WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:01.620 Hi there. 00:02.160 --> 00:09.720 In this lecture, we introduce Tamarama, chosen for me to am chosen is a super instructive world chess 00:09.720 --> 00:10.180 champion. 00:10.980 --> 00:18.660 He hated losing his kind of known master of prophylaxis preventive measures, kind of stopping the opponent's 00:18.660 --> 00:21.030 attacks even before they even dreamt of anything. 00:21.690 --> 00:22.830 He just hated losing. 00:22.830 --> 00:26.460 To the extent that, you know, quite often these games were draws. 00:26.880 --> 00:33.470 The general public perhaps didn't at the time appreciate him that much because, you know, sometimes 00:33.480 --> 00:35.460 it was a bit on the dull drawing side. 00:36.210 --> 00:41.880 But I think personally, we are privileged that we can just go back and have a look at his wins. 00:42.150 --> 00:50.160 And they are great, instructive material for me personally from a positional angle, from positional 00:50.160 --> 00:51.450 sacrifices angle. 00:51.810 --> 00:56.580 You know, when you sacrifice a rook for a bishop positional sacrifice, it was a master of the positional 00:56.580 --> 00:57.150 sacrifice. 00:57.420 --> 01:03.240 The close position is generally I feel there's a huge amount to learn from Trigram Trojan. 01:03.510 --> 01:10.840 And he is, you know, one of the world champions used quite frequently to teach middle game, more 01:10.840 --> 01:12.780 refined positional strategy. 01:13.740 --> 01:19.980 So he was a world champion from 1963 to 1969. 01:20.880 --> 01:26.700 And during those candidates matches, a lot of the lot of the games were draws. 01:26.700 --> 01:29.370 And he just won the old one and he won so much. 01:30.240 --> 01:36.240 So he's more suited to these matches to qualify for the world championship than, say, a Swiss tournament. 01:36.600 --> 01:38.550 Put him and Boris Spassky in the same space. 01:38.550 --> 01:45.300 Thomas, you know, Spassky would probably win a lot more games, maybe take a few losses and end up 01:45.300 --> 01:46.200 with a higher score. 01:46.200 --> 01:52.050 But Seagram chosen would like draw most of the games, maybe win one or two and not win so many Swiss 01:52.050 --> 01:52.410 tomans. 01:52.410 --> 01:58.110 But if you put the two in the match, if Petrosian is hardly ever losing and he just all he needs to 01:58.110 --> 02:01.500 do is win one or two, he'll win a match against Boris Spassky. 02:01.920 --> 02:07.320 So, you know, this kind of risk averse style does have its like killer applications. 02:09.310 --> 02:16.590 So if you really hate losing, I think I'm chosen as a great plan to model and his opening's repertoire 02:16.590 --> 02:17.070 as well. 02:17.310 --> 02:18.120 Everything with that. 02:19.350 --> 02:27.720 So basically, you know, he was nicknamed Iron Tigran due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing 02:27.720 --> 02:30.690 style, which emphasized safety above all else. 02:31.920 --> 02:34.800 He's also credited with popularizing chess in Armenia. 02:35.790 --> 02:43.320 So he was a candidate for the world championship on occasions, 1953, 56, 59, 62, 71, sorry for 02:43.320 --> 02:45.450 77 and 1980. 02:45.750 --> 02:52.830 He won the world championship in 1963 against Mikhail Public, successfully defended it in 1966 against 02:52.830 --> 02:56.880 Boris Spassky and lost that Spassky in 1969. 02:57.690 --> 02:58.140 So. 02:58.140 --> 03:04.830 So he was the defending world champion or world champs who can play in tank executive free yes cycles. 03:05.100 --> 03:08.430 And he won the Soviet championship four times 959. 03:08.430 --> 03:08.970 Sixty one. 03:08.970 --> 03:09.540 Sixty nine. 03:09.540 --> 03:10.190 Seventy five. 03:10.530 --> 03:15.150 So all of these, Thomas, you can go and look at the games and old focus. 03:15.150 --> 03:18.390 If you're interested in the win, just look at the winners, get the draws. 03:18.750 --> 03:23.250 But I know the general public were tortured at the time by his drawer's. 03:23.490 --> 03:29.460 So anyway, without further ado, this is one of my favorite, most iconic game examples of him and 03:29.460 --> 03:31.170 his playing style provocative. 03:31.590 --> 03:33.720 He's playing white against Boris Spassky. 03:35.250 --> 03:40.530 So my every night have thanks GFA already, you know, a solid start, very solid positional opening. 03:41.160 --> 03:48.510 This is generally like to offer good king safety in general unless black really goes crazy and tries 03:48.510 --> 03:49.620 to expose the king. 03:49.890 --> 03:54.290 But if they're going to do that, sometimes they're taking risks with their own safety. 