WEBVTT 00:00.780 --> 00:01.450 Hi there. 00:01.800 --> 00:07.860 And this lecture, I want to give you a winning tips, disclaimer or slight warning label, if you're 00:07.860 --> 00:12.810 too focused on winning, it's like you want those golden eggs and sometimes you might not even care 00:12.810 --> 00:16.830 about the golden goose, which is you your improvements, your understanding of the game. 00:18.030 --> 00:23.610 If you want to win, you can pick just super weak opponents all the time, much weaker than yourself. 00:24.060 --> 00:30.150 Opponents have just started playing chess, you know very well at the lowest possible ratings you can 00:30.150 --> 00:30.630 win. 00:31.610 --> 00:33.830 If you really want the taste of winning, that might be important. 00:33.860 --> 00:39.830 Start off with but later, you know, you should be always trying to strive for players slightly stronger 00:39.830 --> 00:45.400 than you if you want a growth and learning perspective on the game to actually improve. 00:45.890 --> 00:52.040 So winning can be achieved by finding terrible opponents and actually by also playing in terrible ways 00:52.040 --> 00:52.570 against them. 00:52.580 --> 00:57.380 You know, just just playing, for example, to win on time only and forget about the position. 00:57.920 --> 00:59.780 So they could actually be winning on the ball. 00:59.800 --> 01:06.200 But you just win on time so you can actually find terrible opponents on the fastest time trails and 01:06.200 --> 01:11.420 just get your token wins on time, but you're not really improving your chance. 01:11.420 --> 01:15.240 And really, chess is a journey of improvement. 01:15.710 --> 01:20.090 And you not only find about find out about chess, you find out about yourself as well as your own strengths 01:20.090 --> 01:20.760 and weaknesses. 01:21.770 --> 01:26.090 There's a balance between the golden goose, which is you and your understanding of the game and the 01:26.090 --> 01:26.840 golden eggs. 01:27.080 --> 01:31.880 If you just want to win for wins sake, then, yeah, just just win games on time. 01:31.880 --> 01:33.260 Just find terrible opponents. 01:33.680 --> 01:34.400 But you know what? 01:34.850 --> 01:37.070 That's not what Magnus Carlson did. 01:37.190 --> 01:43.010 Or rather grandmasters Magnus Carlsen as soon as he could, he stayed away from gentlewoman's which 01:43.010 --> 01:44.330 he knew he could win. 01:44.580 --> 01:48.860 He went into the more like strong senior tournaments as soon as possible. 01:49.340 --> 01:59.660 His emphasis was actually on finding the strongest possible opponents and his game emphasis was on playing 01:59.660 --> 02:04.630 the best possible, you know, games on the most serious tournaments in the over the board world. 02:05.180 --> 02:10.820 It wasn't about winning a ton of game, meaningless games, you know, relatively meaningless games 02:11.180 --> 02:12.800 online or online. 02:12.800 --> 02:15.380 Chess is fun and entertainment, I have to say. 02:16.130 --> 02:16.670 But yeah. 02:16.670 --> 02:21.860 So if you want winning tips, there's this disclaimer that's a win. 02:21.860 --> 02:30.680 Sometimes the act of winning just to put something on a piece of paper is something, you know, actually 02:30.680 --> 02:33.140 in other aspects of life, people get these degrees. 02:33.140 --> 02:38.270 And all I've actually done sometimes is look up the past papers of the year before and even before that. 02:38.270 --> 02:41.300 They haven't actually gone through all the books on the syllabus. 02:41.300 --> 02:42.980 They've just got enough to pass the exams. 02:42.980 --> 02:44.110 And that works for a lot of people. 02:44.140 --> 02:45.500 That's what a lot of people need. 02:46.160 --> 02:51.430 But when it comes to a real job, you know, are they actually as good as as the claims made? 02:51.860 --> 02:57.680 You know, sometimes you do actually have to have an intrinsic and passionate understanding of a subject. 02:57.680 --> 03:05.330 It's not all about putting ink on a paper to show or claim that you're great, that you want X number 03:05.330 --> 03:05.990 of games. 03:06.470 --> 03:10.940 And even if people say, oh, you lost so many games, oh, you're you're rubbish. 03:11.810 --> 03:14.030 You're crap from the French. 03:16.030 --> 03:22.540 You know what, maybe you lost those games because you're experimenting with different openings, maybe 03:22.540 --> 03:26.470 you wanted to play wild gambits to improve your tactical ability. 03:27.010 --> 03:34.600 So you might often want to sacrifice those external results which serve either to impress others or 03:34.600 --> 03:36.960 cause you maybe to be criticized. 03:37.270 --> 03:41.920 That's fine, but take control of it, take control of your results. 03:41.930 --> 03:46.210 If you want to win strings of games, play the weakest possible opponents. 03:46.630 --> 03:50.530 If you don't want to risk losing, then don't play in the extreme. 03:50.530 --> 03:54.400 As Anatoly Karpov said, you know, don't play if you don't want to risk losing. 