BLUNDERS! Lecture with GM Ben Finegold

[Music] thank you So today we're going to talk about two things and they're related um it's resigning and blundering so don't do those things right you promise yeah you sure okay and you promised now you you're home you're gonna blunder yeah they're watching at home and they're blundering like watching it terrible it's like I even make him lose in there blundering okay so a couple of these game they're played in a super tournament yesterday and a couple of three a four of the games were played by me yesterday and three of the games are famous games from the past which you've already memorized now you know and you at home know nothing as usual okay so first game was a game played yesterday um for you for them like four weeks ago um progdanand has white your favorite player yeah right against Wesley so now Wesley so is the best player in the US with the possible exception of carwana possibly and pragna Nanda is the newest Grand Master he's 12 years old from India okay and he won the prize for the longest name okay and they played yesterday and they were playing 20-minute chess each side gets 20 minutes and then this is move 30 so they probably both had very little time the computer says white is a little bit better because White's threatening checkmate yeah okay and black didn't want to get checkmated so he played age six now the the H Pawn is pinned you can't take the Knight so white could do anything he wants but he played 96. okay and black played the obvious move what's the obvious move for black to make it bigger too make it more obvious what should black do she has Queens attacked terrible right can we get rid of that night yeah what do we do Knight E6 yeah okay now when I teach chess I say this a lot and my students never listen you at home never listen you're asleep right now and this is a very important thing in chess that people don't realize even though I say it a lot there's three kinds of pieces in chess pieces that are not attacked pieces that are attacked but not defended see take them for free then the most important kind which is attacked and defended and that's what black did in this position on this position without moving this is attacked and defended this is attacked and defended and I can show you like 10 examples okay black did it again he played Rook B6 attacking the bishop notice The Bishop's defended by the queen so if I take the bishop you'll take with the queen however if your queen wasn't there I'd take the bishop okay so white should do something about that like Bishop D7 or Bishop G4 or F5 something something to save the bishop but since the Bishops defended white didn't care so white played Rook G4 Rook G3 and attacked this Pawn hooray okay now what woo did Black make that attacked this queen he threatened the queen he did play Rook d8 can the White Queen move anywhere and still protect this bishop so now he read a copy of my book cry like a Grandmaster yeah chapter Rick GA White's losing now if we go back and we turn on the engine it says black is slightly better 0.5.4 a little bit better and then when I play Rook G3 the move that was played in the game the red light goes on see this red light that's bad and then Rook d8 and now blacks up Five Points from just one move because he's gonna lose his Bishop so he gave up okay you should never give up but okay so Wesley so is like the third highest rated player in the world so Truth Hurts yeah so what most people think and they're wrong and remember most people are always wrong like people at home they're wrong whatever they're doing is wrong everything you do is wrong okay so what most people do is they go oh that guy is better than that guy so that guy won okay and that's not why you win normally people who win at chess don't blunder and their opponent does blunder it doesn't mean I played good and you played bad so I won probably we played about the same and the computer says I don't know who's better it's too hard for me and then you blundered your queen and I win I don't butter my queen so I win yeah and then I threatened Checkmate and you don't see it so I checked meat use I win and in chess this is very common that the game is very close and then somebody just blunders and it's over now when this happens in regular Sports which is unlikely it's very exciting if you watch a soccer game and the score 7-0 you're like well what else is on TV that's boring when you watch a boxing match and it's the heavyweight champion versus a small kid you're like that's boring that kid's gonna get killed I don't care about that okay if you watch a football game and it's the New England Patriots versus the high school team you're like I don't want to watch that high school team kids go to the hospital they're gonna get killed okay and often in professional sports the game is Just one-sided you watch a baseball game it's 11-0 and you're like okay what else is on TV in chess often you don't know who's gonna win and then oh he blundered his Queen he resigned okay if you can avoid doing that you'll be the one who wins okay but if every game you're like oh my Rook oh check me if you did every game then you never win it's not that I play 20 good moves and you play 20 bad moves that's not why I win I win because we play about the same and then you blunder it I don't that's what happened in this game the computer said white was better the computer said black was better the computer said equal and then after Rook G3 it says oh white resigns okay and it happens a lot and that's what we're going to talk about today okay now this happened yesterday for you this is very funny okay first of all this is the same tournament second of all there's only four players in the tournament the last two in these two it's a knockout which