Hi there, I'm a major chess addict, I confess I dream quite often bullet chess in the evenings and
here I just played a check and I noted, hang on, you know, I'm going to take this rook.
That's one of the reasons I played the check.
My opponent played Quincy Fife.
I mean, maybe there were better moves.
By the way, I'm not saying Jack's even the best move.
It seems as though I can actually take the queen.
It's just a bullet game.
But anyway, here I did play something which I felt quite beautiful.
I got a bit of applause from the spectators on the stream.
So I stream as Kings Cross reference, which, by the way, so instead of taking the rook, when you
see a strong move, look for an even stronger one.
And in fact, I found something quite beautiful.
And an awareness of a mating pattern really helped, in particular the fundamentals of that mating pattern,
the ingredients having bishops lurking around the opponents king, especially when you see a bishop
like this controlling Kidscape squares, there's a particular mating pattern it could conjure up eventually
in your own mind as you become more and more familiar with mating patterns.
Certain mating patterns are associated with certain piece configurations and hair, which does have
this bishop hair, which can be quite dangerous for mating opponents, especially with the so-called
Boden's male pattern.
And when I played it, it was actually identified by some of the audience as well.
So I didn't take the rug.
So guess what I played here if I give you five seconds portfolio.
OK, I was checking all checks on this occasion instead of just taking the rock, when you take things
that is very lucrative, but like we've recaptures any routine that's in your play, sometimes you miss
out on that high resolution of possibilities that as a stronger and stronger tactician, you want to
be more and more aware of.
You want to be aware of your options essentially.
And here there is an option.
You don't have to just take the rock.
In fact, Checker checks Roxxy sex check, so I played this, and this is even in the bullet game,
so eventually, you know, even in bullet checks, you can leverage some of the key mating patterns.
So the Bowdens bite is one of my favorites.
But also, you know, the Blackburne male pattern comes up quite a lot for me because I play one before
I end up with a black male pattern, which I can also show you.
So here in this particular male pattern, we're kind of damaging blacks control of asix to try and get
our bishop here.
So you see, the bishops are complementary in the Bowdens, mate.
My opponent took on C6, Cuéntame, C6, Jack Betis and Bishop Essex's Checkmate.
So both Shammy and it was identified by some in the audience.
So I really enjoyed that.
That was kind of my game of the day.
And also I felt that the next day I should extend my checkmate patterns, even in this beginner's course,
because actually there are a lot of fun also to save yourself some more exercises, to set you guys
some more exercises for finding the mates.
That's going to be a fantastic key skill to drive your results forward.
So here the Bowdens mate pattern is with the two bishops kind of criss-cross like this.
So, yeah, you can leverage it during an actual game and you get kind of a whiff of it's like an acquired
smell of the possession and the quiet downside of Black's position.
Because you've got this Beshir power, you can try and invoke the Bowdens mate pattern.
So, yeah, it really adds enjoyment.
Chess, if you do manage to play some of these make patterns, the Blackburne pattern, you know, one
of my favorites, I've often won games of the Blackburn mate pattern where games, you know, quite
often go a little bit like this.
The unsuspecting opponents.
Let me kind of build up on that king, for example, if they play passively too passively, that is,
and say, I mean, this is not an actual game.
I'm just just saying the basics of it, that I get my queen, you know, across.
I've got this bishop kind of looking down this diagram.
And quite often I've had this so many times from this opening, you know, the Blackburn make pattern
as I discover its official name later.
I mean, I had played this mate quite a lot, but it's officially the Blackburn mate pattern where you're
meeting with two bishops.
Yeah, these are among my favourites when you meet with the two bishops.
So here, can you see what WINZ plays, which is rather crushing if I give you five seconds to pull
the video and this has been actually a huge point score, are they playing one before to just get this
particular pattern?
So sometimes you can even get your openings to try and get a particular make pattern or actually recommend
one, be free for fun on the force.
The time controls, by the way, that the Namsan arson attack system avoids a lot of opening theory
and can get you a very dangerous, especially if you ever have a situation like this.
So how you spota that you can play quintet's H5.
And I've had this so many times of the details.
Bishopsgate, a quick point scorer, especially for those Tilghman's you want to win and get to the
next game.
It's not that Suess format.
It's more like an all you can eat format.
So Bishop takes age as checkmate.
Yeah.
So the Blackburne make pattern so they add a lot of passion and enjoyment to the games to play them
to make chess more fun with the patterns it enriches your chess.
They are also quite often a cultural reference to famous players of the past.
You can use a site like Chess Games to check out Morphy, Pillsbury and some of the others that I mentioned.
As part of, you know, the names make patterns when their names for players.
So there are cultural points.
And that's so important when you look at games of pool, Morphy especially.
Games end to end, you're getting an enrichments each time when you look at a complete game and enrichment
of your opening, your middle game and the concentric circles, you want a solid inner circle, basic
understanding of opening the game and game and a concentric circle.
You want to increase your understanding a bit more specific, maybe openings, specific mental games,
specific angles.
So as you get into the more outer circles, you get more detailed, sophisticated knowledge and it's
more and more connected perhaps to other things.
It's more contextualized.
So the concentric circle method generally is recommendable.
So any cultural pointers you get in this course and I felt that was very, very important, not just
to lay the foundation, the inner circle of the basics of opening and game, but the cultural pointers
and in fact the mating patterns allude to the great players of the past quite often, like Pillsbury,
the Morphy, etc..
Grecco, a much earlier player.
The coach pointers are critical for you.
Enriching these circles go through complete games.
And it's not just the act of cheating, by the way.
Each phase of the game in isolation, you know, you want opening's, which you do understand the resulting
mental game plans and even end game structures you're likely to get.
So there's a great fluency of transition between opening the game and that game is arbitrary.
Otherwise always you just you could, for example, memorize a sequence of opening moves.
But I have no idea what to do in the middle game.
So in fact, I'm quite often playing before you have a view of mental game plans and tactics like this
beautiful male pattern, the black the male pattern named after Henry Blackburn, a famous British player.
So, yeah, mating patterns.
There are a lot of fun.
And if you do this strict discipline of checking all checks, even the totally outrageous, sometimes
in some situations they do actually work.
OK, so mating patterns, a lot of fun to be had there.
And is it quite a few exercises?
And they do add greatly to my enjoyment of chess and I hope they will add greatly to your enjoyment
of chess as well.
And so much.