Hi there in this tank, shall we say, the dangers of leaving a piece unprotected in the opening in
general, you don't want to leave your pieces unprotected.
You don't you want your pieces to be protecting each other.
If you have an unprotected piece, you've created it in a way, a theoretical downside, a classic theoretical
downside.
And many, many plans on the 2200 will lose games because they simply have unprotected pieces which
tend to drop off the bolt or used in other ways for the opponent's massive advantages in this game.
As an example, I'm going to take you through what you could play as Whites 845.
So you play like a free 96, you play Bishop CIFOR and they play Bishop Seafoam.
So good so far.
You play an interesting move.
OK, I know it's before casting, but you're allowed to do this.
It's a reasonable move in its own right.
See free night, have sex.
And in fact here the floor is played in this particular game.
So this is Grecco against and then in sixteen twenty eight demonstrates a particular idea after Bishop
breaks, it seems as though details if I might be a bad idea because surely then the night comes in,
you know, takes the form and their bishop is looking at Africa as well.
Isn't this a really bad idea.
Details.
But it's actually played 964.
We have a situation, although the two pieces are cooperating on F2.
Do you detect a slight downside of Black's position in terms of unprotected pieces?
I hope you can.
What is the unprotected piece here in Black's possession?
Do we just defend the flat by casting or do we have something stronger?
There's actually a super strong move in that position, I hope you can find it, so you might want to
pause the video.
There's a super strong move and that move is quantify the use.
It uses the unprotected piece, and it also creates this battery.
Batteries of Queenslander's Crake killer common squares by default.
So it's looking at Queen's estimating.
So here black is in big trouble.
Black magic in the game resigns.
So let's wonder why.
If Knight takes F2, then Queen takes after is checkmate.
Ouch.
If 95 we get Queen seven.
Again.
If Bishop takes off to check.
OK, they won a pawn and it's worth Chac.
We just play King Itou as an example and they have pieces which are very loose.
They're called like loose.
They're about to drop off these pieces.
They're so loose, they're about to drop off.
But also Black is confronted with Queen F7 as even a bigger threat than taking off the light.
So what does black do?
Blacks just losing material.
If they cancel now, they are actually losing the lights for not much.
So you've just got basically a winning position where you should aim to manually cancel Kingside.
But essentially you have now a big, gigantic advantage.
And in fact, the attack rages on pretty soon with 95 looking at seven and eight seven.
So it's a crushing position of the Queen D5 in this game of Grecco.
He's demonstrating certain principles in these little games.
And this one is the annotated piece.
You need to look out for the unprotected space.
Even in the opening.
Even in the opening, it's often a great excuse for the opponents double attacks.
So the double attack on F7 here and F4.
So I hope you pick up this point here that in general you don't want to give the opponents any theoretical
downsides in your possession.
They can potentially use them against you.
A key one is unprotected pieces, so beware even from the opening and in the middle and the end game,
whenever you have whenever you have it, what does it matter what stage of the game?
If you have unprotected pieces, they're are more liable to be picked off.
Toxically.
OK, so just bear that in mind so much.