Hi there.
In this election, I have an amazing Paul Morphy game to show you.
He actually gave his opponent here real cards.
So that's why the rookie is missing.
No, I haven't set the ball up incorrectly.
He was such a strong player, Paul Morphy.
He would do a lot of kind of exhibitions and fun games where he'd offer odds.
So on this occasion, Queen's Rugg.
So this is his game against Charles like a carpenter here in 1849 in New Orleans.
So if from Paul Morphy we see five motor free nights, he says.
So so far both sides have kind of equally developed Blancs players.
Fine, but Paul Morphy starts trying to trade off -- for peace, development and peace.
Development like this is probably more necessary than usual because one has to make up for the odds.
It has to somehow amplify a certain factor and P7 as a great factor to amplify because it can lead quite
quickly to King safety issues.
And if Paul Morphy can actually knock out the opponents, especially before the end games, then losing
one or two pawns won't be such a big concern.
And yes, you can play like this as well in your early repetoire opening repertoire, which is like
the sort of opening's you might want to use.
You might want to try DeFore.
It's called the Scotch game.
So it's a way of opening up the position a little bit more, kind of activating queen.
We see ETECSA now, Paul, if it doesn't even capture he plays Bishop CIFOR.
He's working another piece the opponent seems to want piece by the intention here after Sifry is just
to take this form.
And whites, just castles and hair black actually takes this form, which is a little bit dangerous
now because it's actually helping develop this piece.
So we've got a real difference in peace development emerging for both sides.
There's free pieces out for white and this bishop now actually scurries back just to protect G-7.
So actually the relative peace development is also increased, even more so in this kind of situation,
you can start to expect some real disasters to occur.
So E5 is played by Paul Morphy.
We see now Ruki one the rookies now develop towards the center, whereas Blackshirts they're still disconnected
at home.
Everyone's on holiday in the black position.
No pieces have been developed.
When you develop pieces, you stop them being on holiday.
They are participating and the battle.
We've got lots of lots of pieces participating here already.
We see details five and now it looks as though hang on, this is a bit worrying exchange of Queens.
But Paul Morphy welcomes it here.
After 1965, things are actually getting together on Kether Common Squares.
We see Queen 61 and here, instead of recapturing on Daewon Polymorph, he plays Bishop takes F7 Check
after Kingi seven.
Can you see what Paul Morphy plays?
I'll give you five seconds to pause for the.
OK, 96 check and it's double check, so the king has to move the double check now the king unwisely
takes on F7 to play on in this game.
King Desex was needed after which one can actually take the queen with Chag and still be in a very good
position of the taking.
But the opponent played a major disaster move.
King takes F7 as positions get more and more hard play, you can expect disasters.
Guess what one can play in this position which ends the game.
I'll give you five seconds to pause video here.
OK, nighttime's Aints.
And look look at this lack of peace in the final position, these peace is still at home.
This is a vivid story now in this story, when I told you the basic nature about the pieces, I didn't
say about sacrificing forms that I the concrete examples show how you can actually achieve a huge differential,
a huge difference between your peace, the woman and the opponents piece of armor.
So this is a vivid example.
Paul Morphy is one of those model players that in your early stamp's as a chess player, it's actually
better to look sometimes at Paul Morphy, Anderson Grecco.
If you look at those three players from the past, there wasn't so much opening theory as is today.
There isn't so much, you know, computer analysis.
And you can look at their raw openings and extract really great principles for your early steps in the
game.
They are like the early evolution of chess style.
In any case, there was the so-called romantic era of chess where people used to sacrifice pawns to
maximize the peace, pressure and initiative, the ability to coordinate pieces quickly, to create
attacks quickly.
And this is like a devastating example where the gambits of pawns maximize peace development.
There is a trade off, though you are losing some pawns in general.
Some of these governments are a bit dodgy.
But actually also in your early repertoire, you do.
You might want to include some gambits which take the opponent away from their opening period and maximize
your peace development.
And I'll talk about those, you know, later on, of course.
But briefly, you know, if you wanted a gambit selection, you could play like Morphy, you know,
with the rook, by the way, all sorts of games, you know, after E5 there are all sorts of interesting
gambits to consider, but I will mention those later in the course.
But here, just just take in the the lesson from this game that even if you're down on a whole rook,
if you can maximize your peace development relative to your opponent by by trading off some pawns,
so training off material peace, development and peace pressure, that peace pressure can yield huge
dividends.
And you can, you know, whip up a very, very dangerous attack.
And he slips up here with this king takes F7 going straight into a checkmate.
The rookie is controlling those escape squares.
The knight is playing Czech King can't escape.
The king can't go back to that bishop.
This is checkmate.
So a beautiful little game.
So I'm hoping to reinforce any concept I say in this section about opening principles with Morfe or
ANSO, other players examples.
So have you got something from this example?
And it does also introduce a very concrete thing that you can do.
It's all very well someone saying, you know, one, how much better a piece of the opponent.
How do you actually achieve that?
You might have to trade off some points.
You might have to play again.
The game itself may have served me extremely well, especially in online chess.
I've used a variety of gambling.
It's like against the Sicilian defense, the Smithburg game.
But we'll get to those later.
OK, just bear in mind the lessons from this example before we go on, OK?
Thanks so much.