WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:06.620 Hi, am in his lecture, I'll just like to give you a brief introduction to make our opening. 00:06.930 --> 00:13.950 First of all, Alexander Alkene died as world chess champion and they seized the opportunity to try 00:13.950 --> 00:19.670 and take control of the world championship cycles before that time. 00:20.310 --> 00:26.790 You know, it's like you had to bid to fight against the world chess champion and only if they agreed 00:27.270 --> 00:28.380 that you get a match. 00:28.380 --> 00:29.250 If you were lucky. 00:29.610 --> 00:34.470 You know, for example, you know, Alexander Arlequin managed to get all the funds, the challenge 00:34.550 --> 00:38.670 CAPABLANCA and that was the process before Friday. 00:39.330 --> 00:41.250 So it became much more organized. 00:42.000 --> 00:48.600 And Fryday organized the six player tournament to decide the next world champion, which became a winning, 00:49.170 --> 00:49.770 won. 00:51.030 --> 00:54.060 And he became like the first. 00:56.590 --> 01:05.920 Russian grandmaster with the world's wide status and uses all captured, you know, the world titles 01:06.340 --> 01:13.450 for the next few years, it was the start of Soviet domination of chess, and he brought many professional 01:13.630 --> 01:19.690 attitudes to tournament preparation, physical training, and even created the bottom in that school 01:19.690 --> 01:22.120 of chess, which had students like Karpoff Kasparov. 01:22.480 --> 01:30.490 So and he was even involved in A.I., you know, doing some selective search A.I., which was not a 01:30.490 --> 01:34.600 good route because lots of brute force overtook that there was no need for selective search. 01:35.170 --> 01:39.820 But, yeah, he had a keen interest in in lots of things. 01:40.300 --> 01:46.900 And he made lots of different contributions to chess, a profound impact on the game, basically. 01:47.500 --> 01:53.350 And for me, you know, he brought this very scientific, analytical attitude which contrasted to the 01:53.350 --> 01:56.960 rather, you know, casual style of the previous generation. 01:57.430 --> 02:05.620 So here is a game example where he's playing against Hasbro Capablanca in the 1948 Avro Truman's round 02:05.620 --> 02:06.280 11. 02:08.230 --> 02:14.550 And it reminds me a bit personally of seeing Stockfish crush these other engines for a completely dominating 02:14.560 --> 02:21.130 position, all counterplay and then, you know, playing a brilliant combination at the end. 02:21.730 --> 02:25.120 So it's very, very impressive game. 02:25.130 --> 02:28.030 It's had a striking influence on on me. 02:28.030 --> 02:34.840 It shows that sometimes the superficial also, you know, the superficial looks of possessions is not 02:34.860 --> 02:35.860 what it seems. 02:36.310 --> 02:37.370 You see what I mean soon. 02:37.450 --> 02:45.470 So different things from Camp Blanka, CIFOR Fembot Frank cyberbully playing white ESX night, Seefried 02:45.760 --> 02:46.300 before. 02:46.720 --> 02:54.100 So in terms of Engin the Rubinstein variation, Efrain and D5 is played Avery Bishop takes seefried 02:54.220 --> 02:55.460 big takes both. 02:55.510 --> 02:57.730 They didn't mind having double --'s quite often. 02:57.730 --> 03:00.130 He was experimenting double pawns here. 03:00.130 --> 03:07.090 I mean there's a dance choir bishop with our counterpart which can prove extremely dangerous potentially 03:07.090 --> 03:07.690 in theory. 03:07.690 --> 03:12.580 You know, later on if you have a dance counterpart, it's not all about the --'s, it's what was 03:12.580 --> 03:18.070 the cost for black to inflate the horns quite a bit, actually, potentially. 03:18.070 --> 03:19.590 You know, this bishop could be lethal. 03:20.240 --> 03:23.840 We we five C tanks. 03:24.280 --> 03:29.080 He takes Bishop defraying Blanka councils and only two. 03:29.080 --> 03:32.830 And this is the start of a very interesting kind of template plan. 03:32.830 --> 03:39.520 It's almost the same acts as a kind of template for the future generations in terms of structure, because 03:39.520 --> 03:45.220 it seems as though with Maita with this pawn being available to move, not blocked in that later, a 03:45.220 --> 03:51.430 plan of ninety four point eighty four can liberate one's position and expand on the king side and, 03:51.430 --> 03:55.030 you know, chase away defensive knight and create all sorts of dangers. 