Hi there in this introduction lecture, I want to highlight to you one of my core philosophies for playing
tactics, for enjoying transects, what they actually represent.
When we improve on Chattaway, we find out about our own strengths and weaknesses.
And actually relative to computers, we definitely do have weaknesses tactically compared to, say,
computers who can analyze rather which can analyze millions of positions per second.
And we have no hope of competing, which has engines nowadays.
Nevertheless, chess is still popular and nevertheless, we can still play beautiful tactics and combinations.
We can compensate for actually being human with our limited, calculating ability by prioritizing,
forcing moves, by having a very, very keen eye when we actually do the process of calculating for
the opportunities that exist on every single move that we calculate or every half move or play piano.
Why every move often creates new opportunities which didn't exist before.
One of the key techniques for making sure you do prioritise forcing moves is the expression Chacal Shax
chacal captures and chacal frat's, especially major threats like a threat of making one or two and
even very, very beautiful combinations can arise just by the prioritization of forcing moves, which
is in a way, it's a compensation mechanism because we can't look at millions of possessions.
But we what we do want to find out are those very, very important details.
The possession which can enable us to sometimes win by force.
Now, here this is a very interesting position, quite aesthetically beautiful in my view.
And really, as I say, the emphasis of this introduction video is just to get into that mindset that
we're really compensating for being human when we do prioritise forcing moves.
So here we're not forcing moves coming to mind, which might be at all useful to actually end up winning
material on this occasion.
So if we tackle checks and within that, you know, we check with checks and move in, that we see kind
of weaknesses.
The last moves, you might find something beautiful you might want to.
I'll give you time to pause the video.
I'll give you five cents because we and spend as long as you want.
Can you see what the knockout combination here is?
OK, it starts with rookie AIJAC, so Black has very, very limited replies, essentially.
If black, actually.
Takes this --, then we have Queenie's sex chat.
So that's like killer common squares, what I call the common squares.
So I emphasize greatly when you calculate, you know, look for weaknesses of the last of the common
squares and the in effect cause the effects all around the board, basically like the discovery effects
of pieces, which can sometimes be easily overlooked, because when you move, you might not realize
you've opened up all this stuff.
So anyway, here, yeah, there's a killer common square on hair, so black can't do that.
So black is limited in replies and plays rotates aids.
Now here chacal checks again and you might find something truly magical
in this position.
So, again, I'll give you five cents for that, can you find something truly magical in this position?
OK, there's a move which is really, really powerful, it makes it very, very clear that it's winning
and it's actually the move coincides G7 change.
So, again, we're limiting the potential points to severely.
So of the King-Size, what's the point here?
Is it just to be the so-called exchange up when you work for Knight or Bishop?
That's like being the exchange up, or is there another point?
What if I told you to check all checks again?
So you because it all came across this route.
Jiwon Jack, is is there another check in this position if you really took this seriously about checking
all checks?
So if you really, really try hard to compensate for being human, you've got to check all checks,
at least those high priority for moves, those captures, those major threats of making one or two.
But there's actually a key check in this position.
And it's not a fake queening necessarily.
That is not a check or a fight on promoting a bishop.
That will be a check.
Are there any other checks apart from Jiwon won a fight to either bishop or queen while the check could
be in this position and hopefully.
Five seconds will hopefully find offtakes and not queening here, but actually on the promoting a night
and that's CHAC and in fact we're going to be a rock up.
Very, very clever.
Very, very clever indeed.
We're Holbrook up here.
So anyway, I thought this was an interesting example.
But the key point I want to drive in this introductory video is this philosophy in each section of the
game, there's primary philosophies, I would say.
In the opening stage of the game, the primary philosophy for me is always at the moment, basically
put oneself beyond the feet before going on the attack.
And that attack is like an active operation.
So try and develop pieces slowly and be optimal.
When you develop pieces, don't move pieces, small ones generally, and don't move your moves unless
it's kind of critically important.
So, you know, there's a there's a philosophy which drives the more technical details later.
And in the mental game, you know, there are driving philosophies.
And underpinning them is this idea of compensating for our weaknesses of being human that we can't calculate
like computers.
And yet tactics, as I've said many times in this course, is like a major, major thing I would like
to impart to you to be a tactical monster.
So when we calculate forcing variations, we're kind of doing a track.
Well, not having to calculate lots and lots of branches.
It's like a bear trunk.
If you look at this, this was actually a bad trunk.
It's like a magic trick because the opponent was limited replies.
It's our duty even on fast tanks or even bullet chairs.
It's our duty to see some of the forcing variations.
I try to and it really elevates the play.
Sometimes you can play quite brilliant combinations, even in very, very fast chess time controls.
But that's later.
You know, maybe you need you do need a lot of time when you first start in chess to really take a time
and clock to find these forcing move sequences.
They are like the essential information to get as priority first things, first priority information
to get from a position.
It's like asking the question, can I actually just win by force?
We're forcing those.
So, OK, I hope you got the key points that I wanted to make and we could elaborate on those points
about the prioritization of forcing moves.
But, you know, one take away sentence during your actual games, Chacal Cheque's chacal captures Chacko
major frat's like of make one or two will help you along way.
Actually even that that one sentence.
But practice in this course makes perfect as well for the examples.
OK, so even though we're not computers, just in a nutshell now we can compensate for our limitations
as human beings and also you can do so in other ways actually through navigating this course.
Generally, context switching for most humans is a painful thing to change from one context to another,
because you've got all your resources, your balance out, you're leveraging when a particular task.
So I would say, you know, have fiends days.
This is not the trick in general, where one day you focus on the openings section of this course,
another the middle game, and on another day end games where you might have to field days in a row.
So you've got all your kind of conceptual toolkit around.
And so not only you minimize an overhead of contextual switching, because this course does have these
multiple contacts to master the opening game and end game.
But you also want to maximize your acceleration when you win a particular contest.
You want to you want to maximize your acceleration, having the relevant resources in your mind, relevant
priorities.
But in this middle game section, the priority of forcing moves is a huge priority.
Huge.
And the underlying philosophy is to minimize the kind of weaknesses as human beings, we can't really
calculate like computers.
So what can we do?
We can at least calculate the high priority, forcing those prioritization, OK?
And so much.