WEBVTT 00:01.320 --> 00:01.960 Hi there. 00:02.810 --> 00:07.240 In this lecture, I want to emphasize to you about choice of opponents. 00:08.730 --> 00:17.070 Ideally, you want an opponent that's slightly stronger than you and you can use maybe the rating system 00:17.070 --> 00:21.480 generally as a guide and in your initial start. 00:21.500 --> 00:28.950 OK, just just play with players, say hundreds until you get a few rated games and there's more accurate 00:28.950 --> 00:32.100 determination of your kind of initial rating strength. 00:33.120 --> 00:38.520 But, you know, initially you're probably, you know, looking at, you know, players a thousand to 00:38.520 --> 00:43.410 fourteen hundred for the first few months or weeks. 00:44.010 --> 00:47.660 Depends on how much how well you digest this course, actually. 00:48.600 --> 00:54.330 And if you do get a rating above like six hundred of em, like three weeks of this course from scratch, 00:54.330 --> 00:55.390 please do let me know. 00:56.070 --> 00:59.010 That would be a great success for this cause I'll be really happy for you. 01:00.450 --> 01:05.130 But anyway, try and play with slightly stronger opponents. 01:05.130 --> 01:11.430 So hopefully there is a ratings guide if you play online and also you know, so the stronger part is 01:11.430 --> 01:20.010 on a slightly longer time control than maybe you're thinking you that that seems popular, you know, 01:20.010 --> 01:26.970 quite popular online of the very full time trolls, but sometimes try and play five minutes each or 01:26.970 --> 01:31.770 five minutes with free second increments or maybe ten minutes each with three second increments. 01:32.040 --> 01:34.940 So the increments will give you a bit of extra time of each move. 01:34.960 --> 01:37.890 So that will improve the quality of games. 01:38.940 --> 01:44.400 Generally, that won't be about winning on time in the end, hopefully as much as playing the position. 01:44.880 --> 01:51.420 So if you play an opponent that's much stronger than, you know, in real life or online, first of 01:51.420 --> 01:53.700 all, you could be completely obliterated. 01:56.970 --> 02:06.900 And if it's over, the boards and hopefully the over the board season will be available at some points. 02:08.010 --> 02:12.690 At the time of this recording, our estimates of the kind of down. 02:12.960 --> 02:20.400 But if the over the board season did open up, then it's great to be able to go over again in general 02:20.760 --> 02:22.740 with an opponent after the game. 02:22.740 --> 02:24.090 So you have to have a thick skin. 02:24.600 --> 02:30.270 So a slightly stronger opponents ideally, and you get some insights from them. 02:30.270 --> 02:35.250 And hopefully you can relate to that in science, in the game discussion. 02:36.690 --> 02:40.290 So essentially you're looking at these learning opportunities. 02:40.290 --> 02:51.660 You're seeing chess as a learning journey, and you're not just looking to extrinsically get rewards. 02:51.660 --> 02:54.090 You know, just smash are going to get massive. 02:54.130 --> 02:54.330 Right. 02:54.540 --> 03:02.640 You're intrinsically if you're on the intrinsic side, the internal quality side, you all value just 03:02.640 --> 03:04.570 learning about the game for learning sake. 03:04.570 --> 03:11.100 You all value try and get as much time with strong opponents to see what they have to say to really 03:11.100 --> 03:12.540 build your understanding of chess. 03:12.810 --> 03:16.440 The emphasis is on building your understanding of the game. 03:16.440 --> 03:18.100 Results can come later. 03:18.100 --> 03:23.400 It was a natural side effect of actually understanding the game more and more. 03:25.110 --> 03:28.320 So this kind of internal intrinsic quality perspective. 03:28.320 --> 03:36.510 You want to get slightly stronger opponents in general, though, and if your writing improves, then 03:36.840 --> 03:39.510 level that aren't going to slightly stronger opponents again. 03:39.510 --> 03:47.970 So maybe online writing will give you a rough idea or some time control how strong you are and maybe 03:47.970 --> 03:51.720 you find your bit strong on the first time with trolls. 03:51.720 --> 03:55.350 But that might be because you're playing very quickly, you're winning on time. 03:55.860 --> 04:02.220 You want to try and be in your initial steps as sort of purist as possible, try and win on the position 04:02.520 --> 04:03.750 as much as possible. 