03:55.030 --> 04:01.150 On King side, we see BASIX now White Castles, Bishop A6. 04:01.150 --> 04:06.850 This seems extremely logical to try and we can wait on the light squares and take away once Bishop Power 04:06.970 --> 04:08.320 and clamp down on E4. 04:08.320 --> 04:12.160 There's a there's a great deal of logic to it but black plays. 04:12.160 --> 04:15.940 Bishop takes a six night takes and now this weird looking move. 04:15.940 --> 04:19.960 Bishop BE2 was going to be two. 04:19.960 --> 04:24.130 You might ask surely if this was their free plan it would open up like this. 04:24.820 --> 04:32.770 Bishop BE2 gives the impression that, you know, why is positionally clueless or something? 04:32.770 --> 04:34.030 Why would we do this? 04:34.390 --> 04:39.730 It's reinforcing the triangle, which is already looking fairly solid. 04:40.720 --> 04:47.740 But perhaps, you know, it's kind of waiting there for black to play C for later and the bishop could 04:47.740 --> 04:52.840 return back to see one and then play for for this kind of tension release. 04:52.990 --> 04:59.830 When, you know, pawn goes like this, it's releasing that central tension and it often gives you a 04:59.830 --> 05:06.700 free hand if your opponent releases the tension in since you often get a free hand, so to speak, you 05:06.700 --> 05:11.980 can sort of play on the other side of the ball without worrying about the pawn exchange possibilities 05:11.980 --> 05:12.880 and the counterplay. 05:13.510 --> 05:18.520 So at the moment, it's like a super solid looking move. 05:18.520 --> 05:22.900 But a bit odd that, you know, this is a blocked ambition. 05:22.910 --> 05:25.240 There we see Queen D7 05:27.850 --> 05:34.360 on on the surface, it seems, you know, black should actually even be able to play C4. 05:34.780 --> 05:41.110 And even if we play like Jeoffrey, it seems as though on the surface, black as an example like this 05:41.470 --> 05:49.990 should be able to have a decent enough position clamped down on it for, you know, for example, here 05:49.990 --> 05:50.210 and there. 05:50.230 --> 05:51.610 Ninety seven, sixty five. 05:51.610 --> 05:54.190 It should be about equal on the surface. 05:54.580 --> 05:55.980 But we see Queen D7. 05:57.330 --> 06:03.870 A fall and this is intriguing in its own right, it's like a distraction, you know, maybe later it 06:03.870 --> 06:04.660 wants to move. 06:05.040 --> 06:07.410 Why is the robot now committed to defending this ball? 06:07.410 --> 06:16.650 And when it seems like presenting a liability for the upside, though, A5 is now a concern to maybe 06:16.740 --> 06:19.080 just dissolve the pawn, to just get rid of it. 06:20.040 --> 06:23.140 We see kaffiyeh at the moment a five. 06:23.140 --> 06:28.710 This B5, though, as an example, we have Queen the free hitting that night. 06:29.910 --> 06:39.090 And here perhaps Black is persuaded to play CIFOR because 97 there might be a five to be concerned about. 06:39.420 --> 06:42.720 So Black actually does release the tension. 06:43.560 --> 06:48.810 This can be a controversial style move, giving a free hand sometimes. 06:48.810 --> 06:53.580 On the other side of the board, we see Quincy, too, and it looks as though here. 06:54.840 --> 07:01.970 At the moment, it looks completely out of the question because of the four lockdown that any such plan, 07:02.130 --> 07:05.570 you know, first of all, is weakening every you have to reinforce every first. 07:05.940 --> 07:08.760 This plan looks like a dream, a distant dream right now. 07:09.270 --> 07:14.730 We see going to be perhaps this is a little bit on the slow side given the E4 break. 07:14.730 --> 07:23.940 Possibility's H5 is very much a prevention measure because if there's any night Jeoffrey, then G.S. 07:23.940 --> 07:25.710 84 would chase away that night. 07:25.710 --> 07:31.290 And even this kind of form -- scenario where if you have a poor nature, we can be quite dangerous. 