Hi there in this lecture, we are winning just by one -- won't be a great move in this position.
You think do you think, for example, moving the -- would be good or can we actually try an exchange
of queens or do we just move?
The king won't be a good practical move here, in your view, if I give you five seconds to think about
this.
To pause the video, not five seconds, you can spend more than five seconds, five seconds for the
video.
OK, so in general and here's a general principle for you.
So it's not just this position.
This applies to a vast, you know, amount of different positions where you're winning in general.
When you're winning, you want to exchange pieces, not pawns that will maximize your winning probability
and end game because Pawns, Pawns can become queens if you have passports available.
And here we do have a dangerous as called upon Pompeya as a passport.
So in fact, if we can trade off Queens, we can simplify like simplifying a mathematical equation and
make sure that this pawn is actually winning.
On this occasion, we can play a move like this, this or this.
Either of those free actually will force the queens off.
So say they take the queen, we've simplified and we've amplified our advantage without any without
as much fuss, without as much complexity, complexity, literally, like simplifying a mathematical
formula, you know, factoring our complexity and here where we can just push our pawn on this occasion
and queen and we have a position where we can win now.
So the general rule when winning is to trade off pieces, not pawns.
It's to do of winning probability and end games.
So, yeah, it's like the middle game.
You're looking at, you know, games.
So in beginner courses in general, you know, we talk about the opening phase, the mental game phase,
the ongoing phase, but when we talk about good exchanges, we have to look ahead to end games and think,
well, you know, if we have a few hospitals around, it's going to be easier to win.
But we don't want the hassle of the opponent's pieces.
So, you know, say we get the hassle of the opponents pieces of A7.
You know, they could keep checking us.
You know, there'll be a lot of hassle there.
Definitely be more hassle.
I mean, maybe we could win in the end, but they'd be more hassle, more complications, more counterplay.
We want to reduce the opponents counterplay in general.
That's what the professionals generally refer to.
You know, you want to minimize counterplay so we can do that by simplification, sometimes brutal simplification.
Just get the queens off when you're winning or, you know, terro off in general could be rocks at night,
but Tyroon but not pawns in general.
As a general rule, there are always exceptions to the rule.
But as a general rule, you want to exchange pieces when you're winning, not pawns.
OK, so I hope you consider that a coin exchange would be favorable to you to simplify it, a more easily
won position.
OK, that's a much.