WEBVTT 00:01.220 --> 00:01.970 Hi there. 00:02.600 --> 00:05.380 In this lecture, I want to talk about one day chess. 00:05.390 --> 00:11.480 So I had the opportunity to play in the Masters when I was more of a junior chess player. 00:12.050 --> 00:18.440 And in one day tomans you might want to try one day every day. 00:18.440 --> 00:23.360 Thomas reiterated, For example, At some point, the role of preparation is important to make sure 00:23.360 --> 00:26.780 we get attacking opening variations. 00:27.320 --> 00:29.000 So I had a classic example. 00:29.000 --> 00:34.430 Now that I look back at it from a few angles, it's kind of interesting. 00:34.430 --> 00:42.860 We've touched on in another intro video about how attacking players dream up stuff. 00:42.860 --> 00:48.080 So Bronstein was actually preparing stuff against Korchnoi and he dreamt up a lot of attacking variations, 00:48.080 --> 00:50.120 in effect in the names of Indian. 00:50.120 --> 00:56.660 So this is something we want to do as attacking players, make sure our preparation for a specific player 00:56.660 --> 01:01.760 that we sometimes know the pairings in advance from the organisers. 01:01.760 --> 01:07.280 So we look at their openings and see are they kind of defensive or passive in some way? 01:07.280 --> 01:13.070 Perhaps we can inject some attacking ideas even before the game. 01:13.070 --> 01:15.560 That's one of the beauties of one day Chess. 01:16.430 --> 01:21.020 Sun Tzu in your war said he or she will win. 01:21.050 --> 01:26.150 Who prepared himself or herself waits to take the enemy unprepared. 01:26.150 --> 01:30.440 So preparation is a key thing in general in the art of war. 01:31.280 --> 01:38.660 And for me I was prepared for a particular game which have from memory about against Murugan, who was 01:38.660 --> 01:39.950 over 2400 feet. 01:39.950 --> 01:45.590 I was 2190 at the time and it was International Master Mark Ferguson. 01:45.590 --> 01:48.920 Just actually my preparation arm was was poor. 01:49.610 --> 01:50.720 It was Mark Ferguson. 01:50.720 --> 01:57.620 Just literally like a few minutes before the game, he was establishing to me the carers attack basically 01:57.620 --> 02:00.200 against the Sicilians of shaven England. 02:01.040 --> 02:04.790 So this is a very interesting thing, the Sicilian Scheveningen. 02:06.590 --> 02:07.640 Does have. 02:08.950 --> 02:13.720 An idea for White to directly attack with early G-4. 02:13.990 --> 02:16.000 So I'll show you why that is. 02:16.330 --> 02:18.610 But the principle is yeah. 02:18.640 --> 02:25.900 Mark Fergus and I are drawn with Bosniak Congress as on somewhat friendly terms, and it's good to just 02:25.900 --> 02:30.760 build up contacts in the chess world because they're going to help you sometimes in key games to prepare. 02:30.790 --> 02:33.960 So an opening is maybe as one as your own preparation. 02:33.970 --> 02:37.480 It's great to build up friends and influence people. 02:37.480 --> 02:38.550 That's another theme. 02:38.560 --> 02:43.930 So basically, you know, even if you lose horribly, it's good to do a friendly post-mortem after games 02:43.930 --> 02:44.890 whenever you can. 02:44.920 --> 02:49.780 You're not just building up your chess, you're building up your chess contacts as well and connections. 02:50.080 --> 02:54.880 So it's good to have preparation for particular opponents in one day. 02:54.880 --> 02:55.570 Chess. 02:55.960 --> 03:02.890 And yeah, he gave me certain ideas to exploit the classic Sicilian shape in England. 03:02.890 --> 03:08.680 And it's funny that, you know, Keres attack is in the name of the version that I use, basically Karras 03:08.680 --> 03:10.750 attack named after Paul Keres. 03:11.020 --> 03:13.960 So it's good in principle, I feel. 03:14.860 --> 03:15.160 Yeah. 03:15.190 --> 03:20.020 Find out the opponent's openings and see are there any attack variations? 