07:31.740 --> 07:39.240 So H5 would be a dynamic trahair and if not for this position, seems, you know, this kind of thing 07:39.240 --> 07:41.680 should be OK for black. 07:41.700 --> 07:51.270 In theory, it seems OK or even, you know, 1987 immediately and then later H5 again could play a good 07:51.270 --> 07:51.630 role. 07:52.320 --> 07:58.500 You know, Jeoffrey, just to chase away after maybe Stottlemyre five, so hedgie six first to stop 07:58.500 --> 08:02.460 any further than H1 coming, why it doesn't really want to create more weaknesses. 08:02.470 --> 08:07.050 So say this situation, you know, it should be OK for black. 08:07.170 --> 08:08.960 I mean, the lightning bolt should be OK. 08:08.970 --> 08:09.630 There's a potential. 08:09.630 --> 08:10.400 Postpone the. 08:12.420 --> 08:16.590 But this seems a little bit slow, maybe the start of black issues here. 08:18.510 --> 08:24.090 We see Ricky, he wants this kind of templated plan for the future generations, you know, it's only 08:24.090 --> 08:33.270 the queen holding a faunal -- 1996 Nigerian black celebrates this be Freewinds, but this is on the 08:33.270 --> 08:35.100 queen side, away from the king side. 08:35.550 --> 08:38.280 And now everyone is starting to look a little bit ominous. 08:38.980 --> 08:43.400 Plank is on a greedy route here to just disconnect and then take the A4 for --. 08:43.800 --> 08:50.010 But you know these pawns, OK, it's nice to think about games in the middle game. 08:50.550 --> 08:58.380 However, that kind of preparation, you know, there is still a middle game when the queen still on 08:58.380 --> 08:59.730 and king safety issues. 09:00.090 --> 09:02.880 So this this does lose a lot of time. 09:03.210 --> 09:06.810 And in the meantime, why could generate a ferocious attack? 09:07.080 --> 09:13.350 So trying to install assets for an end game is sometimes quite controversial, but kind of like it goes 09:13.350 --> 09:13.760 ahead. 09:13.770 --> 09:15.060 It has not much else anyway. 09:15.060 --> 09:21.810 To do her now might be free and probably doesn't mind sacrificing the eightfold form. 09:22.800 --> 09:29.700 So we have now a very aggressive pullback in the center and our Queen F2 is played. 09:33.590 --> 09:39.640 This bypasses little tricks, you know, maybe black had a little discovery tricks in the possession, 09:39.640 --> 09:45.190 like C5, you know, hitting the queen, protecting the queen and then maybe slightly free later of 09:45.190 --> 09:49.800 the queen to do an exchange of so little tricks of a bypass there. 09:52.270 --> 09:56.920 And, you know, like, can't you see five clearly now and we see six at four. 09:56.920 --> 10:02.790 And it's looks very scary, this build up of pressure and they start without counterpart. 10:03.100 --> 10:03.900 You never know. 10:03.910 --> 10:11.140 This could be quite dangerous for black, especially with these lurking presence dance acquaintances 10:11.350 --> 10:13.900 that Bishop could relish them later. 10:15.640 --> 10:20.650 We see how far this seems to be a very radical attempt to close up the position and make it more about 10:20.950 --> 10:23.880 blacks apelin potential --. 10:24.370 --> 10:27.880 However, Bobby is having none of this is opening up. 10:28.080 --> 10:30.400 It takes about five. 10:32.080 --> 10:37.360 We see rock tanks, rock tanks, and now Cavalcante is trying to neutralize everything the queen does 10:37.360 --> 10:38.080 48. 10:39.310 --> 10:46.660 But it's in this moment that unfortunately there's a nagging edge which is underlines here. 10:46.930 --> 10:52.270 Can you see what white players in this position which underlines a nagging edge? 10:54.120 --> 10:56.170 It creates a dangerous asset. 10:57.100 --> 10:59.160 OK, five seconds, Paulsboro. 11:01.140 --> 11:07.530 It's actually rookie sex, it creates a dangerous -- here, it's hitting the night and looks pretty 11:07.530 --> 11:08.160 dangerous. 11:10.500 --> 11:19.980 So we see Rokitansky sex being played after dangerous --, and now the night is being hence King seven, 11:19.980 --> 11:25.860 but now Queen at four and you can see here there's a light and a five Jack and Queen G5 Jack. 11:26.790 --> 11:32.480 So Black has to address that somehow and plays Queenie AIDS. 11:32.790 --> 11:34.410 So the queen could come to G six. 11:34.530 --> 11:35.910 Now in that scenario. 