Hi there.
This is another very dramatic example, just to drive the point home that you really need to look at
your exact position to determine who is winning.
You can't just count the material of both sides.
And here it also crucially depends on whose side it is to move to make that evaluation about who is
actually winning.
So if you're playing, why are you actually winning this?
It looks as though you've only got one pawn and the opponents, Almani Army is immense.
I mean, if you started counting this up, it's immense, right?
Nine plus five.
Fourteen plus three and a half.
And, you know, we're stacking up the numbers, we're going to be more than 20, easily more than 26.
But if it's us to move, you know, we're winning this game.
I hope you can see why.
If I give you five seconds, pull the video.
You know that -- is worth its weight in gold for a different reason, not for -- promotion, but
for a slightly different reason that -- can actually deliver check and mate.
How does Black actually handle that as checkmates?
There's nothing the king can do.
The king's just being checkmated.
There's no piece or -- that can influence that --.
This is end of game.
It's checkmate if it was black.
So it was a different story.
We've we've really had it.
You know, the opponent can actually just chatenay us with Kwangju five, but thankfully it won't play
here.
So this is just another vivid example that my end of the game and quite often, you know, the only
chess computers, people could beat them by offering material on the other side of the board.
This is 1976 that computers were still both baseball in chess.
So you'd let the computers, you know, think they're up in material, but then you sort of checkmate
or not make them on this side of the board, not usually with a --, but, you know, with Queen and
some other pieces usually.
So it's been a common theme in chess to let sometimes the opponent have more material and make them.
It's a league, you know, used theme as Kings Cross myself.
I really enjoy this.
I enjoy these checkmating attacks.
And sometimes I let my opponent, you know, kind of women's material somewhere else.
So, yeah, I just think that it really depends on the possession, the true state of affairs, who's
winning and who's Turner is David Bronstein, one of the legends of chess, said that's one of the most
formidable weapons on the chessboard in itself whose turn it actually is.
So, OK, I hope this is another very, very vivid made up example.
I've made this up just to emphasize that material isn't everything.
You know, if you can make your opponent or secure a strong mating attack, you're going to win the
game.
Chess is about winning largely and you're going to win the game.
It's not about just accumulating vast amounts of material.
OK, so much.