WEBVTT 00:01.110 --> 00:09.750 Hi there in this venture, I'm going to introduce Bobby Fisher now, I am a big fan of Bobby Fischer. 00:09.780 --> 00:13.890 I've done three courses on Fisher from different sections of his career. 00:14.700 --> 00:21.030 And for me, even, you know, many, many years ago, I actually won quite a significant amount of 00:21.030 --> 00:28.350 money as a junior by winning the Halifax with a perfect score, the Halifax north of England. 00:28.680 --> 00:34.470 And one of the inspirations for like the final round was this Knight Sacrifice, which I got from Bobby 00:34.470 --> 00:35.070 Fisher game. 00:35.700 --> 00:42.870 But even years before that, I remember in a gentleman's eye being one of the strong juniors and which 00:42.920 --> 00:44.570 which caused caused the stir. 00:45.060 --> 00:50.810 But I remember, you know, my 94 in a sentence was also inspiration from Bobby Fischer. 00:51.390 --> 00:59.790 So throughout periods of my own personal chess, if you study Bobby Fischer games, it will enrich your 00:59.790 --> 01:00.350 chess. 01:00.960 --> 01:06.590 So, yeah, I do recommend checking out my Fischer journey on on his key wins. 01:06.960 --> 01:08.700 Now, here is one of my favorites. 01:08.910 --> 01:10.070 Bobby Fischer wins. 01:10.290 --> 01:18.420 So in a nutshell, though, let's just mention Bobby Fischer was an American chess grandmaster, so 01:18.420 --> 01:22.110 he interrupted the Soviet domination for years and years and years. 01:22.110 --> 01:25.410 You know, Russian grandmasters at the top of the game. 01:25.530 --> 01:27.570 He interrupted that for a brief moment. 01:28.680 --> 01:34.980 And so a chess prodigy at the age of 13, he won a game which was dubbed Game of the Century. 01:37.110 --> 01:40.620 At age 14, he became the youngest ever US chess champion. 01:40.620 --> 01:46.260 At age 15, he became both the youngest grandmaster upon to that time and the youngest candidate for 01:46.260 --> 01:47.310 the world championship. 01:47.730 --> 01:56.190 At age 20, he won the 1963 64 year championship with 11 wins and 11 games unheard of in history, the 01:56.190 --> 01:58.170 only perfect score in the history of the tournament. 01:58.860 --> 02:04.650 He won the 1970 in the Zone tournament by a record three and a half point margin, and he won twenty 02:04.650 --> 02:09.620 consecutive games and lost seven rounds of the zonal and in the candidates matches. 02:10.530 --> 02:14.550 So the latter, including two unprecedented six nil sweeps. 02:15.000 --> 02:17.740 So one against time and one against Lawson. 02:17.900 --> 02:20.670 And it was only Petrosian which put up some resistance. 02:20.940 --> 02:27.300 And then he went on to play Boris Spassky in 1972 to that epic match was dubbed Match of the Century, 02:27.300 --> 02:32.670 as opposed to game of the century when as a kid, anyone that brilliant game as a little kid. 02:33.120 --> 02:40.950 So I find him a remarkably instructive, universal style player free of any real controversy. 02:40.950 --> 02:46.050 In fact, so much so that he's actually one of the most accurate world champions. 02:46.050 --> 02:51.240 Even if you check his game with modern engines, you'll be shocked at the accuracy levels. 02:52.290 --> 02:53.690 So is kind of universal. 02:53.690 --> 02:57.750 There's there's not such an evident bias if you have biases. 02:57.750 --> 03:04.200 You know, I mentioned I'll mention again that each world champion, you know, usually has a set of 03:05.040 --> 03:08.400 biases, preferences, but a bias can be a weakness. 03:08.970 --> 03:15.390 The more universal a player is, like Fisher, you know, it's like they're flowing like water. 03:15.390 --> 03:18.060 They don't have these biases, which could be weaknesses. 03:18.270 --> 03:21.630 So for me is an absolutely brilliant plan to study. 