Shadowing Practice: bobbyFischer shadowing vid1 - Learn English Speaking with Video

in school oh well so so you know yeah i flunked a couple of subjects

but uh i made them up i mean uh i got a good enough mark

so i let me head

and i passed them with flying colors this was in oh no no i didn't finish high school two

and a half years why didn't no my head's always pretty clear

so it is okay no no somebody else asked me

that no i never dreamed about chess not

that i remember yeah yeah American checkers I just you know

I don't know how to play yeah no good oh yeah

I'm pretty fast about you oh it depends on the position maybe depends I say sometimes just one

or two there are many sub variations but

if it's just a forced line say I can I see

10 20 moves even in certain positions it's a simple position

when you have it in your subconscious as you know

when you leave the board and you work on a a little bit when you come back, you sort of have the move.

About everybody can do that, yeah, who plays.

No, it's just, you know, it's a thing, it's a show.

It's nothing.

Really, something really hard is some players can play a whole lot of people blindfolded.

I can't do that.

I think the record is about 40 players blindfolded.

I don't know, it's rough.

I asked the guy who did it, he told me he was, about two months after that, he couldn't do anything, he was just exhausted He plays a good game both ways.

Yeah, no These old books they you know, they didn't know that much way back then so I

Think the rules we have about I mean so that maybe I could all I could survive Well,

I have to take on this other Russian Petrosian So after I take care of him I place basket thing

I was around before Clay.

I don't know.

It picked up from me.

That's right.

I was US champion before anybody heard of Clay.

Is there only one mathematical possibility of how that can happen or are there a number?

No. And who figures those out or did they come up naturally?

What other books do you read?

Yeah, well, we got too many things in this country.

That's the problem.

You know, we got all these entertainments, movies, you know, just too many things people can do.

Some of these communist countries...

There are no good women chess players, are there?

Have you ever had a grand mistress?

What?

Has there ever been a grandmistress of chess?

You can take dollars out of Yugoslavia.

Oh.

Hmm, that's a good one.

I got a little lost there, but...

I did too, but I finally...

Yeah, he just knows something went wrong somewhere, you know.

Yeah.

Come on, when they actually resign, or when they resign, they're not getting checkmated, they just give up because there's nothing left to do.

There is no...

It's inevitable.

They could play on, say, 20 moves, but why waste time?

This is a position from a famous game, Morphy against the Duke of Brunswick, back in the 19th century.

Am I his grace?

Duke's got a rook.

And, well, it's a forced mate.

Well, he took off the rook check.

You what?

He took off the rook check with the bishop.

And then he took back with the knight And now it's forced mate in two moves White, yeah, checkmate in two moves, right?

At the end of the game, you know what I mean?

Yeah Right, right.

Want me to show it?

No, I just assumed you showed me...

Now...

Show slowly where you went from where to where.

You took what and put it where for the people who really know what's happening here.

I played the queen down, check.

See, the queen moves like a rook and like a bishop too.

Now the king can't go anywhere, because he can't go here, the bishop is on this diagonal, holding that square.

The pawn blocks this square, knight blocks this square, and there's nothing back here, you can't go back there.

So you have to make, so this move is covered by the bishop and the queen.

So everything's covered.

Only thing to do is take the queen.

And the rook comes down here, and that's a mate.

Well, that's the way the rook moves.

It moves in a straight line. In one move, yeah.

If there's nothing in the way, shoot right down.

And now the king's in checkmate.

Because he's threatening to take it.

Can't go here again because of this.

Can't go here because of the pawn.

And now you can't go back.

Can't take it because the bishop protects it.

So, actually, you don't take the king off.

The game's over when you have it.

And when it's in a position where it can't get away.

And the Duke of Brunswick connection, Morphe was one of the old time greats.

There were a couple of cases where I remember the lights went out.

Just to learn the move, oh, 20 minutes.

Yeah, but is there enough time?

A few hours, an hour or two, a couple hours.

Not a big deal, the last five moves.

What was it?

Oh, yeah, that's what, well, I forget what they call it as a matter of fact.

It's like two-move mate, two moves.

What is it?

You win the game in two moves, checkmate.

100

And is it?

101

Well, two, but they're basically the same, just slight variations.

102

They probably came up, sure.

103

Mainly magazines, not too heavy on books.

104

I never tried to develop myself in all these things.

105

Well, the best woman player in the world, I guess, was Vera Menchik.

106

She was Hungarian.

107

But they have a very good one now in Russia, too.

108

Oh, they do?

109

I thought it was all men.

110

Yeah, got Prindashvili.

111

It was real good.

112

I'd say a master of strength.

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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les

Deze spreekles op niveau B2 is gebaseerd op de video “bobbyFischer shadowing vid1”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: rook, bishop, position, mate, queen. Deze video bevat 112 zinnen en 1011 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:05. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 199 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. 85% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden; de rest kun je beter vooraf bekijken. 18 van de 112 zinnen zijn vragen, dus het is goede oefening voor vraagintonatie en korte antwoorden.

Belangrijke woorden in deze video

De 14 moeilijkste woorden uit de video, met uitspraak en betekenis:

Woord	Uitspraak	Betekenis
checkmate	/ˈt͡ʃɛkmeɪt/	schaakmat, mat
chess zelfstandig naamwoord	/t͡ʃɛs/	schaak, schaakspel
blindfold zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈblaɪ̯ndfɔʊ̯ld/	blinddoek
pawn zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈpɔːn/	pion
resign werkwoord	/ɹɪˈzaɪn/	ontslag nemen
variation zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/	afwisseling, variatie
depend werkwoord	/dɪˈpɛnd/	afhangen
diagonal bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/	diagonaal
exhaust werkwoord	/ɪɡˈzɔst/	uitputten, verminderen
mistress zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈmɪs.tɹɪs/	mevrouw, meesteres
threaten werkwoord	/ˈθɹɛt.n̩/	bedreigen, dreigen
mathematical bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/	wiskundig
basket zelfstandig naamwoord	/ˈbæskɪt/	mand, korf
inevitable bijvoeglijk naamwoord	/ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/	onvermijdelijk, onafwendbaar

Phrasal verbs die je zult horen

Woord	Betekenis
go back werkwoord	teruggaan
take off werkwoord	uittrekken, afzetten
come back werkwoord	terugkomen
give up werkwoord	zich overgeven
go out werkwoord	naar buiten gaan

Zinnen om te herhalen

Korte, volledige zinnen uit de video die je in alledaagse gesprekken kunt gebruiken:

I don't know, it's rough.
What other books do you read?
Have you ever had a grand mistress?
Am I his grace?
Want me to show it?

Grammatica in deze video

De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	was just exhausted · is covered
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	guy who did · people who really

Uitspraak om op te letten

De spreker gebruikt 21 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals can't, don't, didn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.

De “th”-klanken: threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
De klanken “sh” en “zh”: variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, subconscious /sʌbˈkɑn.ʃəs/
Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: diagonal /daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, inevitable /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbəl/

Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:

Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: blindfold /ˈblaɪ̯ndfɔʊ̯ld/, depend /dɪˈpɛnd/
/æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: diagonal /daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, basket /ˈbæskɪt/
/g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: diagonal /daɪ̯ˈæɡ(ə)nəl/, exhaust /ɪɡˈzɔst/

Zo oefen je met deze video

Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als checkmate, chess, blindfold.

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