WEBVTT 00:01.030 --> 00:01.630 Hi there. 00:02.650 --> 00:09.010 In this election, we're going to talk about how you actually can use different types of experience. 00:09.730 --> 00:15.530 In fact, you don't just play and play and play and learn from your game. 00:15.640 --> 00:19.960 You can do that as part of your ways of gaining experience. 00:19.960 --> 00:22.900 And that is an essential way of gaining experience. 00:22.900 --> 00:24.010 You yourself playing. 00:24.670 --> 00:34.300 But you could also have other learning experiences, the classic old school method, I suppose, and 00:34.300 --> 00:36.770 you can even download them now quite immediately. 00:36.770 --> 00:38.450 You don't even need to have them delivered to you. 00:39.040 --> 00:40.750 And for me. 00:42.300 --> 00:48.150 The offer I gained maximum leverage from, in my view, is Irving Chernof. 00:49.610 --> 00:58.670 He has books which will fill you with passion for the game, essentially there's a classic book, Logical 00:58.670 --> 01:03.920 Chess Move by Move, which is a great start by him. 01:04.430 --> 01:06.290 And you might also find some other books. 01:06.290 --> 01:10.760 He's written very, very good, like the most instructive games of chance ever played. 01:12.410 --> 01:14.990 So there are some key authors of me, John F.. 01:16.310 --> 01:16.700 Yes. 01:16.770 --> 01:23.000 So and the American Grandmont, the answer seven has a whole series. 01:23.990 --> 01:30.530 So classic books which you can conveniently get now you don't even have to use up the Amazon rainforest. 01:30.540 --> 01:37.070 You can actually just download them, look at the star ratings, but they're all classic authors. 01:37.070 --> 01:40.220 So China for me is great. 01:40.670 --> 01:41.980 Absolutely great as an example. 01:41.990 --> 01:46.430 And yes, someone needs to stand out for me for the classic books. 01:47.330 --> 01:52.520 You can also online look out for the streamers ice cream in the evening, for example. 01:52.760 --> 01:53.900 Kings Cross the stream. 01:54.680 --> 02:02.070 Yeah, I hope you don't miss my streams, although sometimes OK, I'm more talked about the of times. 02:02.090 --> 02:04.490 Just bear that in mind, but try and look at my arrows. 02:04.490 --> 02:08.840 I at least try and show what I'm thinking with arrows even if I'm tois. 02:09.230 --> 02:13.170 If you can start to follow the analysis more and more, that's going to be really helpful. 02:13.790 --> 02:21.140 There are also even, you know, chess podcasts to listen to, which you get insight from perpetual 02:21.140 --> 02:22.040 chess podcasts. 02:22.360 --> 02:23.330 That's an interesting one. 02:23.720 --> 02:25.940 Sometimes that's helpful hints and tips there. 02:27.860 --> 02:38.660 And there's YouTube channels, old stick mainly with where, you know, it's a strong player, especially, 02:38.960 --> 02:42.470 you know, the Kings Cross, the channel, of course. 02:42.830 --> 02:51.050 But there are channels like by AMS so and stuff which should probably prioritize. 02:52.250 --> 02:58.220 So balafon you jump off on me is a very good I am to 03:02.480 --> 03:05.450 and others, you know, especially by IM's onwards. 03:06.830 --> 03:13.550 So five minute chess online could be enjoyable and great fun. 03:14.330 --> 03:20.530 So you can sometimes play the fourth time patrol one of the beauties of that. 03:21.380 --> 03:22.910 So this is a little confession. 03:24.800 --> 03:29.180 Sometimes you do like to win on time, even in lost positions. 03:30.110 --> 03:34.910 Sometimes you need some self encouragement in life generally that you do need a bit of the external, 03:35.270 --> 03:37.120 you know, qualities, the extrinsic. 03:37.250 --> 03:40.100 You don't need to feel like you can win occasionally. 03:40.520 --> 03:43.010 So sometimes, even if it's on the clock, it's still a win. 03:43.010 --> 03:49.250 And that's motivating to so at least give you more experience of chess you don't like. 03:49.250 --> 03:51.350 Think I can't win a single game. 03:51.710 --> 03:57.680 Okay, sometimes go to the controls and see if you can actually 04:00.260 --> 04:03.950 use extrinsic methods, even if a win probability. 04:05.240 --> 04:06.980 That is an experience in itself. 04:07.670 --> 04:14.480 I know the emphasis is on the purity, the learning about the game, but also if you can experience 04:14.480 --> 04:20.960 winning occasionally and if you have to lower the time to do that, then that's not entirely terrible 04:20.960 --> 04:26.330 because I myself really enjoyed five minute chess and the thrill of it against the clock. 04:28.010 --> 04:31.510 But ideally, in an ideal world, you should be more perfectionist. 04:31.640 --> 04:34.580 It's all about winning on position, independent of clock. 04:35.000 --> 04:36.770 But I've, you know, five minutes. 04:37.130 --> 04:42.140 The Blitz Time controls online are the most popular and maybe you don't want to become a grandmaster 04:42.140 --> 04:42.550 in the future. 