11:36.690 --> 11:38.600 So quickly find those played now. 11:39.240 --> 11:44.300 So just to put that on board, if not a five Jack and Queen from the Queen G sex. 11:45.540 --> 11:54.360 So we see though this pin with Queen five, it turns out also, you know, why is Bazza here? 11:56.990 --> 12:01.190 There are other moves, but I don't want to spoil the main idea of the game for you, which is coming 12:01.190 --> 12:05.740 up, which is absolutely amazing in this position, Queene seven. 12:06.560 --> 12:14.150 So this is now a position where something absolutely stunning and analytical, which is for me is an 12:14.150 --> 12:14.900 iconic. 12:14.900 --> 12:21.620 The whole thing is like connec move is one of the top kind of iconic chess movies of all time. 12:21.980 --> 12:26.990 This next move, you might want to pause the video and see if you can find it and follow up. 12:28.620 --> 12:30.570 It's a truly iconic chess move. 12:35.090 --> 12:40.300 You might want to hold on Squasher, why why are you saying this about the world champions and culture 12:40.300 --> 12:40.810 in general? 12:41.560 --> 12:46.360 Well, well, first of all, it makes this beginner's course very unique. 12:46.480 --> 12:49.300 And also, I want you to be assassins on the chessboard. 12:49.450 --> 12:54.450 You know, people think, hey, you didn't know how to play chess last week and now your chess assassin, 12:54.610 --> 12:56.160 what's going on here? 12:56.470 --> 12:59.200 And also, you get all these pointers to look up these people. 12:59.950 --> 13:01.870 You know, you should learn from the world champions. 13:01.870 --> 13:02.740 Why not learn from the best? 13:02.950 --> 13:04.570 So check out Mikol, but when it gains. 13:04.570 --> 13:08.260 But this is an iconic move here that he plays. 13:10.760 --> 13:17.030 So our pop music plays an absolutely iconic move, Bishop Avery, that doesn't square Bishop only has 13:17.030 --> 13:23.660 one thing to say about the task has to be sacrificed on the altar of being in prison for so long. 13:23.840 --> 13:25.550 It makes it so dramatic. 13:27.520 --> 13:29.140 All is being used as a kind of. 13:33.080 --> 13:36.020 Deflection, you know, moving a defender. 13:37.860 --> 13:41.220 But that's what chess is about, you know, winning key squares. 13:44.410 --> 13:49.090 Winning access to key squares is like being the equivalent of a computer hacker. 13:49.120 --> 13:53.470 I guess if you can win key squares, how would you hack into the black position? 13:53.470 --> 13:56.870 You have to the track the queen away that you might have access. 13:56.920 --> 14:01.210 All of a sudden to some key squares and possibilities that you shouldn't have had. 14:01.570 --> 14:06.040 It's like being a bit of a hack on a chessboard, so. 14:07.650 --> 14:13.150 We see her black actually take this and what's the key point here? 14:13.620 --> 14:20.850 The queen has left F six, so major deflection tactic, weakening SS. 14:21.090 --> 14:22.920 So we've kind of undermined uptakes. 14:23.130 --> 14:24.750 How do we underline that? 14:24.750 --> 14:27.000 Undermine of F six. 14:27.870 --> 14:29.250 Underline the undermine. 14:30.060 --> 14:33.270 How would you do this with a tactical move in position. 14:37.640 --> 14:40.620 OK, Crunch, 1995 check. 14:41.270 --> 14:47.690 So and this is what a piece is going to be brought back, so it's only one piece down, but look at 14:47.690 --> 14:48.610 this passport. 14:49.820 --> 14:51.650 So Kingi is played. 14:53.430 --> 15:01.470 If King Estates, then Queen F7, Shaq and Queen, this is checkmate, the stargaze, though the issue 15:01.470 --> 15:02.350 with King Kingi. 15:02.370 --> 15:04.060 It's not that brilliant either. 15:05.020 --> 15:07.680 It seems that Black has a load of checks and no worries. 15:08.070 --> 15:12.090 But Eighty-seven does actually frighten queening. 15:12.090 --> 15:14.690 And does actually Frank have a chat, mate? 15:15.960 --> 15:19.950 So you might think, well, there's loads of checks, but look what happens now. 15:20.000 --> 15:22.370 Check, check. 15:22.380 --> 15:23.760 The king goes to Jeoffrey 15:26.370 --> 15:30.990 Queen before the king goes for Quiney for check. 