Hi there.
In this example, I'm going to show you how the back row maids comes to be so popular as a way of people
losing or winning in games of chess here or world chess champion Magnus Carlson.
To be fair, he's low on time.
So normally he'd see tactical issues like this.
He is faced with this move C5 from Wesley.
So so Wesley so is actually playing with the black pieces against our current world chess champion.
Now, Magnus can't take this pawn because of Rook takes and that's losing material.
So he actually plays Knight takes.
Now Wesley so has a very nice Trócaire of the night takes Quintet's Guess What Wesley So plays in this
position, which causes quite a angry reaction, shall we say, for Magnus, cos understandably.
But he is low on time and this happens to us.
We're all human to spare their minds.
You know, when you lose just just try and get better for the next game.
Training yourself tactically, you know, chess is that experience.
It's you have to like learn from your losses.
And even if you become a grand master later, you'll still be making mistakes as parts of the games
when to lose or to draw.
It's part of the game.
So anyway, can you see a key move that Black can play here and exploit the fact that White has no heir
for the king?
So it's prone to a back row made in theory.
But can that theoretical downside be brought into light here with Black's next move?
Now, I'm going to give you five seconds to pause the video, if you like.
This style, by the way, you know, check out my complete guide to chess tactics and we go over, you
know, a huge amount of tactical puzzles.
So I do I do love tactics in chess.
It's one of my main areas.
I like to think I'm strong tactically by here.
There's a great tactical move Black played.
OK, it's Rook's CSX, believe it or not.
So it seems as though the routes just been offered, you know, just just able to be taken.
But Magnis can't play this because of Queen takes.
And if Rook takes this, Rook comes the A1.
And look, we have that dreaded backroad male pattern.
We can only delay being checkmated.
So in the game, I mean, this is a disaster.
This is a total disaster in the game was played instead of Queen Tangs, Mangahas played this offtakes.
Instead of -- takes, there's rock takes, which still implies that black might be in trouble.
Now, if blacks are not careful, there could be a black hole mate for the black king.
And here was this.
So just made some for the King Winsley with age five to avoid any such issue, you can imagine the same
thing happening to black.
If Black played this, then white could be on at least on the way to equalizing off the track here and
then taking how the Queen would have to step back and give herself back so we could even be worse.
It could be a worse situation where, say, here and then check unless the queen steps back here, this
could end up meeting the black king.
So creating Arul or lift, as it's sometimes called, it's very, very important, a square where your
king can escape to.
So sometimes your own pawns can be kind of a down side of your position, your own pawns, restricting
your own king.
And we see how these things can creep into a position unexpectedly.
So sometimes because of our limits as human beings, sometimes we just before we reach such a position,
you know, to make some effort, the king is a good precaution.
Of course, we measure because we can't always, you know, think like a computer all the time.
So, you know, Mangler should have maybe earlier taken some opportunity to make after the king.
But, yeah, we end up in this position, which is very, very dangerous.
To be fair.
It's very, very dangerous off the C5 is played because it's threatening CIFOR.
So it's already a very dangerous position because of the king being restricted.
So we saw Knights takes, Knight takes and then this move.
So yeah, Magnus lost his queen and eventually lost the game.
OK, so very, very instructive game there.
This is hot off the press actually from from the time of this recording.
It just happened yesterday.
Enough for our final topical example for you.
And we should have a look at some classic back examples as well.
The back chromate pats.
There's one of the most fundamental checkmating patterns, the orange asare for I'd sprinkle a good
selection of examples and then have made me look at another important mating pattern just to make sure
this aspect of your game is is started in this course.
It's a very fundamental aspect of chess, this knowledge and awareness of mating patterns.
OK, and so much.