Hi there.
In this election, I'm going to show you that even grandmasters can sometimes ignore opening principles
to their peril, even modern day grandmasters.
So Anatoly Karpov, one of the great world chess champions in chess in 1993, was playing with the black
pieces against Larimore Christensen, United States grandmaster, who, by the way, I've done some
commentary on the ICC a few years back, one of the world championship matches.
That was great fun.
So he's a great guy, very, very keen tactical player.
So he's playing with the white pieces.
So we see this position of the C 46, Larry Christiansen plays like a freak off of plays B sex.
So this is a pretty standard opening.
It's called the Queen's Indian Defense.
We see Bishop Jakes, queen to Bishop B 793 C five E for C takes 1964, 96.
So far, pretty standard opening night.
Take six bishops 66.
Now things get very interesting now or move ten.
They are in plays fall and maybe come off on this occasion is a slightly annoyed.
Maybe he didn't have too much sleep.
Maybe he's kind of uncomfortable with his position.
He doesn't like it's control of Desex and actually plays the move to try and get them the bishops move.
So nice H5 This does attack the bishop but the the noise of unprotected peace.
Coincidence, Christensen just moves the bishop to a free and now off is maybe getting a little bit
overexcited and provides yet another theoretical downside.
This, in a way, is a veritable downside.
It's with the downsides of your opponent's position that you will bring their downfall.
It's one of my pet frequently used ideas to winning chess.
Generally, if you're not winning on the clock, you're winning an opposition generally to win opposition.
Guys, you want to find the downsides no matter how subtle a theoretical independent's position and
is actually to not just one, there's two theoretical downsides.
And in fact, they can work together to make it very practical to try and exploit that to unprotected
pieces.
So this is a double violation.
So if this little bit of advice is worth anything, does it help in this particular situation, in concrete
reality, in the harsh reality, as we sometimes call it, the harsh reality here?
There's two unprotected pieces.
How do we punish this?
And this is Anatoly Karpov.
So if you find an expert, you're beating Anatoly Karpov from this position at least.
What would you play her?
If I give you five seconds, pause, Viniar.
OK, yeah, one of Kabul's shortest ever losses, just the queen, Daewon, the queen's very, very
powerful and actually heads the sex and hits age five.
Black is losing a whole piece here.
And at this level, the grandmaster level, Anatoly Karpov, just resigned.
So this is a very, very interesting story here in this game.
Being told of the unprotected peace, don't leave unprotected pieces available.
They do tend to drop off.
This doesn't just apply to the opening.
This applies to the middle gaming and games in general.
You need to be cautious.
And also, by the way, if you get into the process of analyzing games of computers, computers will
often do all sorts of ways.
And one of things, because they can calculate so much better than humans are afraid to say, guys,
that a large part of chess is actually also making your positions easier for you to play.
For you to follow up on the power of moves is in the power of followups.
So you can't just imitate top level computers playing really difficult to play positions where you need
to play the one in 100 every time, every time you're not a computer.
So these general principles, these guiding rules are for your reassurance that you've got limited calculation
powers, but you don't want to offer the opponent theoretical, even theoretical downsides where you
don't know yourself.
Sometimes the concrete punishments, you just know you shouldn't go there because there's likely to
be punishments.
It's more probability kind of thing.
In general, you don't want to offer your opponent unprotected pieces.
This applies just as in the opening, as in the middle game.
In the end game in general.
Sometimes you do work out and you think, OK, it might be worth it on this occasion, but in general,
you want to keep your peace protecting each other.
It's a safety guard, OK, before active operations as well.
In this particular case, you can't have resigned.
So as an example, if Bishop István Queen takes H5 piece up, the knight moves Queen takes these six
piece up, there's no double defense.
The queen can't come to the rescue defending both.
Unfortunately, on this occasion, G six, which just taken.
So, yeah, don't leave your pieces in general unprotected.
That's the general rule.
And that applies even to all chess champions.
OK, so have you got something that reinforcing some basic concepts and not offering your opponent in
general too many theoretical downsides?
Even if you can't see the concrete punishments, you can assume the stronger and stronger your opponents,
they will find the punishments.
So sometimes you might be winning with dodgy stuff against weaker opponents.
Go and plan a stronger team.
You got wiped out.
Don't be disheartened.
You want to make sure your game is kind of solid without theoretical downsides.
Even without any downsides, I did then you can stop losing and stop thinking about winning.
OK, thanks so much.