WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:01.560 Hi there. 00:02.040 --> 00:08.130 And it's like we're going to have a look at some famous medal game chess quotations, so from my favorite 00:08.130 --> 00:13.380 quotations guy, Surveille Tante COHA, he said the blunders are all there on the board waiting to be 00:13.380 --> 00:15.270 made for me. 00:15.270 --> 00:18.450 This makes me feel a little bit better when I blunder. 00:18.480 --> 00:19.940 It's part of being human. 00:20.580 --> 00:24.750 One of the core philosophies of the medal game section is to compensate for being human. 00:24.780 --> 00:28.320 That's why we, for example, prioritize forcing moves. 00:28.560 --> 00:36.990 We can't possibly fathom the vast complexities of the games we try and create at least prioritizes prioritizing 00:36.990 --> 00:37.790 the essentials. 00:38.550 --> 00:40.920 So he he knows that we're human. 00:40.920 --> 00:45.340 Tasco in his quotations and he accepts that blundering is part of the game. 00:46.620 --> 00:49.850 So he also said the winner of the game is played. 00:49.870 --> 00:53.490 That makes the last the next to last mistake, rather. 00:53.760 --> 00:56.490 So not the last possible the next to last mistake. 00:56.940 --> 00:58.020 That's the winner of the game. 01:00.780 --> 01:06.530 So it could have been loads of blunders, but it's the one that made the next to last. 01:07.710 --> 01:10.080 It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men. 01:10.100 --> 01:15.080 Yes, I'm wary about studying Tao, who like to sacrifice his own pieces. 01:15.090 --> 01:19.170 I prefer to sacrifice my opponent's pieces in general is far less risky. 01:19.770 --> 01:21.000 So I think he's right there. 01:22.440 --> 01:27.330 And now we have a quotation by Moscow. 01:27.330 --> 01:33.990 Prosky The medal game, I repeat, is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, 01:34.680 --> 01:36.420 defences and sacrifices. 01:36.880 --> 01:38.970 Yes, I absolutely love Bill myself. 01:39.270 --> 01:45.480 Before the end game, the gods have placed the medal game haroche affirming the important role of the 01:45.480 --> 01:45.960 medal game. 01:45.960 --> 01:50.760 You might not even get any games if you if you can wipe out the opponent in the middle game. 01:51.240 --> 01:58.770 Hopefully this is a very, very important quotation, which is very, very useful when you say good 01:58.770 --> 02:00.330 move, wait, look for a best one. 02:00.330 --> 02:04.590 So Emmanuel Laska, who was one of the longest world champions ever said this. 02:04.980 --> 02:11.280 And it's true that, you know, sometimes you're kind of excited to see what seems to be a great possibility. 02:11.850 --> 02:16.590 But the stronger you play, the more you want the irreversible damage of your move. 02:17.820 --> 02:23.810 And sometimes you seek a move because there's a certain issue generally, which maybe the opponent has 02:23.820 --> 02:24.720 underestimated. 02:25.290 --> 02:30.690 So, you know, trying to find the absolute most you can extract from a position is really good, depending 02:30.690 --> 02:33.870 on how much time you have, of course, to invest. 02:33.870 --> 02:38.820 But you really want a move which is so powerful, like cause resignation or just irreversible damage. 02:40.590 --> 02:42.360 So that's a great quotation. 02:42.360 --> 02:45.180 This is another one of the pawns of the soul of chess, you know, Feltl. 02:45.420 --> 02:50.070 So if you look at the pawn structure section of this course, we look at a fellahs all game. 02:50.070 --> 02:55.950 So he was a visionary and he wrote his stuff about pawns, you know, during the French Revolution. 02:56.590 --> 02:57.690 So it's very, very interesting. 02:57.690 --> 03:03.180 He was really kind of ahead of his time before the romantic era of chess were pawns were just used in 03:03.180 --> 03:07.620 sort of gambits to get very strong initiative and pressure and king attacks. 03:07.950 --> 03:17.310 So a very profound positional play from federal very early on in chess, no price is too great for the 03:17.310 --> 03:18.510 scalp of the enemy. 