03:20.020 --> 03:22.750 They might not be named attack, but there is attacking potential. 03:22.750 --> 03:24.460 You can see that the king is being attacked. 03:24.490 --> 03:26.380 The opponent's king is being attacked, not yours. 03:26.470 --> 03:32.980 So it's sometimes good to see also in preparing those versions, the the role of the unexpected, the 03:32.980 --> 03:36.340 pieces that transform from defending pieces to attacking pieces. 03:36.760 --> 03:42.640 It's good to see, you know, the nuances of attack variations that you're preparing. 03:42.970 --> 03:45.430 So basically, we're taking the idea, you know, bronze things. 03:45.430 --> 03:47.320 Dream was actually bronze themes, preparation. 03:47.320 --> 03:49.390 It's preparation that is key often. 03:49.930 --> 03:52.690 And behind a beautiful attacking game. 03:52.900 --> 03:58.150 Many of Kasparov's absolutely brilliant iconic games were with the help of computer preparation like 03:58.150 --> 04:01.720 home cooks, especially in key like world championship matches. 04:01.930 --> 04:06.640 There are certain games like for example, against Vishy Anand, there's a classic in the of which is 04:06.640 --> 04:09.190 very, very deep sacrificial preparation. 04:09.730 --> 04:13.960 So yes, we're not talking sometimes about just unexpected stuff. 04:13.960 --> 04:18.250 We can find amazing resources for a computer preparation of course as well. 04:18.250 --> 04:21.400 You don't just need to rely on friends in the chess world. 04:21.400 --> 04:25.450 You can look at the opponent's repertoire and you get serious. 04:25.450 --> 04:31.510 You know, you get a chess database like Chessbase and Chessbase lets you have a dossier on the opponent 04:31.810 --> 04:36.070 so you can go through and say, Look, do they have any passive kind of openings where you could inject 04:36.070 --> 04:37.450 some attacking potential? 04:37.840 --> 04:41.620 So, yes, we want to dream our dreams against a particular opponent. 04:41.620 --> 04:43.330 It's called preparation, basically. 04:43.330 --> 04:46.630 And computer preparation is very powerful nowadays. 04:47.200 --> 04:51.550 So you can find a lot of interesting resources in the opening. 04:51.550 --> 04:58.300 So in this game it was only a few minutes before that I had been prepared for Murugan. 04:58.300 --> 05:04.270 So I play E4 and he goes into the Sicilian Shave and England, in effect, he starts with the E6 move 05:04.270 --> 05:07.450 order and we have 96, 98 days sex. 05:08.260 --> 05:15.490 So one of the issues here is that the bishop is not stopping white from playing an early G4. 05:15.490 --> 05:19.660 At some point the carriers attack and in fact here I played G4. 05:19.690 --> 05:27.520 If you look actually at Kasparov's games, even he moved from Sicilian Shave in England to night off 05:27.520 --> 05:28.930 because in the night off. 05:28.930 --> 05:33.700 Well one of the reasons in this move order let's say this move order. 05:35.710 --> 05:40.620 In the night of which is hugely popular, you'll see that there's no carriers attack. 05:40.630 --> 05:44.680 The bishop on C eight is still looking at G4. 05:44.710 --> 05:49.000 There's no Ernie G4 and. 05:49.960 --> 05:50.320 Yeah. 05:50.320 --> 05:50.860 Black hands. 05:50.860 --> 05:52.810 The option of a five and one goes sometimes. 05:52.810 --> 05:54.430 It really depends on what it does next. 05:54.430 --> 05:55.780 It's very, very theoretical. 05:56.920 --> 06:00.280 But okay, in this particular sequence, we have a different sequence. 06:00.280 --> 06:07.180 Yeah, we have the shaving and -- structure and G4 is possible here, so it's going into the carer's 06:07.180 --> 06:07.840 attack. 06:07.840 --> 06:10.420 So it's literally an attacking opening variation. 