WEBVTT 00:01.330 --> 00:09.280 Hi there in Atlanta, I'd like to go over some key points relating to winning tips that still respects 00:09.820 --> 00:13.060 you as the long term chess player that you want to develop and evolve. 00:13.060 --> 00:18.850 You want to respect the golden goose that's you, not just the eggs they lay, metaphorically speaking, 00:19.480 --> 00:19.900 at least. 00:19.900 --> 00:22.010 I hope you don't lay any golden eggs yet. 00:22.150 --> 00:24.580 You know, you might want to see someone about that if that happens. 00:25.150 --> 00:31.510 But OK, so the style of play, let's take the likes of fish in the spotlight. 00:31.510 --> 00:35.400 What was it about their style of play which gave them phenomenal results? 00:36.850 --> 00:40.270 Well, I have studied Fisher in depth. 00:40.270 --> 00:41.950 I mean, check out my favorite courses. 00:42.250 --> 00:47.500 I've looked in particular is key, important wins and some key observations. 00:48.520 --> 00:56.470 He tries to always have good piece activity generally and counterplay if you don't have good piece activity. 00:56.470 --> 01:02.200 So you have a bad behavior or pieces outside the game or not developed, they are unlikely to be able 01:02.200 --> 01:06.640 to generate any tactics that are meaningful that could cause the opponent any problems. 01:07.030 --> 01:12.460 You are unlikely to be able to take advantage of any downsides of the opponent's position because your 01:12.460 --> 01:14.230 pieces are just not active enough. 01:15.010 --> 01:19.690 Quite often Bobby Fischer would seek help on structures which are more dynamic. 01:20.380 --> 01:28.390 And when I say dynamic fishing spot for very dynamic players, they often valued tactics and combinations 01:28.390 --> 01:33.820 and piece play rather than pawn structure, the more static world champions. 01:34.060 --> 01:36.310 And you need to find out what side of the fence you are. 01:36.310 --> 01:39.040 And there's nothing wrong with either side of the fence. 01:39.040 --> 01:44.980 By the way, you can either choose to be more like Capablanca simplicity and elegance or you can be 01:44.980 --> 01:45.730 like Arlequin. 01:45.970 --> 01:49.960 You can either choose to be like Petrosian risk averse or Boris Spassky. 01:50.380 --> 01:54.280 You can either choose to be Anatoly Karpov or Kasparov. 01:54.280 --> 01:57.940 These contrasts in playing style evidence at the highest levels. 01:58.510 --> 02:01.480 But make no mistake, they are well rounded chess players. 02:01.480 --> 02:02.800 They know all the fundamentals. 02:02.920 --> 02:04.930 They just have a stylistic tendency. 02:07.270 --> 02:09.910 So that's why they tend to think it's good for you to be aware. 02:10.420 --> 02:16.900 And if you do want to be a dynamic, aggressive player, then generally you'd value good piece activity 02:16.900 --> 02:17.620 and can't play. 02:18.640 --> 02:23.980 If you want to be a player that minimizes losses and wants to just control possessions, then you want 02:23.980 --> 02:29.770 to look at reducing your opponent's counterplay, generally making sure they don't have any possibilities 02:29.770 --> 02:31.300 or good piece activity. 02:31.990 --> 02:35.140 You play in it more long for Fluxus style. 02:36.190 --> 02:40.510 If you do want to be aggressive, then you play for like King attacks. 02:40.510 --> 02:44.920 Generally, if you want to be more positional about Paul strikes, you play for damaging the opponents, 02:44.920 --> 02:51.400 Paul's structure and accumulating small advantages systematically, more based on Paul's structure than 02:51.400 --> 02:54.820 King attacks for Fischer and Kasparov. 02:54.820 --> 02:59.950 Quite often they would play very, very aggressively to attack their opponents. 02:59.950 --> 03:05.800 King But make no mistake, even if you look at the more positional players that say where I'm chosen, 03:06.760 --> 03:11.060 you know, as soon as he's accumulated significant position advantage, he would go in for, you know, 03:11.110 --> 03:17.230 the king attack to finish the opponents off because the king let's think about the king, the opponents 03:17.230 --> 03:18.190 king, the object. 03:18.190 --> 03:19.150 The game is checkmate. 03:19.150 --> 03:20.980 And that's one of the key ways of winning. 