WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:01.810 Hi there. 00:02.280 --> 00:08.970 There are some interesting and potentially instructive quotations, and if we look at this course, 00:08.970 --> 00:12.640 we logically divided this course into the opening mental game, an end game. 00:13.200 --> 00:18.210 So let's have a look at opening related quotations first, some of the more famous ones. 00:18.690 --> 00:23.560 Tancer COHA is one of my favorite players for quotations. 00:23.910 --> 00:29.610 He had some very witty, very funny and very insightful quotations. 00:30.000 --> 00:34.200 So he said a game of chess has three phases. 00:34.200 --> 00:40.110 The opening we hope to stand better, the mental game where you think you stand better and the end game 00:40.410 --> 00:41.910 where you know you stand to lose. 00:44.610 --> 00:47.050 So, yeah, he's funny guy. 00:47.610 --> 00:51.740 So he also said as long as the opening is reputed to be weak, it can be played. 00:52.530 --> 00:53.580 I do stick with that. 00:53.720 --> 00:59.340 I try and play off big openings so other people don't study those openings as much, so they have to 00:59.340 --> 00:59.940 improvise. 01:00.300 --> 01:06.030 So there's a grain of truth there that you don't really want a super popular opening, which people 01:06.030 --> 01:12.420 are studying too much, he says, talking about one Afri, the rati opening. 01:14.050 --> 01:18.200 So this was named after Richard Ratti, one of the leading modernists. 01:19.180 --> 01:26.410 You know, he said basically an opening of the past, which became towards 1923, the opening of the 01:26.410 --> 01:26.940 future. 01:27.280 --> 01:32.640 So Reti started to be, you know, some major players with with my feet, including Capablanca. 01:32.650 --> 01:39.160 So it became a very, very interesting modern opening where you don't even commit a pawn in the they'll 01:39.160 --> 01:40.090 have more than this. 01:40.450 --> 01:43.630 They found the useful exceptions to establish theory. 01:43.630 --> 01:48.640 And this is a very, very concrete example straight in the opening, the very first move, not committing 01:48.640 --> 01:49.600 a pawn to the center. 01:50.500 --> 01:54.590 So offbeat, but kind of modern in concept. 01:56.410 --> 01:58.000 So we have another quotation here. 01:58.000 --> 02:03.720 Play the opening like a book, the middle game like a magician and the end game like a machine. 02:04.690 --> 02:07.650 Yeah, that kind of makes sense. 02:07.660 --> 02:14.200 The middle game is is where a lot of the magic in chess is, especially for me, the tactics is like 02:14.200 --> 02:15.070 the magic of chess. 02:15.070 --> 02:16.990 It's like a passion within a passion for me. 02:17.320 --> 02:23.110 Middle game tactics, you know, in games, you know, the computers themselves using, you know, table 02:23.110 --> 02:28.330 base, they even sometimes don't even need to think they have these huge installed table bases, you 02:28.330 --> 02:34.570 know, terabytes of data, and they can actually refer to certain games that just play out, I guess. 02:34.870 --> 02:39.650 Yeah, it's more sort of you need to study your own games. 02:39.650 --> 02:39.920 Yeah. 02:39.940 --> 02:44.680 So it is like more like less creative than the middle game in my view. 02:46.630 --> 02:56.500 And and you know, same with with the opening of the books will help you have openings, but you really 02:56.500 --> 02:58.870 want openings which suit your style of play as well. 02:58.880 --> 03:05.760 So the magic is going to happen the more I think closely align the opening is to what you need and enjoy. 03:06.730 --> 03:07.510 Here's another quote. 03:07.510 --> 03:10.540 After a bad opening, there's hope for the little game. 03:11.020 --> 03:14.530 Yes, after a bad game is hopefully the end game. 03:14.800 --> 03:18.040 But once you're in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived at. 03:18.040 --> 03:23.890 Barmedman said that he was one of the famous U.S. grandmasters, which Bobby Fischer played quite a 03:23.890 --> 03:24.520 few times. 03:25.720 --> 03:30.310 The most important feature of the chess position is the activity of the pieces. 03:30.610 --> 03:34.960 This is the absolutely fundamental in all phases of the game opening mental game and especially in game. 03:35.440 --> 03:40.510 The primary constraints, primary constraints on a piece of activity is the power structure. 03:40.720 --> 03:46.720 So Michael Steen said that in simple chess, which I do recommend you check out, it's also downloadable. 