06:10.840 --> 06:18.040 So Knights FC seven and actually I had gone further with Mark Ferguson to get this position to understand 06:18.040 --> 06:24.850 that actually there's an attacking potential of some subtlety, at least that here there's a plan. 06:24.850 --> 06:30.700 It's good to not just know the opening sequence, but no follow up attacking plan that basically this 06:30.700 --> 06:35.140 night could usefully transfer to G free on occasion. 06:35.260 --> 06:42.520 And also there's an idea of Queen D2 to support G5 form for blasting through of H5 and G six. 06:42.520 --> 06:44.320 So that's the general plan. 06:44.530 --> 06:48.220 So it wasn't just moves in a vacuum, there's a plan behind it. 06:48.220 --> 06:52.000 So 92 here b4 knight G free. 06:52.000 --> 06:57.610 And so we have this attacking preparation which is giving us this lovely attacking position. 06:57.610 --> 07:05.080 So preparation in chess especially one day, chess is very, very important and it has been since the 07:05.080 --> 07:05.800 dawn of time. 07:05.800 --> 07:06.190 Yeah. 07:06.220 --> 07:10.360 If you can prepare against particular opponents then that's great. 07:10.360 --> 07:14.680 You're helping guarantee yourself a nice attacking position. 07:15.340 --> 07:21.850 So you've got to be keen enough, especially for serious chess with higher stakes, to really try and 07:21.850 --> 07:24.160 guarantee things as much as possible. 07:25.870 --> 07:32.860 So my good friend Alexei Fillon's essentially said one of the recent British championship winners had 07:32.860 --> 07:39.670 prepared to the Hill against his French defence in one of one of the club games even, and kind of took 07:39.670 --> 07:43.120 him to a very, very scary position where, you know, he eventually lost. 07:43.150 --> 07:46.540 Preparation is is key in modern chess. 07:46.540 --> 07:52.240 The more you can do against the particular opponent, against their particular variations, the better. 07:52.240 --> 07:56.200 Generally, as long as you don't completely exhaust yourself before the game. 07:56.380 --> 07:57.820 I'm not talking about spending. 07:57.820 --> 07:59.200 You're burning the midnight oil. 07:59.230 --> 08:01.030 You've also got to give the performance. 08:01.030 --> 08:04.510 You've got to have the energy to actually calculate at the board the enthusiasm. 08:04.840 --> 08:12.220 So but the role of preparation is definitely valuable in moderation, of course. 08:12.220 --> 08:17.410 So here we have an attacking position that I'd kind of been aware I could get to. 08:17.410 --> 08:18.490 So Queen Veto. 08:18.490 --> 08:26.500 Now supporting the G5 pawn means that, you know, the battering ram is ready with H five and G six. 08:26.500 --> 08:29.440 So Queen A five, H 595. 08:29.440 --> 08:31.900 So black's not yea near my king just yet. 08:31.900 --> 08:35.860 But you know, given a few moves, this could brew into something really dangerous. 08:35.860 --> 08:44.830 So be free stops actually A four bishop B seven f3, D five and now actually an inaccuracy. 08:44.830 --> 08:50.140 Bishop difference seems as though G six might be better straight away from a technical point of view. 08:50.140 --> 08:58.450 Just let E4 go this position because it's forcibly opening up lines to the king, as David Bronstein 08:58.450 --> 08:58.960 would say. 08:58.960 --> 09:02.200 Perhaps, you know, cold winds to the opponent's king. 09:02.200 --> 09:05.350 So Queen H two, there's cold winds coming from the opponent's king here. 09:05.740 --> 09:10.150 And black can't really stop this opening up, especially here. 09:10.150 --> 09:12.910 Bishop C for this night takes age five in the air now. 09:13.900 --> 09:17.380 So this kind of pins that night to e six, it's very dangerous scenario. 09:17.380 --> 09:21.820 And the rook can come in and it's a very dangerous position once Knight takes h five happens. 