Hi there in this thing.
I just want to show you the concentric circles model, which the course uses in the course I'm trying
to introduce in the introductory sections.
The guiding philosophies and principles.
So in the opening, there are guiding philosophies and principles.
For example, put yourself beyond the feet before going on the attack, which is not a war principle.
And in chess terms, it basically means to develop your pieces, effectively, try and control early
and only then think about active operations.
Otherwise they will tend to backfire.
So there are certain guiding principles in openings.
It doesn't matter what technical knowledge comes later.
Those overarching principles and philosophies can be very, very useful as we go to an outer circle
of understanding in the opening.
There are specific details and exceptions to think about and more technical information.
So specific names, openings, and they have their own nuances and specific technical information.
But the principle holds that we have these kind of free, interconnected concentric circles in chess
chance chances logically divided into opening little game and end game.
The middle game is where creativity and flair come in.
And in this case I show you that through certain processes and patterns you can actually navigate the
middle game quite effectively.
For example, an emphasis on calculating forcing moves tackle Cheque's captures a major threats like
threats of made one and two.
We see that with specific examples to train certain processes and look out for patterns, whether they
be mating patterns or general tactical patterns that you can make use of within your process of calculation.
So the middle game philosophies and principles are still there and we have specific positions where
we try and use our processes and patterns and bring the downsides out of the opponent's position, which
for me, as an overarching philosophy, generally, when I play the middle game, I'm looking to find
where is the opponent weak?
How do I bring the opponent down using those downsides?
And all the tactical tools and resources are subservient generally to that.
So we look then, you know, from those processes and patterns, we can look at specific positions and
see how that works.
The end game has its own philosophies and principles.
In the end game, the is often more active out on the ball because it has less chance of being checkmated.
Past pawns are a greater priority.
So those principles and philosophies, they guide us to understanding certain types of game.
But we do look into more specific and games and exceptions are more technical information there and
the outer circles.
So this process of having these inner core philosophies and principles, I think is the foundation of
this course.
And so you see through the labelled sections beginner.
Or rather, introduction, even before beginner introductions introduce philosophies and principles,
beginner continuation sometimes of an intermediate, we go into those circles from the inner circle,
the introductory philosophies and principles and to the intermediate later specific details, exceptions
and technical information.
So I hope you appreciate those.
But also, you know, chess is a matter of psychology.
You'll find in the winning and improving test sections that we really need to be able to treat chess
as a kind of scientific discipline to have a thick skin.
If we lose, we need to learn all the lessons possible for our free circles and keep feeding them.
So it might be sometimes upsetting to lose, but we have to see it in a positive way of enriching our
free samples of the opening mental game in and game all the time.
When we look at games of Masters and there are world championship world champion games to look at,
we're again enriching our circles.
So this process of enrichment is continuous.
Learning chess can last a lifetime.
Life is too short for chess, someone said so.
But basically you'll get a solid foundation in the free circles in this course and you'll be enriching
them all the time when you study monster games eventually or more specific details of openings and games.
But the mental game is where creativity exists and is my favorite aspect of the game.
And I believe, you know, tactics is a major component of the mental game.
And I really enjoy tactics.
And I think that is the major undo button in chess that even if you get a very bad opening, sometimes
you can get claw your way back.
You know, you can swindle the opponent in a little game or even the in-game tactics pervade actually
all three circles.
You can have very, very tactical endings as well.
So there is an emphasis on tactics, which Teichmann said of chess is 99 percent tactics and there are
various spins on that of the players have Grandmaster said it's also calculation as well.
Very, very important.
So in this course, hopefully you get a very, very solid foundation.
If you take this course very seriously, you get a solid foundation in these very logical aspects of
the game, opening mental game in and game.
And you take this philosophy of concentric circles, the model, and you use it to enrich these circles
all the time.
So you're on a long journey, a voyage of discovery here, which I hope you thoroughly enjoy.
I learn about chess and yourself in the process.
OK, Hashemites.