04:42.560 --> 04:44.600 You just want to enjoy your little chess. 04:45.200 --> 04:49.910 So maybe it's a kind of balanced diet perspective. 04:49.910 --> 04:54.520 You can throw it in the mix some some three minutes or five minutes even. 04:54.710 --> 04:57.440 I'll try and stay away from bullet chess. 04:58.010 --> 05:02.750 That really is just pointless, mindless generally, unless you're really, really strong later. 05:03.020 --> 05:04.040 Most of it's pointless. 05:04.550 --> 05:06.110 Why kill random moves? 05:08.510 --> 05:10.580 It's like you become a random move generator. 05:11.150 --> 05:18.710 So anyway, you want ideally games where you aren't reflective and thoughtful and it's worth learning 05:18.710 --> 05:19.940 some lessons after. 05:20.810 --> 05:25.370 So the longer time limits especially, it's worth checking over. 05:25.880 --> 05:32.300 If you're playing like super fast time, then a lot of the mistakes will be because you've just become 05:32.300 --> 05:34.790 a random generator, essentially. 05:34.970 --> 05:36.260 So you want to be wary of that. 05:36.710 --> 05:43.670 But sometimes, you know, as I say in your initial steps, you might want the failure of winning sometimes 05:43.670 --> 05:48.110 occasionally, or just relaxing when you don't even need to. 05:49.110 --> 05:54.330 Calculates how many variations, it's more about your intuition, intuition, and maybe from the scores, 05:54.330 --> 05:57.450 you get a little bit of intuition about chess, which you can test. 06:00.210 --> 06:07.740 So intuition is like you can play moves on fill, but it only comes with experience, really you really 06:07.740 --> 06:13.380 need to go to town on this cause to get a level of intuition where basically you're going to need to 06:13.380 --> 06:22.410 calculate and work hard at the boards and your initial weeks, months and years of chess off. 06:22.590 --> 06:27.810 When he started, he was using basically all of his available clock time. 06:27.810 --> 06:29.830 Only later he was becoming quicker. 06:30.660 --> 06:32.640 Intuition is something you develop later. 06:32.640 --> 06:34.380 But and eventually. 06:34.390 --> 06:37.800 Yeah, I mean, it's it's a lot of fun to be had on the fast time controls. 06:38.340 --> 06:44.310 But as you can, especially in the over the board world, play things like rapid chess. 06:44.310 --> 06:49.170 That could be fun as well, as well as the normal club time controls, which are usually more than an 06:49.170 --> 06:51.090 hour and a quarter of your moves. 06:51.090 --> 06:53.000 And then at time on the end. 06:53.280 --> 06:57.810 So if you ever join a chess club, it's it's a more serious time control. 06:58.140 --> 07:04.380 You're spending basically a certain evening playing one game and it's that one game you definitely want 07:04.380 --> 07:06.540 to take home and draw the lessons. 07:06.540 --> 07:13.050 Conclusions from it was a meaningful game where you had ample time, opportunity to put the work in 07:13.050 --> 07:13.770 at the board. 07:15.080 --> 07:17.040 And you might think, hold on to this question. 07:18.450 --> 07:24.240 What moments be thinking about in the course of an hour or whatever? 07:25.140 --> 07:28.800 I'll tell you now, I think I have a season recently. 07:28.800 --> 07:34.110 I want to be super nerdy about the opponents downsides of the position. 07:34.110 --> 07:37.350 When you see a strong move, look for an even strong one, be the super nerd. 07:37.710 --> 07:41.010 So, OK, I can win that -- and you spend more time. 07:41.250 --> 07:41.820 Hang on. 07:41.820 --> 07:44.640 I can actually get a winning attack instead. 07:45.330 --> 07:52.140 So the time gives you an opportunity to find almost as though you're finding a stronger and stronger 07:52.140 --> 07:56.400 move goal, being super nerdy about the downsides of the pants position. 07:56.670 --> 07:59.670 You're not being content with one particular downside. 07:59.670 --> 08:01.230 You're looking at finding others. 08:01.950 --> 08:07.420 So yeah, the more nerdy you are, the more time you can spend, the more meaningful it will be to analyze 08:07.420 --> 08:08.160 the game after. 08:08.250 --> 08:12.810 If you go to a club match, which is supposed to be for the entire evening and you're only spending 08:12.810 --> 08:18.580 like less than a minute on each move and your game is over in fifteen minutes, then it's not great 08:18.580 --> 08:24.000 for taking that game home and drawing conclusions from you really want to give it your best shot, like 08:24.000 --> 08:30.780 on every single move generally when you first start, but try and not lose on time and balance, trade 08:30.780 --> 08:33.600 offs and everything you want to like try and play quality moves. 