03:46.960 --> 03:47.710 It's pretty cheap. 03:48.190 --> 03:55.030 Michael Feinstein did address quite important fundamentals of pawn structure and. 03:55.570 --> 03:58.660 Yeah, but it's also pieces that can get in the way as well. 03:58.930 --> 04:04.270 When you when you actually calculate variations, make sure you see all those liberacion or effects 04:04.270 --> 04:11.950 the effect clause and use the power structure effectively to create harmony between your pieces of horns 04:12.400 --> 04:18.460 and activity will generate you great opportunities for creating tactics and combinations later. 04:18.460 --> 04:22.720 They are like the constraints fundamentally. 04:23.500 --> 04:29.350 So this is by Stefan Jarda, which openings teach you openings and games teach you chess. 04:29.350 --> 04:35.350 Capablanca also had this view that you learn a great deal from actually in reverse, you know, studying 04:35.350 --> 04:38.230 in games first, then middle game, then opening. 04:39.640 --> 04:41.650 And that was actually a quandary for those course. 04:41.650 --> 04:43.060 Should I actually do it in that order? 04:43.060 --> 04:50.110 But I thought it's actually kind of logical, just straightforward, just opening the whole game in 04:50.110 --> 04:50.530 and game. 04:50.530 --> 05:00.940 As long as it's sectioned in beginner, you know, its introduction sections, beginner and intermediate, 05:00.940 --> 05:07.840 you can get an overall inner circle, the concentric circles model by following the instructions, for 05:07.840 --> 05:08.260 example. 05:08.260 --> 05:10.630 And then you might want to check out the beginner sections. 05:10.870 --> 05:14.530 You can do it in that order so you get a balance in all three. 05:15.190 --> 05:17.650 So that was it's interesting, though. 05:17.650 --> 05:19.360 Yeah, the end games are very, very important. 05:19.360 --> 05:26.710 You can see how pieces combine greatly and get some beautiful secrets of chess from games as well. 05:26.710 --> 05:29.170 It's not just a case of knowing in games. 05:29.170 --> 05:32.950 You actually get a great understanding how the pieces interact as a team. 05:34.300 --> 05:35.160 There's someone you know. 05:35.170 --> 05:40.000 Many chess players were surprised when after the game, Fisher quietly explained, I'd already analyzed 05:40.000 --> 05:40.840 this possibility. 05:40.990 --> 05:47.140 So this is a position which tell me how the great country in the world, Shashemene thought was not 05:47.140 --> 05:49.540 possible to foresee from the opening. 05:50.020 --> 05:55.180 So, you know, Bobby Fischer had really been studying so much, so intently his own. 05:55.330 --> 05:57.250 He knew a lot of the middle game positions. 05:57.430 --> 05:59.590 He'd already analyzed a lot of the middle game positions. 05:59.950 --> 06:03.150 But, you know, he's really devoted his entire life to jazz. 06:03.160 --> 06:07.450 So, yeah, phishers worked super hard as well as being super intelligent. 06:07.450 --> 06:12.940 He's worked super, super hard to get to that level, quote. 06:13.380 --> 06:17.060 I have never in my life played the French defense, which is the dullest of all openings. 06:17.300 --> 06:23.090 So William Steinitz said that I think the French defense definitely is a more professionally acquired 06:23.420 --> 06:29.030 taste, but it does teach you about -- chains, you know, undermining in advance and especially, 06:29.780 --> 06:31.790 you know, how to handle the bad. 06:31.790 --> 06:34.640 Beshir, which is sometimes good, adds solidity to the positions. 06:35.360 --> 06:39.080 It's an acquired taste and it can serve you well in particular circumstances. 06:39.290 --> 06:43.010 For example, if you're playing a super tactical play, you might want to make it more positional. 06:43.730 --> 06:46.270 The downside for me is the exchange variation. 06:46.370 --> 06:49.970 It creates a lack of dynamic play for black. 06:50.270 --> 06:56.540 So you've got to be able to sort of sometimes just accept the draw sometimes if if they play the particularly 06:56.540 --> 07:02.420 dull, in my view, exchange variation, which can be annoying, though it does have a potentially dangerous 07:02.570 --> 07:06.750 initiative to handle still, even though it's a symmetrical structure. 07:07.100 --> 07:10.700 So, yes, some interesting quotations for the openings. 07:10.700 --> 07:16.940 I thought we'd go over here, OK, I hope for some things to think about. 07:17.460 --> 07:23.010 And when you think about openings, maybe some of these are useful. 07:23.280 --> 07:24.590 OK, that's much.