WEBVTT 00:01.900 --> 00:10.630 Hi there in this slideshow, we're going to look at context and the art of war principles, which can 00:10.630 --> 00:12.070 help you win games. 00:12.790 --> 00:16.780 So the art of war, you might think, well, that doesn't have a relation to chess, does it? 00:17.830 --> 00:18.870 Well, it kind of does. 00:18.880 --> 00:23.740 There's a lot of principles in there which I think directly relates chess, like putting yourself beyond 00:23.740 --> 00:25.240 the feet before going onto the attack. 00:26.650 --> 00:33.310 And that's why the principles in the course of battles about not fearing the result of a thousand battles, 00:33.310 --> 00:39.700 if you know yourself and you know your opponents, but also to know the battleground itself, the nature 00:39.700 --> 00:45.370 of the terrain and also any other factors, you could call them X factors which might be of significance. 00:45.700 --> 00:52.810 If you know all of these in advance, then you can really customize, for example, your choice of opening 00:52.810 --> 00:59.240 against a specific opponent for a specific time control or specific X factors. 00:59.800 --> 01:04.390 So these all factor in to your preparation maybe for a specific opponent. 01:04.870 --> 01:10.510 And if you ever play, you know, one day chess, which is the most serious form of chess, especially 01:10.510 --> 01:14.740 if they want one day chess federation, international, they're shack's. 01:15.700 --> 01:21.250 So you play one day chess, you're kind of preparing for specific opponents and you definitely want 01:21.250 --> 01:27.640 to know their strengths and weaknesses and maybe choosing an opening which would make them uncomfortable 01:27.670 --> 01:30.700 or inconvenient for them to sort of think about. 01:31.630 --> 01:35.260 Maybe it's very, very tactical when there are more positional player, they don't like the chaos. 01:35.470 --> 01:36.700 So you provide chaos. 01:37.540 --> 01:40.630 Maybe if there are more chaotic players, you provide clarity instead. 01:42.130 --> 01:47.260 So if you know yourself and you know your opponent and often you won't know the opponent in advance, 01:48.460 --> 01:51.550 but if you do, then you factor that in. 01:51.550 --> 01:55.660 And if you can know yourself and you're strong and weak points. 01:56.650 --> 02:02.530 And in matters of when a game is important for the performance, the results more than the learning 02:02.530 --> 02:09.940 experience, then you might want to choose your statistically strong openings, for example. 02:10.390 --> 02:16.240 But also if you know your battleground and you know, for example, the features of that battleground. 02:17.990 --> 02:23.210 For example, the clock, the clock is a way of winning games, you can't leave yourself too short of 02:23.210 --> 02:24.890 time to make a lot of moves. 02:24.890 --> 02:27.460 So if you know that that is a feature you factor in. 02:28.850 --> 02:37.790 So we kind of highlight the clock and the kind of rules section, but we don't talk about it as a winning 02:37.790 --> 02:38.240 strategy. 02:38.240 --> 02:44.750 But in many practical games of chance, you will have to play practical moves to play quickly. 02:45.560 --> 02:51.080 Otherwise, if you try and find perfect moves in every possession, your clock situation is going to 02:51.080 --> 02:52.160 be, you know, bad. 02:53.510 --> 02:59.780 But, you know, Kasparov and his allies would actually use most of the time available on his clock 02:59.780 --> 03:04.220 because he's in that kind of learning mode and results, you know, refactor later. 03:05.120 --> 03:11.170 So, in fact, when you have long time trials in your learning mode, which is your first, you know, 03:11.180 --> 03:14.420 weeks, months, try and use the available clock time. 03:16.400 --> 03:21.290 If you're playing Blitz, though, online, you know, that's more for fun and entertainment and the 03:21.290 --> 03:27.470 concept of just winning fun and entertainment and pleasure, which is not bad. 03:27.650 --> 03:34.460 But also you might want to improve fundamentally as a chess player, though, so if you do come along 03:34.460 --> 03:36.160 the time to try and use the clock time. 03:36.740 --> 03:42.050 So, yeah, these winning tips, remember that they can trade off against your future evolution and 03:42.050 --> 03:44.870 your evolutionary speed of development. 03:47.390 --> 03:53.300 But in general, the more information you know about the battles, the you know yourself, you know 03:53.300 --> 03:57.080 your opponent, you know the battlefield, you know, these other factors have relevance. 04:00.470 --> 04:08.630 For example, you might think, oh, there's there's a tea interruption or there's an adjournment and 04:08.630 --> 04:14.690 you factor these in like you don't play risky moves before and you're going to get more time. 04:14.690 --> 04:15.160 Right. 04:15.170 --> 04:20.510 So maybe you reserve your home break, which is commensal reversible, irreversible decision. 04:20.690 --> 04:23.210 And so you get a little bit more time on your clock. 04:23.750 --> 04:28.030 So, you know, these little X factors, especially to do with the clock, are important. 04:28.970 --> 04:38.060 And so knowing the battlegrounds is important, essentially, the battleground is often set in the game 04:38.060 --> 04:39.680 of chess for the pawn structure. 04:39.680 --> 04:45.770 You know, the more open the possession is, the more tactical that battle ground is on chessboards 04:46.100 --> 04:47.870 as opposed to being close them positional. 04:48.620 --> 04:52.190 So you factor all this stuff in this context. 