Hi there.
In this introduction lecture, I want to talk about another important real world metaphor teamwork.
It's valued a lot in different disciplines.
So if people work as a team and they take different roles, that makes often the sum of the parts is
greater than what you'd expect if they work together.
And in chess to checkmate, sometimes you need pieces in covering escape square roll, and other pieces
will do the checkmate so division of roles and responsibilities.
There is fantastic evidence in this course that a weakened king, the great attacking masters, when
they have weakened the opponent's king, it creates huge teamwork potential.
Those roles open up pieces can take away escape squares.
Other pieces can come in for the checkmate as the two basic roles.
But generally in one's attacking chess, one should be looking at the number of attacking pieces around
the king and number of defending pieces to be able to overwhelm the defense as well.
Not just the queen alone.
Sometimes it's very tempting to sacrifice a piece, but there's only really your queen sometimes left
or maybe another piece, but there's too many defenders and it ends up being nothing.
That's the difference between a nothing attack.
You know, if you've got other reinforcements coming in to the attacking party, that's the difference
often between failure and success, the amount of teamwork potential, the amount of team you can get
involved in the attack.
So ideally outnumbered the number of defending pieces, the number of attacking pieces.
And in the opening, usually you want to develop all pieces.
That's like an opening principle.
Hopefully you should be in such a position where if you are getting an attack, you haven't got pieces
still asleep.
They haven't been developed.
You usually want to get all your pieces out, control the center, and then think about the attack.
That's one of Sheryl's basic attacking formulas.
Basically develop pieces control center, then think about that later.
But it guarantees teamwork, certain level of teamwork.
You can't have pieces that are asleep in bed.
And there are many, many teamwork examples in this course.
So look out for the teamwork.
Now, here's a classic example, which is in much greater depth in detail.
You'll see it's off playing against Karpov in 1990.
So here Kasparov unleashes a really vicious attack.
There are already pieces pointed in the direction of the opponent's king, and there's even been a bouncy
road of attack.
A rook has left it on that third rank.
So we see strength playing an absolutely amazing move here.
Can you guess 100 points.
Don't worry too much about this.
You'll see this game in detail.
So Knight takes H six, taking out a key defender.
So it kind of creates potentially much more dangerous threats on the H file by taking out a key defender
is refused for a moment with c free if rook takes h six it's magical.
Knight takes D sixes hitting the queen.
Queen moves right?
And then the queen G4 is actually very powerful here.
So for example, Queen takes G4 off seven, Jack Knight takes age six.
Check.
And.
Yeah.
I mean, this this is absolutely tremendous here.
If.
Black.
It takes her.
Then this rook takes G4, check Bishop G6 and Y ends up getting the material all back with Bishop 65.
Check here.
Bishop takes B7.
So it's absolutely tremendous.
So if Queen takes G4 seven, check King G eight, Knight takes H six, check Knight 64 with a big advantage.
So yes, it's kind of it's instead C phrase played by Karpov and we simply have F5 by taking out a defender.
It's worth losing an attacker.
And I know it's a lovely bishop in general on that diagonal, but it's sacrificed on this occasion because
there's so many other attacking pieces in the team and there's less of a defending team, the offending
team being stripped of that h pawn.
Quite often when you take away the opponent's magical things happen tactically.
So we have Queen G4 here Bishop and that lack of support means this is now a check.
We have rook h6 if King G It's just very very dangerous here of the King H two with a big fat of G5.
So for example G6 Knight G Fiber, you can see that lack of H4 means that without that defensive shield,
White is threatening Queen H7 checkmate.
And this position is going to be broken basically soon.
For example, here plants getting absolutely smashed.
But okay, let's let's go with it with Rook Brooke.
H6 So another defender was removed.
So there's only like the bishop around the king at the moment.
King H two means that now Knight G5 can fly without this being check.
This is wrong with that.
Queen five So Knight G five.
So here Queen F6 is played.
It's only the Queen and bishop defending the king whilst there's one, two, three, four outnumbering
the defenders here.
So this is great teamwork from White's and we have rookie eight which is absolutely you know pinning
the bishop and it's a forced mate coming up here.
It's now a forced mate actually in eight and this was the first move it's a forced by knight which just
shows that teamwork and you can get a fourth mate technically, even if you don't know it's an absolute
force mate in a Bishop five Now, there was an optimal route to checkmate here.
Kasparov chose Queen St's H six check and he won pretty soon after that.
There's actually a false checkmate here with seven check.
And here Queen takes 86 check and just.
Bishop Sorry, Rook Thanks I And it's impossible for black to defend this.
These guys are not really part of the defensive team of the king.
They're too far away.
And if 97 Rook takes a fight, for example, this is just.
It's game over soon.
So anyway.
So there was a force to mate.
Kasparov chose Queen St's H six, which was good enough for seven check and winning material.
And he has to deal with this pawn of course, but that is soon dealt with here.
Bishop e4 Czech Bishop takes the five Czech end of game.
So, yes, 1965, that poll was taken.
So it was a huge attack.
You'll see this spectacular game.
But you're also see, you know, wherever basically there's a king safety issue, how pieces can naturally
take certain roles and responsibilities, especially taking escape squares, just generally outnumbering
the opponent's defensive team.
So you're attacking team in that sector of the board is your advantage, even if parts of your queenside
are falling off or you're losing control on the queenside, If you're outnumbering the opponent, you
have a relevant advantage for Champ mating.
So it was a fantastic team effort in this game.
So it's the 1990 Kasparov against Karpov Roy Lopez game Pretty amazing stuff but yeah in Kasparov games
another great attacking players they usually develop their pieces optimally so they're out and about
and it's ideal to either like both and both weaken the opponent's king and outnumber the defensive resources
numerically to have that advantage around the opponent's king.
You want your attacks to be irresistible, and that is a fundamental way that your attack is overwhelming.
Just the numerical superiority.
Okay.
Hope you enjoy this example had so much.