WEBVTT 00:01.090 --> 00:01.900 Hi there. 00:02.140 --> 00:09.280 I have an absolutely iconic game example to show you, so we're here at a Capablanca game camp Blanka 00:09.280 --> 00:16.960 was well known as being a fantastic and game player, one of the greatest and game players of all time. 00:18.070 --> 00:23.920 And here we have a fantastic female rook on the seven Frank being illustrated. 00:24.790 --> 00:27.400 It's also a female then Nimes, which is my system. 00:27.400 --> 00:29.140 He talks about Rukun some frank. 00:29.680 --> 00:37.480 If we get a rook on the seventh, Frank, we're often restricting the opponent's king, which is good 00:37.480 --> 00:42.220 because the king can be very, very aggressive in games, is good to contain the opponents. 00:42.220 --> 00:46.430 King Statistically, there are pawns to be taken as well on seven. 00:46.450 --> 00:48.790 Frank, they're here in this situation. 00:48.790 --> 00:55.600 It's white play and it looks as though Black is preparing to potentially attack this pawn. 00:55.600 --> 00:57.700 Not quite now, says Bishop B5. 00:58.810 --> 01:05.740 But just bear this in mind that this Seefried pawn is a backward pawn, essentially backward pawns. 01:05.740 --> 01:10.090 They've lost the support of fellow pawn, so they have to usually be protected by pieces. 01:11.020 --> 01:16.690 So because of that dependency that they have, they are kind of weakened pawns in need of support. 01:17.350 --> 01:21.280 But here, Capablanca kind of doesn't play passively. 01:21.280 --> 01:24.520 He wants to play aggressively in games. 01:24.520 --> 01:26.590 You want your rooks to be aggressive. 01:26.890 --> 01:28.750 You want to emphasize your past pawns. 01:29.170 --> 01:36.160 If you have to shed some pawns on the way to to get an aggressive pass pawn, to get an aggressive king 01:36.970 --> 01:41.650 where things should take center stage, you know, certain passports. 01:42.540 --> 01:49.950 Your king and your Brooks, they should take center stage in an active, aggressive, dynamic role, 01:50.310 --> 01:51.450 not a passive role. 01:51.780 --> 01:56.600 So a terrible thing at some point would be to play rock, see one and just be miserable about this. 01:57.180 --> 01:59.510 No, Capablanca plays Brooke H1. 02:00.420 --> 02:07.590 So he's preparing an entrance to this seven frank relatives to assets that our seven franc. 02:09.990 --> 02:17.400 Now, if the opponent parries that with Rook seven as Bishop 66, so the opponent played CAFE, which 02:17.400 --> 02:22.290 does mean actually that Route six is now on the cards without Bishop B five. 02:23.190 --> 02:24.700 Capablanca doesn't mind. 02:24.720 --> 02:25.890 He plays Rook, age seven. 02:25.910 --> 02:27.390 He doesn't mind what he says. 02:29.370 --> 02:31.420 Now he tries to create a passport. 02:31.460 --> 02:36.200 We have a pool majority on this side of the board, so two against one. 02:36.210 --> 02:40.860 So with a pool majority, you can convert this into a passport quite often. 02:41.850 --> 02:44.190 But there's a trade off to win time. 02:44.190 --> 02:46.890 To do this, you know, Sifry has to be sacrificed. 02:47.220 --> 02:48.360 We see G4. 02:49.140 --> 02:56.610 And in fact, the other snag, though, of taking on Sifry here is that it will drop G sex. 02:57.090 --> 03:01.890 So Black actually plays C for for the moment we see G5. 03:02.370 --> 03:08.130 So this is a potential passport because of the potential for playing. 03:08.130 --> 03:18.870 For example, five, we see my free Jack Caffrey and I might have five which shields the G six pawn, 03:18.870 --> 03:20.490 which means actually isn't rotating. 03:20.520 --> 03:22.140 Sifry really on the cards. 03:23.250 --> 03:31.020 Yes Capablanca is factored this in and plays now an ingenious move Bishop takes our five black takes 03:31.020 --> 03:36.600 with the G pawn and this is now technically a dangerous pass pawn. 03:37.980 --> 03:43.770 If Black had taken instead on C then King G4 and the King is ready to recapture then will be to collected 03:43.790 --> 03:44.490 passports. 