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In Episode four, we are shown this position, which is actually from a real game, Vishy Anan's against

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Garry Kasparov.

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So Kasparov was playing black in this position.

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We see we're looking for from Barfs Opponent's playing the role of essentially visually.

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Armand's and Kasparov actually didn't want to exchange pawns here by simply taking here, even though

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is the exchange up, this is better for black, but there's a principle here involved that when you're

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winning, you don't actually want to exchange pawns, you want to exchange pieces.

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And Baff plays Kasparov smooth rook be eight, which holds on to this pawn, making it much easier to

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convert this to a win.

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This is actually one of the absolute strongest moves.

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If you check this with modern, you know, chess engines, it's actually really, really strong.

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If H5 we can play Rook B6 to actually get Black's pawn.

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So for example here and just safely take this pawn without basically exchanging any pawns, just take

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the pawn without giving up.

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Your own pawn is even better than exchanging pawns just when the opponent's pawns and leave your pawns

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intact.

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You can imagine if this poem is taken off the boards, then that gives Wyatt an outside passport and

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the bishop also conveniently is on that diagonal.

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So Kasparov, with his clever little move, Rook B.A. is expressing certain ideas in chess about minimizing

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the hassle, making the win as easy as possible, not exchanging pawns when winning, and ideally just

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winning the opponents pawns, but even exchanging bonds, just winning the vulnerable desex pawn, which

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is a pawn which has to be supported by pieces.

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It's a very weak pawn here.

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And so when you have a weak pawn, also leisure, sometimes you can go around and win it.

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It's not actually going anywhere.

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And this pawn, being on a dance away from the bishop also means the bishop of Rome can't really get

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anything in Black's position.

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So this move is really quite nifty.

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Just to come and hit this pawn with the right rook maintaining the defense on A7, Kasparov must have

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been a bit proud of this.

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And maybe they check out of computers and put it into the series.

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It's an instructive game position.

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OK, that's much.