WEBVTT 00:01.290 --> 00:01.950 Hi there. 00:02.610 --> 00:07.650 In this lecture, we're going to have a look at a simplified chess position when you're heavily up in 00:07.650 --> 00:13.700 material and this is a must know situation for how to checkmate the opponent's king. 00:13.710 --> 00:19.200 If you ever reach this situation, they might think, well, hold on, King Squasher, how do I get 00:19.200 --> 00:20.010 this position? 00:20.910 --> 00:22.050 How do I even practice? 00:22.950 --> 00:26.550 Well, you know what you just set up with a friend of yours just to practice. 00:26.550 --> 00:30.290 Both of you should practice mating with the queen and work against each other. 00:30.420 --> 00:32.430 Just set it up as an example. 00:32.430 --> 00:32.990 Possession. 00:33.420 --> 00:37.440 You don't have to start from the initial position of chess of all the pieces. 00:37.770 --> 00:43.770 Capablanca is one of the great world champions of the game, and he recommended to beginners to actually 00:43.770 --> 00:49.680 start from the end games to learn and games first, then the middle game, then later openings. 00:49.680 --> 00:57.900 He had a points because if you don't really know how to finish off the opponents, it's kind of pointless. 00:57.900 --> 01:03.480 You gain an advantage in the opening and then carrying it through to the middle guy and then you can't 01:03.910 --> 01:06.120 use it to finish off the opponent. 01:06.600 --> 01:10.530 So say you set this up with a friend's queen rook against King. 01:10.530 --> 01:12.060 You should really know how to do this. 01:12.690 --> 01:20.460 The first easy thing to do if you don't waste any moves is just simply restrict the opponent's king 01:20.670 --> 01:22.980 with a move like this queen C7. 01:23.520 --> 01:29.730 So we've actually restricted escape squares with the king, but importantly, the king still has one 01:29.730 --> 01:30.450 or two moves. 01:31.050 --> 01:33.060 Otherwise it would be stalemate. 01:33.060 --> 01:35.730 So make sure the king still has one or two moves. 01:35.730 --> 01:42.750 When you don't move like this, you don't want to risk so-called stalemating the opponents king as long 01:42.780 --> 01:48.390 as they got one or two moves now that they're restricted and they move the king either here or here, 01:48.870 --> 01:54.090 the move here, you just bring the rook up and it's Jack and they can't escape. 01:54.090 --> 01:56.580 So this is a really important checkmate. 01:57.120 --> 01:59.460 The king cannot escape from that check. 01:59.970 --> 02:00.860 So that's checkmate. 02:01.650 --> 02:03.780 So, yeah, sets up this possession of a friend. 02:04.110 --> 02:07.140 Stop practicing these essential kind of engi musicians. 02:07.710 --> 02:12.900 You should both be able to win with the queen and rook for sure, especially in this situation. 02:13.230 --> 02:16.110 And this is pretty quick because the Kings already on the back row. 02:17.910 --> 02:20.100 So I hope you've you can master this one. 02:22.110 --> 02:24.600 So Queen up, restrict the opponents king. 02:24.930 --> 02:30.630 And quite often this technique, even in the middle game, all the opening is, is the process, the 02:30.630 --> 02:36.900 art of checkmate as you get more and more advanced in the middle game, you see, hang on. 02:36.900 --> 02:40.590 The King hasn't got that many so-called escape squares here. 02:40.590 --> 02:45.600 We've cut down on the so-called escape sequence where the king can escape to from a potential chag. 02:45.960 --> 02:50.820 So in a way, you're making your check much more effective than it would have been. 02:51.060 --> 02:54.990 That's quite often valuable in the middle game as well as a general principle. 02:55.440 --> 02:58.980 Reduce escape squares can be more important than an immediate check. 02:59.370 --> 03:02.400 Quite often there's a great temptation just to check, check, check, check, check. 03:02.940 --> 03:08.010 But sometimes restricting the opponent's can makes much more effective unescapable. 03:08.010 --> 03:11.610 Check where after the check mate, so to speak. 03:12.700 --> 03:14.100 That's the thing. 03:14.100 --> 03:17.250 The ultimate game goal to checkmate the opponents king. 03:17.670 --> 03:23.730 So Queen C7 in this case, in this and this simple example, we've made sure that the King still has 03:23.730 --> 03:26.070 got one or two escape squares. 03:26.850 --> 03:33.240 So I'll show you some other examples, variations of this queen and rook versus king just for you to 03:33.240 --> 03:35.460 reinforce and get some other ideas. 03:35.700 --> 03:39.510 And they are valuable for your your middle game and your opening. 03:39.510 --> 03:45.060 So bear in mind, this is really valuable stuff which you can apply to other parts of the game as well. 03:45.060 --> 03:50.310 OK, so I hope this example you can practice with friends, you're restricting the opponents, king 03:50.790 --> 03:53.040 and then your chat meeting with the rook. 03:53.880 --> 03:55.710 OK, let's watch.