is weird the winner of the last match plays the winner of this match and they're playing right now right now they're playing like right now like they're playing in Spain and they're making moves now okay and after two games it's one to one they're playing the third game as we have the class for them it was weeks ago people at home were like that happened a long time ago Okay so the guy who has white he's the higher rated player he was expected to win the match however he lost the first game and he drew the next two games and this is the last game so if he doesn't win he's out so he has to win luckily he's winning okay so it went like this attack the bishop save the bishop random move okay now in this position the computer says white is plus six that's incredibly winning it wants white to play King E6 threatening checkmate yeah check me it's good because you win okay now they were in time travel it's move 67 and it was a game 20. so they probably have like 10 seconds each okay if the guy with white made the worst move in chess history and then it wasn't the worst move in chess history after what his opponent did his opponent said wait I'm gonna do the worst thing in chess history okay yeah don't don't talk you've seen this already don't tell him okay so he played Rook h8 check notice how it's checked because I said so right what's the only legal move take a look right he didn't do that what did he do yeah he resigned and the reason he resigned and when he resigned White's like yeah good game a good job they both thought king take syrup King takes his check you agree it's check King G8 mate okay that's what they both saw but after it takes you don't play King GA you take the bishop now who wins yeah so Rook HD check is the worst move ever not White's losing and then black resigned now if black had taken the rook and won the game he wins the match and now he plays Wesley so now but he resigned he lost it overtime Vallejo won he please play Wesley so now yeah what's the more Rory Dory right especially when you have one legal move now when I was a kid and I was your age you guys are the same age what are you 12. 10 well he's nine so it was close yeah so when I was your age nine and ten I read chess blocks because we didn't have computers they didn't exist not for people probably like governments had computers not like this they had these monster okay and I read chess books like those but not those and I noticed something was very common in the chess book White resigns black resigns that's very common and I was a little kid I was rated 1100 and I was like oh boy I'm going to resign I'll be a good player okay now let's say you're watching the NBA because you know you have brain damage or something right okay and you're watching the Atlanta Hawks and they're playing the Golden State Warriors and Golden State's up 35 points with one minutes ago which is probably what it would be like okay now most people would turn their TV off or watch something else most people at the game would leave the game they're like well they're up 35 points and there's one minute left let's go home okay now in professional sports like the one I mentioned you're not allowed to resign if you were they would resign okay but in chess you are allowed to resign so they do they're like well I'm down a queen and my opponent's a grand master so I resign because otherwise I'm playing for no reason I'm wasting my time I could be eating food and playing Blitz chess and playing podcasts and sleeping I'm sitting here down to Queen Lulu's for sure now again when Grandmasters play Grand Masters resigning is actually reasonable when you guys are playing it's not reasonable because there's no position in chess where you're guaranteed to lose against who you're playing against and I'll prove that by showing you my games it'll be like oh you didn't lose that I'll be like no so I don't resign on the last specific circumstances my opponent has a lot of time my opponent's really high rated and my opponent's up a lot of material so I lose like three games a year like that okay most of the kids that I teach they lose three games like in 10 minutes they get checkmated but they don't resign because if you resign that's the worst that could have happened right it's the same as getting checkmated so like you don't do that okay so here black resigned and here's why it was wrong it wasn't wrong because he was winning I saw the video of him resigning his opponent played Rook h a hit the clock and he thought one second and resigned now you know what makes me even madder everything makes me mad I'm watching a blitzkin this will happen today it'll it happens every day I watch a Blitz game like in the other room five minutes each both sides have a couple minutes left somebody plays a move that's check and the person's like oh I have to get out of check and there's one legal move one there's one there's no other moves and they sit there for 20 seconds then play it and I'm like what you had one no no I was trying to think about what would happen well your clock's running no you make that one legal move here there's one legal move so you don't resign you play the one legal move you can reside next move when there's two legal moves which by the way now there's two legal moves King G8 and Rick takes E5 the heated zeroop takes E5 so he resigned okay terrible yeah and again you might say well that never happens that was weird except this lecture is about that so I'm going to show you a million examples horrible okay now we're gonna do the opposite we're going to show you games where you can't believe I didn't resign but I won anyway these were played yesterday on my stream okay so we're going to start in this position I'm black white played Knight D5 notice my Queens attacked right you agree