Hi there.
In this lecture, I want to introduce you to the idea that you can sometimes generally score the state
of a game depending on the material balance of both sides.
And usually you do this by signing values to the pieces.
The king, the object of the game is to checkmate the opponents.
King Bobby Fisher called the king of infinite value invaluable.
Some other systems, they don't even mention the Kings.
It's not something that's able to be captured, but essentially the king.
For me personally, my preference is to think of it as infinite because I like sometimes to sacrifice
all my pieces to make the opponents king.
And I am Kings Crusher after all.
So King is of great importance to me, not accumulating lots of material.
If I want to be an accountant, no offense to accountants, I would have been an accountant.
But I want to be a chess player, a passionate chess player.
And the king is infinite to me.
And I hope if you want to be a King of Prussia and not an accountant, you will also treat the king
as infinite value and your top scorer as the queen.
And you might wonder, how did people arrive at these values?
Well, first of all, these values are to be taken with a pinch of salt.
They're not situational.
Sometimes the queen is not worth knowing.
It's usually these are all when usually they should all have.
Usually in fact, they're based on sticking the queen in the center of the board and seeing the queen
can go in all directions.
So they give the queen noin so it's like a rook, plus a bishop, almost a rook.
You'll find out later.
If you stick a rook in the center of the board, it goes in all directions, horizontally and vertically.
Look at that later.
But the bishop goes diagonally, the knight goes in an owl shaped.
We stick a knight in the center, the board, it will be going in an owl shape.
So, for example, heads of hair.
So these values are based on sticking a piece in the center of a board.
They create a sort of.
General Guide's value and the pawns are given value of one, but you know what, the pawns are tells
of the unexpected and refuse to watch that great program.
But when they go to the end of the board, they can promote into a queen.
So actually their value increases as they go up the board.
So that's why this is all situational.
And I know we haven't been through any of the mechanics of the chess pieces and there seems odd, but
I want you to get this general gist here, that there is a peace system created to sort of roughly get
an idea of who's winning a position in general.
Sometimes, you know, the knights are actually stronger than the rocks in a particular situation.
Sometimes the pawns are worth their weight in gold or you're going to checkmate with one pawn.
So that makes that pawn really quite valuable, even if the opponents got loads of material.
So just remember, this point system is based on sticking essentially a piece in the center of the board
and looking at the mobility.
The number of squares is sort of attacking except for the king, which you can use the king as the attacking
piece by.
If the goal is to make the opponents king so that it's surrounded, it has no moves and it's in check,
will discover all that later.
Just bear with me.
The symbols.
Yeah.
You know, like these symbols on the chessboard usually graphically represented the algebraic notation.
There's an important consideration with algebraic notation.
Which is essentially you see that the king is k fine, so when you come to write down your moves, it's,
you know, King Move is usually K and then accordant, so say the king, you know, moves to eat.
To be key to the queen is cue the rookies or the bishop is B but the Neutze is not K because we've got
K for the king, the knights we say and not to be confused with King.
So that's the important caveat when it comes to rotation.
The knight isn't.
And when you write it down in algebraic notation, the pawn is sometimes not written down.
In short algebraic handwriting notation, it's not usually written down.
It's usually a sort of abbreviated are just the coordinates.
Don't worry, we'll be going in detail about algebraic notation later in the course.
This is just a general introduction.
And you know what?
We're going to introduce the pieces one by one.
You'll get to see their strengths, their weaknesses, their peculiarities, and you'll understand more.
This is just a very, very general guide.
This points system, very, very general guide.
And we'll see that.
You know, in many situations you have reversal of values, literally.
So, but bear in mind, different people have done different point systems.
Sometimes the bishop is given free and a quarter.
Sometimes the bishops give them free.
These dams are also not fixed in stone.
As I say, some people don't even put value to the king.
They leave it as undefined.
They don't mention it.
Some people do mention that Fisher mentions the Eagles ever.
So it's just the general kind of points guide not to be taken too seriously.
But when you when you're thinking about your chess positions, generally, you do want to sort of be
up on material, so to speak, or be makes independents king.
For me as King Squasher, my priority is to make the opponents king, OK, and so much.