WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:07.140 Hi there in this election, we have another example of queen and rook against King, the king is not 00:07.140 --> 00:11.390 so conveniently placed for us now it's here rather than on the back row. 00:12.180 --> 00:15.150 So how do we make the opponents king here? 00:16.050 --> 00:19.710 Well, we can actually use a kind of staircase method, if nothing else. 00:19.740 --> 00:24.930 I mean, there are more precise ways of planets, but a simple way is kind of like getting the king 00:24.930 --> 00:26.180 to walk up a staircase. 00:26.700 --> 00:37.020 You can restrict the king first by playing move like this as the example, say the move here, we can 00:37.020 --> 00:38.210 push them up the staircase. 00:38.220 --> 00:39.240 We've restricted the king. 00:39.240 --> 00:43.980 Now we check them, pushing them up the boards and we can check them again. 00:43.980 --> 00:47.810 And so they go over here and they've set a little trap for us here. 00:47.820 --> 00:49.070 We can't go ahead. 00:49.140 --> 00:50.360 They're going to just take us. 00:51.210 --> 00:52.350 So what do we do here? 00:52.380 --> 00:53.040 Oh, dear. 00:53.970 --> 00:54.840 Are we stuck? 00:56.850 --> 01:00.390 Well, what you can do is just put the queen over here, safeguard the queen. 01:00.780 --> 01:01.310 Just wait. 01:01.320 --> 01:02.700 No, they're not going anywhere. 01:02.700 --> 01:03.240 They've had it. 01:03.990 --> 01:05.460 So say they do go here now. 01:05.460 --> 01:07.560 We can push them up the staircase again. 01:08.460 --> 01:10.440 And then the queen does support the rock. 01:10.440 --> 01:13.860 We can do this, then we can do this and it's checkmate. 01:13.890 --> 01:18.810 We've driven them up the boards almost like driving a staircase for that final chat. 01:18.820 --> 01:26.040 My so yeah, the situation was slightly more advanced than our previous example. 01:26.730 --> 01:34.770 The King less conveniently placed, practiced this with a friend, M.S. and make sure you don't need 01:34.830 --> 01:39.600 of you make the mistake when you get this kind of position to end this, that would be a key mistake. 01:41.880 --> 01:50.580 I might want the Kings Cross you can you actually staircase it with the queen rather than the rock here? 01:51.060 --> 01:52.140 Would that be more efficient? 01:52.140 --> 01:53.760 Yeah, there's different ways of winning this. 01:53.760 --> 01:55.050 You can mistreat the king like this. 01:56.980 --> 01:59.280 And so they volunteered to go up here. 02:01.710 --> 02:08.550 If you check them, they could go back, so it's kind of in a way, it's kind of makes consistent sense 02:08.550 --> 02:12.210 if you just do this to restrict them from coming back before pushing them. 02:12.420 --> 02:16.440 And they can't go next to the queen for restricting them again. 02:17.210 --> 02:19.070 So they go ahead and use them again. 02:19.770 --> 02:21.440 So I hope you get the general just there now. 02:21.450 --> 02:24.060 Hey, you can't play this because they take. 02:24.060 --> 02:24.900 So be careful. 02:26.400 --> 02:30.660 So we want to try and restrict them with respect to them a bit as we get ready to restrict them. 02:30.880 --> 02:32.100 I go here now. 02:32.100 --> 02:35.190 We can check them back onto that fast track. 02:36.690 --> 02:39.740 And here I hope you can spot the way to checkmate. 02:39.820 --> 02:45.080 We're going to checkmate with the rook because the queen is controlling these escape squares. 02:45.570 --> 02:47.880 So this example was slightly more challenging. 02:48.540 --> 02:50.540 Prentis with friends make this perfect. 02:51.000 --> 02:52.620 They both got the general idea. 02:53.160 --> 02:58.590 You don't want to play a move like this sort of waste time when you've got an immediate me. 02:59.250 --> 03:05.010 I mean, you can, you know, like a cat playing with food or something. 03:05.290 --> 03:06.520 You don't want to do that. 03:06.560 --> 03:11.310 But generally, you know, if you play more professionally, you go you're up against the clock. 03:11.310 --> 03:13.760 Sometimes it could be in a time scramble. 03:13.770 --> 03:15.720 You've got that much time to mess around. 03:16.020 --> 03:19.080 So anyway, here's here's a method kind of staircase method. 03:19.890 --> 03:25.050 Just avoid the trap of, you know, not routinely going to check with your queen. 03:25.830 --> 03:28.320 So you get this kind of staircase going. 03:28.320 --> 03:29.910 And this would be inefficient. 03:30.240 --> 03:32.070 This would be the checkmate here. 03:32.520 --> 03:33.330 Very efficient. 03:33.720 --> 03:43.110 So Rook and Queen Princess with a friend driving that king from, say, this position at the board until 03:43.110 --> 03:50.090 they're checkmated, take turns, spread the joy to your friend and vice versa of making each other. 03:50.310 --> 03:54.840 These are essential, essential and game positions. 03:55.740 --> 04:04.300 So the more armor you have in your end games, this Omri of different types of ingame musicians, it 04:04.380 --> 04:12.990 means all your efforts when you learn good opening's little game, like the great Cuban player Capablanca, 04:13.620 --> 04:15.630 your efforts will be rewarded. 04:15.630 --> 04:18.900 Your advantage is that you gain from your opening a little game. 04:19.350 --> 04:22.770 You'll be able to finish off the opponents in the end games. 04:22.770 --> 04:27.240 Capablanca was the great master of the endgames in this course. 04:27.240 --> 04:35.640 I favor two players for you to study and look up Paul Morphy for your tactics, Capablanca for your 04:35.640 --> 04:37.650 end games and for me. 04:37.650 --> 04:44.250 One of my favorite players, Bobby Fischer, was like an amalgam, a combination of Paul Morphy and 04:44.250 --> 04:45.060 Capablanca. 04:45.540 --> 04:52.710 But this is absolutely essential and gain knowledge about restricting the king, driving up the board 04:52.710 --> 04:53.640 systematically. 04:55.710 --> 04:58.140 So we want to avoid the queen being lost. 04:58.140 --> 04:59.580 We don't want to play queen C7. 05:00.040 --> 05:05.400 When I come straight, the king and the final efficient move is to do the checkmate. 05:05.410 --> 05:05.740 Yeah. 05:06.060 --> 05:07.890 So I hope you can practice this. 05:07.890 --> 05:14.400 Get this one hundred percent right each time both you and your friends or you and your relative of your 05:14.400 --> 05:21.390 dad, sister, brother, just practice this and going with each other and master it. 05:21.630 --> 05:22.380 It's essential. 05:22.500 --> 05:23.430 Absolutely essential. 05:23.850 --> 05:24.990 OK, that's.