the queen doesn't have a lot of squares so I was like what if I'll just take two pieces for a queen whatever I'm losing but it's a Blitz game I don't care okay now in this position my opponent played Knight E4 see what's he threatening the night but none of the night what's that night attacking yeah with chat did I see that no I made some move and he took it I was like oh yeah okay then in this position he played Queen to D2 I thought he was going to play Queen G5 check so I played Rook G6 and he played Queen B Ford check and I was like oh I have two legal moves King E8 and King d8 neither one is any good I think my move is worse I'm not sure okay I thought if I played King E8 he would play Knight D6 check so I play king da I thought maybe he would take my Pawn he played Queen f8 check skewering by King and Rook you you agree if I play Bishop E8 he Forks my king at night so I was like I don't know you could have my Rook okay so I have no pieces left if you turn the engine on it says some crazy number okay White's ahead plus you know a million right okay yeah exactly right okay now if I was playing a grand master in a tournament I would have resigned a long time ago okay but this is a Blitz game against you know Rufus and doofus sorry okay I would I wouldn't even resign a Blitz game against the Grand Master because of Blitz game now here's why if they make an illegal move you win in a tournament you don't in a Blitz game you do like in fact I was gonna make up a story I don't have to make it up because it happened on Friday let's say Sunday yeah two days ago it happened Karen my wife she was playing in a blitz term against Archer her son and she moved her Knight wrong she moved it like wrong she moved to like too much and then hit the clock the game's over if you made the right move she was winning now in a tournament you just take the move back and make the right move and there's a time adjustment but in Blitz chest the game's over so I would never resign a Blitz game because if your opponent makes it illegal move you win unfortunately this is the internet this was on chess.com so you can't make it illegal from NYU you know what I'm saying yeah yeah so that's unfortunate because I can't win that way all right anyway let's continue the game goes on and I blundered again which is really funny since I'm down like a thousand pieces okay so in this position I played Knight takes D3 I can prove it see and then he took it I didn't see that I was like oh okay so now he's plus like 20 or something right okay and I have no pieces left okay okay but I don't resign I keep playing now in this position my opponent made the losing move if I turn on the engine it says white has like made an eight now if you look at the pieces white has a queen two Rooks and a knight and I have like a rook name Bishop okay and he's plus a thousand now I'll ask you a really hard question in fact I might be wrong so you might give the wrong answer but you're right I'm wrong of the three pieces black has which is the most dangerous to this King which one should white be scared of the most position what yeah like yeah in this position if you were white which of those three pieces scares you the most probably the yeah I would say The Rook is second and the reason is The Bishop's on the same diagonal was the king so the computer actually takes the bishop and then that plays this and then it's me like black has nothing okay in fact here were four king the the knight in the The Rook which is funny okay my opponent made a move that loses the game even though like every move wins he found a move that loses you play Queen takes E5 what did I do remember the piece you're afraid of well the one I was afraid of yeah the another Truth Hurts yeah now this is a very funny way to win check because he can block with his night Queen and Rook I just take them with me I take Israel take his Queen take his Knight but I didn't do that I made him quicker I played this and now after King G1 this is mate right okay but here his time ran out so I went on time and I made it him when he was plus 20 and then people were like what you won RAR and then my son who's 2200 he said yeah I knew you'd win he's seen me play before now you might think I'm a grand master he's like 1800 so I beat him now here's something you don't realize even if you do when you win or lose or draw and the game's rated you go to the US Chess Federation you see what your rating is right does it say how well you played does the U.S Chess Federation say hey how'd that game go we're interested you know what they want to know who won right if I win every game me and all my moves are the worst I'm the highest rated player in the world if I play Perfect every move like a machine and then I blunder my queen or I blunder bait in one now my ratings low they don't care how you play they want to know who got one next to their name that means don't blunder if you don't play very well but you don't blunder you're better than somebody who plays really well and blunders a lot by now blundering you're better than everybody who blunders even if they play better than you maybe an example you're watching Magnus Carlson play the world championship match and your friend comes up and says who has the advantage here and you're like I don't know I'm a little kid leave me alone right and your friend he says oh White's better and here's why because this is a famous game and the pawn structure and blah blah blah blah blah and you're like what and then a grand master says wow that guy's right your friend's really smart and then you're like I'm higher rated than him and the reason you're high rated than him is he probably wanders more than you he might play chess a lot better than you then he hangs mate in one then he hangs his Queen