Hi there.
In this lecture, I'm going to ask you the question, should we be taking on these five?
So can you calculate to see are you actually better off if you do take on the five?
So sometimes necessary calculations are looking for the number of captures, but also intuitively you
can get an idea
by the number of attacking pieces, number of offending pieces.
So we're actually looking at these five with one.
Two pieces free and in fact, four, they share that common square.
We've got four attacking and if we look at the defending, one, two, three, there's only three defending.
And that's that's a clue actually, that we can actually advantageously capture on these five.
And if we try and visualize 1965, it's good to try and practice visualisations.
See 65.
Bishop 65.
Bishop 65, queen 65.
Queen 65.
Rock 25.
You see that the importance of visualization here to be able to look at the number of captures and recaptures
and be more reassured that you're doing the right decision.
But generally, yeah, if you count the number of tacking pieces and number of the funding pieces,
you can see that you should be better off.
But there's also a specific order.
How do we actually want to take on the five?
We genuinely want to take with the lowest value peace fast, so we don't want to take with the Kings,
we lose the queen.
They're not you know, they can take her.
And we've just lost our queen for a night.
So, you know, even if we're recapturing her, they can do something like Quincy Ain't and be better
off.
We usually want to use on our lowest value piece to take in such a situation.
So they would take and then we could take and we can see that because we had a superiority of force,
we ended up slightly better her.
A pawn up a pawn is enough sometimes to win the game Pawns become queens, especially in endgame positions.
So, yeah, here is an example of counting the counting method of the number of attacking pieces.
And a number of the funding pieces, and you'll also notes that.
When you have two pieces aligned like this, they do have these common squares.
This battery, as it's called, as Queenland battery.
So, OK, I hope you felt that you could take with 1965, but that's the reason you've got more pieces
on D5 than the opponent is defending here.
So you could also very get a very quick assessments from counting number of attacking and defending
pieces, quite often in general in chess, the superiority of force, for example, the number of pieces
around the king versus the number of defenders, the relative superiority of force is often a decisive
factor in general.
OK, so we got that 1965, you know, is a good move.
OK, that's about.