Hi there.
Sometimes it's not about an unprotected piece, the downsides of the opponent's position as General
King's safety issues, that you might suspect you might have a way of advantageously playing a certain
position.
Now, here it's white play and when material, I wonder if he can work it out.
If I give you five seconds to pause video what you play her.
OK, we can intuitively think there's something up with the black position here, because, you know,
these pieces don't seem to be helping the Kings, the fans.
The queen is Penns.
We seem to have this nice open phone here.
There's stuff going on, isn't there?
But what if we just exchange of pieces?
Black has nothing to worry about.
What have we got?
Zero.
Zilch.
We must look for stronger moves sometimes.
And in fact, it seems.
Hang on.
You know, if we try and go for the opponents king, we end up losing all our pieces.
In fact, relative to the time of this recording last night, I had this game myself and an online game
where I rejected a certain check because I felt like it was pointless.
But there was another check, which is very similar to this example, which kind of held the pieces
together and let you know could have led to a knockout.
Now, here is there is a major safety issue, I'll give you the first move, actually, we give up our
Queen 51, we prompt.
Queen at four, you might think, OK, this is a great way of losing all the pieces.
Is that because the Queen's evil looking ah, one rook.
Yeah, that's the fun of attacking.
Yes.
Sometimes it seems, you know, OK, we have this situation.
We take our I'll make it simpler.
But here there is a special move which holds things together and we can actually end up better.
Can you see what that is?
If I give you five cents pause video here.
Yeah, we can leverage the special powers of a double check, which, you know, makes sometimes magic
on the chessboard, we're holding the rug and this is immune because of that.
Jack Black has to move the king here somewhere.
So say they move the king's.
But now we can just take on our form.
We've just won a Holbrook.
But sometimes you have to find these combinations, you do need to have sometimes and terms of encouragement
that there are downsides and opponents position to celebrate, sometimes we need a kind of clue.
Sometimes something might be up.
So you could be looking for all the forcing moves, but sometimes, you know, the spirit isn't there.
You really you don't sense the downsides as you become stronger and stronger.
You do think, you know, things do need to be followed up.
If you're, like, conscientious about this, losing the queen in an outrageous manner, you're actually
literally losing weight, conscientious in an outrageous manner, and then to have most of your pieces
hanging essentially in this position of the takes.
Yeah, you do need to find Ninety-Six checking all Chiang's.
You know, some checks will hold things together.
So anyway, a major classic downside is dependent king safety.
When the opponents king seems to be precariously placed.
You know, there are often amazing options, you've just got to find them.
Sometimes these checks do more than just check the opponent's.
Can they also hold together your pieces to make sure you're not losing an entire rock and it's a double
check.
So that means that there's no time to take it.
So check for the night.
So, yeah, I hope you found this.
That's a combination.
And, you know, I'll get into this mindset as well, you know, that it's not just the case of Ford
only calculation, you need some inspiration.
Sometimes you need to start to get this intuitive sense for down sides in the opponent's position.
OK, that's a much.