03:45.150 --> 03:48.300 So this is a lesser evil move, so-called lesser evil move. 03:48.390 --> 03:50.370 At least worst it seems. 03:50.640 --> 03:54.060 But what is Blanca's actual points here? 03:54.570 --> 04:02.760 There's an absolutely brilliant move in this position which really highlights dramatically the center 04:02.760 --> 04:06.270 stage role that a king can take. 04:07.200 --> 04:14.880 How can we get the white king to be super aggressive here and play a shepherding and generally aggressive 04:14.880 --> 04:15.720 role here? 04:16.170 --> 04:23.280 The opponents king is restricted on that back row thanks to the power of the rook on the southern flank, 04:23.550 --> 04:26.430 which is a very, very important and game principle in general. 04:27.700 --> 04:35.170 But there's a brilliant move here, which also adds a major supporting cast, because otherwise, if, 04:35.170 --> 04:41.320 for example, what, we can't move forward because Iraq takes six anyway, but also Blank is threatening 04:41.320 --> 04:47.240 to push our king back with rock, take free check and maybe return back and stop that --. 04:48.010 --> 04:53.330 So we want our king to play truly a center stage here. 04:53.620 --> 04:54.490 How can we do that? 04:54.490 --> 05:00.790 If I give you five seconds, pause video, how would you think you can make the king here play a central 05:00.790 --> 05:01.180 role? 05:01.360 --> 05:04.790 A central leading actor in Casablanca. 05:04.810 --> 05:08.590 By the way, did appear in black and white film as well. 05:08.680 --> 05:12.970 He's he's he's actually an actor as well as being the possible champion. 05:13.240 --> 05:17.230 So anyway, you can see his film on YouTube. 05:18.310 --> 05:20.150 So he's here. 05:20.590 --> 05:21.880 What do you think he played? 05:27.470 --> 05:35.120 OK, King Jeffrey, yeah, the king actually does have now a roots of this check to come into potentially 05:35.300 --> 05:39.800 the black position and it will cause all sorts of havoc. 05:39.920 --> 05:44.630 It will be attacking --'s it will be sometimes threatening checkmates because it will take away escape 05:44.630 --> 05:45.020 squares. 05:45.230 --> 05:48.970 It will be acting like a slow moving queen, essentially. 05:49.940 --> 05:53.000 So not just being able to win material, but assist in Checkmates. 05:53.540 --> 05:57.590 We see reluctancy free checking each for an hour. 05:57.590 --> 06:07.370 McAffrey Capablanca is not afraid to shed one or two pawns to achieve these center stage ambitions if 06:07.640 --> 06:11.240 the rook had gone to be free instead. 06:11.940 --> 06:17.270 For example, Desex Rook Tastee for King Chiefdom, you see the king becoming very aggressive. 06:17.780 --> 06:23.180 Technically, that's two connected passports and this would be overwhelming for black. 06:23.450 --> 06:26.350 We'd like to get our rook behind the opponents passport. 06:26.630 --> 06:32.840 This is called the trash rule generally has been coin's the trash roll and it makes it very, very difficult 06:33.080 --> 06:35.390 for that pawn to make progress. 06:35.390 --> 06:41.330 Now, when you have the right behind passport and if the opponent is a defensive role, there's no hope. 06:41.660 --> 06:46.470 Yeah, we just make advances to our position now for that. 06:46.490 --> 06:49.130 Maybe this is just a variation as an example. 06:49.490 --> 06:52.010 But in the game we see real caffery. 06:52.400 --> 06:57.110 So not going for the deep home, however desex offering a full. 06:58.310 --> 07:02.170 It's not all about quantity, it's sometimes about quality. 07:03.290 --> 07:09.530 So here, even though White has free pawns to blacks, five pawns. 07:10.610 --> 07:12.470 Look at the position of the kings. 07:12.920 --> 07:21.860 When you assess in-game possessions, the kind of periodic table of elements king activity factors heavily 07:22.130 --> 07:25.010 as a new factor, passports factors heavily. 07:25.190 --> 07:27.860 It's not just the raw material counts. 07:28.790 --> 07:32.210 So we have a very aggressive king compared to the opponents. 