WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:01.710 Hi there. 00:03.030 --> 00:11.520 And like, should we look at some end game related quotations, so here actually is Langi where whites 00:11.520 --> 00:13.420 play and when can you work it out? 00:13.980 --> 00:18.480 It's from a famous Fisher game against Max Fisher. 00:18.840 --> 00:21.590 Playing with the white pieces finds a winning move. 00:22.020 --> 00:24.810 If I give you five seconds for video, what would you play here? 00:27.960 --> 00:30.720 OK, that passport is pretty dangerous. 00:30.750 --> 00:40.530 We can actually play Bishop E5 this tactical move helps promote our to a queen so plac had to resign 00:40.530 --> 00:44.560 her if taken, then 87 wins. 00:45.780 --> 00:46.790 So the -- screening. 00:47.130 --> 00:50.310 So a crushing blow of the Bishop E5. 00:53.340 --> 00:57.100 So here are some ingame related transportation. 00:57.120 --> 01:04.020 Think about Capablanca was one of the great and gangmasters of all time also. 01:04.020 --> 01:06.420 Rubenstein, by the way, is very, very strong in games as well. 01:06.450 --> 01:12.990 If you check out the Games of Akiba Rubenstein by Capablanca also wrote quite a bit about endgames in 01:13.410 --> 01:21.060 his classic book, Chess Fundamentals, which actually you can get to see for free. 01:21.060 --> 01:22.080 In some countries. 01:22.710 --> 01:29.070 It's part of the Gutenberg Press Initiative, so check that out. 01:31.470 --> 01:33.870 But you might also be able to get it on Amazon. 01:34.860 --> 01:38.400 Just try and get a version which does have diagrams, though. 01:39.360 --> 01:42.780 So Capablanca had a lot to say about endgames. 01:44.100 --> 01:50.910 And one of the things he said in order to improve your game, you must study the in-game before everything 01:50.910 --> 01:51.360 else. 01:53.590 --> 01:59.440 Whereas the end games can be studied and monitored by themselves, the middle game and the opening must 01:59.440 --> 02:02.440 be studied in relation to the end game. 02:03.430 --> 02:10.570 Yeah, I usually think about the relationship to the middle game myself, but yeah, some things you 02:10.570 --> 02:11.860 are going to be looking forward to. 02:11.860 --> 02:16.390 For example, some poor majority may be on the queen side or the king side where you're going to be 02:16.390 --> 02:19.090 able to craft a poem of that poem majority. 02:20.020 --> 02:25.330 Or you can have what I say, Queen's spawn and you definitely don't want to get engaged. 02:25.330 --> 02:30.280 Sometimes if you're with the outside queen spawn or some other compromise Paul structure, sometimes 02:30.280 --> 02:35.500 you've you've got to like finish off the opponents generally in the middle game if you have these dynamic 02:35.500 --> 02:36.430 pawn structures. 02:36.820 --> 02:42.460 So he is right to emphasize the link and all decision making earlier on for the implications for the 02:42.730 --> 02:43.060 game. 02:44.500 --> 02:46.750 It's it's a very, very wise comment. 02:47.650 --> 02:54.160 And to many people, study just isolation in isolation, certain opening moves without any linkage at 02:54.160 --> 02:56.950 all, not even to the middle game, let alone the end game. 02:57.370 --> 03:02.260 I like to play OAP things which fit my style and a middle game plans that I like, you know, attacking 03:02.270 --> 03:03.460 mental game plans I like. 03:04.000 --> 03:06.670 So I'm quite often at least thinking into the mental game. 03:06.670 --> 03:08.980 But linking to the end game is even deeper, of course. 03:10.120 --> 03:15.850 And if you look at the mighty stockfish over the top, chess engines of the world, sometimes just in 03:15.850 --> 03:20.670 the opening that they've got, their table base reference is already millions of them, table based 03:20.710 --> 03:24.220 position, just a few moves in the opening that they're looking at in games. 03:25.090 --> 03:28.900 Yeah, that's way above humans. 03:28.900 --> 03:33.760 Super grandmaster level, of course, Stockfish and the new network versions. 03:34.540 --> 03:42.280 So anyway, Capablanca, also Sanha passport increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board 03:42.280 --> 03:42.910 diminishes. 