03:21.930 --> 03:25.650 And he certainly ignites my game and supercharges my results. 03:26.010 --> 03:31.680 And in fact, I have to say, in all honesty, since doing a thorough investigation of his wins, if 03:31.680 --> 03:39.390 you check out my courses, my confidence in online chess at least as well, skyrocketed. 03:39.630 --> 03:45.120 Skyrocketed, which is why, you know, this whole section, we can learn from all the world champions 03:47.010 --> 03:52.950 and I'll go through them all and learn what you can, because it's only going to improve all the skill 03:52.950 --> 03:55.080 sets when opening the game and game. 03:55.980 --> 04:02.190 It's going to improve your knowledge of pawn structures, tactical ideas, positional ideas, psychology. 04:02.700 --> 04:09.300 And also, I have to say, you know, a win probability, the world champions, except for Petrosian, 04:10.710 --> 04:12.660 we're very, very good at winning games. 04:12.660 --> 04:15.050 I mean, tourism's very good at not losing, actually. 04:15.050 --> 04:15.150 Yeah. 04:15.180 --> 04:16.390 If you want to know about not losing. 04:16.920 --> 04:21.210 But other than that, most of them are very, very good at maximizing their win probability. 04:21.210 --> 04:25.860 If you do a detailed investigation, navigate through that Thomlinson, who they were actually playing, 04:25.860 --> 04:30.720 you'll see that this adaptation occurs or even first time, which was that sometimes switch towards 04:30.870 --> 04:33.090 anything to maximize their win probability. 04:33.600 --> 04:37.860 But you need evidence and reassurance and you need reassurance of your own ideas sometimes. 04:38.520 --> 04:44.040 And if you go over Fisher games, I think it's a remarkable learning experience. 04:44.760 --> 04:49.770 So anyway, so this is one of my favorites, Robert Byrne. 04:50.820 --> 04:53.490 So the two brothers, very, very good chess players. 04:53.970 --> 04:57.000 So Fischer plays 96 to Robert Burns. 04:57.000 --> 04:58.650 Defoe So this is in the. 04:58.980 --> 05:08.400 In 60, for us to sit around, Frank, see for at least six Jeoffrey C6, so Fisher is not constructing 05:08.400 --> 05:10.200 his usual kings' engine setup. 05:10.510 --> 05:14.670 He actually doesn't mind going in for a symmetrical structure. 05:15.600 --> 05:20.660 And you might think, how can there be that many winning chances here? 05:21.420 --> 05:21.960 King's Cross. 05:21.990 --> 05:27.120 You talked about winning publicity about why has he then he elected asymmetrical pawns, trying to show 05:27.600 --> 05:33.450 quite often in world championship matches, the symmetrical pawn structures often end in drawers. 05:33.750 --> 05:34.290 That's true. 05:34.290 --> 05:40.530 But Fischer is about to do an amazing, remarkable trade off in its own right from a pawn structure 05:40.530 --> 05:41.190 perspective. 05:41.430 --> 05:46.120 He plays six and there are old differences in possession. 05:46.560 --> 05:48.750 It's not as if the piece placement is identical. 05:49.560 --> 05:51.400 So Winesap -- is free. 05:51.690 --> 05:52.220 It's there. 05:52.230 --> 05:53.780 It's not blocking in the form. 05:54.960 --> 06:02.790 And on this occasion and we have actually this bishop going to that diagonal and want mirrors that and 06:02.790 --> 06:04.140 we see rookie AIDS. 06:06.650 --> 06:11.960 And now, quickly to now, things get very, very interesting, it seems White's whole setup is designed 06:11.960 --> 06:15.650 against Fisher being active and being active here. 06:15.830 --> 06:22.190 If I would result, surely in the dreaded isolated Queen's born in this position, surely White's in 06:22.190 --> 06:26.630 a great position to dissuade, discourage E5. 06:26.910 --> 06:30.470 Nevertheless, Fisher uses very fine judgments. 06:30.890 --> 06:32.480 There's very fine judgment needed. 