WEBVTT 00:01.130 --> 00:08.380 Hi there in this election, we see our queen seems to be attacked. 00:08.720 --> 00:13.710 Do we need to move the queen when the opponent threatens us? 00:13.730 --> 00:14.840 We have three options. 00:14.990 --> 00:17.630 We parry the threats we make. 00:17.630 --> 00:25.740 A bigger threats have bothered me or we completely crush the opponents with a crushing force win. 00:25.970 --> 00:27.770 So those are the three options in general. 00:27.920 --> 00:30.630 If you're lucky to have the third option, that's brilliant. 00:30.920 --> 00:33.710 This mindset is what I call a positive mindset. 00:35.570 --> 00:38.690 You want to maximize your winning probability, guys. 00:41.220 --> 00:49.830 And yes, if it's a blitz game and this is spoken about in beginner courses, if you're playing against 00:50.350 --> 00:52.800 the clock, it's OK to win on time. 00:52.800 --> 00:54.720 You can't you're allowed to win games of chess. 00:54.840 --> 00:55.710 You can win on time. 00:55.710 --> 00:57.090 You can play quick moves and win on time. 00:57.360 --> 01:04.080 You know, strategies in general, if I listed you our top ten strategies, they'd be like vehicles 01:04.080 --> 01:04.590 of everything. 01:04.590 --> 01:09.810 I told you how you can translate that into winning probability for me, aside from the chess clock, 01:10.170 --> 01:13.790 it's about bringing down the opponents through that downsides. 01:14.370 --> 01:20.550 Now, here, it's good to have this, Wolf, of mating patterns at your disposal. 01:21.000 --> 01:25.110 And when you look through for what you do when you're threatened, it's good to identify the opponent 01:25.110 --> 01:26.520 is threatening your queen. 01:26.520 --> 01:28.140 Otherwise, you don't want to lose the queen for nothing. 01:28.560 --> 01:33.990 But your reaction could determine the entire fate of the game. 01:35.900 --> 01:39.260 So what is your reaction here, all checks? 01:41.830 --> 01:43.720 If you check all checks, can you find something? 01:46.400 --> 01:46.880 OK. 01:46.910 --> 01:52.480 How you spotted it, though, and getting used to this pattern, 96 is actually a double check. 01:52.480 --> 01:53.060 It doesn't matter. 01:53.060 --> 01:53.930 All queens are tight. 01:54.230 --> 01:56.630 They've got time to take our going because we've got this other check. 01:57.110 --> 02:00.380 When we got that double check, they have to move that thing. 02:01.310 --> 02:03.050 And it's like you've got immunity. 02:03.050 --> 02:04.280 The Queen's got immunity here. 02:04.280 --> 02:05.170 Can't be taken. 02:05.180 --> 02:12.290 It's an illegal move, an illegal move to take the Queen Elizabeth can't take the legal move because 02:12.290 --> 02:15.500 it's too checks to tax. 02:17.390 --> 02:21.910 So if the king goes to a fight, we've got basic support. 02:21.920 --> 02:22.460 Checkmate. 02:22.460 --> 02:23.950 Queen Elizabeth, thank you very much. 02:24.590 --> 02:26.030 And if the king goes to the eight. 02:28.880 --> 02:37.280 Yes, check, which has Queene checked those manhal that's recaptured, the king is fundamentally surrounded 02:38.060 --> 02:45.350 by its own pieces, leaving the night to deliver an amazing Chameides and the same if the rook had taken 02:46.280 --> 02:50.330 Knight and some of his cellmates smothered Mountbatten, very, very powerful. 02:51.290 --> 02:55.370 OK, both of them found that as much.