WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:07.500 Hey there, in this lecture, we see an amazing position where it seems as though hold on a sec. 00:08.030 --> 00:09.560 Are we not losing King's Cross? 00:09.570 --> 00:12.150 We're pulling down one, two, three, four. 00:13.140 --> 00:14.210 We're pulling down. 00:16.320 --> 00:18.610 But I'm teaching you chess, not accountancy. 00:18.630 --> 00:20.160 OK, we're a pawn down. 00:20.160 --> 00:26.480 And in chess, the object is to make the opponent's king so never be disheartens being a pawn down and 00:26.610 --> 00:30.120 all the faults that might be negative that entered your minds. 00:30.120 --> 00:39.030 When someone threatens you with, say, attacking your queen, your first instinct is to move the queen. 00:39.030 --> 00:39.390 Right? 00:39.810 --> 00:42.370 Isn't that the first instinct to move the queen away? 00:43.380 --> 00:45.510 Well, you won't be changing the situation much. 00:45.960 --> 00:48.660 If you move the queen somewhere, you'll still be a pawn down. 00:49.410 --> 00:59.160 But sometimes when you're faced with a threat to do the duty of checking the forcing moves as a very, 00:59.160 --> 01:00.210 very high priority. 01:00.510 --> 01:07.380 So even if you're threatened with something which seems terrifying, do the work, take the forcing 01:07.380 --> 01:08.730 moves and the work is fun. 01:09.480 --> 01:13.680 Forcing moves is very, very high priority because sometimes you can ignore threats. 01:13.680 --> 01:19.980 Your findings can let you reveal that actually you can ignore the fact that the opponents make, you 01:19.980 --> 01:24.630 know, otherwise it's like you're becoming subservient to the opponents. 01:24.630 --> 01:29.400 France, you don't want to be playing all the time in a passive way, just responding to the opponents. 01:29.400 --> 01:32.700 France, sometimes you can ignore the threat. 01:32.700 --> 01:34.140 Sometimes you can make a big difference. 01:34.830 --> 01:38.640 Sometimes you can play a brilliant combination and just wipe them out by force. 01:40.140 --> 01:41.760 So here, let's play. 01:41.940 --> 01:47.070 What would you do in this situation if I give you five seconds, pause, video, check all your checks, 01:47.850 --> 01:50.460 even the seemingly totally outrageous ones. 01:52.560 --> 01:54.160 It looks as though hold on a sec. 01:54.570 --> 01:56.910 Do we have at least a theoretical downside? 01:57.180 --> 01:58.890 Well, I'd call a theoretical downside. 01:59.280 --> 02:01.360 The king does seem a little bit restricted. 02:01.380 --> 02:02.950 So is there a kind of back row? 02:03.660 --> 02:04.700 Does it have to be backroad? 02:04.710 --> 02:06.120 Could it be backfill? 02:06.330 --> 02:08.900 Might that fall back? 02:09.240 --> 02:10.050 Pardon Texas. 02:10.680 --> 02:15.690 As long as the king is checkmated, that's the key ingredient we're looking for, for the king to be 02:15.710 --> 02:16.440 checkmated. 02:17.160 --> 02:18.780 The specific way King is checkmating. 02:18.780 --> 02:20.160 We don't have to be fussy about that. 02:20.160 --> 02:21.190 Chamma is a checkmate. 02:21.900 --> 02:25.470 So is there a way is there a way, a means of doing this? 02:25.470 --> 02:28.140 If you prioritize the following moves, check all your checks. 02:28.680 --> 02:30.510 Capturers and frat's have made some one and two. 02:30.510 --> 02:31.920 What can you see in this position? 02:32.500 --> 02:34.320 I'll give you five seconds to pause the video. 02:38.840 --> 02:43.100 OK, and don't listen to the just take her expose the king even more. 02:44.150 --> 02:48.050 And it's a kind of Atholl checkmates pattern. 02:48.380 --> 02:49.640 We just play this check. 02:50.570 --> 02:53.540 So our queen is doing the job of restricting the opponent's king. 02:54.260 --> 03:00.350 And we've got in this kind of krsek, the only thing they can do here is this that be very desperate. 03:00.350 --> 03:02.210 We just take there and it's checkmate. 03:03.410 --> 03:06.370 OK, so instead of being the back roads, it's a backfills. 03:06.800 --> 03:07.670 It's the AFO. 03:07.790 --> 03:09.380 The King's being checkmated. 03:09.710 --> 03:11.440 So well done if you found that one. 03:11.930 --> 03:17.990 So there's a few kind of lessons within this lesson, really how you handle threats on the chessboard. 03:18.410 --> 03:19.100 Look around. 03:19.100 --> 03:21.310 You don't always have to respond to the opponents threats. 03:21.320 --> 03:22.850 Sometimes you can make a bigger threat. 03:23.570 --> 03:28.070 Sometimes you can totally ignore their threats and sometimes you can play a crushing combination. 03:28.070 --> 03:29.210 Just knock them out. 03:29.960 --> 03:32.750 OK, so like here, Rook takes a free. 03:33.470 --> 03:38.660 So the queen wants to be there, doesn't want to move away because it's doing a great job now in restricting 03:38.660 --> 03:39.260 the opponents. 03:39.260 --> 03:41.810 King So hey, we deliver that checkmate. 03:42.020 --> 03:43.240 It's wonderful stuff isn't it. 03:43.250 --> 03:46.610 I hope you're starting to see how beautiful chess can be. 03:47.180 --> 03:49.010 OK, and so much.