you don't do that okay so this guy played better than me for a million moves okay and in this position he made one bad move and I went okay and that's what the lecture is about when you blunder that ruins everything that actually frustrates people people get really mad because they're wasting their time let me give you an example you decide you're going to build a house okay and you build a house and your friends are like what how are you building a house you're a kid you're like I'm a genius and you're building the house and it's done there's a house and then the realtor comes and says that house is worth two billion dollars do you want to sell it and you're like two million okay and then at the very end of building the house you're like just a second one more nail then you hit the nail and the house falls apart now that wouldn't happen but if it did happen you would be really frustrated you would be so frustrated you can't even explain it but you took six months to build the house the realtor's like I'll give you two million dollars for that house and you hit a nail and the house falls down okay right that's what chess is chess says you play great chess you're the greatest you play Queen E5 and I win and if you play any other move you're plus a million you're meeting me okay now that's one of the reasons my rating is really high and I'm a grand master is I don't play too good sometimes I do but if I don't it's okay because my opponent blunders and I don't yay okay so when you're playing your goal is to not make a horrible move you can make moves that aren't gray but you can't make a move and go oh can I take that back can't do that okay next okay so this was funny I'm white okay I'm white and this is a one minute game we each have a minute so now we each have like 20 seconds okay this position is equal and he defended his Bishop and I said to myself any move is good for black but if I was black and it's an end game I was with my king up towards the center and up so I thought he would move his King over here because what's this King doing here and I said well if he goes here I can take his bishop and play Bishop A3 that he would defend his Rook so I played E4 and now he defends his Rook I play E5 so he can't play King fa so he played King f8 cuts a woman again we're moving instantly right now I take I go here and after King E7 I play E5 I want a piece right so he can't play King f8 but he still played it and it doesn't look like E4 stops King f8 it looks like they're not related so I thought that has a chance of working and it did okay and then he resigned after he resigned he's like all right so that's a blunder and now I'm going to explain something to you that's hard to understand there's a lot of positions in chess if you turn on a computer it says equal however every Grand Master in the world wants to have one of the two colors but like it's equal but I'd rather have white because every move for white is good black has to find the only move that draws then it's equal the computer finds those moves and says it's equal well you'll take white and hope your Pawn doesn't find those ones okay this is a different kind of equal the where grandmas so that's a really wonder that happens to you at home when you relax you're like oh this is easy now so as soon as it's a very easy win or a very easy draw people relax then they blunder so you can't ever relax you can't you can relax in other sports if you're playing soccer and you're up 10-0 and there's 20 seconds left in the game you can relax and every Sport's like that but not but but no not just you relax in chess one move ruins the rest of the game so this game we played about the same strength that he played King f8 the game's over now I can make a joke and say well I could play Rick C7 and the game's over Rook C5 the game's over Rook C8 the game is over Bishop C5 the game is over there's a lot of moves in equal positions where you have to resign immediately so you can never relax never never then when people do relax and I beat them then they go complain to their friends I was drawing RAR and then they complain a lot how they were drawing and lost did you hear me doing that no I boast about how I was losing what I won yeah exactly because I don't relax because I teach chess and I know you can't relax you guys at home you're like why did I lose up a queen because when you were up a queen you were like oh but queen I'm gonna win as opposed to I have to play good chess now so you can always lose in chess as this guy now you might say that guy's no good the guy that I beat that guy just beat me six games in a row with no draws that was the only game I didn't lose so that guy's better than me and he just wanders and resigns sorry you can't do that I'm gonna say you can't do that everybody does it okay this game I was dead lost and I could show you a lot but I just want to show you the end okay and this is this is a Blitz game so it's okay okay so in this position my opponent's Knight is attacked because I said so so he moved it and I checked him and he played the only legal move okay now I knew if I played Queen H1 he would play King E2 so I stopped King me too how'd I do that how did I stop him from going there I made it illegal what did I do right and I thought Queen H1 mate was Unstoppable and he played here and I made it a okay I realized while he was thinking that he can't stop Queen H1 made how it's a Blitz game so if you think too long your flag Falls that's why it's hard now the reason he didn't stop Queen H1 me is very funny he didn't see Queen H1 made he saw another mate which I didn't see what's the other mean I have another man I have another move that's Checkmate and the game's over so this is me I have another move that's made so you're like me you don't