06:32.480 --> 06:40.580 Sometimes when you make poor structure decisions between how weak a pawn structure is, how effectively 06:40.580 --> 06:46.430 weak can actually be exploited by the opponent or not, and the dynamic potential in terms of the activity 06:46.430 --> 06:47.780 of pieces it generates. 06:48.440 --> 06:51.680 And some people have argued, you know, chess is all about activity. 06:51.890 --> 06:52.790 Not necessarily. 06:52.790 --> 06:57.710 So if you look at both champions like Anatoly Karpov, you know, great structuralists of the game, 06:57.830 --> 07:03.650 Karpoff, someone said, you know, if you create weaknesses, they will often win games just based 07:03.650 --> 07:09.080 on your weaknesses by slowly but surely and slowly reducing your counterplay. 07:09.830 --> 07:17.120 But here, Fischer takes a risk and he accepts the isolated queens form and he generates a surge of 07:17.120 --> 07:19.370 peace activity so detainees is played. 07:20.300 --> 07:23.510 If Rook FC won instead he takes he takes. 07:23.510 --> 07:30.440 This situation is interesting and black can use that hook, which is a part of the Ice Queen's phone, 07:31.010 --> 07:37.460 to get a position which should be a small edge for black as an example. 07:38.510 --> 07:41.630 So if we look at that again, a branch or two. 07:42.680 --> 07:53.840 So here sort of Bishop Taizé, one official before then again, black is also in an interesting position. 07:53.840 --> 07:59.690 So Rook takes a one, you know, rookie once this gets to be a very this is all a bit crazy. 08:00.050 --> 08:01.010 This is crazy stuff. 08:01.100 --> 08:03.200 So anyway, details is played. 08:03.620 --> 08:07.910 So we have an isolated Queen's Ball emerging 1965. 08:07.910 --> 08:12.530 So you can see structurally this doesn't look entirely, you know, solid. 08:13.610 --> 08:18.890 So the notion of solid, if it's not, it's something I've always wondered about. 08:19.310 --> 08:23.900 But sometimes you can balance solid looking pawn structures versus peace activity. 08:23.900 --> 08:27.860 You know, sometimes you just want peace activity, not necessarily a solid looking position. 08:28.310 --> 08:31.010 We have Rook at one and this is the wrong rook. 08:31.010 --> 08:34.970 It kind of weakens after after is not entirely solid. 08:35.180 --> 08:41.000 If the other rook had been used, then, you know, this would be very, very interesting if the other 08:41.000 --> 08:45.740 rook had been used Rook 81, for example, this position. 08:46.010 --> 08:50.900 But even so, you know, even if Blatt loses that, the five, you know, it's not that clear cut at 08:50.900 --> 08:51.140 all. 08:51.140 --> 08:52.520 Things are not that clear cut. 08:52.820 --> 08:54.560 You know, things can get dangerous like this. 08:54.950 --> 08:59.930 For example, this is just a fictional variation where black might actually have a small edge. 09:00.320 --> 09:02.780 So things are not entirely clear how we work any one. 09:03.290 --> 09:09.500 But in the game, there is a kind of weakness for the last of this rook is used that is kind of weakening 09:09.500 --> 09:09.980 F2. 09:09.980 --> 09:10.980 So bear that in mind. 09:11.000 --> 09:14.600 Ninety three and we see now Quincy too. 09:14.870 --> 09:19.090 And this was literally an inspiration for one on one, you know, many, many years ago. 09:19.110 --> 09:24.170 Halifax, this next move is that final round that I mentioned. 09:24.680 --> 09:27.860 So Black's play here plays a real dismantling move. 09:27.860 --> 09:28.940 I wonder if you can guess. 09:33.560 --> 09:40.790 So it's been a pawn trying to take out its base, its nine Saints F2, and you might think, OK, but 09:40.790 --> 09:41.750 where is the war? 09:41.750 --> 09:44.130 Exactly what exactly is going on here? 09:44.480 --> 09:47.240 We see 94 check on its sacrifice. 