03:21.670 --> 03:26.260 Assuming you don't want to win on time, generally, you're going to win by checkmate or the opponent 03:26.260 --> 03:29.560 resigning because they feel they're in a totally lost position. 03:30.070 --> 03:34.030 But generally so the opponents king is the most vulnerable piece to attack. 03:36.070 --> 03:37.870 And you could be down on material. 03:38.140 --> 03:45.580 This is the undo button metaphore that sometimes even when you're lost, you can carry out Swindells 03:45.580 --> 03:47.470 based on the opponents king. 03:48.700 --> 03:51.040 If you make the opponents king, you've won the game. 03:51.040 --> 03:54.100 Still, you could have been a queen, a bishop, a rook down. 03:54.820 --> 03:56.740 You could have been totally lost throughout the entire game. 03:56.740 --> 03:59.590 But if you checkmate the opponents king, then you've actually won. 04:00.220 --> 04:02.560 And this is actually a healthy interest to have. 04:02.560 --> 04:09.610 Even if you do want to become a world champion like Fischer and Kasparov, they did prioritize going 04:09.610 --> 04:12.820 for the king, the likes of fishing spot Kasparov. 04:13.210 --> 04:16.720 That was a great priority for them. 04:16.720 --> 04:20.230 So the Kings, the most sensitive piece, don't underestimate King. 04:20.230 --> 04:24.070 Same thing when you look at chess positions in terms of how you evaluate them. 04:24.610 --> 04:27.730 So it's not just about who's material up, who's got the best. 04:27.730 --> 04:28.570 Putin's Russia. 04:29.890 --> 04:35.140 It's all of you know, also about, you know, king safety piece activity as well. 04:35.140 --> 04:37.420 King safety piece activity. 04:37.420 --> 04:42.610 And, you know, the pool structure is is very important for structural weaknesses. 04:42.880 --> 04:50.470 Outpost's can help you leverage any plans whatsoever, whether that be a king attack or positional plans 04:51.280 --> 04:55.930 based on winning more material or increasing positional advantages further. 04:57.460 --> 04:59.450 But generally, if you're a dynamic. 04:59.600 --> 05:06.950 Aggressive player, and you want the role models of fashion as an example, then you would go for dynamic 05:06.950 --> 05:11.690 pawn structures which don't sometimes look that great but offer you good peace activity in counterplay. 05:12.020 --> 05:15.880 You would play fighting opening's even the black pieces like this to sitting in the fence. 05:16.160 --> 05:21.200 They both gravitated on the same night or for example, against 194 Sicilian. 05:21.200 --> 05:25.060 Neudorf became a major weapon of choice because my life was influenced by Fashir. 05:25.070 --> 05:29.600 He also wanted to win with the black pieces to win every game as much as possible. 05:30.200 --> 05:37.070 And they both were very, very aggressive to do with opponents kings, and they were both relentless 05:37.070 --> 05:39.500 in putting the opponents under extreme pressure. 05:42.650 --> 05:49.520 Sometimes in chess, there's a choice of simplifying the game and not keeping as much tension going. 05:50.000 --> 05:56.930 You got to be wary sometimes that a lot of that a lot of those games where you simplify could end up 05:56.930 --> 05:57.470 as a draw. 05:57.470 --> 06:04.310 So sometimes keeping it in a complex mental game rather than transitioning to an end game, they might 06:04.310 --> 06:09.670 be making huge mistakes, especially with King safety, which could be far more fatal than, say, you 06:09.680 --> 06:13.070 are pulling up in some endgame, which they might somehow get away with a draw. 06:13.650 --> 06:18.710 So when you knock them out in the middle game with King attacks, you are sometimes maximizing your 06:18.710 --> 06:23.060 probability of winning now. 06:25.110 --> 06:27.380 We go into another section here. 06:28.840 --> 06:31.310 I have a strong link between the opening and the middle game. 06:34.480 --> 06:39.880 If you add the extreme like Memrise, only a few moves of the opening, but don't know how that goes 06:39.880 --> 06:41.980 into the mental game, it makes the whole thing less effective. 06:42.080 --> 06:46.990 You're let down by your weakest links if you're let down by your weak links in the chain that you can't 06:46.990 --> 06:51.270 carry on the good mental game in-game, then you're not going to be winning. 