09:21.820 --> 09:26.380 So this is in theory, you know, a great way of playing at night six We have Queen saying say five 09:26.380 --> 09:27.010 at least. 09:27.340 --> 09:29.530 So this this is like a crushing attack. 09:29.530 --> 09:35.620 You can see this is a crushing attack scenario where that kind of breakthrough isn't delayed too much. 09:35.620 --> 09:37.150 So that was possible there. 09:37.510 --> 09:39.250 So that's fascinating stuff. 09:40.420 --> 09:44.050 And if you know F thanks g6, H takes this position. 09:44.050 --> 09:46.660 Queen H two as example, check. 09:46.690 --> 09:50.770 There's actually a resource rook H six which is nice to know when you've pinned that. 09:50.770 --> 09:53.770 G Seven points is a nice to know attacking resource as well. 09:54.070 --> 09:57.190 So here in this position things can get nasty. 09:57.820 --> 10:02.470 For example bishop tanks have since king tanks and now yeah things just get nasty. 10:02.470 --> 10:08.020 This is opening up things like a five check for Queen D six check rookie six check. 10:08.020 --> 10:13.180 And the black king's going to get mated here, even though black's like alpha material wants to stop 10:13.180 --> 10:15.940 Queen seven or Queen F seven, Nothing much. 10:16.060 --> 10:20.980 So there are attacking, you know, beautiful variations with the battering rams throw away. 10:20.980 --> 10:26.800 But I played Bishop D3 and now I'm rewarded with an inaccuracy though by the end. 10:27.280 --> 10:30.820 So there were better ways of playing the position here. 10:31.420 --> 10:33.190 But let's continue. 10:34.800 --> 10:35.720 Gee, thanks. 10:37.400 --> 10:39.290 So I play this and it's kind of dangerous. 10:39.370 --> 10:43.610 Knight takes the free C takes now F thanks is a definite mistake as well. 10:43.610 --> 10:45.050 It's helping wines. 10:46.100 --> 10:52.430 But the thing is, here is where time to find resources is important, because what happens after this 10:52.430 --> 10:53.030 battering ram? 10:53.030 --> 10:54.170 What is the key point? 10:54.680 --> 11:00.140 I spent at least 30 minutes on this next move because it is actually a subtle resource in the possession, 11:00.620 --> 11:01.940 which I found. 11:02.090 --> 11:05.870 So even with all that preparation, you still have to work hard at the board as well. 11:06.380 --> 11:08.840 So what do you think a key attacking move here is good. 11:08.840 --> 11:11.000 And what subtle does it contain? 11:11.870 --> 11:17.510 If I give you 5 seconds of pause video, what would you play here in this position of wines? 11:21.640 --> 11:22.270 Okay. 11:22.300 --> 11:29.530 I played Bishop before and it has the subtle of Rook H check because we're looking at a pin's pawn. 11:29.530 --> 11:31.180 We're going to bank on G7. 11:32.170 --> 11:33.730 So I was pleased with that finding. 11:33.730 --> 11:37.750 And now Bishop f8 if D takes evil, let's put it on the board. 11:37.750 --> 11:40.600 Rook h h ach, let's put it on the board. 11:41.080 --> 11:44.480 So this is a nice pin which we're using there. 11:45.070 --> 11:50.140 And if well, King f7 Queen F4 check. 11:51.210 --> 11:54.630 And this position Bishop takes f6 is strong. 11:55.770 --> 12:03.270 So if they take the rook, we can take on the eight and win the Queen at the very least. 12:03.990 --> 12:07.980 If G takes Rook h seven check and this is crushing. 12:09.960 --> 12:16.680 If Bishop c6 here Rook h8 Shank Queen a full shank. 12:17.070 --> 12:19.440 Bishop takes thinks this is just crushing. 12:21.870 --> 12:22.920 Okay, so. 12:24.970 --> 12:26.590 Bishop and Faith was trained in the game. 12:26.590 --> 12:31.900 We have Queen G five, King or seven and now Rook eight, seven. 12:31.900 --> 12:34.140 So the threat here is not so subtle. 12:34.150 --> 12:36.610 What's pin pawn Queen f6. 