04:04.500 --> 04:05.670 Winning on time. 04:07.310 --> 04:12.920 Is is a good skill later, and you want to maximize your win probabilities later today when you need 04:12.920 --> 04:21.650 to win competitively, everything you've learned can be taken as a sort of tool, you know, for maximizing 04:21.650 --> 04:22.460 winning probability. 04:22.480 --> 04:22.980 Sure. 04:23.360 --> 04:29.630 But in your initial stages, the intrinsic heuristic, pure motives of just trying to maximize your 04:29.630 --> 04:32.870 understanding of the game cannot be understated. 04:32.900 --> 04:38.450 That should be the primary goal to find out more about chess and your strengths and weaknesses. 04:39.560 --> 04:47.060 So in that process, use perhaps the rating systems as a guidance in your initial when you don't have 04:47.060 --> 04:56.300 any rating, you know anyone, not 100, then just just challenge them then after maybe challenge as 04:56.300 --> 04:59.930 you get more confident people of higher and higher ratings. 05:00.260 --> 05:03.160 So the rating I know it's an extrinsic measure. 05:05.420 --> 05:11.420 And we do want all a high rating to win lots of games, but you want that really is a side effect of 05:11.420 --> 05:12.860 improving your understanding. 05:14.270 --> 05:24.770 So later, ideally, if the over the board's world of chess opens up, maybe maybe there's a chess club 05:24.770 --> 05:32.390 near you, an actual real life chess club as well, because that can give you that post-mortem discussion 05:32.390 --> 05:37.850 experience that when you play a game with people at the chess club, you can talk about it after. 05:38.390 --> 05:42.820 And there might even be, you know, matches against other clubs. 05:43.790 --> 05:51.580 There's sometimes a chess club scene where there's a storm of chess clubs to participate in called like 05:51.590 --> 05:54.020 usually so. 05:54.500 --> 05:57.770 And you find yourself being placed in a certain board member in a team. 05:57.770 --> 06:00.100 And that's a lot of fun in its own right. 06:01.070 --> 06:06.070 But again, it's not all about just the was swimming. 06:06.080 --> 06:06.740 That's nice. 06:07.280 --> 06:13.880 Try and maximize that in your initial steps, especially your understanding of chess generally. 06:16.070 --> 06:24.020 You might also acquire, you know, some chess friends around the place or and you're playing and learning 06:24.740 --> 06:26.940 and improving off each other. 06:28.520 --> 06:29.680 So that's great as well. 06:30.590 --> 06:33.680 But basically the tip here is. 06:36.060 --> 06:41.910 Especially in the over the both worlds, you want to play slightly stronger opponents to have a meaningful 06:41.910 --> 06:47.730 discussion at the end of the game in the post-mortem analysis online, you don't want to be also blown 06:47.730 --> 06:50.070 to smithereens and losing just like that. 06:50.910 --> 06:58.410 So maybe have some thought about picking slightly stronger opponents that you might estimate to be slightly 06:58.410 --> 06:58.850 stronger. 06:59.550 --> 07:02.940 And, you know, if if you win the old game. 07:04.330 --> 07:08.800 One out of 10, you know what, you've just got nine lessons to analyze. 07:08.890 --> 07:14.470 Look at those games in some states, you can put them in a study, study those games. 07:14.470 --> 07:19.600 You can organize them, maybe even get a coach and go over those games. 07:19.900 --> 07:22.600 And then the next 10, you might actually do better. 07:22.600 --> 07:28.300 You might win two out of the ten and then the next batch of games, you might do better as this process 07:29.080 --> 07:31.750 of learning and attraction, but. 07:33.270 --> 07:40.800 You know, trying to get the more abstract lessons from each game example, but try and focus on not 07:40.800 --> 07:46.710 changing the superstrong class first because you're not really going to understand or have any clue 07:47.520 --> 07:50.730 sometimes why you actually lost. 07:52.530 --> 08:05.550 Generally speaking, so OK, so in a nutshell, the advice here is try and play opponents, hopefully 08:05.550 --> 08:10.670 on a slightly longer time trial where it's not all about winning and opponents that are slightly stronger 08:10.680 --> 08:12.390 than you, not vastly stronger. 08:13.590 --> 08:16.630 So that's the core advice here. 08:16.890 --> 08:18.750 OK, as much.