03:54.310 --> 03:57.330 Try and, you know, break open a Kingside attack. 03:57.720 --> 04:01.170 But we see Spassky giving a great go here. 04:01.590 --> 04:08.410 So we see what happens when someone like Boris Spassky tries to go for the front against there against 04:08.410 --> 04:11.970 that to tries and tries to go for the king, so to speak. 04:11.970 --> 04:14.100 So be free 94. 04:14.490 --> 04:15.660 We have F4, F5. 04:15.660 --> 04:21.480 It's a very aggressive play from Boris Spassky with the black pieces and just takes her. 04:22.530 --> 04:30.600 And now there's a clear strategic risk plac doesn't want to give what this Four-Square generally. 04:30.600 --> 04:33.840 If White gets the Four-Square like this is a good thing, it locks in. 04:33.840 --> 04:36.360 The bishop is forced to be a good thing in general. 04:36.810 --> 04:38.670 So we have details. 04:38.670 --> 04:42.930 Capturing was the sense with the form keeping control of it for now. 04:42.930 --> 04:55.290 Ninety one b5 Afri ninety one facilitated that well having this horrible fuq we have efore hitting the 04:55.290 --> 04:57.780 rook buzzer beater. 04:57.780 --> 04:59.400 We have ETECSA free. 04:59.930 --> 05:00.540 Thanks, Jeffrey. 05:01.280 --> 05:07.190 So already, you know, Black has suffered a little bit of structural damage, but blacks pieces seem 05:07.370 --> 05:08.160 fairly active. 05:08.450 --> 05:10.990 This one's a concern, blocked him by its own form. 05:11.690 --> 05:14.060 And this is a little bit of a concern already. 05:14.060 --> 05:21.350 Bishop, thanks be to it seems as though hasn't Black kind of exposed the king a little bit his own 05:21.350 --> 05:21.680 king. 05:21.680 --> 05:27.780 Might you find the bishop actually drops the EU away from thin cazzo position just to hold up CIFOR 05:27.780 --> 05:33.140 and differe and now before we start liberating, especially when it seems very, very scary. 05:33.140 --> 05:34.760 Now, hold on a sec. 05:35.180 --> 05:37.580 There's also even possibilities of switching Oruc. 05:37.830 --> 05:40.220 Isn't this a really dangerous attack? 05:42.500 --> 05:48.320 OK, Petrosian is, you know, a defensive master and counterattacking master. 05:48.620 --> 05:48.930 Yes. 05:48.980 --> 05:52.970 He just takes on air full of the bishop for the first surprise. 05:53.690 --> 05:58.210 And when I first kind of, you know, Altaie in this game, it was on YouTube years ago. 05:58.210 --> 06:01.720 I I called it like hijacking Weigel's here. 06:03.260 --> 06:07.310 This is quite Bishop is actually now that blacks lost the dance membership. 06:07.340 --> 06:09.890 It's kind of important also for King's safety. 06:10.340 --> 06:14.840 And in fact, Petrosian recognizes the double edged nature of this position. 06:15.170 --> 06:19.050 And, you know, it's a bit scary to, you know, move through. 06:19.160 --> 06:21.800 There are there are attacking things coming up. 06:22.220 --> 06:26.000 There are even, you know, possibilities of rooked four and five. 06:26.330 --> 06:29.000 So, you know, it is getting very, very scary. 06:29.360 --> 06:37.420 But in this situation, there's a very, very calming, reassuring move that to shows in place, which, 06:37.430 --> 06:42.700 you know, trades off a bit material for his own safety and to reduce the opponents king's safety. 06:43.010 --> 06:48.680 I wonder if you can guess it if I give you five seconds to pause the video here, what they take remonstrating 06:48.770 --> 06:59.510 player here, which really kind of makes whites losing property virtually zero after this. 07:03.540 --> 07:08.940 OK, it's 90 Freyja, sacrificing the exchange, trying to get hold of all these squares and in fact, 07:08.940 --> 07:11.700 the wind probability is also going up for whites. 07:12.540 --> 07:18.120 We have bishop takes off from road, takes a the solenoids once it moves. 07:18.150 --> 07:20.190 Now there's this kind of backfire. 07:20.190 --> 07:23.520 Bishop G4, look at this bishop coming into ESX. 07:23.520 --> 07:24.240 Look at the queen. 07:24.240 --> 07:27.840 All of a sudden things are combining against the black king. 07:27.990 --> 07:30.260 Has Boris Spassky just been tricked? 07:30.510 --> 07:33.390 Has he just opens up his own king? 07:33.390 --> 07:37.700 Basically in effect, we see Knight takes for him? 07:37.710 --> 07:38.820 Well, this is good. 07:38.820 --> 07:41.920 It opens up some squares like G5 for the Queen. 