WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.660 Hi there. 00:02.040 --> 00:07.710 In this election, the opponent has just attacked our queen with no taste as good to notice that our 00:07.710 --> 00:08.500 queen is attacked. 00:09.060 --> 00:14.460 So, for example, if we don't notice the French, by the way, let me just make this clear. 00:14.460 --> 00:21.370 If we don't notice this and play the move like this without any real point, except maybe to protect 00:21.390 --> 00:23.430 this pawn, we actually lose our queen. 00:23.440 --> 00:24.750 And it's not very good news. 00:25.440 --> 00:30.690 So it's good to be aware of the opponents frat when they play move, beware of what they're threatening. 00:31.140 --> 00:33.740 You don't necessarily have to react to that fact. 00:33.780 --> 00:37.110 You can create a bigger threat or you can completely crush them with a mating combination. 00:37.500 --> 00:43.110 But you need to be aware of the opponents, frats, their intention, because if you play a casual move, 00:43.110 --> 00:44.730 it could be a total disaster. 00:45.180 --> 00:47.790 So they're attacking all Queen BroadVision. 00:47.910 --> 00:49.050 Very, very important. 00:49.740 --> 00:53.510 So what can we play here, which is really, really quite powerful. 00:53.520 --> 00:58.490 If I give you five seconds to pause the video so we won't play, what would you play in this position? 01:01.620 --> 01:09.780 OK, free check, we check to the king, we get away from our queen from being exposed as well, we're 01:09.780 --> 01:13.680 asking the king to move or put something in between now putting the bishop between. 01:13.680 --> 01:14.700 We're just going to take that bishop. 01:14.730 --> 01:17.040 It's not really an advantage. 01:17.040 --> 01:18.380 No advantage for black to do that. 01:18.990 --> 01:23.520 So we have King G-8 being played now here. 01:23.640 --> 01:24.570 What do we play? 01:24.570 --> 01:28.140 If I give you five seconds pause, where can you work it out till the end? 01:31.550 --> 01:32.150 OK. 01:35.700 --> 01:39.870 It looks as though the king hasn't got that many escaped squares, it's only. 01:42.450 --> 01:44.250 Can we arrange something amazing? 01:44.400 --> 01:46.460 97 Chank King of. 01:47.430 --> 01:48.720 What can you play here? 01:50.820 --> 01:51.750 Five seconds here. 01:51.760 --> 01:52.920 What would you plan this position? 01:55.980 --> 02:01.440 Yes, it's that dreaded double check they have to move that king in the event of a double check. 02:01.860 --> 02:04.830 I have to move their king to checks. 02:06.360 --> 02:12.690 Now, if they move to the states, we have a basic supports that make the night supports the queen in 02:12.690 --> 02:20.700 that so-called support my home and garden, make potato standards common standards, support meat on 02:20.700 --> 02:21.450 King James. 02:21.630 --> 02:22.530 What can we do here? 02:22.530 --> 02:26.100 Which is super special if I give you five seconds for the video. 02:30.300 --> 02:30.900 OK. 02:33.650 --> 02:43.070 Queena, fact check, we're compelling rotates and then we deliver 97 Chameides spectacular. 02:43.790 --> 02:47.090 This was from a poor Morphy game, the American chess legend Paul Morphy. 02:47.450 --> 02:51.860 Before the time of the official world champions, Paul Morphy really dominated the whole world scene. 02:52.100 --> 02:56.460 It was considered widely regarded as the strongest player by far in the world. 02:57.740 --> 03:00.800 So he's a great role model to try and understand Paul Morphy games. 03:01.310 --> 03:06.500 If you ever get your hands on a Paul movie collection and will go over some poor wharfie games in this 03:06.500 --> 03:09.740 in this course anyway, and these are actually game fragments anyway. 03:09.740 --> 03:11.480 So we are doing that with these examples. 03:11.750 --> 03:14.210 So whether you like it or not, we're going over Paul Morphy. 03:14.720 --> 03:18.050 So have you found this instructive, these mating patterns? 03:18.050 --> 03:22.640 A beautiful smothered me is fantastic and one of my favorite mating patterns. 03:23.390 --> 03:23.850 OK. 03:24.330 --> 03:27.170 Hope you got that and enjoyed that and so much.