see it either yeah Queen G2 is also made and my opponent saw Queen G2 didn't see Queen H1 and I suck from each one that Queen G2 that explains his move see this move that he made that stops Queen G2 me he could play King E1 I never realized why you played Rook V1 I'm like why what's going on during the game I realized he could play Queen G3 check check and trade Queens he has to and the reason he didn't well he didn't see it but he didn't see Queen H1 made he saw Queen G2 mate and he stopped it this is a very common thing you guys do at home you're like oh here's the threat and you stop it then there's the second threat you didn't see or the third threat or the fourth fret okay and I saw one of my mates not the other one I didn't play Knight F4 to attack his Pawn which I did I didn't mean to I did it so he could licking too that's that was my reasoning so he hung me and I win no I was really losing that game I was he was plus eight plus ten and here he's only like he's plus one because I fought back or a blunder and again you could say well you're a grand master and he's 2 000 so you won well he was plus eight the whole game and he hung me in one did I hang Maiden one no no did I hang my queen no so even though I play worse than him every move he blunders and I don't so I win so by avoiding blundering you can be people who are better than you and this is why there's always a lot of upsets in chess because the higher rated player usually wins but not always because one blunder ruins it let's say my previous example the New England Patriots are playing a high school team and let's say the first play of the game a patriot fumbles the ball the high school guy picks it up and gets a touchdown it doesn't matter nobody's gonna bet on the high school team that was a blunder and now they're going to win 56-7 now it's going to be destruction so when you blunder in basketball and baseball and football it doesn't matter when you're blunder in chess and your Magnus Carlson you're playing a beginner you could lose the beginner goes mate and you're like oh and Magnus is more likely to lose to a 1600 than like me because against me he's paying attention and he wins it's like hey Grandmaster I'm better than flying gold I'm gonna win 1600 he's like I can spot this guy a rook and win so he's whatever I don't care and then if he blunders he loses if he's like oh how am I queen my hand is queen against me because that's not good he's not paying attention to 1600. he doesn't play 1600s it doesn't matter so this is the problem with playing people that you think are no good let's say you have a friend at school and he's the worst you beat him a million games you don't want to play him well when you play him you're not paying attention because you now when you hang mate in one you lose so you can lose anybody because when they're really bad you stop thinking then you lose so that if you think a lot the guy's like why are you thinking you beat me every game well that's why you beat him every game because you're thinking not because you're lucky okay next now in this game I was dead dead dead dead lost this is a Blitz game yesterday we'll get to this position okay and we'll do kibitzer okay so it's White's move and you see blacks winning so my Queen's attacked and my Bishops attacked and my Bishop can't be defended because if I take back with the queen when he takes my Bishop then he plays Knight E2 check when he my queen so he's winning my Bishop so he did okay now he has three pieces for a rook and he has a mating attack okay and so forth all right okay that's a blunder still winning but so he should just move his Bishop here try to take with a rook okay oh he's winning it's okay yeah yeah and he played rep Knight E4 and I played here and now the winning move is very weird notice how White's queening but what's better than queening what's better check me so if he plays Bishop H3 and I ignore what he's doing he plays a check well sorry let's check and checkmate okay and if I don't ignore it I should stop that the only way to stop it is to take the bishop and now I'm gonna Queen unfortunately he checks me here if I go here it's Checkmate the same Checkmate if I go to F1 he goes discovered check I can't go to the second rank I go to the first rank he checks and now he's up two pieces and he stopped my Pawn okay so Bishop H3 is completely winning in a Blitz game nobody's gonna play Bishop H3 and let me Queen that's crazy so he played Bishop E3 okay he wants to Checkmate me and attack everything and now it's a draw and I'm gonna win because I have more time than him okay and in this position he blundered okay here he blundered and I could give a one hour lecture about this position but okay we we have a lot of other positions to look at notice I'm threatening Maids you agree he could play King G8 or King E8 if one of them draws and one loses he plays the losing one I didn't play the winning move because we had seconds on our clock King E8 draws because this King can run around everywhere King Jia just trapping his King okay that loses now the way to win is funny I should play Rook A3 attacking his Knight what's the safest Square for your night Rook H4 Knight H4 yeah yeah play 9h4 I attack your knight you have to go to G2 and then I check and win your night yep okay so the safest square is G5 because it's defended now I play King here threatening Rook A8 mate how do you stop man that's right right yeah and now something you've never heard of that means he's heard of it zuk Swan you ever heard of zuzuong okay zugs along is a German word it means compulsion to move in chess when it's your move you have to move sometimes you don't want to move so this is amazing I go Rook E3 and black cannot move but it's Black's turn he's Gotta Move now obviously if