03:43.240 --> 03:46.180 So, hey, you know, this passport in this and this example. 03:46.990 --> 03:47.290 Yeah. 03:47.290 --> 03:55.300 Shows that, you know, sometimes there's so few pieces stopping the --'s queening and you can technically 03:55.300 --> 04:01.070 interfere with that here with that, you know, Bishop, if I move so that quotation is is really important. 04:01.160 --> 04:05.980 Passports get so dangerous in games. 04:06.910 --> 04:12.550 Rudolph Spellman's said, you know, play the opening like a book, the medal game like a magician and 04:12.550 --> 04:13.710 the end game like a machine. 04:14.740 --> 04:20.560 Yeah, but I think actually, if you do look in particular at the end games of Capablanca and Fisher, 04:20.800 --> 04:22.450 there is a great artistry. 04:22.750 --> 04:25.390 I think machine myself is a little bit cold. 04:25.720 --> 04:28.870 There is a great warmth and artistry to end games. 04:31.060 --> 04:37.720 I think it's better to think of the all the names actually not entirely convinced of that quote, but 04:37.720 --> 04:44.230 I can see where it's coming from, that the middle game is where originality and real passion for tactics 04:44.230 --> 04:44.740 can come. 04:44.920 --> 04:51.730 And you can do that magical tactics and the other two kind of more kind of learnable. 04:52.090 --> 04:55.840 Perhaps every person is a potential queen. 04:55.840 --> 04:57.030 MASON Yeah. 04:57.670 --> 05:00.490 NIMBies, which was emphatic in my system. 05:00.490 --> 05:03.910 He said some crazy stuff, funny stuff, names which are in the movies. 05:04.300 --> 05:08.530 He said the passport as a criminal should be kept under lock and key mould. 05:08.530 --> 05:11.260 Measures such as police surveillance are not sufficient. 05:11.770 --> 05:17.380 So Newswatch was really into the security of positions generally that you need to have prophylaxis and 05:17.380 --> 05:22.450 safeguards, because I think he's also alluding to the fact that we're human beings. 05:22.810 --> 05:27.850 So if we have at least prophylaxis and preventive measures, we don't need to suffer the symptoms, 05:28.240 --> 05:29.820 which could be difficult to handle. 05:29.830 --> 05:36.880 It's better to be more preventative in general in chess, to make decisions easier to play, be more 05:36.880 --> 05:40.060 preventative for any counterplay, et cetera, that he might have. 05:41.590 --> 05:44.530 So that's kind of, you know, a lot of your principle as well. 05:44.530 --> 05:46.960 You know, put yourself beyond the feet for going onto the attack. 05:47.030 --> 05:49.560 You want to be kind of preventative sometimes. 05:49.900 --> 05:57.880 Ideally, this other quotation, after a bad opening, there's hope for the mental game after bad mental 05:57.880 --> 05:58.810 game players have that. 05:59.110 --> 06:04.170 Angang, once you're in the game, the moment of truth has arrived at the madness that. 06:04.270 --> 06:12.280 Yeah, or alternatively, you know, you could just be wiped out in the opening game to be aware of 06:12.280 --> 06:17.320 the pitfalls that this course has guided you actually through the pitfalls of the opening and the major 06:17.320 --> 06:21.940 traps and a new game we blasted into oblivion and never seen that game either. 06:22.360 --> 06:28.600 So, yeah, it's actually not quite right is that you can lose straight any opening or the middle game. 06:28.600 --> 06:29.140 Don't worry. 06:29.140 --> 06:35.980 You can you can lose much earlier than the end games, but hopefully with a good grounding you want 06:36.280 --> 06:37.420 that this course provides. 06:37.960 --> 06:42.280 So how you've enjoyed these quotations and maybe seek out some other quotations. 06:42.280 --> 06:47.590 I think they can enrich your concentric circles, your your pillars of chess, your opening little game 06:47.590 --> 06:49.090 and the game understanding. 06:49.090 --> 06:51.910 Generally, I remember to have a thick skin as well. 06:52.060 --> 06:56.980 Whenever you lose, try and get lessons, which is something Capablanca emphasized as well. 06:56.980 --> 07:00.460 You can learn a lot more from your losses than you can from your wins. 07:00.880 --> 07:04.120 So always have that positive mindset, that growth mindset as well. 07:04.300 --> 07:06.070 OK, thanks very much.