09:47.240 --> 09:51.740 The Knights sacrificing a night for two pawns, hitting queen and bishop and rook. 09:52.070 --> 09:54.530 And surely Black's intention is to take the rook. 09:55.010 --> 09:59.840 So the staggering thing about this game, and this is what gives you no games of high drama where you 09:59.840 --> 10:05.740 hear about the reaction of grandmasters during the actual game really have a profound impact on me. 10:06.530 --> 10:11.540 And in fact, you know, this is one such game where we hear that the commentators at the time, the 10:11.540 --> 10:16.370 grandmasters in the commentary box, but this game was being played for, you know, sure was absolutely. 10:16.370 --> 10:20.140 Bustan would be resigning very, very shortly because he was absolutely busted. 10:20.140 --> 10:21.930 They were expecting 1961. 10:23.060 --> 10:24.950 So this is the whole beauty of chess. 10:24.960 --> 10:28.540 It's like many great even grandmasters were just kind of tourists. 10:28.550 --> 10:33.430 We don't really understand the true resources of possessions, the true dynamic potential. 10:34.190 --> 10:39.290 One of my three golden rules, which, you know, weakness of the last movie square liberation or facts, 10:39.770 --> 10:47.420 you know, Liberacion or Fang's a shortcut to it is imagining perhaps certain pawns are missing if you 10:47.420 --> 10:49.160 imagine certain pawns and missing. 10:51.110 --> 10:54.740 Then what would be the impact of that, you know, here this tribunal could be sensitive, right? 10:56.090 --> 11:01.460 And in fact, Fisher takes out instead of taking the rook, he takes out a key defensive bishop. 11:02.630 --> 11:05.120 If he takes out the rook, sure, he's going to be worse. 11:05.120 --> 11:08.680 The grandmasters, Roy Black, is simply worse in this position. 11:09.440 --> 11:12.710 You know, this position is not great. 11:16.980 --> 11:21.870 You know, it's going to be difficult, it's going to be far, far more difficult than what was paid, 11:22.350 --> 11:30.000 if default is actually an interesting move to offer the exchange like this, because, again, if one 11:30.000 --> 11:37.020 ever takes, then there's one square weaknesses in one's camp and black could end up getting an advantage 11:37.020 --> 11:38.140 like this, for example. 11:38.160 --> 11:41.480 So this is an exotic variation, by the way fish played. 11:41.520 --> 11:47.880 It's just it's just absolutely divine, you know, in my view, 1962, we have king tides. 11:49.740 --> 11:52.650 So Liberacion, think about Liberacion. 11:52.980 --> 12:01.940 Think about what states as pawns and pieces really are the fundamental constraints on the pieces. 12:02.700 --> 12:06.450 So this is actually a constraint, this pawn. 12:07.770 --> 12:15.150 Fisheries maximizing peace activity, relevant peace activity for these weaknesses around once King 12:15.480 --> 12:21.630 and plays the magical move for unleashing the power of this bishop without a counterpart. 12:21.630 --> 12:29.670 Now on those late squares and in fact, of the 1964 Bishop seven Jack King, Antwone Fisher plays a 12:29.670 --> 12:33.700 quiet little move and it causes weight to resign. 12:33.720 --> 12:37.290 I wonder if you can guess what that is if I give you five cents for the video. 12:43.150 --> 12:50.110 OK, it's Quinsy seven, Frattini's Queen H3 with devastating effects, there's actually no way to kind 12:50.110 --> 12:51.070 of handle this. 12:51.760 --> 12:54.550 The game ended here if ninety five. 12:54.550 --> 12:59.260 The point is Czech and here there's a key move. 12:59.260 --> 13:01.360 Can you see what the key forcing move is? 13:02.110 --> 13:07.630 Which would be absolutely devastating, because if we look at this, the king's escape squares will 13:07.630 --> 13:13.360 be taken out, which is a very, very bad sign, especially with Bisher, without any counterpart. 