WEBVTT 00:01.210 --> 00:01.900 Hi there. 00:02.290 --> 00:04.450 In this lecture, we are frightened. 00:04.480 --> 00:10.060 It seems our queen is attacked, they've just moved that there was attacked and they've also they're 00:10.060 --> 00:15.030 also attacking our queen with the rook as well. 00:17.600 --> 00:22.760 And there was a specific reason, yes, there was actually a reason why they didn't just take our queen 00:22.760 --> 00:25.520 off the bat and we'll get into that in a moment. 00:25.820 --> 00:29.110 But let's just imagine you're in this position here. 00:29.750 --> 00:31.270 You've been asked to take over. 00:32.870 --> 00:38.030 So why don't you do do you just want to respond to the opponents threat or can you ignore threats? 00:38.420 --> 00:42.850 Can you create bigger France or can you can you create a completely crushing combination and just wipe 00:42.860 --> 00:44.660 your opponent out by force? 00:44.670 --> 00:45.910 Can you win by force here? 00:46.100 --> 00:46.840 Almost. 00:46.850 --> 00:47.430 Almost. 00:47.900 --> 00:49.490 So anyway, so those are your choices. 00:51.020 --> 00:55.680 So is there a great move in this position which celebrates the king's lack of air? 00:56.000 --> 00:58.740 This is what I call the theoretical downside. 00:59.090 --> 01:06.500 So in general, if you want to be a tactical monster, what you are actually doing in effect, is tapping 01:06.500 --> 01:10.120 into the downsides of opponent's positions. 01:11.180 --> 01:13.030 That's what for me, chess is all about. 01:13.520 --> 01:16.910 Largely, there are other ways of winning in chess. 01:16.910 --> 01:19.340 You know, like you can win on time with chess close. 01:19.520 --> 01:25.400 But the principle way on the board for me, if it's to do with the board and not winning on time, is 01:25.400 --> 01:31.740 bringing the downfall of the opponent for looking at their downsides, their position and the background. 01:31.760 --> 01:38.270 The pattern is a classic downside, quite often created because of these pawns, which although they're 01:38.270 --> 01:42.050 shielding the opponents king, they prevent the king escaping. 01:42.560 --> 01:48.440 And that can be a real downer and can bring the downfall of the opponents on many occasions. 01:48.920 --> 01:51.480 So here both our queen is threatened. 01:52.700 --> 01:54.800 What on earth is this about? 01:55.100 --> 01:56.270 What can we do here? 01:56.270 --> 02:01.070 Which is really advantageous if I give you five seconds to pause the video. 02:07.590 --> 02:17.850 OK, believe it or not, we can actually play this, we can take that night and whatever way they take, 02:17.850 --> 02:19.830 they're in big, big trouble here. 02:19.980 --> 02:22.830 Very, very big trouble if they take. 02:24.150 --> 02:31.980 Boy actually resigns Luke Machain against vision, Mermin resigns because if Rook takes Queen, can 02:31.980 --> 02:33.480 you see what we play in this position? 02:34.770 --> 02:42.870 There's a so-called weakness of the last move that that Rook has neglected anyone in any position. 02:42.870 --> 02:45.150 Pieces are kind of standing guard. 02:46.150 --> 02:52.050 If the Guardsman goes off duty, they've left the weakness a gap for a little moment in time that Rook 02:52.050 --> 02:56.010 was standing guard there on key squares like A1. 02:56.640 --> 02:59.280 And so that's the kind of weakness of the last move. 02:59.730 --> 03:06.510 My three golden ingredients, you know, weakness of the last move is the first golden ingredients, 03:07.560 --> 03:10.430 kila common squares and the effects on the whole possession. 03:10.710 --> 03:16.560 So here there's a witness who lost her, but also even with the process of prioritizing, forcing moves 03:16.560 --> 03:22.230 and looking for all the checks, we now see that there is a key check we must explore because it severely 03:22.230 --> 03:24.000 limits the opponent's replies. 03:24.300 --> 03:26.010 What can the rook do here? 03:26.490 --> 03:29.550 And maybe you got this far in the end and didn't think much of it. 03:29.550 --> 03:32.550 But in fact, we have a killer common square. 03:32.910 --> 03:39.150 The bishop is cooperating with the rook on F1, so that is actually a killer common square where we 03:39.150 --> 03:44.580 end up defeating the opponents because Brooke takes rock is checkmate. 03:45.420 --> 03:47.900 And if we look at this again, you might ask. 03:47.900 --> 03:48.510 Hold on. 03:48.510 --> 03:48.990 Hold on. 03:50.100 --> 03:50.580 Really? 03:52.690 --> 03:54.840 Yes, really. 