WEBVTT 00:01.190 --> 00:02.030 Hi there. 00:02.120 --> 00:08.330 In this lecture, I would like to draw some conclusions and philosophical points from the material we 00:08.330 --> 00:08.990 covered. 00:09.260 --> 00:15.190 So basically, you could say the art of war principle of put yourself beyond the feet before going onto 00:15.200 --> 00:20.240 the attack seems quite relevant to the heart of Nimzowitsch. 00:20.600 --> 00:28.130 Nimzowitsch is influential My system book, which has influenced generations of modern grandmasters, 00:28.130 --> 00:29.510 more modern grandmasters. 00:29.510 --> 00:35.870 So the principle was safeguarding the position is often better than attacking moves or tactical moves, 00:35.870 --> 00:38.630 and often they make them work better. 00:38.870 --> 00:40.760 Everything has a cost benefit. 00:40.760 --> 00:46.130 A trade off though, you know, sometimes it might be better to go straight onto the attack or straight 00:46.130 --> 00:51.470 for a combination, but sometimes there is this possibility of just improving the position slightly. 00:51.830 --> 00:55.220 Nimzowitsch has said do not always be thinking of attack. 00:55.340 --> 01:00.020 Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent. 01:00.020 --> 01:08.680 So modern positional players as opposed to the more attacking players like, say, Shirov or Moraes 01:08.680 --> 01:15.680 switch the positional players such as Adams and Karpov, they generally have a lower risk appetite for 01:15.680 --> 01:20.450 potentially flawed attacks and tactics, and even this is shown in the openings. 01:20.450 --> 01:27.380 It looks as though sometimes they're playing openings just to incur structural damage on the opponent. 01:27.620 --> 01:35.150 So this positional undertone starts from the very opening choices they they make when they do attack. 01:35.150 --> 01:41.720 It is usually non controversial with minimal risk and sometimes they're just building up advantages 01:41.720 --> 01:43.190 just to win in end games. 01:43.940 --> 01:49.340 And for example, Capablanca, that was one of his favourites, even tiny advantages, and that was 01:49.340 --> 01:50.660 admired by Karpov. 01:50.660 --> 01:56.450 So even tiny advantages don't even need an attacking combination. 01:56.450 --> 01:58.580 You don't need to finish off the opponents in the middle game. 01:58.580 --> 02:01.760 You can just move it to endgames to win there. 02:03.020 --> 02:10.310 So Nimzowitsch and Capablanca seem to have a profound influence on the likes of Tigran Petrosian and. 02:11.190 --> 02:16.650 Anatoly Karpov indicated in a Gibraltar interview that is, style is like petrosian, but with more 02:16.650 --> 02:19.260 determination for a win as opposed to a draw. 02:19.500 --> 02:24.600 So many world chess champions have had a strong positional bias. 02:24.600 --> 02:33.570 So for example, Kramnik and Magnus Carlsen are also amazing positional geniuses and have a slight bias 02:33.570 --> 02:40.470 towards that rather than an all out attacking style of, say, Alexander Alekhine or Mikhail Tal. 02:41.070 --> 02:47.130 It seems, in fact there are more positioning based world champions than outright attacking world champions. 02:47.490 --> 02:55.410 So we're talking about a relatively risk free playing style of making slight improvements to the position 02:55.410 --> 03:01.800 and only crowning positional play with tactics and attacks when it's very safe to do so. 03:01.800 --> 03:05.630 So it makes for more one way winds with minimal counterplay. 03:05.640 --> 03:10.800 And if you look at an engine graph after, often it just looks like a mountain climb in a controlled 03:10.800 --> 03:11.370 manner. 03:11.640 --> 03:17.970 So we see in this course many patterns to support this idea of incrementing the advantages. 03:17.970 --> 03:23.490 So control patterns are a major class of patterns we have seen in this course. 03:24.300 --> 03:30.600 Patterns which align to controlling positions that enable the possibility of gradually increasing advantages 03:30.600 --> 03:34.360 in a safe, controlled, non controversial manner. 03:34.380 --> 03:40.440 We also see structure patterns because when we want to accumulate advantages, it has to be based on 03:40.440 --> 03:43.080 the semi-permanent or permanent aspects of the position. 