Hi there.
In this lecture, we introduce Tamarama, chosen for me to am chosen is a super instructive world chess
champion.
He hated losing his kind of known master of prophylaxis preventive measures, kind of stopping the opponent's
attacks even before they even dreamt of anything.
He just hated losing.
To the extent that, you know, quite often these games were draws.
The general public perhaps didn't at the time appreciate him that much because, you know, sometimes
it was a bit on the dull drawing side.
But I think personally, we are privileged that we can just go back and have a look at his wins.
And they are great, instructive material for me personally from a positional angle, from positional
sacrifices angle.
You know, when you sacrifice a rook for a bishop positional sacrifice, it was a master of the positional
sacrifice.
The close position is generally I feel there's a huge amount to learn from Trigram Trojan.
And he is, you know, one of the world champions used quite frequently to teach middle game, more
refined positional strategy.
So he was a world champion from 1963 to 1969.
And during those candidates matches, a lot of the lot of the games were draws.
And he just won the old one and he won so much.
So he's more suited to these matches to qualify for the world championship than, say, a Swiss tournament.
Put him and Boris Spassky in the same space.
Thomas, you know, Spassky would probably win a lot more games, maybe take a few losses and end up
with a higher score.
But Seagram chosen would like draw most of the games, maybe win one or two and not win so many Swiss
tomans.
But if you put the two in the match, if Petrosian is hardly ever losing and he just all he needs to
do is win one or two, he'll win a match against Boris Spassky.
So, you know, this kind of risk averse style does have its like killer applications.
So if you really hate losing, I think I'm chosen as a great plan to model and his opening's repertoire
as well.
Everything with that.
So basically, you know, he was nicknamed Iron Tigran due to his almost impenetrable defensive playing
style, which emphasized safety above all else.
He's also credited with popularizing chess in Armenia.
So he was a candidate for the world championship on occasions, 1953, 56, 59, 62, 71, sorry for
77 and 1980.
He won the world championship in 1963 against Mikhail Public, successfully defended it in 1966 against
Boris Spassky and lost that Spassky in 1969.
So.
So he was the defending world champion or world champs who can play in tank executive free yes cycles.
And he won the Soviet championship four times 959.
Sixty one.
Sixty nine.
Seventy five.
So all of these, Thomas, you can go and look at the games and old focus.
If you're interested in the win, just look at the winners, get the draws.
But I know the general public were tortured at the time by his drawer's.
So anyway, without further ado, this is one of my favorite, most iconic game examples of him and
his playing style provocative.
He's playing white against Boris Spassky.
So my every night have thanks GFA already, you know, a solid start, very solid positional opening.
This is generally like to offer good king safety in general unless black really goes crazy and tries
to expose the king.
But if they're going to do that, sometimes they're taking risks with their own safety.
Try and, you know, break open a Kingside attack.
But we see Spassky giving a great go here.
So we see what happens when someone like Boris Spassky tries to go for the front against there against
that to tries and tries to go for the king, so to speak.
So be free 94.
We have F4, F5.
It's a very aggressive play from Boris Spassky with the black pieces and just takes her.
And now there's a clear strategic risk plac doesn't want to give what this Four-Square generally.
If White gets the Four-Square like this is a good thing, it locks in.
The bishop is forced to be a good thing in general.
So we have details.
Capturing was the sense with the form keeping control of it for now.
Ninety one b5 Afri ninety one facilitated that well having this horrible fuq we have efore hitting the
rook buzzer beater.
We have ETECSA free.
Thanks, Jeffrey.
So already, you know, Black has suffered a little bit of structural damage, but blacks pieces seem
fairly active.
This one's a concern, blocked him by its own form.
And this is a little bit of a concern already.
Bishop, thanks be to it seems as though hasn't Black kind of exposed the king a little bit his own
king.
Might you find the bishop actually drops the EU away from thin cazzo position just to hold up CIFOR
and differe and now before we start liberating, especially when it seems very, very scary.
Now, hold on a sec.
There's also even possibilities of switching Oruc.
Isn't this a really dangerous attack?
OK, Petrosian is, you know, a defensive master and counterattacking master.
Yes.