you move your knight where I can take it I'm going to take it I take it if you go there right if you play H5 I take your knight so there's two moves we didn't look at King G8 and I made you and Knight S7 and I pin your knight and take it so Rook E3 wins okay so that was winning for me but I played Rook G7 Shaq we got this drawn position and his time ran out so I won so like lots of blunders because this is Blitz chess but he's totally winning he's plus five he's plus ten with his Blitz Chastity blunder and you lose and as long as you don't resign don't ever resign do you ever resign no no good answer yeah now here's the unfortunate byproduct of not resigning some people not me consider not resigning insulting when good players are playing so two grand Masters are playing and the guy's up a queen in a Ruck well that doesn't happen but if it did and the other Grandmaster kept playing they're like what are you doing I'm between The Rook now when you're a kid and you're told ever to resign and then you get really good at chess now you know when to resign when you're 2200 you know but that's my 200. but then you don't because you never did now your phone's like why isn't this guy resigning now my second ex-wife all my Ex-Wives are chess players Karen's my third wife my second ex-wife also my second wife she played in the US championship and she was rated 1800. her opponents were rated between 2200 and 2700 So she got zero out of nine you know how many times she resigned zero she got checkmated nine times okay and she knew she gets zero because her opponents a lot better than her and one of the players said to me why didn't she resign against one of the games she was playing well they were like mad at her like she's playing on a queen down and a rook and I said oh I told her she can't resign this turn they said oh okay they felt like she was being insulting and I said she's not allowed to resign the reason is she likes to resign that's not a good trade in a chess player wanting to resign so if you don't resign then you won't resign yeah now my first wife who was a higher rated chess player she was a women's International master we played it a game 15 in Belgium because we lived in Belgium you heard of Belgium the country yeah they're in the World Cup Final Four well for you they've won the World Cup already but all right anyway she said game 15 what should I do because we're used to playing really slow games 15 minutes fast right she's used to like two hours and the game takes four hours and I said I have one piece of advice for you don't resign and she said okay so like in our third round she resigned in an equal position are we married now no okay see it's funny and I and why did she resign she thought she was losing the exchange a rook for a night she wasn't she had a way to get out it was just equal but if she was right you would never resign because you lost the exchange that's like the least amount of material you could lose what okay so I one piece of advice don't resign she resigned the second wife don't resign she got checkmated every game good didn't resigned and she was winning a couple of those games but not resigning good idea God I resigned when I do that see very important advice okay now these are famous examples okay from history this is 1984. white played F6 forking the bishop and the queen because I said so black played E2 you got that yeah okay okay we'll get rid of this nonsense okay and white took the queen yay hey what moved your black play why did Black give his Queen away what's wrong with him you're like I don't know he's crazy there's always two moves you should look at checks and captures show me the check show me the money see any checks um it's it's black smoke oh white just took a queen why'd black give his Queen away what's wrong with him what check can black make now my show um that's what he did okay and white resigned and when white resigned it was pointed out White's winning so when you're winning should you resign no so if you play King H1 you obviously black wins right if you play Rook F2 black wins mate however after Knight E3 white wins you take it with check and I go here and my queen defends and I'm threading this and this and everything and white winds so instead of playing Knight E3 and winning white resigned because he didn't see Knight E3 then King there and the point of 93 is the queen is defending backwards awesome if you turn the engine on white swimming whites plus eight and white resigned because he didn't see Knight E3 linking H1 okay that was a famous resigning when you're winning yeah don't do that that's why you shouldn't resign this is a more famous example because this happened in 1902 so people have known about it for over 100 years okay black played Queen E7 and White's winning with E6 but that's beyond the scope of our lecture instead he played Knight F5 or as I like to say knife F5 attacking the queen you agree and the queen moved okay now White blundered he played Rogue D1 and black resigned good blunder right notice the Bishops attacked because I said so if the bishop moves you lose your Rook on D7 yeah so black resigned instead of resigning how could black have won the game Black's winning here now actually Marco was a famous player he wasn't like a joke he was probably like top 100 in the world so he wasn't like a beginner he was a famous player but he resigned when he was winning you know the truth hurts do you see it at home you don't see it okay you do but you don't right they see nothing at home whose turn is it Black's turn so if black doesn't move his Bishop white takes it if black does move his Bishop white takes the Rook on D7 so black resigned what could he do do you see what he could do it's the trickiest move ever now in chess the two best things