Either in this lecture, we see a magnificent example game from the first official world chess champion
of chess Steinitz, this is his game against Mikhail Sugaring in 1892.
So Steinitz not only was a great chess player, he was also a fantastic theoretician.
So he introduced the accumulation of advantages theory.
And also in doing so, that implies that there are advantages.
He he created the kind of periodic table of elements of the chess board, like the bishop pawn structure,
king safety, material, peace, mobility, which could be used to see if you do have an overall advantage.
So maybe your opponent is up three pawns by their king.
Safety is really bad.
So in fact, you're still winning the overall advantage using that kind of identification of what actually
are advantages in a possession.
So this is a really magnificent game by him.
And let's have a look.
E4 from Stinnett's.
We have a five score and this is in that world championship match of 1882.
Round four.
We see like a free 96 but should be five standard Reutter Pass 96 Berlin Defense and Aldy free from
finance.
This is keeping attention and is actually very popular even today.
These things see Frank G thinks might be these G-7.
So you see why is content to build up slowly and now plays a very, very interesting move indeed.
And the concept has been reused ever since 91.
If White Castle consoles immediately, the downside is the F1 square is used up and the rook would have
to move then no F1 by plane, no F1 immediately before castling.
It's safe enough to do so and the knight can potentially reroute.
But first, Bishop, a fall might be the seven and other night centralizes.
We see ninety five.
The bishop drops back 96 and here in fact it doesn't even need to castle.
There's an absence of a defender on seven and, you know, I love playing these kind of attacks in online
chats, they win quickly.
Sometimes you don't need to counsel.
You can just celebrate the default position of a rock and actually always play.
Just opening up the rock like this.
White can actually console queen side if other pieces are needed.
We see 97, 85.
So the work is really being activated and creating lots of potential threats and coordinations of pieces
h things offtakes.
This does weaken.
That so-called token of death potentially takes 90s.
We see 1965 quintets and white gains of tempo by the bishop in relation to that sensitive diagonal,
Quincy six and now Queeny two.
So it looks as though, well, maybe black needs to handle a I, but the white kings in the center,
so black just signals that and king safeties attended to as a priority.
Bishop, if he does want to save the console queen side and not get involved in any potentially terrible
tactical ideas, especially the Queen's like looking at Jita of my taste for a star.
So it's just a more sensible just to console her and use that phone.
We see King H.H., the King still being x rayed by the Rock, her White Castles Queen side.
And we have Rook eighty eight and here Queen AF1 range.
Interesting move.
The Stones set up some very, very interesting tactical possibilities.
A five ANAO default is played now.
This actually serves to not only flatten the five and the Queen hasn't got that many squares here,
but also encourages black to release that central control and black also 884.
So if black, for example, played AFL, then D5 is going to be winning.
You know, the Queen and the queen moves.
No details.
Is just putting loads of material because of 887 after so Black attends to that with 884, we have 1984
and now Black kind of undermines himself with Bishop 64.
This is a key defender of dark squares in this position.
So it's like removing the offender without actually taking an effort to remove the offender, just volunteers.
Itself and here you might think, well, an ordinary reCAPTCHA not capture, right?
Well, this really does take positions on their own merits.
You know, he didn't routinely counsel.
He didn't.
In fact, you know, Castle and when he played last night, then he didn't even call Swede's Castle
Queen side and he's got this active rock as a result, he's got major parks.
And here he doesn't routinely recaptcha, as you might think.
He actually plays rock, takes the fall.
He recognizes that this bishop without a counterpart.
And we see that also, you know, Morpheus, Morfe, his opera game could play a devastating role,
especially with the bishop hair, which finances kind of periodic table chess that also identifies as
a major asset.
The bishops in the middle game can be a major attacking force in the end game.
Also very, very useful.
They cover each other's back coverage of both kinds of square and hair with black already weakened on
the squares and this rook already looking, you know, down this AFO in a scary way.
This is an extremely scary position for blacks king safety all of a sudden, especially with this exchange
sacrifice we see in 1964, if B5, then there's a powerful move.
I wonder if you can spot it as the example which shows the dangers of the iPhone and other stuff.
Yeah, I mean, Queen Differe is so powerful here it will be foresting rotates the seven and Queen Takechi
six.
So for example, the Queen 66 is devastating.
Or if I will take these seven or 1964, you know, we're really getting in trouble with black hair.
There's all sorts of things her.
Including, you know, queen takes g sex and, you know, making use of both pens to put more pressure
on the woman from Queens.
So in fact.
Know Black played 1964 and here, a beautiful move indeed is played very, very logical.