03:18.510 --> 03:19.530 King Coblenz. 03:19.740 --> 03:20.190 Yep. 03:20.190 --> 03:23.250 You can sacrifice all your pieces as long as you checkmate the opponent. 03:23.820 --> 03:26.430 This is another great one, which I often cite. 03:26.430 --> 03:28.350 Chess is 99 percent TotEx. 03:29.070 --> 03:34.530 So that's a great simplification by Tashman and it is the major undo button for me. 03:34.530 --> 03:38.670 You know, you can have a bad opening, but you can come back tactically and swindell the opponent with 03:38.670 --> 03:43.740 amazing tactics in the middle game and you might not even see a game if you just wipe out opponents 03:43.740 --> 03:46.170 and a little I that you get see so many games. 03:46.740 --> 03:53.610 So chess can literally dominate, you know, most of the games, depending on how tactically alert you 03:53.610 --> 03:59.010 are and how interested you are in playing openings which lead to tactics which are dynamic, aggressive, 03:59.070 --> 04:04.530 maybe more open, you know, less as pawns around them than close positions. 04:06.030 --> 04:08.910 There are two types of sacrifices, correct ones in line. 04:09.330 --> 04:16.950 So tell me, Celtel said he often created complexity, it seems almost for complexities sake, sometimes 04:17.310 --> 04:23.970 with his sacrifices, but his better calculation quite often than his opponents let him navigate, you 04:23.970 --> 04:25.680 know, that way out of the deep forest. 04:25.680 --> 04:31.290 So he talks about putting the opponents in some deep forest as well, where, you know, things just 04:31.290 --> 04:37.230 don't make sense and, you know, there's not much of a way out from that. 04:37.650 --> 04:42.000 So, yeah, that's why it's also scary for me to study wholesale games. 04:42.000 --> 04:48.330 I just worry I'm going to be even more unsound than I am in terms of sacrificing pieces. 04:48.510 --> 04:51.300 As I say, I'd rather sacrifice the opponent's pieces than mine. 04:51.630 --> 04:56.550 Generally, the defensive power of the PIN piece is only imaginary. 04:56.850 --> 04:59.730 This is one I used, you know, a great deal. 04:59.730 --> 04:59.940 What I. 04:59.980 --> 05:06.280 Think about pens and obsession, you've got to think, you know, those squares that the absolutely 05:06.280 --> 05:09.340 pen is controlling, they're not really controlling that piece. 05:10.630 --> 05:13.620 So that's a great one for winning lots of games. 05:13.630 --> 05:19.930 In fact, statistically for me all the time, you know, pens are a major, major tactical element to 05:19.930 --> 05:24.190 think about the combination, the combination player things forward. 05:24.550 --> 05:28.750 He starts from the given position and tries the forceful moves in his mind. 05:28.750 --> 05:35.080 So Emmanuel Laska said that and we do have this emphasis in this course about prioritizing, forcing 05:35.080 --> 05:35.460 moves. 05:35.650 --> 05:41.490 So I hope you see that quite clearly that that's a forward looking approach from the given position. 05:42.100 --> 05:45.640 So, yeah, you can have also backward reasoning as well. 05:45.850 --> 05:47.500 Grandmasters like gas, so on. 05:47.500 --> 05:51.370 Say it's dream up what you really want ideally and try and work backwards. 05:51.370 --> 05:53.650 So sometimes you can reverse engineer things as well. 05:54.490 --> 05:57.010 But sometimes just tactics are so unimaginable. 05:57.010 --> 06:00.910 You've really got to look at the current position and all the outrageous forcing moves. 06:01.180 --> 06:04.270 And this is also what Cecil Purdie says. 06:04.510 --> 06:10.360 If a student forces himself to examine all moves that smites and if you look up, Smite is basically 06:10.370 --> 06:11.740 strike with firm blow. 06:11.750 --> 06:17.650 Since that forcing moves, however absurd, they may look at first glance, and that's what I tell my 06:17.650 --> 06:18.010 students. 06:18.160 --> 06:21.160 It doesn't matter how outrageous, doesn't matter. 06:21.670 --> 06:23.920 He's on the way to becoming a master of tactics. 06:23.920 --> 06:29.080 So Cecil Purdie, who, by the way, started the Chess World magazine, I've got a chess board on that, 06:29.080 --> 06:29.980 you know, website. 