03:54.640 --> 04:00.190 If you don't want to risk not losing when you do play, then yeah, find the weakest possible opponents. 04:00.490 --> 04:06.250 But that is not going to be good for your golden goose if you really want to be a great player and really 04:06.250 --> 04:07.030 enjoy the game. 04:07.030 --> 04:12.520 In fact, which for me is a great priority to really enjoy any most games understand what's going on 04:12.850 --> 04:19.810 in the world of chess, then seeking out slightly stronger opposition, you see. 04:19.860 --> 04:24.790 Got that balance between you're getting some results, but you're getting good challenges, long way. 04:25.100 --> 04:26.770 That's the general recommendation. 04:27.910 --> 04:30.640 If you're more ambitious, you might want to, you know. 04:32.090 --> 04:40.070 All the time plays significantly, you know, the strongest possible opposition possible, so the winning 04:40.070 --> 04:45.590 emphasis in a way, is a little bit of an unhealthy emphasis for your learning perspective, does that 04:45.590 --> 04:48.190 trade off between the golden goose and the laying of eggs? 04:48.200 --> 04:49.510 You've got to look after the goose. 04:49.520 --> 04:52.280 You can't just go after the eggs at the expense of the goose. 04:55.040 --> 04:57.170 So, yeah, think about the only Magnus Carlsen. 04:57.170 --> 04:59.060 He sought out the strongest possible opponents. 04:59.660 --> 05:07.040 He sacrificed his potential for winning strings of junior twins, et cetera, to play the strongest 05:07.040 --> 05:07.700 possible opponents. 05:07.700 --> 05:12.440 And later, you know, he soon became world chess champion, a pretty young age. 05:13.550 --> 05:15.440 And you know, the same with Bobby Fischer. 05:15.710 --> 05:22.280 You know, Bobby Fischer, you know, maybe played in one or two genius homes, but then played in the 05:22.280 --> 05:24.560 adult senior US championships. 05:24.980 --> 05:28.520 And on every occasion they actually won those US championships. 05:30.020 --> 05:35.060 So, you know, and he's sought to play internationally in international performance. 05:35.210 --> 05:39.230 And he was an early candidate for the world title, you know, Candlelights series. 05:41.090 --> 05:48.440 So, yeah, sometimes you just want to actually just improve your game and not be concerned about those 05:48.440 --> 05:52.070 results and what they look like to other people. 05:52.070 --> 05:56.120 It's about you and what you're learning and your learning plan. 05:56.270 --> 05:57.380 Take control of it. 05:58.010 --> 06:03.120 You might want to play those systems and people might mock you. 06:03.400 --> 06:05.210 Why aren't you playing with trendy stuff? 06:05.420 --> 06:09.590 Well, maybe you want to spend your time training yourself tactically to be a tactical monster, as 06:09.590 --> 06:15.350 you've been doing like maybe a few puzzles each day and trying to 100 percent accuracy. 06:15.560 --> 06:18.680 And you don't want to bring reams of trendy in theory. 06:18.980 --> 06:24.350 You just you've just got your systems or you play your gambits and you don't mind actually losing as 06:24.350 --> 06:26.570 long as you're learning as much as possible from each game. 06:26.870 --> 06:29.150 So the winning emphasis and the winning tips. 06:31.170 --> 06:38.130 A strong disclaimer, do you want to progress as a great chess player or not, or do you just want to 06:38.130 --> 06:39.150 win for wins sake? 06:39.720 --> 06:42.570 Just think about that's something to think about. 06:43.200 --> 06:44.680 Winning on paper sounds really good. 06:44.700 --> 06:46.230 It's really great to impress other people. 06:46.230 --> 06:53.850 Are you out to impress other people with things on bits of paper or do you actually want a genuine understanding? 06:54.180 --> 06:55.290 I'll give you an example. 06:55.290 --> 06:56.660 A personal example. 06:57.120 --> 07:05.700 So, you know, Microsoft had this certification program once and actually, you know, the more multiple 07:05.700 --> 07:10.400 choice tests you could actually prepare using certain companies like her. 07:11.160 --> 07:13.170 And it was easier to do multiple choice. 07:13.180 --> 07:16.410 And there's one exam to complete my jigsaw. 07:16.890 --> 07:20.100 And I felt it like free time. 07:20.110 --> 07:20.850 But you know what? 07:21.450 --> 07:27.210 It gave me the most benefit for creating, you know, chess school knowledge. 07:27.300 --> 07:29.290 And it gave me the most benefit. 07:30.930 --> 07:36.890 So sometimes you actually get the most benefit from where you didn't get a piece of paper. 07:39.210 --> 07:43.690 This external emphasis is like the emphasis on just the golden eggs for gold next week. 07:43.710 --> 07:49.550 Sometimes you really want the golden goose, even if you don't win on that occasion, it's in the future 07:49.560 --> 07:50.910 you're building yourself up. 07:52.730 --> 07:58.440 For a future where you will be winning consistently, but to get there. 08:00.080 --> 08:04.050 Think about that trade off between the goose and the golden eggs, OK? 08:05.070 --> 08:05.660 That's how much.