you can do in chess Checkmate your opponent that's number one number two I'd say would take the queen black can threaten both how does black make him move threatening Checkmate and the Queen Bishop E4 Bishop E4 threatens the queen but the queen can just take it and there's no Checkmate either it's the other Bishop now Bishop E4 move this bishop and threaten checkmate where can you move it to see if your Bishop was on this diagonal wind up with the queen you'd be looking at Queen h2mate you don't have to be on this diagonal you could be on another diagonal a very short diagonal this one notice you're threading me you agree and you're threatening the queen so by wins but neither a player saw that so black resigned now if you turn the engine on it says Bishop G1 white resigns it says Bishop G1 black is up four it says that black doesn't do that then he's losing now says five and so now when lower rated players are applying chess a lot of times somebody's just better than the other guy so you're pounding them you're up three pieces you're up four pieces you take everything or they do that to you you're like man that guy's good he's up four pieces okay and the computer says plus 20 plus 15 and that's because every move is like that when Grandmasters play and somebody wins often you just miss the move the computer says you're winning you're the best that says oh wait that move wins for your opponent you didn't see that if your boy doesn't play that move then you win and so the reason it's plus 10 is because there's one move that wins that you missed otherwise everything's fine in low rated players played as plus 10 because they're down three pieces so it doesn't matter what happens every move is plus ten so the computer evaluation doesn't tell you the story if you're plus 10 and some Grand Master is plus 10 . it's actually more likely you'll win when you're plus 10 you're up three pieces when he's plus 10 the Grand Master it's because the other Grandmaster made a blunder allowing a plus 10 move and if neither player sees it now it's equal when you're plus 10 you have three pieces all your moves win so there's different kinds of plus tens this is winning for black if black plays Bishop G1 if black doesn't play Bishop G1 black loses he didn't see Bishop G1 so he resigned he was winning now you could be like oh my God you would have won if you had played on no no he wouldn't have played Bishop G1 he didn't see it so if he had not played Bishop G1 and made some other movies still would have lost so if he didn't resign he still would have lost because he didn't see Bishop she won terrible okay now this is actually very funny I don't know an example of this other than this game this was a simultaneous if you know what that is that's where one guy's really good so he plays a lot of people at the same time so let's say I'm a grand master let's pretend and let's say you're not a grand master and let's say if we play I'll win and you're like I don't want to play you you're a grand minute you always win okay then I say I have an idea let's take you and 20 of your friends and I'll play all of you at the same time I'll go to your board and make a move I'll go to the next four to make a move and I keep walking around I use like one second to move and you sit there and think well I'm playing so I'm not going to do as well as if I was just playing you that's called a simultaneous exhibition this was a simultaneous exhibition white was a famous player fact there's an opening named after him a Tory attack okay and he's playing some guy okay all right so there's some guy takes the pawn and says I may be some guy but I'm gonna make a queen and Tori is like I'm a grand minister so he stops the queen and the guy says I want a queen and Tori goes now the guy says I want a queen and Tori stops him from queening how did he stop the pawn from queening okay me too that's on YouTube the king's on E2 right isn't it on each is in the C2 yeah suddenly stop the pawn from queening see how the Rook went here how do I stop that pawn from going there the only way to prevent the pond from moving is to put your king in front of it right okay now black said but I want a queen so he played Rook C5 notice he would like to go here that looks good doesn't it yeah and why resigned white was the Grand Master black was doofus and he said wow doofus is looking good over here right okay however White's winning here but he didn't see how he thought he was losing the winning move is really weird after Rook here you would like to play King takes Pawn King takes Pawn's illegal right what move can white make it's the only move which makes King takes Pawn legal what can white do here where then King takes Pawn is legal how do we stop this Rook from defending this Pawn it's the craziest move you ever saw it blocks The Rook blocks The Rook from defending this Pawn no it's still defending the blind Ricky too and then Checkmate right you have to block the other Rook put something between the rook and the pawn put something on this line how does white do that it's easy to do you just don't want to do it do it anyway rip D6 wins the game they like what yeah now if you check I can take the pawn yay right you agree if you take the Rook I queen would check and it says White's winning which is not obvious actually but it says White's winning because black is still has a big threat but the computer's like this no problem yeah okay still waiting for white and if you take with a pawn now your rook's not Defending Your Pawn so Rook C was not a threat I just take the pawn so I can go here Play Rick C one check I don't care right now if you turn the engine on the engine has no problem it says D6 and White's winning if white doesn't play Rogue V6 it says black is mating White well the guy