15:32.490 --> 15:40.980 And now it doesn't actually blunder horrifically with King H free, which would allow Queen she for. 15:41.250 --> 15:42.450 No, this didn't happen. 15:43.020 --> 15:43.890 Just put that on the board. 15:43.890 --> 15:47.490 Now he has to take out the H5 pawn. 15:49.320 --> 15:56.100 And also it means though that there's a defensive measure that can be used shortly. 15:56.100 --> 15:58.920 Not here, not just quite yet. 15:59.670 --> 16:02.160 King H for Jack G. 16:02.160 --> 16:05.790 Four of the Queen E one. 16:05.790 --> 16:09.150 Jack King of the Game, Ed Black has run out of checks. 16:10.330 --> 16:14.350 White friends, Queen Efate meeting. 16:15.500 --> 16:19.170 And the queen's kind of stuck against it as well. 16:19.610 --> 16:27.620 So, for example, you know, if a six, then check is also crushing like that, there's nothing for 16:27.620 --> 16:33.100 black to do her if queene to quantify is Chien-Ming. 16:33.680 --> 16:34.130 Yeah. 16:36.320 --> 16:38.450 But also, by the way, was. 16:40.060 --> 16:44.720 Are beating Kerplunk way back in the summer when it was just a little kid. 16:44.860 --> 16:52.780 Well, not little actually kind of to be managed to get a game with camp on a A and beat Capablanca 16:53.080 --> 16:57.970 and a crushing game, really brutal game where Capablanca Kalsu coincide. 17:00.310 --> 17:03.760 So, yeah, but I think was a rising star making his name. 17:05.770 --> 17:13.360 Quite early on, actually, from from from beating Capablanca in that similarily early on and, yeah, 17:13.370 --> 17:17.080 had a profound impact, but the Soviet domination of chess ever since. 17:18.130 --> 17:20.800 Most of the 20th century. 17:23.660 --> 17:30.350 Soviet school, which has become part of the camp of Kasparov, future world champions, after the whole 17:30.500 --> 17:36.110 thing about professionalism in chess, you know, professional standards, preparation, public, for 17:36.110 --> 17:42.060 example, Hastings would turn up two weeks earlier just to get acclimatized. 17:42.190 --> 17:46.050 So good holiday, I expect, for his wife, et cetera. 17:47.260 --> 17:53.200 So mean, he said to the authorities, yeah, I it's all it's all for the tournament. 17:53.210 --> 17:53.410 Yeah. 17:53.540 --> 17:55.210 I'm going I'm going to you. 17:55.910 --> 17:57.020 So, yeah. 17:57.020 --> 17:57.560 I mean. 17:58.980 --> 18:01.860 There are some controversies about some of his matches. 18:02.190 --> 18:09.300 He managed to resourcefully use the rematch clause, knowing that that was in place he could afford 18:09.300 --> 18:13.380 to lose an national world championship matches against. 18:13.500 --> 18:16.490 And so give them a little bit of fun for a year. 18:17.310 --> 18:20.910 But because the rematch clause know he just regained it. 18:21.750 --> 18:29.230 But the next time and he uses big time and preparation and find out all their weaknesses and create 18:29.250 --> 18:34.860 a repertoire to expose all their weaknesses and avoid their strengths is the real art of war. 18:34.860 --> 18:41.040 If you know the rules of the game, you can afford to lose a battle, a battle being the first kind 18:41.040 --> 18:42.360 of world championship challenge. 18:42.810 --> 18:47.440 Then he researches them even much greater depth and wins the rematch. 18:47.460 --> 18:50.810 He did that multiple times for me. 18:52.050 --> 18:56.700 I mean, he's an absolutely brilliant player, but for me, I fought. 18:56.700 --> 19:00.390 1960 was a naughtier for a former cartel. 19:00.690 --> 19:04.420 Should definitely have not played in 1961 because of some health issues. 19:05.010 --> 19:09.030 So anyway, there is politics in chess, there is controversy. 19:09.300 --> 19:13.180 Check out Wicky, of course, the affirmative reference for more details. 19:13.500 --> 19:18.630 So anyway, but this is for me, an iconic Mikhail Bosnich game. 19:19.200 --> 19:27.570 And for sure he had a massive effect on the professionalism of preparation and science of the game. 19:28.080 --> 19:33.360 You know, before that, you know, casual attitudes, more kind of out of feudalism. 19:33.360 --> 19:37.510 But he made the game a lot more professional, in my view. 19:38.220 --> 19:38.900 OK. 19:40.620 --> 19:41.280 Venceremos.