12:38.320 --> 12:41.080 So we have E5 stopping that, but at some cost. 12:41.680 --> 12:51.400 If rookie seven Knight h5 is actually even more incisive, it seems that's a very incisive move. 12:51.430 --> 12:58.270 This position, for example, is terminal and also Queen f6. 12:59.050 --> 13:02.110 We do have a five here and this is crazy stuff. 13:02.110 --> 13:02.950 This is just crazy. 13:02.950 --> 13:07.330 Bishop B six Queen takes her five check, Bishop takes the eight. 13:07.360 --> 13:08.860 Black is getting dismantled. 13:10.100 --> 13:13.310 So anyway, E5 is tried. 13:15.050 --> 13:23.570 Bishop takes E5 rookie six and now I noticed actually Queen A4 Cheng is strong because of the King A 13:23.570 --> 13:24.980 I have Bishop C7 seven. 13:24.980 --> 13:29.270 So in the end I'm winning material and dismantling the opponents. 13:29.270 --> 13:32.990 So black you know, more than two 400, he resigned her. 13:33.530 --> 13:40.370 So it was one of my big early scalps in my chess, in my one day chess one day chess is more of a serious 13:40.370 --> 13:40.820 business. 13:40.820 --> 13:44.990 Yeah, there is the role of preparation, but if you enjoy the associated processes of one day chess, 13:45.020 --> 13:50.210 getting to meet people, socialize, getting to prepare against particular opponent's repertoires, 13:50.210 --> 13:56.030 you get very specific knowledge, sometimes just with a specific opponent's, you know, very specific 13:56.030 --> 13:57.020 focused knowledge. 13:57.800 --> 14:02.360 But the ingredients of this course, the attacking ingredients, when you prepare for something, someone 14:02.360 --> 14:06.020 concretely, you can look out for the attacking ingredients. 14:06.350 --> 14:12.380 So you can even if an opening is not identified as an attacking opening, you can say, well, for example, 14:12.380 --> 14:17.600 I'm getting a bishop about counterpart or I'm getting the two bishops here, or there's a juicy knight 14:17.600 --> 14:18.710 on a five. 14:20.090 --> 14:22.900 Or there are weaknesses around the opponent's king here. 14:23.170 --> 14:24.700 I can see the potential for teamwork. 14:24.700 --> 14:27.760 So you identify attacking variations. 14:27.880 --> 14:33.610 They don't literally need to be called attack, but there are a number of attacking opening variations, 14:33.610 --> 14:39.280 for example, which which have attack in their name, like Austrian attack against the peers. 14:39.730 --> 14:47.350 But yeah, the carriers attack against the Sicilian shaving and actually did kind of, in my view, 14:47.980 --> 14:51.160 increase the popularity in the night off because it avoids the carriers attack. 14:51.160 --> 14:57.460 The carriers attack is a strong attempt to get a significant advantage basically, in a general sense 14:57.460 --> 14:59.920 against the Sicilian shaving. 14:59.920 --> 15:07.030 And so the ninth off seems to be a much more popular fissure and eventually gravitated towards the Sicilian 15:07.030 --> 15:11.380 night off, away from the raw shaving and allowing cameras attack. 15:12.010 --> 15:14.260 So, yeah, this is this final possession. 15:15.560 --> 15:15.940 Yeah. 15:15.950 --> 15:16.670 Is is. 15:17.000 --> 15:18.110 You know, losing material. 15:18.110 --> 15:19.110 So Bishop takes the. 15:19.880 --> 15:21.290 And this is horrible. 15:21.290 --> 15:23.840 This F eight piece now you know Rook coming. 15:23.840 --> 15:24.320 It's just. 15:24.320 --> 15:25.220 It's just winning. 15:26.060 --> 15:26.420 So. 15:26.420 --> 15:32.960 Okay, I just wanted to highlight the role of preparation and dreaming up variations for a particular 15:32.960 --> 15:33.620 opponent. 15:33.950 --> 15:38.660 Try and absorb the attacking ingredients, the kind of generic attacking ingredients of this course 15:38.660 --> 15:42.950 and never navigate concretely against a specific opponent. 