04:54.170 --> 04:57.050 So the clock's a major one, the opponents a major one. 04:57.710 --> 05:04.030 If you find out the Specialisterne Sicilian dragon, you can play all sorts of weird and wonderful anti 05:04.040 --> 05:07.310 caecilians so they never get to play out there. 05:07.520 --> 05:09.170 Memrise Dragon theory. 05:10.310 --> 05:13.400 You can play the C is and you can play the Speth Warragamba. 05:14.630 --> 05:15.370 There's all sorts. 05:15.380 --> 05:18.050 You can play the Grand Prix attack this close to selling. 05:18.440 --> 05:24.290 There's lots of ways of even avoiding going into all their Memrise Fairy because you want to be one 05:24.290 --> 05:29.120 of those players that are well rounded chess player, ideally, and you haven't just been a parrot. 05:31.590 --> 05:38.340 Memorizing tons of opening, very you know, you want to be a well rounded person in general, you know, 05:38.610 --> 05:47.820 so but especially in chess, it's quite often it pays to be a tactical monster first and know some basic 05:47.820 --> 05:53.370 opening principles first and those most basic and guiding principles first before plunging into high 05:53.370 --> 05:55.700 def super technical knowledge. 05:56.670 --> 05:59.310 So just get the fundamentals right first. 05:59.580 --> 06:04.930 And, you know, knowing yourself, if you feel tired, you don't go in for the most demanding variations 06:04.930 --> 06:08.120 to try and play a solid game, which doesn't require too much mental effort. 06:08.130 --> 06:12.660 Maybe one of your pet systems that you play loads of times before it has got too many tactics. 06:13.230 --> 06:17.080 If you're more energetic, you might go for a more tactical game. 06:17.310 --> 06:22.980 So essentially, yes, I mean, it's probably, you know, common sense if you think about it. 06:23.820 --> 06:24.960 But what is common sense? 06:24.960 --> 06:29.040 You know, it's the art of war is as a well celebrated book. 06:29.040 --> 06:30.630 It's used in different domains. 06:30.630 --> 06:35.760 And it's got these principles that essentially says, you know, you don't really need to fear the result. 06:35.760 --> 06:36.750 Thousands of battles. 06:36.750 --> 06:43.050 If you if you know these factors yourself, your strengths, weaknesses, your opponents, their strengths, 06:43.050 --> 06:43.590 weaknesses. 06:44.010 --> 06:47.370 The battleground is like the opening set, the pull structure, the configuration. 06:47.640 --> 06:51.930 The battleground is like the opening set that you have an influence over, especially with playing. 06:51.930 --> 06:55.800 Why you can set the opening tone more and other factors. 06:55.800 --> 07:02.640 You factor this all into the mix and this is going to be your recipe. 07:02.640 --> 07:05.430 Your win probability recipe is all in the mix. 07:05.440 --> 07:11.730 You've taken into consideration of all these factors and then you declare your recipe that you're going 07:11.730 --> 07:12.080 to use. 07:12.090 --> 07:15.990 You follow through with that recipe based on all these factors. 07:19.350 --> 07:24.900 So, you know, for example, Fisher against tackle in a blitz tournament towel was very a very, very 07:24.900 --> 07:28.480 strong tactical player, very, very strong tactical player. 07:29.340 --> 07:34.230 So Fisher knows that and plays a very quiet opening, very solid plays like a pawn triangle and sends 07:34.230 --> 07:38.580 him thinking it is a better place, very, very solid, and gets the queens off early because he knows 07:38.580 --> 07:44.610 that it's of the Queensland is really, really dangerous because the queen in the hands of towers is 07:44.610 --> 07:45.300 very, very dangerous. 07:45.310 --> 07:47.160 So he gets the queen's off early. 07:48.610 --> 07:55.570 And he grinds a win out, so he displays this all the time, knowing himself, knowing the opponent, 07:56.290 --> 08:00.640 knowing the background, especially, you know, being Blitz, he chooses a different opening surprise 08:00.640 --> 08:06.160 that the opponents have to improvise and think only on using up clock time if it's only five minutes 08:06.160 --> 08:06.480 each. 08:07.000 --> 08:12.040 So other factors, rather the clock, but the battleground is set by the opening. 08:12.040 --> 08:18.580 You set the battlegrounds based on you actually set the battleground based on the Sutherlands of yourself, 08:18.580 --> 08:20.890 the opponent and the X factors. 08:21.070 --> 08:23.350 You can have an influence, especially with the Y pieces. 08:26.110 --> 08:29.290 You can have great influence on the nature of the game itself. 08:30.760 --> 08:41.140 So, yes, this context and the art of war principles and the raw summations of some of the key principles, 08:41.140 --> 08:47.920 by the way, of our war for free on YouTube, you don't have to go and read the ancient manuscripts. 08:48.430 --> 08:50.740 They are summarized in plain English, quite a lot of them. 08:50.740 --> 08:53.440 But this is one of the key ones. 08:53.620 --> 08:56.080 This is one of the key areas, rather, that relates to chess. 08:56.080 --> 09:00.040 And the other, I find is the idea of putting yourself beyond the feet before going on the attack is 09:00.040 --> 09:05.290 a very important opening principle, at least that we go and castle before doing active operations in 09:05.290 --> 09:05.710 chess. 09:06.130 --> 09:11.980 We don't want to leave our king in the center too long as big trouble will result in our tactics generally 09:12.220 --> 09:16.130 backfire, as you undoubtedly will find out. 09:16.420 --> 09:22.660 So yeah, there are these principles, these winning principles which translate into win probability 09:22.660 --> 09:24.250 that it's good to know about. 09:24.730 --> 09:26.680 OK, let's watch.