So why it's got this fearsome bishop power, which, you know, is on stage in this kind of virtual
periodic table of chess elements.
And it's a great position to now go for it.
You know, Stein is his biggest contribution is that you should really accumulate advantages first before
going for the attack, because then the attacks are kind of irresistible.
And he reinvented himself, even though he did become number one in the world.
Following in the footsteps of Paul Morfin, Anderson, he reinvented himself with this new style kind
of starlet's version.
So and we're in the period of time, first version to 1992 version one of is, you know, a bit like
Paul.
Paul Morphin Anderson was up to 1872 in 1873 onwards, you know, he had this new oppositional style.
He used his position as a magazine editor.
There was a thing called the Iraq War, you know, lengthy debate debates with the players about it.
But he was prepared to, you know, prove his concepts over the board.
But here, anyway, it's a sparkling finish.
I wonder if you can guess what went place here.
If I give you five seconds to pause, video won't play.
Jackel checks even the most outrageous ones, and of course, another thing we've done, you know,
he's not into routine recaptures necessarily.
So he plays actually wrote rotates seven check.
Yeah.
Of course, you need to be aware of the capsule like you're aware of a threat, but, you know, if
you can find crushing, you know, blows through the process of calculation, checking not your high
priority, forcing move sequences, then you can sometimes just win by force.
So here what is actually winning by force after King takes a seven that needs queen, each one Jack
King.
And now it's important why it plays a little bit carefully here and not routinely play bishop.
The Jack Bishop, 86, is one of the two strongest moves.
Bishop 86 Jack or Queen six Jack.
They would both result in mate.
Bishop takes the big mistake.
Bishop 64.
Jack the rook have sex.
The King needs to be brought out a bit fast.
So Bishop age six, Jack was used, King have six and the Kings brought out and a can't go back to 87
because of this nasty jack.
So we see, you know, blacks in big trouble.
If G5 Queen Textually is actually checkmate, if King AR5 then queen a forced checkmate.
Look at that dance kovatchev assisting queen.
So the king goes the E5.
But now Queen takes the four check and can you spot the final shammi that can queen efore is checkmate
the alternative mating sequence for the record and sort of bushmeat sex.
You can actually just play Queen Eighty-six Jack here as well and then queen.
A foreshock is devastating.
As an example, the king goes back to Jack King, goes on the iPhone, Bishop takes our fight is check
and mate, that bishop covers the gate square.
So, yeah, a pretty crushing game.
Let's go to the game.
End of the game.
So essentially huge contributions theoretically to the game of the world champions had something to
say about Steinman's laska, a successor, you know, basically.
Said.
That in the beginning of the game, ignored the search for combination's abstain from violent moves
aimed for small advances, accumulate them, and only after having attained these ends, then search
for the combination and then with all the power of Willan incidents, because then the combination must
exist, however deeply hidden.
So that's what Lascher said, that that was the fundamental truth that Steinitz revealed to the chess
world.
You know, in summary, that players should abstain from combinations, especially when they don't have
the advantage.
They should build up the advantages and then later find the combinations.
So it's a bit like the war going beyond the FEBA, also building up these concrete advantages.
So there's definitely no back fire.
And there's definitely no offense either when you do go out for the attack, for the final attack combinations.
And Bobby Fisher also had admiration for Steinitz, saying he understood more about the use of squares
than did Paul Morphy and contributed a great deal more to transferee because he was such a great writer,
even involved in these wars, these huge debates, and he was able to prove his theories.
By crushing people on the chessboard.
So, yeah, a brilliant world chess champion, major contributions, the first kind of positional.
Kind of grandmont, the first oppositional world chess champion, Paul Morphy and Anderson in the romantic
era taught us how amazing tactics are, combinations are.
But for me, Steinitz, especially in relation to more closed pawn structures, also revealed.
Paul structures as a kind of storage device that you could accumulate advantages like certain little
social advantages and pull structure which are not going away, they persist.
So sometimes to leverage the maximum from Steinitz faries, you have more closed portions, less open
and tactical, and like you slowly weaken squares, probe squares, force pawns to be pushed forward
and irreversible weaknesses, and you accumulate sets of weaknesses and the opponent's positions gradually
falling apart.
And then you find the compensatory blow.
But yeah, in more close Paul structures, the potential for accumulating advantages is greater, in
my view, but a massive contributor to the state of chess theory.
So there's an evolution of chess style, which I was also interested to cover on YouTube before checking
the evolution of chess free on YouTube.
But yeah, I tracked these early, you know, world champions, their contributions, and he made the
most significant contribution to our positional understanding of the game, in my view.
OK, thanks so much.