with white Rook D6 looks weird right so he didn't look at Rick D6 so he resigned he's like well the guy's gonna play Rick C1 check and clean with check I resigned but the computer's like oh Rick D6 and White's winning and White's winning so this is an example of white resigning when he was winning and white was a grand master black was a nobody but he didn't see Rick D6 these are called saving resources okay and I showed this position of the last class except I messed it up I'm not going to mess it up now because I messed it up already this happened last year this is a game between two people that are like a little worse than me like 2400 2500. it's white to move white resigned white was like okay here here here here here here here here here here here here here here here darn and then black takes all the pawns right okay so black so white gave up and what's funny is in this position white has a drawing move here if he doesn't play it he can do it here if he doesn't play he can do it here but he never looked at it and that drawing move is A4 he never looked at A4 because that looks crazy that's a drawing move okay because if you take it you you these these double pawns don't win you don't win with those and if you take this Pawn this is a draw which the computer will agree see all zeros yeah if you go back to the starting position it says King F1 draws it says King E1 draws now it says everything draws right everything draws and now A4 draws but he never thought about playing A4 he just thought black takes a upon black takes the B Pawn I lose well obviously if you play A4 and black takes the a pawn that way they ain't gonna win and just to prove my point so that you laugh gotta make my students laugh so he resigned when it was a dead draw uh I don't know who's playing but they were good players um this is just for overkill for confusion that's a draw can't win okay those those side pawns don't do well look at that computer's like draw okay so Five Pawns up a draw I could be even funnier and put a bishop on the board and it's a draw if it's a bishop on a white square Bishop that's a draw two so by giving by giving away your a pawn or your H Pawn again then it's a draw but the guy didn't think of it I'd be signed some people just want to resign yay I lost what okay so whenever you want to resign because you think it's hopeless it's never hopeless right your opponent can stalemate you you can find a draw you didn't see you can think forever and people give up and I'm like what why are you giving up so you should never give up because there's always chances sometimes you're drawing anyway and sometimes you're not drawing but the opponent helps you either way you draw it or you could win so I never give up as a result I win games I should lose I draw games I should lose and when my opponents give up I'm like what thanks that was easy I didn't have to win I've had positions where I was like how do I win my pulmonary's items I'm like oh that's how I win what why are you resigning I'm like hey they're resigned okay so I remember don't blunder I don't care if you play bad just don't blunder if you blunder that ruins everything right now what's funny is chess is often compared to tennis the reason is tennis is one on one and then there's no team it's just you that's different you can also play doubles in chess too the podcast okay however however here's the difference in just what you blunder that could lose the game for you tennis now let's say I play you tennis and you're a million times better than me you win every point and then you you hit the ball and it goes over the fence and I win the point doesn't matter you're still gonna win are you still playing yeah me too and so did Karen okay but the point is you can blunder over and over in tennis and win easily not in chess now I'll tell you again it's like chess no crying you ever play golf imagine you play golf imagine and you're winning every hole you're the best parpar birdie birdie birdie okay and this the show the leaderboard there's two holes to go 72 hole tournament you're on hole 71. it's almost over you have -10 the next guy has plus one you're 11 Strokes ahead okay in a professional tournament it's over it's over unless you blunder blunder you hit it in the water then you hit it in the water again then you hit it in the sand trap then you hit on the railroad tracks then you hit into the stands you blunder in golf that could ruin like the whole tournament like you played great every hole and now on a part of three you get a nine and you're like what what happened I just lost six Strokes I was in first I'm in tenth okay so in golf you don't you can't blunder you got to play solid and not blunder in tennis football baseball basketball you can blunder all the time and win as long as you're better okay in chess I can play really bad every move as long as you blunder if I'm blundering you can beat me if I'm not blundering it's gonna be hard for you to beat me and I don't blunder so that's why I'm Grandmaster my uh when I'm not blundering my moves aren't so good but I'm a blundering that's good enough I play Magnus Carlson he doesn't blunder either so he wins but if I play other Grand Masters then I'm blunder Anything could happen I'm gonna play low rated players they always blunder so I just win every game like ah the other people how they hung The Rook I'm just waiting for it yes they didn't see their Knight okay and before that we play about the same but they blunder all the time and I don't so okay so remember that when you're playing me blunder so I win you played in the tournament today no what now that you could avoid blundering because you won't play all right good job you're the best foreign [Music] foreign

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