06:52.060 --> 06:55.510 You got to avoid these weak links in the chain. 06:55.840 --> 07:01.420 And ideally, anything you do sort of become aware of in the opening, you know how to follow through 07:01.420 --> 07:04.000 to the mental game and even a view of in-game structures. 07:05.110 --> 07:12.430 But essentially, though, your openings should be initially connected, at least ideally to middle 07:12.440 --> 07:16.180 game plans, and you can quite often get that linkage. 07:16.180 --> 07:22.390 If you just look at masta games, look at games, especially in your of poor morphing the romantic era 07:22.390 --> 07:29.400 players pull Morphy out of hands and look at their games from and ends. 07:29.620 --> 07:33.640 Try and get that linkage between the opening in the middle game. 07:34.120 --> 07:40.510 If you want to see more modern players, you know, look at Fashir is my recommendation. 07:41.680 --> 07:49.600 Not so much Kasparov because opening very also had a big gravitational pull for computer technology 07:49.600 --> 07:51.700 improving in the Fisher era. 07:51.940 --> 07:56.670 You know, computers weren't so powerful, so the openings are much more complicated later. 07:57.250 --> 08:02.590 So I look at Fashir, which is a blend of basically Paul Morphy and Capablanca, kind of like another 08:02.590 --> 08:02.860 one. 08:03.520 --> 08:12.070 Basically those three players, if you look at end to end their games, Ansen Anderson of a not Alfonsin 08:13.060 --> 08:14.860 of and Paul Morphy. 08:15.580 --> 08:17.160 Capablanca, wrong. 08:17.170 --> 08:17.920 Kind of like a. 08:19.530 --> 08:25.260 Bobby Fischer, those are great places to study because opening ferry in the technicalities hadn't taken 08:25.260 --> 08:29.420 off with the gravity of technology, you know, chess engines becoming more and more powerful. 08:30.120 --> 08:31.140 You want to get that? 08:32.300 --> 08:41.090 View of the link between the opening and resulting medal games and also there are openings and there 08:41.090 --> 08:48.170 are openings, you can choose an opening which suits your particular style temperaments and maybe how 08:48.170 --> 08:49.150 you felt on that day. 08:49.160 --> 08:54.590 If you're feeling tired, you might want to just rely on a standard system that you know well more than 08:54.980 --> 08:55.820 be adventurous. 08:56.270 --> 08:58.540 So you have to know yourself on that particular day. 08:58.550 --> 08:59.900 You know the answer for principle. 09:00.320 --> 09:04.160 If you know yourself and the opponent, you need not fear the result of a thousand. 09:04.160 --> 09:11.070 But also if you know yourself and your opponent, you choose openings which hopefully are not in the 09:11.070 --> 09:14.180 opponents strengths and more than your strengths and how you feel. 09:14.930 --> 09:21.440 And if you have that link between the opening of the mental game because you've looked at games and 09:21.440 --> 09:27.470 trends, see also change of the way he's undertaking games end to end, you know, most instructive 09:27.470 --> 09:29.450 games of chess on the China box generally. 09:30.020 --> 09:32.690 Then you'll get that link is stronger and stronger. 09:33.440 --> 09:37.340 So you don't want these things totally in isolation. 09:37.520 --> 09:42.360 The sort of academic, if they're in isolation, if you just that opening and it's sort of academic, 09:42.380 --> 09:46.940 if you don't really know the mental game, the linkage to the mental game. 09:46.940 --> 09:49.280 So you don't want these things just in their own vacuum. 09:49.280 --> 09:54.560 You want this linkage all the way through and you want to not have weak links in your chain. 09:55.040 --> 10:01.820 And this is a natural way for you to maximize your win probability without sacrificing the golden goose, 10:02.030 --> 10:11.990 laying those wins, those golden eggs, which we call wins in chess, essentially also specifically 10:11.990 --> 10:12.830 in hope things. 10:12.860 --> 10:19.100 There are also techniques for move ordering, which might give you a more comfortable position than 10:19.100 --> 10:19.580 you would. 10:19.580 --> 10:22.310 So think about move ordering as well in the opening. 10:24.500 --> 10:28.880 And generally we're in the spirit here of maximizing win probability. 