Hi there.
In this lecture, I'd like to introduce you to a Checkmates, so a check which cannot be parried the
actually ends the game in your favor.
And here we can play such a chameides.
I wonder if you can spot it if it's white to play, what would you play here?
OK.
We can play the rock to check the opponent's king, and now the king cannot move away here.
If we look at this, the king can't go there.
That's illegal.
The root can't be taken by anything.
It's not as if there's a bishop here which could, for example, take the rook.
There's nothing that can take the rock or a knight here.
Imagine if there was a knight here able to take the rock.
There's nothing that can take the rock and there's nothing that can interfere with the check.
If there was, for example, a bishop here, it could maybe go there to interfere with the check.
But none of these things are true.
So this actually ends the game in its favor.
And I'm a big fan of, you know, testing you guys.
We've we've made puzzles, so we'll see make puzzles later on in the course, you know, make him one
and maybe make it into and that will help you see how the pieces work together to deliver a certainly
this is a circle back chromate pattern.
It's quite a common one in chess, actually, because opponents by default tend to cancel on the king
side and sometimes they don't leave any kind of air for the king.
And he left, as it's called, for the king by moving one of these pawns.
If there was a pawn there.
And so there, the king could have just gone to seven.
So here, yeah, it's an example of checkmate and we'll get plenty of exercises later on in the course.
So it's a check which cannot be carried, OK, and it wins the game for you.
And that is the objective of chess.
It doesn't matter that black is material up.
You've just won the game, even though technically black is two pawns up of one.
So many games myself as Kings Crusher where the opponents have had vast amounts of material, but I've
checkmated them.
OK, thanks very much.