13:13.360 --> 13:15.540 Bishop, it's a very, very bad sign. 13:15.550 --> 13:17.740 So you just need some time to find the killer check. 13:18.130 --> 13:24.010 And it comes from Bishop Eighty-six hitting the queen with tempo and wanting to come into the fray. 13:25.450 --> 13:26.860 So it's Quincy to Bishop. 13:26.860 --> 13:30.820 If this is just going to be, you know, checkmates, forget winning the queen. 13:31.090 --> 13:33.790 But if we look at this again, there's other beautiful variations. 13:34.990 --> 13:44.710 If Queen F2 to her queen is retracting Jiwon, there's an absolutely amazing magical resource here which 13:44.710 --> 13:48.080 Fisher himself was keen to see played out at the board. 13:48.340 --> 13:50.500 I wonder if you can see it if you check all charts. 13:50.680 --> 13:52.060 So five seconds, pause, video. 13:52.060 --> 13:53.280 What would you play in this position? 13:54.520 --> 13:59.860 You want to sort of gain access when access to squares, which is a lot of what chance is about winning 13:59.860 --> 14:07.360 access to squares, being a hacker on the chess board, how can you gain access to G to her as a common 14:07.360 --> 14:07.840 square? 14:11.940 --> 14:18.600 OK, rookie one check, it's beautiful, it's absolutely beautiful if Queen takes then queen due to 14:18.600 --> 14:19.020 his charm. 14:19.150 --> 14:27.180 And the point is on Route 21, we playing Bishop 64, penning the queen to the king. 14:28.080 --> 14:32.430 So the queen takes queen due to his checkmate through Kifri, which is going to take there. 14:33.390 --> 14:37.080 And you know, it's going to be Chien-Ming instead of queen. 14:37.080 --> 14:41.070 After we look at King Jiwon, then queen entering. 14:42.650 --> 14:46.820 Right here, Washbasins, again, you know, I mean, we've had to look at that. 14:50.940 --> 15:00.060 Instead of throwing instead of 95, 95, that's but that's just taking five, we just take you know, 15:00.900 --> 15:04.510 it's going to be willing to overlook how it's a very, very desperate scenario. 15:04.530 --> 15:09.570 So it's just shocking that this little move caused his resignation. 15:09.870 --> 15:15.450 And whilst the grandma was just like two or three minutes before or thinking, you know, she's going 15:15.450 --> 15:16.140 to resign. 15:18.480 --> 15:27.270 But we see in this game also that debate between the balance, the fine balance between pawn structure 15:27.270 --> 15:30.990 and its solidity versus the peace activity can generate. 15:31.260 --> 15:37.770 So sometimes even sort of ugly looking pawn structures like, you know, I like Queens wall double pawns 15:37.770 --> 15:45.050 back because they all can have these functionalities to give them the pieces activity. 15:45.630 --> 15:51.090 And if that activity is very directed towards King's safety issues in particular, that can often be 15:51.090 --> 15:52.140 a knockout blow. 15:52.860 --> 16:00.200 So we do get big letters, big lessons about peace activity from phishers, dynamic use of pawn structures. 16:00.330 --> 16:05.300 He doesn't mind if his pawn structures are sometimes seemingly non solid. 16:05.850 --> 16:07.230 He's looking at the functionality. 16:07.230 --> 16:12.180 He's looking at the peace activity and the commendatory possibilities that could result. 16:13.060 --> 16:20.230 OK, so I hope you enjoyed this iconic game example from Bobby Fischer and maybe check out my other 16:20.250 --> 16:22.100 courses on Fischer if you want more detail. 16:22.320 --> 16:27.050 I think, you know, he's one of the most instructive world champions and definitely has supercharged 16:27.060 --> 16:32.760 my confidence, being more systematic and strict and looking at all of his key wins. 16:33.090 --> 16:34.700 OK, pretty much.