15:42.950 --> 15:51.920 Sometimes in one day chess is important, but also even online you might have the same opponent so many 15:51.920 --> 15:54.500 times you're going to be playing them in tournament, often online. 15:54.500 --> 16:02.180 So it's good sometimes to do some some work, some preparation work against particular opponents. 16:02.360 --> 16:03.860 And I know I'm a bit guilty of this. 16:03.860 --> 16:09.110 I had, you know, Alex or I'm chasing with his repertoire, but sometimes I don't do the work to see 16:09.140 --> 16:10.100 his adaptations. 16:10.100 --> 16:17.450 So, you know, this is one player that I have to prepare against in the openings, it seems, take 16:17.450 --> 16:18.350 more seriously. 16:18.440 --> 16:24.800 So the more you can take the whole process of preparation, make that a fun process for yourself to 16:24.800 --> 16:29.120 get these juicy, attacking variations which have attacking ingredients. 16:29.120 --> 16:31.040 You're aware of the attacking plans. 16:32.000 --> 16:35.540 Yeah, in terms of adaptation, let me just show you against that one. 16:35.540 --> 16:42.140 So I had one or two games where, you know, he was playing his 94 against me, the 93 course. 16:42.140 --> 16:43.850 So it's an ongoing effect. 16:43.910 --> 16:49.400 And I know that there's a kind of system here with a quick bishop Essex. 16:49.760 --> 16:51.950 Anyway, he started avoiding this. 16:51.950 --> 16:58.700 He started playing 865, which is very logical, and unless I become a Scandinavian expert, I'm not 16:58.700 --> 17:00.620 necessarily going to get attacking variations. 17:00.800 --> 17:07.610 But then as example C6, he's still going to play 93 and there is attacking potential here on Queenie 17:07.610 --> 17:08.090 too. 17:08.120 --> 17:12.710 I just need to find the attacking lines and he'll adapt from that, no doubt. 17:12.710 --> 17:17.840 If I start to get attacking positions from here and you're going to be ready to adapt all the time and 17:17.840 --> 17:20.840 prepare all the time because the opponents are moving as well. 17:20.840 --> 17:22.580 The opponents are looking at their games as well. 17:23.270 --> 17:31.400 So yeah, chess is quite a battle of preparation if you want juicy attacking opening variations with 17:31.400 --> 17:36.050 juicy attacking, opening, opening opportunities, Sometimes you've got to you've got to prepare hard 17:36.050 --> 17:36.890 for those. 17:37.250 --> 17:38.060 Okay. 17:39.780 --> 17:40.100 One. 17:40.190 --> 17:47.280 One caveat, though, historically, if we think about one of the Alekhine Capablanca World Championship 17:47.280 --> 17:50.700 match, both players were quite stubbornly playing endlessly. 17:50.700 --> 17:52.470 The Queen's Gambit declines. 17:52.470 --> 17:54.800 Certain variations in the Queen's Gambit declines. 17:54.810 --> 18:00.840 We shouldn't seem to be attacking, but I believe Alekhine for that match had a special match strategy. 18:00.850 --> 18:05.490 He didn't mind not having out and out attacking positions. 18:05.490 --> 18:11.320 He was kind of wearing Capablanca down in a way and trying to make him flanker in his own game. 18:11.340 --> 18:12.420 That's a different story. 18:12.420 --> 18:18.270 But in general, yeah, if you're an attacking player, the role of preparation, it's it's a continuous 18:18.270 --> 18:19.080 process. 18:19.440 --> 18:25.920 You could be targeting particular opponents and their repertoires, trying to get in there, find all 18:25.920 --> 18:30.480 the opportunities to put them under pressure, try and get advantages when you play them out of the 18:30.480 --> 18:37.000 opening, especially those juicy attacking ingredients which are so nice for successful king attacks. 18:37.020 --> 18:43.620 So anyway, I hope this has been a useful introduction video about preparation for series one Play chess 18:44.070 --> 18:46.450 and something to bear in mind. 18:46.510 --> 18:48.180 Okay, so much.