07:42.690 --> 07:44.790 But again, you know this. 07:44.790 --> 07:51.300 Now it gets even scarier for blacks king safety after this next move. 07:51.300 --> 07:52.980 Can you guess what white plays here? 07:56.070 --> 07:56.640 OK. 07:58.410 --> 08:03.900 Another exchange Sakuragi takes for this really gives access for the bishop for that lovely E.S. Square, 08:04.830 --> 08:07.260 and there's not too many options here. 08:07.290 --> 08:10.930 The king doesn't want to invite Queen Achak by moving. 08:11.400 --> 08:18.810 So we have going into that pen, but now this lovely centralisation move which cuts out, you know, 08:18.810 --> 08:20.760 a lot of counterplay essentially. 08:21.180 --> 08:25.220 And that's often the name of the game, you know, with the grandmothers in general. 08:25.230 --> 08:27.870 They don't want to give their opponents any counterplay. 08:27.870 --> 08:29.580 They don't like losing particularly. 08:29.970 --> 08:31.500 They like to have control over their own. 08:31.500 --> 08:40.780 But without the opponent having counterplay we have Koeneke for but now 1966 and actually of the Czech 08:41.100 --> 08:48.810 one blacks in big trouble, we have a seven and there's a remarkable way of celebrating the pen. 08:48.810 --> 08:56.880 Here we have Bishop F7 rotates F7 seven and now one of the most iconic movies of all time. 08:57.060 --> 09:01.110 In my view, TVM Chozen plays in this position. 09:01.350 --> 09:04.530 I wonder if you can guess if I give you five cents for the video. 09:11.780 --> 09:14.200 OK, Quinn. 09:14.870 --> 09:17.040 It's a beauty, it's an absolute beauty. 09:17.540 --> 09:19.820 It's a real drag and drop and fall tactic. 09:20.270 --> 09:24.080 So Black had to resign if King-Size the 90s. 09:25.240 --> 09:33.800 I have seven Chac and a 96 is easily winning for white people, so this game was like, come and get 09:33.800 --> 09:38.870 me, come and get me the opponent, you know, attacking plan and actually did want to do that, but 09:38.870 --> 09:39.990 open themselves up. 09:40.430 --> 09:47.630 It was through to positional like kind of exchange sacrifices that we see the massive backfire resulting 09:47.630 --> 09:51.460 in this brilliant, you know, commendatory blow in the end. 09:52.370 --> 09:59.270 So a beautiful game and shows, you know, you don't you don't try and hack attack a player like to 09:59.270 --> 10:00.080 gamble chosen. 10:00.380 --> 10:06.170 You know, he's going to be very, very dangerous in how he's going to, like, potentially sacrifice 10:06.170 --> 10:08.300 just to zero your attack. 10:09.110 --> 10:10.040 Absolutely zero. 10:10.040 --> 10:12.520 You attack and expose your king. 10:12.530 --> 10:15.790 So you've got to be very, very careful against him chosen. 10:16.160 --> 10:24.110 So anyway, he's a player, which in contrast to make hotel and these are only my personal opinions. 10:24.590 --> 10:27.890 I absolutely adore looking at the winds of tech. 10:27.910 --> 10:31.310 I'm chosen because I don't like losing. 10:31.400 --> 10:32.540 I'm a bad loser. 10:32.960 --> 10:38.600 If you're if you don't like losing and you want to take losing out of your equation a little bit, at 10:38.600 --> 10:46.310 least then try and study the games that I'm chosen and how he yeah. 10:46.310 --> 10:51.110 He kind of destroyed the opponents at times before they were even conceived or things like this just 10:51.110 --> 10:52.340 made them backfire. 10:52.760 --> 10:57.380 And he also has a lot of positional openings, though, which might be an acquired taste. 10:57.770 --> 11:01.160 He was a fan of the French defense and the car on the fence. 11:01.670 --> 11:10.640 So in your initial stages, though, as a chess player, I would say just to learn about tactics, you 11:10.640 --> 11:15.770 know, play sharper opening, start off with like gambits even or the Sicilian defense. 11:16.100 --> 11:21.860 So closing the actual opening repertoire might not be suitable for the newcomer. 11:22.040 --> 11:28.490 He's a refined, acquired taste like avocado, could be considered an acquired taste in food. 11:28.550 --> 11:33.230 I mean, they're very nice right now, but some things are an acquired taste. 11:33.680 --> 11:40.730 I think Petrosian is an acquired taste personally, but I definitely appreciate his instructive games. 11:41.000 --> 11:47.210 And if you want to learn about, you know, pull structure, longer term planning, strategic positional 11:47.210 --> 11:54.530 exchange sacrifices, you know, I think he's he's the man to check out and a loathing of losing. 11:54.890 --> 11:58.730 OK, I enjoyed that. 11:58.730 --> 12:02.690 And maybe check to Gram frozen out as much.