06:30.250 --> 06:30.910 It's quite funny. 06:30.910 --> 06:35.500 And, you know, he was the first correspondence world champion, as well as being a very, very strong 06:35.500 --> 06:39.030 over the board player, international master strength. 06:39.850 --> 06:42.280 So, yeah, great advice there. 06:42.490 --> 06:43.390 The tactician. 06:43.390 --> 06:44.460 This is very, very deep. 06:44.470 --> 06:47.980 This one knows what to do when there's something to do. 06:49.470 --> 06:56.640 Whereas this the Strategy Session knows what to do when there's nothing to do, so Gerald Abraham said 06:56.640 --> 06:56.910 that. 06:57.270 --> 07:04.190 And, you know, I think I had some periods of insecurity when I did the more advanced pull structures, 07:04.200 --> 07:08.490 cause because sometimes I felt, you know, its tactics. 07:08.490 --> 07:10.020 But it's really the silent games. 07:10.320 --> 07:12.970 But, yes, especially when there is nothing to do. 07:13.230 --> 07:18.620 The knowledge of the fundamental plans to do a pawn structure come in really handy. 07:18.960 --> 07:25.830 So when there is nothing to do, your fundamental pull structure knowledge, I think, must take priority 07:25.830 --> 07:26.660 for guidance. 07:27.390 --> 07:30.570 So that kind of addresses that insecurity. 07:30.570 --> 07:37.070 In a way, it acknowledges that this is complementary toolset that exists in chess. 07:38.070 --> 07:42.060 But when do you actually apply that, you know, the tactical tools or the motivational tools? 07:43.470 --> 07:48.780 And sometimes, by the way, if you're lacking in any plan, a default plan is to just improve your 07:48.780 --> 07:49.590 worst piece. 07:51.240 --> 07:53.300 So some experiment as well. 07:53.880 --> 07:56.940 The scheme of a game is played on positional lines. 07:56.940 --> 08:00.900 The decision of it as as a rule was affected by combinations. 08:01.050 --> 08:06.420 So, again, addresses this kind of insecurity that you might have that you don't want to be thinking 08:06.420 --> 08:09.290 too much at a higher abstract level. 08:10.620 --> 08:14.040 So that is addressing the scheme, the general scheme of the game. 08:14.370 --> 08:21.570 But if you bear in mind that the decisiveness of the game is usually by, you know, tactics and combinations, 08:21.810 --> 08:26.940 you know, Richard, rati the leading hyper modernists, one of the leading hyper moments of his time, 08:27.120 --> 08:27.980 you know, said that. 08:28.230 --> 08:35.940 So it's important to bear that in mind, to address that insecurity firmly, that you really do realize 08:35.940 --> 08:39.510 that the actual punishments come tactically and through combinations. 08:39.870 --> 08:48.870 But if you want to get their schematic fill of the game and flow generally for your game, then that's 08:48.870 --> 08:55.290 positional to a pawn structure because pawns of the irreversible kind of decisions of the chessboard, 08:55.920 --> 09:03.240 a thorough understanding of the typical mating patterns, makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations 09:03.630 --> 09:09.360 leading up to them not only difficult, but also a matter of course. 09:12.900 --> 09:13.560 Yes. 09:18.440 --> 09:22.610 So, yeah, it's good to know typical mating continuations. 09:25.020 --> 09:35.870 And you need to be able to do complicated sacrificial combinations which lead to those mating continuations. 09:36.750 --> 09:44.010 So I think he's addressing also like the role of patterns, if you can get your way to a pattern that 09:44.010 --> 09:44.740 you've seen before. 09:44.760 --> 09:51.900 So the passing gives you this with the sense that there's something to explore, some some downside, 09:51.990 --> 09:53.400 the opponents position to celebrate. 09:54.180 --> 10:00.000 So, yeah, these quotations, I hope you do find them useful and insightful. 10:00.120 --> 10:05.970 So some of these from the great champions and writers and players of the past. 10:07.050 --> 10:11.190 So it's interesting to see what they've said of the middle game generally, OK. 10:12.950 --> 10:13.550 I said once.