08:33.990 --> 08:40.950 But when I did at the time or so, and it's not like an equal amount of time for each one, if you want 08:40.950 --> 08:46.230 to especially kind of attack the more important positions, the turning points, which could really 08:46.230 --> 08:51.060 decide the game, you know, when you're about to win material, whatever, they could really decide 08:51.060 --> 08:53.130 the game and make it much easier after that point. 08:53.460 --> 08:58.770 So those critical junction points where you have a big influence on the game outcome, you might want 08:58.770 --> 09:00.060 to spend more time there. 09:00.510 --> 09:07.560 And that's a skill in itself, of course, to identify the more critical positions which could have 09:07.750 --> 09:10.710 a game result influencing outcomes. 09:11.430 --> 09:12.090 So anyway. 09:13.910 --> 09:22.940 Yeah, so you can have Internet chats, especially nowadays, it's the main thing in current circumstances, 09:23.240 --> 09:26.850 and so that is one of the main experience playgrounds. 09:28.880 --> 09:30.290 But try and get along. 09:30.290 --> 09:32.570 The time patrols went over, the board opens up. 09:32.570 --> 09:36.800 There's even things called Thomas these weekend Tilghman's or almost Holman's. 09:37.910 --> 09:39.860 So that's more organized chess. 09:40.580 --> 09:41.990 Be careful about the rules. 09:42.590 --> 09:47.090 Check out the rules section, maybe revise those rules before you go. 09:47.090 --> 09:56.570 And generally don't take your mobile phone to venues if you do platforms and eventually you might. 09:58.820 --> 10:05.600 Even playing the higher section in your writing, like Baphomet in Queens, I'm in that place, so essentially 10:05.960 --> 10:16.430 the point of this lecture is there are a variety of ways of gaining experience that involve multimedia, 10:16.580 --> 10:26.210 online over the board, different time controls, podcasts, videos, books, you name it coaches can 10:26.210 --> 10:26.510 give. 10:28.400 --> 10:30.830 Solving tactical puzzles is another way. 10:31.550 --> 10:34.010 So there's a whole diverse way. 10:35.590 --> 10:43.930 Hold them a set of chess activities which might actually influence and improve your understanding and 10:43.930 --> 10:45.670 awareness of chess generally. 10:47.490 --> 10:58.380 And that's your golden goose laying golden eggs, the golden goose is your internal understanding, 10:58.380 --> 11:06.630 quality, internal quality, understanding of chess and the golden eggs is like your rating, etc., 11:07.020 --> 11:08.100 which are extrinsic. 11:08.520 --> 11:12.510 You know, you don't want to worry too much about the writing. 11:13.020 --> 11:15.480 You want to think about the golden goose. 11:15.480 --> 11:16.260 This is balance. 11:16.260 --> 11:17.670 You do want some eggs later. 11:17.910 --> 11:18.940 Golden eggs later. 11:19.680 --> 11:24.920 So there's a classic book which talks about this at length, this balance between the internal and external, 11:24.940 --> 11:30.720 the seven habits, you know, of, you know, highly successful people. 11:30.720 --> 11:35.670 The Seven Habits book talks about, you know, you've got to look after the golden goose to lay the 11:35.670 --> 11:36.270 golden eggs. 11:36.540 --> 11:41.430 So same in chess, but how do you look after the goose? 11:41.470 --> 11:44.160 Yeah, variety. 11:44.160 --> 11:52.260 Because actually you might actually prefer certain ways of gaining experience than others. 11:52.530 --> 11:53.370 There might be. 11:54.370 --> 12:02.350 A certain speed and magnetism you have to certain methods for me, you know, Chernov books gave you 12:02.350 --> 12:08.770 a massive acceleration of great stuff, passion, all notebooks of passion myself. 12:11.470 --> 12:19.150 And these are the methods, you know, finding the right medium for you personally, tailored to you 12:19.150 --> 12:25.690 personally, essentially, if you don't do the experimentation of different methods that you might not 12:25.690 --> 12:31.330 tune into what really can maximize your learning in the initial stages. 12:31.810 --> 12:35.940 But you try and learn about chess and not just go for the results. 12:36.670 --> 12:37.720 It's this balance. 12:38.260 --> 12:42.150 Look after the goose and then you'll get the golden eggs of the basically. 12:42.820 --> 12:44.440 But how would you look after the ghost? 12:44.470 --> 12:46.240 Find the what? 12:46.240 --> 12:49.060 The right ways of learning which are right for you. 12:50.300 --> 12:56.840 And hopefully, if you're like me, you might enjoy Chernof in particular and might get quite a few 12:56.840 --> 13:03.140 of his books as well to extend whatever you learn in this course. 13:04.010 --> 13:07.730 OK, so I have that points clear match. 13:07.730 --> 13:15.320 You're kind of learning interests and your preferred major etc to the variety of methods that do exist 13:15.830 --> 13:16.490 in chess. 13:16.490 --> 13:22.600 And chess is such a popular game now that there are lots of different avenues to gain insights about 13:22.620 --> 13:22.970 the game. 13:24.490 --> 13:25.030 OK. 13:26.030 --> 13:26.600 And so much.