He just takes on air full of the bishop for the first surprise.
And when I first kind of, you know, Altaie in this game, it was on YouTube years ago.
I I called it like hijacking Weigel's here.
This is quite Bishop is actually now that blacks lost the dance membership.
It's kind of important also for King's safety.
And in fact, Petrosian recognizes the double edged nature of this position.
And, you know, it's a bit scary to, you know, move through.
There are there are attacking things coming up.
There are even, you know, possibilities of rooked four and five.
So, you know, it is getting very, very scary.
But in this situation, there's a very, very calming, reassuring move that to shows in place, which,
you know, trades off a bit material for his own safety and to reduce the opponents king's safety.
I wonder if you can guess it if I give you five seconds to pause the video here, what they take remonstrating
player here, which really kind of makes whites losing property virtually zero after this.
OK, it's 90 Freyja, sacrificing the exchange, trying to get hold of all these squares and in fact,
the wind probability is also going up for whites.
We have bishop takes off from road, takes a the solenoids once it moves.
Now there's this kind of backfire.
Bishop G4, look at this bishop coming into ESX.
Look at the queen.
All of a sudden things are combining against the black king.
Has Boris Spassky just been tricked?
Has he just opens up his own king?
Basically in effect, we see Knight takes for him?
Well, this is good.
It opens up some squares like G5 for the Queen.
But again, you know this.
Now it gets even scarier for blacks king safety after this next move.
Can you guess what white plays here?
OK.
Another exchange Sakuragi takes for this really gives access for the bishop for that lovely E.S. Square,
and there's not too many options here.
The king doesn't want to invite Queen Achak by moving.
So we have going into that pen, but now this lovely centralisation move which cuts out, you know,
a lot of counterplay essentially.
And that's often the name of the game, you know, with the grandmothers in general.
They don't want to give their opponents any counterplay.
They don't like losing particularly.
They like to have control over their own.
But without the opponent having counterplay we have Koeneke for but now 1966 and actually of the Czech
one blacks in big trouble, we have a seven and there's a remarkable way of celebrating the pen.
Here we have Bishop F7 rotates F7 seven and now one of the most iconic movies of all time.
In my view, TVM Chozen plays in this position.
I wonder if you can guess if I give you five cents for the video.
OK, Quinn.
It's a beauty, it's an absolute beauty.
It's a real drag and drop and fall tactic.
So Black had to resign if King-Size the 90s.
I have seven Chac and a 96 is easily winning for white people, so this game was like, come and get
me, come and get me the opponent, you know, attacking plan and actually did want to do that, but
open themselves up.
It was through to positional like kind of exchange sacrifices that we see the massive backfire resulting
in this brilliant, you know, commendatory blow in the end.
So a beautiful game and shows, you know, you don't you don't try and hack attack a player like to
gamble chosen.
You know, he's going to be very, very dangerous in how he's going to, like, potentially sacrifice
just to zero your attack.
Absolutely zero.
You attack and expose your king.
So you've got to be very, very careful against him chosen.
So anyway, he's a player, which in contrast to make hotel and these are only my personal opinions.
I absolutely adore looking at the winds of tech.
I'm chosen because I don't like losing.
I'm a bad loser.
If you're if you don't like losing and you want to take losing out of your equation a little bit, at
least then try and study the games that I'm chosen and how he yeah.
He kind of destroyed the opponents at times before they were even conceived or things like this just
made them backfire.
And he also has a lot of positional openings, though, which might be an acquired taste.
He was a fan of the French defense and the car on the fence.
So in your initial stages, though, as a chess player, I would say just to learn about tactics, you
know, play sharper opening, start off with like gambits even or the Sicilian defense.
So closing the actual opening repertoire might not be suitable for the newcomer.
He's a refined, acquired taste like avocado, could be considered an acquired taste in food.
I mean, they're very nice right now, but some things are an acquired taste.
I think Petrosian is an acquired taste personally, but I definitely appreciate his instructive games.
And if you want to learn about, you know, pull structure, longer term planning, strategic positional
exchange sacrifices, you know, I think he's he's the man to check out and a loathing of losing.
OK, I enjoyed that.
And maybe check to Gram frozen out as much.