Hi there.
And like, should we look at some end game related quotations, so here actually is Langi where whites
play and when can you work it out?
It's from a famous Fisher game against Max Fisher.
Playing with the white pieces finds a winning move.
If I give you five seconds for video, what would you play here?
OK, that passport is pretty dangerous.
We can actually play Bishop E5 this tactical move helps promote our to a queen so plac had to resign
her if taken, then 87 wins.
So the -- screening.
So a crushing blow of the Bishop E5.
So here are some ingame related transportation.
Think about Capablanca was one of the great and gangmasters of all time also.
Rubenstein, by the way, is very, very strong in games as well.
If you check out the Games of Akiba Rubenstein by Capablanca also wrote quite a bit about endgames in
his classic book, Chess Fundamentals, which actually you can get to see for free.
In some countries.
It's part of the Gutenberg Press Initiative, so check that out.
But you might also be able to get it on Amazon.
Just try and get a version which does have diagrams, though.
So Capablanca had a lot to say about endgames.
And one of the things he said in order to improve your game, you must study the in-game before everything
else.
Whereas the end games can be studied and monitored by themselves, the middle game and the opening must
be studied in relation to the end game.
Yeah, I usually think about the relationship to the middle game myself, but yeah, some things you
are going to be looking forward to.
For example, some poor majority may be on the queen side or the king side where you're going to be
able to craft a poem of that poem majority.
Or you can have what I say, Queen's spawn and you definitely don't want to get engaged.
Sometimes if you're with the outside queen spawn or some other compromise Paul structure, sometimes
you've you've got to like finish off the opponents generally in the middle game if you have these dynamic
pawn structures.
So he is right to emphasize the link and all decision making earlier on for the implications for the
game.
It's it's a very, very wise comment.
And to many people, study just isolation in isolation, certain opening moves without any linkage at
all, not even to the middle game, let alone the end game.
I like to play OAP things which fit my style and a middle game plans that I like, you know, attacking
mental game plans I like.
So I'm quite often at least thinking into the mental game.
But linking to the end game is even deeper, of course.
And if you look at the mighty stockfish over the top, chess engines of the world, sometimes just in
the opening that they've got, their table base reference is already millions of them, table based
position, just a few moves in the opening that they're looking at in games.
Yeah, that's way above humans.
Super grandmaster level, of course, Stockfish and the new network versions.
So anyway, Capablanca, also Sanha passport increases in strength as the number of pieces on the board
diminishes.
So, hey, you know, this passport in this and this example.
Yeah.
Shows that, you know, sometimes there's so few pieces stopping the --'s queening and you can technically
interfere with that here with that, you know, Bishop, if I move so that quotation is is really important.
Passports get so dangerous in games.
Rudolph Spellman's said, you know, play the opening like a book, the medal game like a magician and
the end game like a machine.
Yeah, but I think actually, if you do look in particular at the end games of Capablanca and Fisher,
there is a great artistry.
I think machine myself is a little bit cold.
There is a great warmth and artistry to end games.
I think it's better to think of the all the names actually not entirely convinced of that quote, but
I can see where it's coming from, that the middle game is where originality and real passion for tactics
can come.
And you can do that magical tactics and the other two kind of more kind of learnable.
Perhaps every person is a potential queen.
MASON Yeah.
NIMBies, which was emphatic in my system.
He said some crazy stuff, funny stuff, names which are in the movies.
He said the passport as a criminal should be kept under lock and key mould.
Measures such as police surveillance are not sufficient.
So Newswatch was really into the security of positions generally that you need to have prophylaxis and
safeguards, because I think he's also alluding to the fact that we're human beings.
So if we have at least prophylaxis and preventive measures, we don't need to suffer the symptoms,
which could be difficult to handle.
It's better to be more preventative in general in chess, to make decisions easier to play, be more
preventative for any counterplay, et cetera, that he might have.
So that's kind of, you know, a lot of your principle as well.
You know, put yourself beyond the feet for going onto the attack.
You want to be kind of preventative sometimes.
Ideally, this other quotation, after a bad opening, there's hope for the mental game after bad mental
game players have that.
Angang, once you're in the game, the moment of truth has arrived at the madness that.
Yeah, or alternatively, you know, you could just be wiped out in the opening game to be aware of
the pitfalls that this course has guided you actually through the pitfalls of the opening and the major
traps and a new game we blasted into oblivion and never seen that game either.
So, yeah, it's actually not quite right is that you can lose straight any opening or the middle game.
Don't worry.
You can you can lose much earlier than the end games, but hopefully with a good grounding you want
that this course provides.
So how you've enjoyed these quotations and maybe seek out some other quotations.
I think they can enrich your concentric circles, your your pillars of chess, your opening little game
and the game understanding.
Generally, I remember to have a thick skin as well.
Whenever you lose, try and get lessons, which is something Capablanca emphasized as well.
You can learn a lot more from your losses than you can from your wins.
So always have that positive mindset, that growth mindset as well.
OK, thanks very much.