10:29.360 --> 10:36.050 So any strategies you learn from any course, it's all pretty academic if it's not translated into wins. 10:36.050 --> 10:36.320 Right. 10:36.320 --> 10:39.710 You might think, is there one that this stuff is actually going to help me win? 10:40.280 --> 10:44.300 Well, yeah, on the particular, you know, time control particular opponent, if you take account 10:44.300 --> 10:45.500 of all these details. 10:45.500 --> 10:51.500 So no, the opponent, no yourself and you take account of all those details, then you can actually 10:51.770 --> 10:56.210 use everything you learn from a sort of win probability perspective. 10:57.680 --> 11:04.780 How how does actually this opening lead to a win probability against this particular opponent seeking 11:04.800 --> 11:06.050 try and work these things out? 11:06.350 --> 11:10.340 So there's almost the probability perspective, a win portability perspective. 11:10.610 --> 11:16.580 You've got all your knowledge and it's been put into this, your own probability. 11:18.510 --> 11:25.440 Of outcome that you're thinking, well, against this opponent this time control, I think I have greatest 11:25.440 --> 11:31.890 chance to win with this and this one playing or if I speed up and if I was going to run out of time, 11:32.220 --> 11:32.940 that's brutal. 11:33.210 --> 11:36.750 If you're playing online, then that's different from the fish and the sport. 11:36.750 --> 11:42.470 If they weren't playing online, but online, you know, the clock is also another kind of detail. 11:43.710 --> 11:50.850 But when you look at the in his over the bull blitz tournaments, he also did very his own things considerably, 11:51.240 --> 11:54.730 depending on certain opponents like against McDonald's, how he played much more solid. 11:54.770 --> 11:57.420 I mean, he's never played before in the normal time with trials. 11:57.660 --> 12:03.180 So sometimes, you know, things morph into weird things, which you wouldn't expect even for the likes 12:03.180 --> 12:03.770 of Fisher. 12:04.860 --> 12:12.150 You know, he will adjust according to the details of the situation because he's seeing the win probability 12:12.150 --> 12:15.660 outcomes so that adaptation does exist. 12:16.740 --> 12:21.360 If you look at, you know, Fisher's blitz tournaments, for example, and he might be playing differently 12:21.360 --> 12:24.330 again, in some ways, he might become very aggressive gambits. 12:24.330 --> 12:28.470 Try not people out early, you know, with very aggressive gambit. 12:28.480 --> 12:35.970 So the customization of one's play, depending on the details you take into account, all go into the 12:35.970 --> 12:39.750 mix of maximizing the win probability that you estimate. 12:40.260 --> 12:46.560 But the key ones here in this particular match are good piece activity counterplay. 12:46.560 --> 12:51.030 Make sure you have counterplay value going for King atax. 12:51.030 --> 12:55.440 It's a great way of knocking out the opponent even in the middle game before there's no end game. 12:56.430 --> 13:00.390 Keeping the opponents on the pressure, not accepting a draw too early. 13:00.600 --> 13:02.940 Even if you risk losing, it's a learning experience. 13:05.160 --> 13:10.260 If you treat it as a learning experience, then you know you will learn more about a particular end 13:10.260 --> 13:11.730 game instead of just figuring a draw. 13:12.330 --> 13:18.390 Just just see the resources in the end game, you know, play it through unless it's become so apparent 13:18.390 --> 13:18.990 as a draw. 13:18.990 --> 13:28.130 But these these are general terms for maximizing the win probability without too much compromise, like 13:28.140 --> 13:28.980 playing a good trap. 13:28.980 --> 13:30.570 You don't want to compromise your position. 13:30.990 --> 13:32.910 You know, good traps don't compromise your position. 13:32.910 --> 13:35.880 You certainly might fall into that, but you don't damage your position. 13:36.240 --> 13:41.010 If you want good winning tips, you don't want to compromise your future self, your development as 13:41.010 --> 13:42.900 a great player in the future. 13:43.530 --> 13:46.380 So there are some legitimate ways of doing this. 13:47.410 --> 13:55.570 And if you're more dynamic, aggressive player, then these things are kind of very valuable, OK, 13:55.590 --> 13:56.320 to think about. 13:57.920 --> 13:58.550 That's so much.