponents. 00:33.000 --> 00:35.130 King has just gone to be eight. 00:36.600 --> 00:42.660 Now, if you use the process, I've recommended you of prioritizing, forcing moves and chacal checks. 00:43.110 --> 00:49.290 Do you see there's a really outrageous check which might lead to something extremely special and interesting 00:49.290 --> 00:51.240 for the night on sex. 00:51.780 --> 00:58.650 So I wonder if you can actually spot it if you look at even the most outrageous checks and this position 00:59.310 --> 01:02.920 and then follow that through to check all checks after that. 01:03.180 --> 01:11.220 So prioritize forcing moves that you see Moose advance is a key skill that you need to kind of be aware 01:11.220 --> 01:13.160 of if you're going to be an effective chess player. 01:13.800 --> 01:16.470 Tactics is your most brutal way of winning games. 01:16.470 --> 01:17.750 And we all like winning, right? 01:18.060 --> 01:22.110 We don't want a win suspended like three moves in advance. 01:22.110 --> 01:24.330 No, we want like an immediate tactical win. 01:24.330 --> 01:29.220 Sometimes we can get over here, believe it or not, in this position, if you check all checks. 01:29.670 --> 01:34.920 So what you think White Plains, N.Y., actually is Paul Morphy, one of the great American legends 01:34.920 --> 01:40.230 of the game playing against Srifa in 1859 Paris game. 01:40.830 --> 01:43.650 It may have been a past two months or a casual game. 01:44.160 --> 01:45.120 So here. 01:47.830 --> 01:53.530 Let's see what is white playing, so I'll give you five seconds now to pull for four thousand points 01:53.530 --> 01:54.550 for each player of white. 01:58.390 --> 02:06.550 I know you haven't seen the actual smile with Mike Patton before, this is maybe your first glance at 02:06.550 --> 02:06.630 it. 02:06.670 --> 02:07.960 It's Quincy Achak. 02:08.500 --> 02:11.830 So we're forcing the king to be totally surrounded. 02:12.340 --> 02:14.830 And it seems Holderness at King's Cross to the King surrounded. 02:15.040 --> 02:17.680 How can you possibly checkmate the king here? 02:18.190 --> 02:21.010 Well, we have introduced the Neutze earlier. 02:21.070 --> 02:22.840 The knight does jump over pieces. 02:23.440 --> 02:29.560 97 is actually administrative and administering a check to the king. 02:30.100 --> 02:32.540 And the king has no escape squares here. 02:33.370 --> 02:41.680 This is actually checkmate and it's a specific type of checkmate, the smothered meat pattern. 02:42.130 --> 02:49.230 And believe it or not, this smothered meat pattern does occur as a frequent visitor in games. 02:49.510 --> 02:54.880 And you might wonder why King's question, why does this smell with my pan occur? 02:55.990 --> 03:01.840 Well, I'll tell you, it's actually similar reasons to the back chromate pattern. 03:03.350 --> 03:04.900 It's the two of defaults. 03:06.880 --> 03:10.240 You know, when you use sovereign defaults, how many of us change the defaults? 03:10.650 --> 03:16.230 Not many of us, we accept defaults because we think they've been carefully chosen quite often by default. 03:16.240 --> 03:22.600 And this is a rare example where black households are kind of on blacks, not Kozel blacks kind of struggling 03:22.600 --> 03:27.200 to get some safety, but quite often a normal game of chess by default. 03:27.640 --> 03:35.710 The king castles on the king's side and we get this diagonal where the king castles on the king side 03:36.790 --> 03:38.980 and our king cousins on king side. 03:39.280 --> 03:47.650 Sometimes a queen can come in and a knight can jump in sometimes and they can combine to get this kind 03:47.650 --> 03:53.830 of pattern, a smothered meat pattern with a similar idea that the king goes in the corner. 03:55.950 --> 04:02.520 OK, and then we play this check and the king comes here, then we play this check and the king goes 04:02.520 --> 04:06.160 back and then we play this Queen Jiwon and they take and then we not have to. 04:06.540 --> 04:09.630 So the reason these things happen, they're frequent visitors. 04:09.630 --> 04:15.540 Their key patterns, both in the back row and the pattern is that it's the default. 04:15.540 --> 04:17.580 Why called default down sides. 04:18.930 --> 04:20.570 Look out for the default downsides. 04:20.580 --> 04:23.070 And I'll often refer to this as a diagram of that. 04:23.280 --> 04:28.320 Often you can win many, many games if you look tactically and very carefully and frighteningly, the 04:28.320 --> 04:31.350 diagram, if you're playing Y or if you're playing, look at this diagonal carefully. 04:32.130 --> 04:37.500 For all the amazing possibilities that might exist, you'll be surprised, constantly surprised. 04:39.030 --> 04:43.320 So anyway, here, though, it's not about canceling things like the Kings, like trying to find a safe 04:43.320 --> 04:43.830 haven. 04:44.130 --> 04:49.770 It just so happened that, you know, if the king had gone, by the way, earlier in the game here, 04:49.820 --> 04:55.170 then Queen Elizabeth, there's a checkmate, a basic support checkmate where Queen is supported by another 04:55.620 --> 04:55.980 piece. 04:56.370 --> 04:59.550 But here we have the special smothered checkmate. 05:01.050 --> 05:03.930 And yet again, for the same reason the king can't go back there because of this. 05:03.940 --> 05:09.030 Chamique So the king goes Hamwi players Quincy Achak and ninety seven. 05:09.210 --> 05:12.960 But yes, it is actually a frequent visitor in many, many games. 05:12.960 --> 05:17.340 So be aware this is a major checkmating pattern to beware of. 05:17.700 --> 05:19.410 OK, that's about.