WEBVTT 00:01.080 --> 00:02.010 Hi there. 00:02.040 --> 00:06.780 In this introduction lecture, I want to talk about some sources and positive influences for attacking 00:06.780 --> 00:07.380 chess. 00:08.310 --> 00:14.290 So tactics and combinations are important to be able to master. 00:14.340 --> 00:21.930 It's good to be very good tactically and combination in combination play because precision is often 00:21.930 --> 00:23.920 needed as part of attacking chess. 00:23.940 --> 00:29.820 Sometimes you will be sacrificing pieces and you need to find them the precise accommodate compensatory 00:29.820 --> 00:32.250 follow ups to finish off the opponents. 00:32.490 --> 00:38.490 So that's going to be a really positive influence on your attacking chess to be able to crown your efforts 00:39.180 --> 00:44.250 and to be able to make use of sacrifices to break through the defensive barriers, you might need to 00:44.250 --> 00:49.650 use sacrifices to eliminate defenders, distract them, the flak, them, etc.. 00:50.010 --> 00:56.220 So tactics and combinations and sacrificial play will lead to situations where it's really important 00:56.220 --> 01:01.980 to be able to play accurately to exploit those time sensitive situations, because otherwise the opponent 01:01.980 --> 01:05.460 could rearrange and defend and beat off your attack. 01:06.930 --> 01:13.200 The ingredients of this course, if you master the ingredients with the examples, to some extent it 01:13.200 --> 01:13.980 will help. 01:15.290 --> 01:22.910 Evaluate the attacking elements of positions you'll get from your openings, and that should be a super 01:22.910 --> 01:23.960 positive influence. 01:23.960 --> 01:28.340 So this course basically should be a super positive influence for you attacking chess. 01:28.340 --> 01:35.480 If you really get to master the ingredients, certain pawn structures in chess and which is highlighted 01:35.480 --> 01:39.740 in this course, they do lend themselves for attack. 01:40.640 --> 01:43.790 Sometimes they make the pieces more active. 01:43.880 --> 01:50.510 So isolated queen pawn situations like certain openings lend themselves for attack. 01:50.510 --> 01:55.580 They actually literally have attack in their name, but sometimes openings with the fence in the name 01:55.580 --> 01:59.510 can be attacking like the King's Into the Fence is actually an attacking opening. 01:59.600 --> 02:04.720 It was used by Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer was great. 02:04.730 --> 02:09.800 In fact, the Sicilian Knight offers a great counterattacking opening in general. 02:09.800 --> 02:11.660 It hasn't got the word attacking anywhere. 02:11.690 --> 02:16.610 It's Sicilian night off, named after Mikhail Najdorf, who was a great attacking player, by the way, 02:16.610 --> 02:19.010 in his own right, a great player in his own right. 02:19.220 --> 02:21.980 So sometimes the opening names are misleading. 02:21.980 --> 02:26.720 So you need to kind of judge the attacking potential of each opening on its own merit through knowledge 02:26.720 --> 02:28.070 of that particular opening. 02:28.250 --> 02:35.270 Quite often gambits, especially, you know, the sound of gambits they do offer attacking opportunities. 02:36.470 --> 02:41.900 There are literally some openings with attack in their name, and they are actually attack systems like 02:41.900 --> 02:44.390 the king's engine attack can lead to great attacks. 02:44.540 --> 02:47.630 And Bobby Fischer was demonstrated that Nimzowitsch lost in attack. 02:47.720 --> 02:54.000 I've got a course on that that can lead to great attacking potential from the thing. 02:54.020 --> 03:01.520 And so bishops when you play one be free or so the king's engine attack that's names of those could 03:01.520 --> 03:08.810 start with one be free the king's injured attack is more of a formation where you're playing E4 D3 92. 03:08.810 --> 03:15.560 This formation generally and you get an attack because it's actually even if it looks kind of more positional, 03:15.560 --> 03:20.330 you're trying to reinforce sometimes E5 control as a basis for attack later. 03:20.360 --> 03:26.900 So sometimes, yes, literally openings with attacking them or offering opportunities for attack, but 03:26.900 --> 03:28.850 it can be completely misleading. 03:28.850 --> 03:32.780 So yes, check our openings and and see how they go with you. 03:33.470 --> 03:39.380 So, okay, forcing moves are often important, especially when material down because you don't want 03:39.380 --> 03:43.250 to give time to the opponent to rearrange, regroup and defend. 03:43.430 --> 03:48.290 So it's ideal if attacks are fast and furious based on tempo gaining. 03:48.410 --> 03:53.930 Quite often attacks are based on that and also making use of all of your forces as a team. 03:54.380 --> 03:59.060 So it's not just the queen by herself against this army of defenders. 03:59.480 --> 04:05.480 You usually it's ideal to have more attackers than defenders in the opponent's area of the king. 04:05.930 --> 04:09.230 So anyway, this is just some general points. 04:09.230 --> 04:16.430 Just to bear in mind, sacrifices are often a component of attacking chess because sacrificing often 04:16.430 --> 04:20.420 gets rid of defenders, lowers them away to flanks, decoys defenders. 04:20.690 --> 04:23.210 So Sacrifices is part of attacking chess. 04:23.210 --> 04:28.130 Quite often it's an essential ingredient and you'll see that in the examples. 04:28.280 --> 04:34.370 So even if I haven't mentioned a certain section on sacrifices or having attacks play in a fast and 04:34.370 --> 04:41.180 furious manner with tempo gaining, those are essential kind of positive influences. 04:41.330 --> 04:44.450 On the nature of attacking games. 04:44.600 --> 04:52.220 If they can run with tempo, if they can run with team efforts, if they can make him make use of sacrifices 04:52.220 --> 04:58.700 to break the opponent's defenses down, to weaken the opponent's king, and quite often we're trading 04:58.700 --> 05:02.270 off zero or pawn structure for king safety implications. 05:02.870 --> 05:06.770 So pawn structure, so certain pawn structures are more dynamic. 05:06.770 --> 05:13.730 They give potential for the pieces to kind of be liberated or sacrificed in some cases. 05:13.730 --> 05:19.640 And it's the piece pressure which often results in specific tactical combinations to finish off the 05:19.640 --> 05:20.420 opponent's king. 05:20.420 --> 05:23.210 So these are just general pointers. 05:24.450 --> 05:31.650 What to look out for in the example games of this course, that these are factors which influence things. 05:31.770 --> 05:38.610 But a lot of the openings of say, an example and they're not gambits, they're sometimes not gambits, 05:38.610 --> 05:40.710 they're not worth attacking the name. 05:40.710 --> 05:48.600 So these are pointers, but look at each example on its own merits as well and see what ingredients 05:48.600 --> 05:49.470 stands out to you. 05:49.470 --> 05:54.810 You might want to make your own notes for ingredients, kind of tags of each particular example as you 05:54.810 --> 05:56.370 go through the course. 05:56.460 --> 05:56.880 Okay. 05:56.910 --> 06:00.180 These are just general things to think about here. 06:00.990 --> 06:01.580 Okay. 06:01.620 --> 06:02.370 That's very much.