03:55.840 --> 04:04.120 And if they took our queen, if they rather if they took the risk we take there and we have the same 04:04.120 --> 04:08.450 thing, we have a corporation on F1 and this is only delaying. 04:08.620 --> 04:16.000 So either way that they take you know, we've just one material at the very least, even if they might 04:16.000 --> 04:20.610 play on what we've done, is actually increased our material advantage here. 04:21.040 --> 04:22.380 We're up at night and bishops. 04:22.420 --> 04:23.220 So they ignored it. 04:23.230 --> 04:23.590 Fine. 04:23.600 --> 04:24.760 They're not getting checkmated. 04:25.180 --> 04:30.930 But we can now, like, protect all our pieces, which is a very, very good policy in general. 04:32.380 --> 04:35.920 You don't want to introduce what I call theoretical downsides. 04:36.460 --> 04:43.060 The background male pattern is an example of a theoretical downside and another major one for the most 04:43.060 --> 04:48.820 frequent way to win or lose games under a certain level is actually unprotected pieces. 04:49.120 --> 04:50.970 They do tend to fall off the board. 04:50.980 --> 04:54.430 There's an expression unprotected pieces tend to fall off the board. 04:54.730 --> 05:00.190 So if we have the choice, a chance, an opportunity to try and keep all your pieces protecting each 05:00.190 --> 05:02.770 other, you shouldn't have unprotected pieces. 05:02.920 --> 05:07.150 And this kind of move make sure that things are protecting each other. 05:07.930 --> 05:13.480 So in general, don't try and show any theoretical downsides to the opponent because they will bring 05:13.480 --> 05:16.260 out your downfall under the right circumstances. 05:16.990 --> 05:22.390 So anyway, the best move in this position, even though it's not a clear contract made on this occasion, 05:22.570 --> 05:24.160 it's still a crushing blow. 05:24.880 --> 05:27.380 What we call a crushing blow takes E4. 05:27.820 --> 05:34.180 It's crushing in these two respects that if Rook takes just to recap, then that's a weakness of the 05:34.180 --> 05:36.130 last move that we want to tap into. 05:37.120 --> 05:41.430 It's neglected Iwon and we want to check all the checks anyway, and we've got a killer common square 05:41.440 --> 05:41.980 coming in. 05:43.060 --> 05:46.990 So both ways are kind of losing for white hair. 05:47.290 --> 05:49.030 The talent as queen takes the one. 05:49.270 --> 05:51.630 There's also weakness of the last move is neglected. 05:51.640 --> 05:55.690 The one on Setu it was standing guard on D one. 05:57.490 --> 06:02.880 My metaphore that I like to tell students in general wing move. 06:02.880 --> 06:08.020 If you've ever driven and been a busy car park or been the passenger, sometimes you have to look at 06:08.020 --> 06:12.610 where people are going to take their car out of a car park. 06:13.000 --> 06:19.420 That got me hanging around there waiting to pounce on that space in Chess's, almost as if everything 06:19.420 --> 06:21.220 seemed so solid and protected. 06:21.520 --> 06:28.330 But there are moments when opponents pieces will go from one square to another and they collect for 06:28.330 --> 06:29.260 one moment. 06:29.500 --> 06:32.440 And that is your moment of golden opportunity. 06:32.440 --> 06:32.980 Why call? 06:33.280 --> 06:34.690 When is the last move? 06:34.930 --> 06:39.250 And when you calculate in advance moves in advance, you need to check. 06:39.250 --> 06:41.710 Definitely check weakness for the last move. 06:41.950 --> 06:44.710 KELEKIAN Common squares and the effects on the entire board. 06:45.070 --> 06:49.870 So, you know, it's not just the piece that moved with these great big moisy arrows on interfaces. 06:49.990 --> 06:51.700 It's the effects on the entire board. 06:52.060 --> 06:55.990 You know, you might move this rope, might open up this bishop, you know, the bishop. 06:56.200 --> 06:57.850 Look at the entire board, eFax. 06:57.850 --> 07:02.620 So those free of golden things like to emphasize as well while we're going through this. 07:02.920 --> 07:08.710 So it's not just about this back make pattern, but the back row make pattern in itself is also an example 07:08.710 --> 07:13.750 of what I'd call a theoretical downside that's almost left by default, because at the start of the 07:13.750 --> 07:17.860 game, when we cancel, we haven't usually got our around our kings. 07:17.860 --> 07:21.490 That makes it such a frequent visitor for winning and losing games. 07:21.490 --> 07:24.820 Even the world champion succumbs to this even basically. 07:25.150 --> 07:29.620 OK, so I hope you got some points from this and so much.