WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:08.490 Hi there in this election, I want to talk about how you prioritize knowledge and understanding of chess 00:08.640 --> 00:09.930 in an effective manner. 00:10.500 --> 00:17.190 There are various models now, my favorite model, and I've had fun along the journey of my chess kind 00:17.190 --> 00:20.910 of all the way, is to be a tactical monster. 00:20.910 --> 00:23.240 And you might think that's interesting. 00:23.240 --> 00:24.000 Interesting question. 00:24.510 --> 00:31.080 What does that actually represent in an abstract form to be a tactical monster? 00:31.830 --> 00:37.140 Well, it has been said by tarnishment that chess is 99 percent tactics. 00:37.800 --> 00:42.270 Tactics actually flow through each stage of the game. 00:43.130 --> 00:50.510 Openings can have transects middle and end game, and I say the stronger you are tactically, the more 00:50.510 --> 00:51.850 you've got an undo button. 00:53.120 --> 00:59.060 I'll call it an undo button model and I do have to check out my complete going to Chastity's. 00:59.870 --> 01:07.970 That will essentially give you a bigger undo button than this course, which is just an introduction. 01:07.970 --> 01:11.210 I do value Tatis. 01:12.170 --> 01:18.940 In the middle game and high value tactics in the game as one of my favorite weapons of choice, but 01:18.950 --> 01:25.820 your understanding of tactics generally pervades and also in games and games can have a richness of 01:25.820 --> 01:26.850 tactics as well. 01:27.290 --> 01:31.040 So tactics pervade all aspects of the game, in fact. 01:32.630 --> 01:39.680 And in terms of an underboss in which we take for granted on computers that one mistake we can undo. 01:39.860 --> 01:40.370 Right. 01:41.780 --> 01:45.040 You might have a bad opening as long as you're not getting checkmate. 01:45.050 --> 01:47.100 It was absolutely brutally bad. 01:48.320 --> 01:50.630 How do you undo the damage? 01:51.350 --> 01:53.570 Well, tactics. 01:54.380 --> 02:02.270 So I would focus if you want to be able to repair damage that you do make any openings. 02:02.720 --> 02:10.250 In fact, you can even just try and place systems to start off with or gambits to actually improve your 02:10.250 --> 02:10.810 tactics. 02:10.820 --> 02:13.100 You can be deliberate about your opening choices. 02:14.180 --> 02:19.370 But if you do play like mainstream openings in particular and you want an undo button for when things 02:19.370 --> 02:25.040 go badly wrong, then the stronger you are tactically, the more you're able to recover. 02:25.440 --> 02:27.640 Even Bobby Fischer, I've been over his games. 02:27.660 --> 02:28.610 There are many games. 02:29.390 --> 02:33.100 He's almost been busted at the opening, almost been busted. 02:34.280 --> 02:42.320 Fisher became a huge tactical monster at a very young age, becoming, you know, U.S. champion, super 02:42.320 --> 02:43.100 young age. 02:44.510 --> 02:48.680 His undo button is essentially he was a tactical monster. 02:49.910 --> 02:52.900 So do check out my complete guy's chess tactics as well. 02:52.910 --> 02:59.650 If you want to progress from this course, the undo button model is something we essentially we like 02:59.660 --> 03:00.680 our undo buttons. 03:00.680 --> 03:01.790 We like to undo stuff. 03:01.790 --> 03:03.050 We're all going to make mistakes. 03:03.800 --> 03:05.780 It's making up for the fact that we're human. 03:06.740 --> 03:09.140 We want to be able to reverse all the decisions. 03:10.660 --> 03:15.760 And that's also, by the way, my wife made the point about the -- structure, S. how -- is a kind 03:15.760 --> 03:20.830 of irreversible decisions compared to the other pieces, we want to be able to reverse our decisions. 03:21.430 --> 03:28.810 And in a game of chess, you could have loads of games where you're worse in an opening or nearly busted. 03:28.840 --> 03:32.940 If you want to undo the damage, become a tactical monster. 03:33.700 --> 03:36.250 So prioritize tactics in the mental game. 03:37.660 --> 03:43.060 In fact, now there's another model called self encouragement. 03:43.060 --> 03:49.000 Along the way, there's a classic film, Chariots of Fire, where this guy is encouraged and he's given 03:49.000 --> 03:53.980 something during the marathon and he's encouraged along the way motivation. 03:54.850 --> 03:56.350 And it's just all in his head. 03:57.160 --> 04:03.070 If you do want self encouragement all the way again, you need a good undo button. 