07:32.210 --> 07:41.390 King Ruki for we have King of six now threatening check made the king moves and white plays check and 07:41.390 --> 07:42.440 our rook takes C7. 07:42.440 --> 07:47.090 So starting to get some --'s back and also threatening checkmate again. 07:47.810 --> 07:50.900 You know, off the rookie aides we see rookie ain't. 07:52.760 --> 07:58.880 So just to put that on the board, if Rook takes the four rooks, you can see how the aggressive king 07:59.390 --> 08:04.580 is worth its weight in gold, you know, being used to help checkmate the opponent king. 08:04.940 --> 08:08.060 So rookie, a very passive rook king takes a five. 08:08.510 --> 08:15.550 So why is now equal on pawns but now king of six frothing again renewing Rocsi ain't checkmate. 08:15.560 --> 08:17.120 Check King five. 08:18.110 --> 08:21.050 And now these pawns are away from the king. 08:21.530 --> 08:25.730 So we don't mind in fact potentially losing the G-7 pongs. 08:25.730 --> 08:30.110 The King can assist in either taking out these pawns or this pawn queening. 08:30.530 --> 08:34.940 We see King G8 if rook G7. 08:35.090 --> 08:37.130 This situation is hopeless for black. 08:37.730 --> 08:45.050 Even if we have to lose the deep warm like this, we'd get a transition to winning position. 08:45.050 --> 08:47.110 How the opponent would be free to coin that. 08:47.750 --> 08:53.720 So we see King G8 rotates a route, John King takes the five. 08:53.720 --> 08:59.090 So why is material up now to pawns up recouping all the points? 08:59.090 --> 09:00.440 You can see the damage done. 09:00.980 --> 09:04.880 When things take center stage, they can cause major concessions. 09:05.450 --> 09:20.430 So C1 King desex Roxy to D5 Siwan Rook C7 Rook one king C6 rotates a four one as this very winning passport 09:20.430 --> 09:29.630 had desex and the game ended, Tanigawa resigned her if the for the seven as an example, we can take 09:29.630 --> 09:38.750 time out to take this pawn and hear the king is going to come and heard this past pawn with the reaching 09:38.750 --> 09:41.480 out and completely winning position. 09:42.470 --> 09:51.920 So this was a very, very iconic and game example and shows actually, if you look at Paul Morphine's 09:51.920 --> 09:54.770 games, they're great for how to play the opening. 09:54.770 --> 10:01.160 And Antarctic's if you look up Casablanca's games, you'll see beauties like this. 10:02.000 --> 10:10.640 The clarity of logic, the dynamic aspects of the games and games don't have to be a dry, dull affair. 10:11.300 --> 10:16.880 You can be trading off sacrificing pawns to get your king aggressive, get your rook's aggressive, 10:17.150 --> 10:18.860 get your passport going. 10:19.100 --> 10:21.050 It's not the quantity of pawns you have. 10:21.200 --> 10:22.340 It's that quality. 10:22.700 --> 10:24.320 If you have passports frightening, it's. 10:25.040 --> 10:27.660 You're going to create major concessions for the opponent. 10:27.680 --> 10:31.580 You could end up getting all the sacrifice pawns back and more. 10:33.050 --> 10:39.170 So this is a brilliant example, in my view, an iconic example, which had a profound impact on how 10:39.170 --> 10:46.280 aggressively and dynamically my considerations were for endgames, especially the work on the 7th is 10:46.280 --> 10:51.470 a concept reinforced by our Nîmes, which in my system, it's a very, very powerful concept to be able 10:51.470 --> 10:52.410 to restrict the opponents. 10:52.410 --> 10:58.270 King in general, there have been numerous, you know, most games decided by Rook on the 7th. 10:58.700 --> 11:00.560 So very, very key principle there. 11:01.370 --> 11:06.530 And this game shows some of the philosophies of and games and what should take center stage. 11:06.710 --> 11:12.620 And if you need to trade off a bit material to achieve those central stage actors like your rooks, 11:12.620 --> 11:14.940 your passport, your king, then so be it. 11:15.530 --> 11:16.850 I hope you found that instructive. 11:17.660 --> 11:18.260 Thanks very much.