Hi there.
In this election, I'd like to introduce you to the Royal Harpaz or Spanish game, as it's known, so
845 if you play 94, you're exerting pressure on E5 and Black quite often replaced with 96.
So this is the main move.
And the most popular move at Grandmaster Level is B5.
And your early stance in chess, you might play Bishop CIFOR, which is the Italian game and the Italian
game in recent years has also experienced a kind of resurgence of interest even at the super grandmaster
level.
So both of these bishop moves are very, very good.
So the way the pairs seems to flatten Y is actually going to win a pawn.
This is not the case.
Why?
It seems to be trying to undermine Plank's protection of E5.
But quite often the most popular move is ASX, which is the so-called Morphy defense named after Paul
Morphy.
So the ruler Pazz has a lot of name variations.
A lot of the history and culture of chess has seen great contributions from all sorts of champions,
world class players and uncrowned Kenz Kings of the game, like the Morphy defense named Nonsupport
Morphy.
He wasn't an official world champion yet.
He was widely sort of acknowledged as being the strongest player in the world.
So that is one of the strongest moves.
A and we also have this initial wealth of named variations, which I can go over.
But let me just point out to you something here of the Aztecs.
If you play Bishopsgate C6, which is the so-called exchange variation, and you can delay it and it
gets called to delay the exchange rate, but say you try and win a pawn, you should know that black
and equalize with queen, the four here, hitting the light, hitting the pawn, and you've only kind
of given them black.
A small advantage here.
If they take they've got the bishop power.
So the bishops look after each other on the different squares, colors of squares and black could even
cancel Queensland later.
So that's actually quite good for black.
The intention of the group has is not really to do that at all, especially on ASX.
It's not it's not when that pawn are so.
But there is a line with Bishop 66, which, you know, Fisher has played with great success, but it's
not taken this morning.
It's castling.
And then later, quite often, for example, there's various moves here.
But generally, you know, this is an interesting position where Defoe is later played.
So that is a legitimate variation, but it's not with the intent of winning a pawn.
So let me just that's a basic thing one should know.
Now, quite often the bishop drops back to A4 and there is a move B five from black.
This is an unusual treatments and it's called the Norwegian Defence.
But because our current world chess champion is Norwegian, I thought I pointed out as the even before
Magnus Carlson, it's good to know about the Norwegian fans.
So you might want to check out some steam games.
There's a lot of stuff to investigate that black can do that you could do as a sidestep.
But yeah, an early science that is indeed the exchange version.
I do want to point out as well that Bobby Fisher used this with fantastic success.
There are many Fisher games with this early departure which will simplify your entire task of having
a repertoire as long as you don't go in for the win in the pawn.
If you cancel and then follow some Fisher template plans, you can get a really decent position with
an advantage.
So there is a way of pass the whole theoretical exercise.
But here, Bishop A4, you need to know like potentially about the Norwegian defense.
There's only a five.
It looks as though sacrificing a pawn.
Yeah, but black will get compensation if you take the pawn here as well.
So another move of the A4 is desex.
So this is the modern Stinnett's, the defense so named after William, it's the first official world
champion after morphing and he contributed greatly to the game in terms of positional principles and
the kind of periodic table of how a possession can be assessed in terms of its elements like Paul Structure,
King Safety Piece, Activity Week and Strong Squares, etc. so, you know, kicked off the whole positional
play kind of understanding.
And this this line, VeraSun Desex is named after him.
Schliemann very, very aggressive R5.
So you might.
Need to prepare against players that want to play like this, it's very aggressive treatments.
There's also often they have sex.
There's something you can do as early as Poshard D4 McKensie variation.
There's nothing sex castling desex.
This is the starting inspiration.
The third.
So deferring that desex move, which we saw earlier, that's delayed these things and then also we have
often times things if castling B5 Bishop be free, there's Bishop Bisa, the Arkhangelsk defense and
or archangels like Angel Gabriel.
I'm my name's Gabriel, but there's Arcangel names.
You know my names from an Archangel Gabriel.
So you have a lot of angels in the in the Greek Cypriot tradition.
I know this is of course, this is an aside.
So there's also the more modern Arkhangelsk very defense.
So if the bishop efore might have six castles b5 now we have some option as well.
The modern Arkhangelsk, the fence is actually Bishop B and Bishop C five immediately bishops if I want
Bishop B, so we also have the so-called open the fence.
So if we go back Bishop A full of sex y consuls and black kind of takes a pawn in the census that opens
up the center a bit like the civil defense operation, whatever.
The center has some points taken from it.
It makes the game more open to the open fence is a legitimate thing you should kind of know about.
It's a lot to know about, which is why, you know, Bobby Fischer's only bishop take C6.
The exchange version is worth dying if you want if you don't want the hassle and you might not want
the hassle in your early stages of chess, player might want to just play the role of has the simple
fashion start of it.
So there's a lot to know.
Now, if we if we're going down this rabbit hole of the Morphy defense, especially for this is coming
to what we call the main line, the most front line, at least through the period of history trends
in chess.
You know, the main line you can have through the period of history or the main line in the last two
years, the most popular line in the last two years.
And you can get that in modern chess because chess engines will find innovations and openings and all
of a sudden there's a trend.
You move because it's winning people instead of winning.
There's a move which, you know, maybe statistically in the past overall was bad, but all of a sudden
it's winning because they found some amazing resource.
So trends, you know, opening trends, they do change in chess, but.
OK, we're having a look now at a very, very trendy, well, historically, historically important
line, the close the fence.
So this has been the main move for quite some time.
So Bishop S7, so, again, you know, blacks allowing the possibility here with five seven minutes
of white taking.
But you don't want to do this because again, you know, Queen before just equalises.
This is just going to be equal.
You're giving up a potentially really valuable alliance coalition here, but they can be done deliberately
as well, but not with the intention usually of winning that form.
So Bishop S7 and the main line move here is rookie one actually now officially defending the E4 form.
So this is a very important key position within the rite of passage as part of the most established
mainline through the history of chess.
Black is usually a bit fearful now.
This is a signal that if was protected, that this is actually a move which is a frat's, a real threat,
not just a kind of theoretical fight.
It's a real threat to quite often black plays.
B5 here B5.
So we're going to start looking at the main meat and potatoes now of this initial action.
So I hope you're with me on this.
These are the main key like names of the world powers as an introduction to it, just as an introduction
to it.
OK, that's a much.