03:43.080 --> 03:47.610 Usually it's harder to accumulate temporary advantages. 03:47.610 --> 03:53.460 In fact, we just often want to convert temporary advantages into more permanent ones before they disappear 03:53.460 --> 03:54.390 completely. 03:55.980 --> 04:01.860 So we see structural patterns as well, the pawns being the slowest moving aspect of the position and 04:01.860 --> 04:05.210 often the best for making slight improvements more practical. 04:05.220 --> 04:13.380 So maneuvering around structure, improving structure, etc. So we see also some other important patterns 04:13.380 --> 04:15.980 in practice, like waiting patterns. 04:15.990 --> 04:19.750 Sometimes it's great to wait for opponents to just blow themselves up. 04:19.770 --> 04:26.340 Activity patterns When positional players are in more dynamic structures like any other player, they're 04:26.340 --> 04:27.930 looking for activity then. 04:28.410 --> 04:34.410 King Safety is always important and the positional players, it will be futile to play positioning and 04:34.410 --> 04:35.360 just get checkmated. 04:35.370 --> 04:37.650 They do actually want to win games overall. 04:37.650 --> 04:38.040 So. 04:38.040 --> 04:46.080 KING Safety management is key the way that the bishops and the rooks move the line pieces within structures. 04:46.080 --> 04:53.250 It's very important to consider bishops and rooks and the related strategies and game strategies where 04:53.250 --> 04:58.890 the king is taking a more leading role and things can be actually much more active. 04:58.890 --> 05:02.220 Quite often in endgames, King's being brought to the center. 05:02.220 --> 05:11.370 We see a lot in Casablanca games and the center is always important and Nimzowitsch has had ideas like, 05:11.370 --> 05:17.960 you don't have to necessarily occupy the center, you can control it, you can give it away to over 05:18.030 --> 05:19.890 protect key points with the pieces. 05:19.890 --> 05:23.640 So you don't you can give away your occupation space. 05:23.640 --> 05:29.640 And we see great examples of space making use of space for extra mobility harmony patterns. 05:29.640 --> 05:35.700 The harmony between pieces and pawns has also been explored among our patterns of interest. 05:35.700 --> 05:43.440 So I hope you really enjoyed this course and it sets a path for you to play more controlled, less controversial 05:43.440 --> 05:49.470 chess, which may be useful against stronger and stronger opposition that you face, which you can't 05:49.470 --> 05:53.040 just blow off the boards with tactics and attacking chess. 05:53.040 --> 06:02.430 You might need this extra level of refinement which will create greater capabilities for successful 06:02.430 --> 06:04.860 attacks, tactics, or just winning endgames. 06:04.860 --> 06:12.000 One more point I like to make is that Nimzowitsch his influence has been profound and the openings he 06:12.000 --> 06:14.640 popularized are still in great use today. 06:14.640 --> 06:20.520 So, for example, here I'll have to see for E six the Nimzowitsch engine f9c3 Bishop B for the whole 06:20.520 --> 06:21.210 point. 06:21.210 --> 06:27.540 Often doubling the pawns and setting up blockades is alive and kicking today. 06:27.540 --> 06:34.050 And players like Adams and Karpov, two of our Fischer players, love to play the Nimzowitsch engine 06:34.050 --> 06:38.460 and are prepared for the Queen's engine variations with Knight every as well. 06:38.460 --> 06:45.210 So the legacy is alive and kicking today in modern positional players, not just of nimzowitsch his 06:45.210 --> 06:50.730 concepts, but also his literal opening variations. 06:50.730 --> 06:56.460 So that's very, very interesting as well to consider how positional play has been passed on from the 06:56.460 --> 06:57.660 past generations. 06:58.020 --> 07:05.310 So I hope you've really enjoyed this course and can even emulate a little bit more now both Adams and 07:05.310 --> 07:07.230 Karpov with their opening choices. 07:07.230 --> 07:10.500 So I hope you really enjoyed it and best of. 07:10.620 --> 07:12.730 Luck and enjoyment in your chest. 07:14.190 --> 07:18.020 And if you get time, please do give me a review of this course. 07:18.240 --> 07:18.840 So much.