04:03.070 --> 04:04.480 It comes down to tactics. 04:04.870 --> 04:11.920 Tactical mastery is something I'd recommend hugely become a tactical monster. 04:12.250 --> 04:17.610 And you start to see also the beauty and the passion of the game as well, in my view. 04:20.860 --> 04:24.270 So self encouragement could be the old games you do actually win. 04:24.280 --> 04:27.990 I'm not saying for you to be like a monk of the chessboard and not care if you ever win a game. 04:28.210 --> 04:31.480 No, it's nice to be able to win and that's a form of self encouragement. 04:31.900 --> 04:33.120 But there's a trap there. 04:34.000 --> 04:39.520 You're a golden goose laying golden eggs with the golden eggs that you're writing, etc. and your other 04:39.520 --> 04:46.090 achievements, really the priority should be on the balance actually between the goose and the eggs. 04:46.480 --> 04:50.590 But have some self encouragement along the way is an interesting model. 04:51.010 --> 04:57.940 We all need, as we're humans, a level of encouragement, not think something is totally hopeless. 04:58.660 --> 05:03.040 As soon as we think things are, we can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. 05:03.940 --> 05:08.590 We want to be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel to keep the spirits up, to keep the energy 05:08.590 --> 05:09.040 flowing. 05:09.250 --> 05:11.230 Let's keep the motivation out, to put the work in. 05:11.230 --> 05:12.820 We want to see the light at the end of the tunnel. 05:13.240 --> 05:16.900 And there is always upsides and every loss. 05:16.900 --> 05:18.640 There's upsides, they are lessons. 05:18.640 --> 05:20.710 And the sky's Wimbledon. 05:20.710 --> 05:24.880 Tennis basically said, you know, victory and defeat are just imposter's for each other. 05:25.330 --> 05:27.280 There's an upside to the fate. 05:27.280 --> 05:29.230 You learn from it in chess. 05:29.770 --> 05:31.600 You learn along the way. 05:31.810 --> 05:32.980 You might want encouragement. 05:32.980 --> 05:37.240 Along the way, I'd still recommend tactics. 05:37.870 --> 05:43.360 I absolutely have a passion for tactics and creates not just the undo button. 05:43.360 --> 05:49.120 In fact, there's a lot of self encouraging long way in terms of potentially winning games tactically 05:50.650 --> 05:52.330 or even swindling the opponents. 05:52.510 --> 05:53.530 What's called a swindle. 05:53.530 --> 05:57.100 The opponent was was winning and you swim with them tactically. 05:57.130 --> 05:58.900 You do get something hurt a long way. 05:59.170 --> 06:01.750 I guess the cost of that is putting opponents off. 06:02.830 --> 06:04.750 Oh, well, OK. 06:05.200 --> 06:06.880 Concentric circles model. 06:07.330 --> 06:07.870 Yes. 06:08.860 --> 06:15.250 The inner circle, the fundamentals, the principles need to be in place before you go into more detailed, 06:15.520 --> 06:20.950 specific knowledge, especially before you start memorizing technical stuff that's at the extreme end. 06:21.610 --> 06:26.020 That's only after you've covered the fundamentals in the opening, the fundamentals of the game and 06:26.020 --> 06:27.160 fundamentals in the end game. 06:27.400 --> 06:29.380 You need all the fundamentals in place. 06:29.800 --> 06:31.540 Chess is also a big industry. 06:31.660 --> 06:35.440 People will try and sell you all these flashy opening X, Y and Z. 06:35.920 --> 06:37.330 I learn all this stuff. 06:37.330 --> 06:40.330 If you don't have your fundamentals in place, it's pointless. 06:40.630 --> 06:47.230 You need to concentric circles model where the inner circles are your fundamental principles and philosophies. 06:47.230 --> 06:50.140 They need to be in place in all aspects of the game. 06:50.410 --> 06:57.280 They are like weak links in a chain, although you can maximize the undo button, which is your tactics. 06:57.280 --> 07:06.510 Sometimes you have such damage done, say, in the middle game that you can't recover or end games, 07:06.670 --> 07:07.750 you're doing well. 07:07.780 --> 07:14.770 And because you don't have the basic knowledge and games, you blow your advantages, you blow your 07:14.770 --> 07:17.860 advantages that you've accumulated throughout the game. 07:17.860 --> 07:20.260 In the end game, you don't have the fundamentals of the end game. 07:20.680 --> 07:29.050 The concentric circles module is also thinking also as weak links in a chain opening the game end game, 07:30.100 --> 07:33.970 each having their inner circles morvern circles. 