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And it's like we're going to have a look at some famous medal game chess quotations, so from my favorite
quotations guy, Surveille Tante COHA, he said the blunders are all there on the board waiting to be
made for me.
This makes me feel a little bit better when I blunder.
It's part of being human.
One of the core philosophies of the medal game section is to compensate for being human.
That's why we, for example, prioritize forcing moves.
We can't possibly fathom the vast complexities of the games we try and create at least prioritizes prioritizing
the essentials.
So he he knows that we're human.
Tasco in his quotations and he accepts that blundering is part of the game.
So he also said the winner of the game is played.
That makes the last the next to last mistake, rather.
So not the last possible the next to last mistake.
That's the winner of the game.
So it could have been loads of blunders, but it's the one that made the next to last.
It's always better to sacrifice your opponent's men.
Yes, I'm wary about studying Tao, who like to sacrifice his own pieces.
I prefer to sacrifice my opponent's pieces in general is far less risky.
So I think he's right there.
And now we have a quotation by Moscow.
Prosky The medal game, I repeat, is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks,
defences and sacrifices.
Yes, I absolutely love Bill myself.
Before the end game, the gods have placed the medal game haroche affirming the important role of the
medal game.
You might not even get any games if you if you can wipe out the opponent in the middle game.
Hopefully this is a very, very important quotation, which is very, very useful when you say good
move, wait, look for a best one.
So Emmanuel Laska, who was one of the longest world champions ever said this.
And it's true that, you know, sometimes you're kind of excited to see what seems to be a great possibility.
But the stronger you play, the more you want the irreversible damage of your move.
And sometimes you seek a move because there's a certain issue generally, which maybe the opponent has
underestimated.
So, you know, trying to find the absolute most you can extract from a position is really good, depending
on how much time you have, of course, to invest.
But you really want a move which is so powerful, like cause resignation or just irreversible damage.
So that's a great quotation.
This is another one of the pawns of the soul of chess, you know, Feltl.
So if you look at the pawn structure section of this course, we look at a fellahs all game.
So he was a visionary and he wrote his stuff about pawns, you know, during the French Revolution.
So it's very, very interesting.
He was really kind of ahead of his time before the romantic era of chess were pawns were just used in
sort of gambits to get very strong initiative and pressure and king attacks.
So a very profound positional play from federal very early on in chess, no price is too great for the
scalp of the enemy.
King Coblenz.
Yep.
You can sacrifice all your pieces as long as you checkmate the opponent.
This is another great one, which I often cite.
Chess is 99 percent TotEx.
So that's a great simplification by Tashman and it is the major undo button for me.
You know, you can have a bad opening, but you can come back tactically and swindell the opponent with
amazing tactics in the middle game and you might not even see a game if you just wipe out opponents
and a little I that you get see so many games.
So chess can literally dominate, you know, most of the games, depending on how tactically alert you
are and how interested you are in playing openings which lead to tactics which are dynamic, aggressive,
maybe more open, you know, less as pawns around them than close positions.
There are two types of sacrifices, correct ones in line.
So tell me, Celtel said he often created complexity, it seems almost for complexities sake, sometimes
with his sacrifices, but his better calculation quite often than his opponents let him navigate, you
know, that way out of the deep forest.
So he talks about putting the opponents in some deep forest as well, where, you know, things just
don't make sense and, you know, there's not much of a way out from that.
So, yeah, that's why it's also scary for me to study wholesale games.
I just worry I'm going to be even more unsound than I am in terms of sacrificing pieces.
As I say, I'd rather sacrifice the opponent's pieces than mine.
Generally, the defensive power of the PIN piece is only imaginary.
This is one I used, you know, a great deal.
What I.
Think about pens and obsession, you've got to think, you know, those squares that the absolutely
pen is controlling, they're not really controlling that piece.
So that's a great one for winning lots of games.
In fact, statistically for me all the time, you know, pens are a major, major tactical element to
think about the combination, the combination player things forward.
He starts from the given position and tries the forceful moves in his mind.
So Emmanuel Laska said that and we do have this emphasis in this course about prioritizing, forcing
moves.
So I hope you see that quite clearly that that's a forward looking approach from the given position.
So, yeah, you can have also backward reasoning as well.
Grandmasters like gas, so on.
Say it's dream up what you really want ideally and try and work backwards.
So sometimes you can reverse engineer things as well.
But sometimes just tactics are so unimaginable.
You've really got to look at the current position and all the outrageous forcing moves.
And this is also what Cecil Purdie says.
If a student forces himself to examine all moves that smites and if you look up, Smite is basically
strike with firm blow.
Since that forcing moves, however absurd, they may look at first glance, and that's what I tell my
students.
It doesn't matter how outrageous, doesn't matter.
He's on the way to becoming a master of tactics.
So Cecil Purdie, who, by the way, started the Chess World magazine, I've got a chess board on that,
you know, website.
It's quite funny.
And, you know, he was the first correspondence world champion, as well as being a very, very strong
over the board player, international master strength.
So, yeah, great advice there.
The tactician.
This is very, very deep.
This one knows what to do when there's something to do.
Whereas this the Strategy Session knows what to do when there's nothing to do, so Gerald Abraham said
that.
And, you know, I think I had some periods of insecurity when I did the more advanced pull structures,
cause because sometimes I felt, you know, its tactics.
But it's really the silent games.
But, yes, especially when there is nothing to do.
The knowledge of the fundamental plans to do a pawn structure come in really handy.
So when there is nothing to do, your fundamental pull structure knowledge, I think, must take priority
for guidance.
So that kind of addresses that insecurity.
In a way, it acknowledges that this is complementary toolset that exists in chess.
But when do you actually apply that, you know, the tactical tools or the motivational tools?
And sometimes, by the way, if you're lacking in any plan, a default plan is to just improve your
worst piece.
So some experiment as well.
The scheme of a game is played on positional lines.
The decision of it as as a rule was affected by combinations.
So, again, addresses this kind of insecurity that you might have that you don't want to be thinking
too much at a higher abstract level.
So that is addressing the scheme, the general scheme of the game.
But if you bear in mind that the decisiveness of the game is usually by, you know, tactics and combinations,
you know, Richard, rati the leading hyper modernists, one of the leading hyper moments of his time,
you know, said that.
So it's important to bear that in mind, to address that insecurity firmly, that you really do realize
that the actual punishments come tactically and through combinations.
But if you want to get their schematic fill of the game and flow generally for your game, then that's
positional to a pawn structure because pawns of the irreversible kind of decisions of the chessboard,
a thorough understanding of the typical mating patterns, makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations
leading up to them not only difficult, but also a matter of course.
Yes.
So, yeah, it's good to know typical mating continuations.
And you need to be able to do complicated sacrificial combinations which lead to those mating continuations.
So I think he's addressing also like the role of patterns, if you can get your way to a pattern that
you've seen before.
So the passing gives you this with the sense that there's something to explore, some some downside,
the opponents position to celebrate.
So, yeah, these quotations, I hope you do find them useful and insightful.
So some of these from the great champions and writers and players of the past.
So it's interesting to see what they've said of the middle game generally, OK.
I said once.