07:34.510 --> 07:40.600 But basically you don't want certain aspects of your game being totally weak links in the chain either. 07:41.230 --> 07:47.410 So get the fundamentals of the opening the game and gain concentric circles model, then work outwards 07:47.410 --> 07:54.460 the more glamorous, shiny objects which we're all attracted to, you know, opening X, Y, Z, blah, 07:54.460 --> 07:55.090 blah, blah. 07:56.050 --> 07:59.800 Sicilian dragons fashion got all that can start can, can come later. 08:00.070 --> 08:03.730 You really need the fundamental foundations in place first 08:06.310 --> 08:10.180 statistically likely to happen, you know, if you love. 08:10.780 --> 08:16.510 A deep opening, it might not even turn up on the boards, sometimes early move deviations are going 08:16.510 --> 08:22.200 to help you to guarantee something's actually going to happen, statistically likely to happen. 08:22.210 --> 08:23.520 The same of anger and knowledge. 08:24.040 --> 08:29.570 There are more esoteric and games which, you know, you hardly ever get. 08:30.340 --> 08:33.520 I would rather you in this course focus on end games. 08:33.520 --> 08:37.730 And that's why I put an emphasis on common and games which are more likely to happen. 08:38.140 --> 08:44.310 This is a certain model which I'd like to call statistically likely to happen in probability Rookard 08:44.360 --> 08:51.250 -- endings in particular, for example, concrete example, Rukun -- endings, most end games generally 08:51.820 --> 08:52.960 Aurukun -- endings. 08:52.960 --> 08:54.040 It's good to most of them. 08:54.280 --> 09:00.340 It's good to master the principles of passports, trying to queing passports, trying to use the king 09:00.340 --> 09:02.350 aggressively, trying to use the books aggressively. 09:02.680 --> 09:09.370 Remember Rook's behind passports, either your own pawns or the parents in general, as a rule, Taris 09:09.370 --> 09:10.240 role in general. 09:12.430 --> 09:16.090 So there are these knowledge prioritization models 09:19.630 --> 09:20.930 become attached to monster. 09:20.980 --> 09:26.830 Then you'll have the undo button and you have this two of these automatically taked follow knowledge 09:26.830 --> 09:28.540 systematically for the fundamentals. 09:28.540 --> 09:30.790 First, the more detailed, shiny stuff later. 09:31.090 --> 09:36.880 That's concentric circles model, the most common endgames, the most common middle names, the most 09:36.880 --> 09:40.050 common opening's statistically likely to happen. 09:40.270 --> 09:45.460 Your preparation is not entirely wasted then, because it actually does happen for your current level 09:45.460 --> 09:46.600 at that point in time. 09:47.260 --> 09:55.000 As later you get stronger opponents, maybe you prepare a more detailed, more depth, more specifically 09:55.000 --> 09:56.110 that comes later. 09:56.650 --> 10:00.130 Statistically likely to happen model is an important model. 10:00.520 --> 10:09.790 So these are knowledge prioritization models to think about in a nutshell, to cover two of them immediately. 10:10.060 --> 10:12.310 Tactical monster, become a tactical monster. 10:13.090 --> 10:15.940 Pay attention especially to the tactics sections. 10:17.140 --> 10:19.870 And my tactics course is a muskat. 10:20.290 --> 10:26.380 Basically concentric circles model is like first things first fundamentals first details later. 10:29.050 --> 10:32.020 Commonality statistically likely to happen. 10:32.830 --> 10:39.730 Don't waste your time learning completely, you know, where the wonderful stuff which is only going 10:39.730 --> 10:44.650 to happen like once every like 1000 games, whatever. 10:45.160 --> 10:52.870 So look at what statistically is happening to you in your games and maybe tailor your knowledge, prioritization 10:52.870 --> 10:53.980 and understanding. 10:54.340 --> 10:57.900 Knowledge leads ideally to understanding. 10:58.780 --> 11:01.420 We want to understand what we're learning. 11:01.420 --> 11:02.680 Understanding is key. 11:02.830 --> 11:10.270 In fact, you know, the was the data, you know, data gives you knowledge about knowledge, gives 11:10.270 --> 11:11.140 you understanding. 11:13.220 --> 11:17.960 And that's really going to win you games is the understanding of chess, which is going to drive eventually 11:18.170 --> 11:19.790 your external results forward. 11:20.480 --> 11:25.850 OK, so basically these different models start to think about. 11:27.770 --> 11:28.400 Thanks so much.