Shadowing Practice: GPT-6 Astra Solved Chess. Unbelievable. - Learn English Speaking with Video

Ladies and gentlemen, for many years now,

it has been our assumption that ChatGPT cannot play chess.

Started maybe three, four years ago, I made my very first video,

that my second video, you might remember ChatGPT versus Stockfish, it was a disaster.

Since then, I've put on multiple chatbot chess championships.

It's always a disaster.

But recently, GPT -6 Astra came out.

This is something that is meaningful to people who follow this on a day -to -day basis, but I was just interested in one thing.

Can it play chess?

and fortunately or unfortunately the answer is yes

and today i will be showing you my game against gpt6

astra it's really good it's really really good i that's all i have

that that's the introduction uh sit back relax enjoy yourselves i i'm only covering one game

because it actually took like an hour and a half to play this game

and i had to reboot it and it was it was thinking really long and

so i'm gonna make this video maybe then i'll pair it

against i mean i would love to see it against fable

but fable doesn't play chess it doesn't respond that well to chess anyway

so astra played e4 now again

if you haven't followed this saga you're a new fan of

this channel go back through my old chatbot championship videos

or the gpt videos like early on these bots played like

garbage they brought their queen out whatever in this game i

played the french defense there are many openings after e4 i

didn't really want to play symmetrical my idea was to take the computer out of known theory like

that it always programmed with an opening book

and i figured it might memorize some stuff it took the full center with d4

which is very good now black needs to fight back in

the center with the move d5 i don't know why that has a book symbol.

That's annoying, but whatever.

Knight to c3, and I played bishop before.

So this is the winnoir.

First of all, in the French defense, white can advance.

White can play some other moves, like this is known as the taraj variation.

And here, black has two choices.

One of them is the move knight of six, which is known as the classical French.

And then white goes here, black goes here.

White makes a big center.

You strike back.

You have a big battle here against white's center pawn.

The other variation, which is incredibly sharp, is bishop to b4, which pins the knight to the king, attacks this pawn, and then also weakens this pawn on g7, which white can attack.

Winnower.

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Winnower French.

Now, Astro responded with the best move, removing the pawn from danger, taking away space from my pieces.

I responded with the move that I know.

uh and it played the best move again played the best move

which is to force me to make a decision here with

my bishop a3 uh mostly people are taking this knight bishop

a5 is known as the armenian variation retreat variation i think it's known as the armenian variation

but you don't take it's also playable but uh i took took

and now black has several choices you can play queen c7

queen a5 knight knight e7 knight c6 uh i simply develop

my knight to e7 in the future i might go to f5 putting more pressure white can take this pawn

but that would leave them with tripled isolated c pawns tripling your pawns is bad also

when they have no neighbors it's bad weakening your center is bad it's not gonna happen to my surprise uh

and my dismay astro went here which is the best move

so at this point i'm thinking okay it's pulling resources from

some sort of opening book right like there's still an opening

book out there on the internet it's not actually thinking on its own.

Maybe it's never thinking on its own.

I have no idea.

And now the best move is just, again, queen c7.

And there's a very long line here called the poison pawn variation, where white takes this, white takes again.

You play pawn takes d4, attacking this pawn.

White goes knight e2.

You take on c3.

It's an incredibly, incredibly rich and complicated position.

But again, I'm like, this thing is going to suck at some point.

And the whole point of making chat gpt content is like

the illegal moves the illegal moves later on the bishop

that teleports in from another dimension into the board

and i went queen a5 queen a5 is not the best move it's a move

but i played bishop d2

so it still has good vision of the board it's defending

itself now i can defend my pawn either by moving it

by castling uh rook j8 is kind of ugly knight f5 is also playable.

But I was like, let's have a little bit of fun.

I mean, at some point it's going to do something dumb, right?

Let's have a little bit of fun.

I'm going to give it all of these pawns and I'm just going to go knight c6.

Now, Stockfish hates this.

but I got to give some odds to the LLM, right?

Well, Astra took my pawn.

It played the best move.

Played the best move.

I went here, saving my rook, and it took my second pawn.

So now white has a two -pawn advantage.

Now that normally would be substantial.

It would be actually nearly decisive.

The problem for white in this position is that it's not actually easy to do anything with that two -pawn advantage, because in chess, you have to bring out all your pieces.

You can't just have a two -pawn advantage and win.

So it's going to be a long, long time before this pawn promotes.

In that time, I will castle my king this way.

I will start attacking the structure.

All of my pieces will come alive.

And actually, losing pawns and chests is bad.

But in some ways, it does kind of open up lines for my pieces.

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So it's not so easy for the opponent to move toward me.

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So bishop d7 is the move that I played.

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And I was going to play long castle.

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Why just develop the knight?

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I'm still kind of shocked at the quality of these moves, I have to say.

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uh and now uh i went here and you might look at this

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and go wait a minute can't it take a third pawn it can but

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if it does this again you open up lines for my

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pieces i play rook f8 now you have to go out somewhere like queen h5

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and this is very difficult honestly the pressure of these two rooks cannot be understated shout out solomon

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and deadlock by the way i'm going to be playing

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that game a little bit later uh with an individual known as deathy

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if you've been following there's this new game it's not really new

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but it's like kind of new in the mainstream

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and there's a character named solomon

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which is my grandfather's name by the way incredible chess playing character uh

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and he has a double rook attack it's just and there's much more lore than that anyway uh

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astra plays the best move again top move of the computer

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only move to get the advantage queen to d3 at this

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point i'm thinking i'm gonna lose like it's not making a mistake

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and the idea of this is actually to trade my queen i think i mean i'm not sure uh

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but i spent a little bit of time here i kind of wanted to lock the position

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but i had this idea that i was gonna go queen a4

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and then c4 and then take this pawn

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because the queen would stop guarding it i thought maybe i could pull

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that off because i don't know at which point it's gonna actually stop seeing the position so i played this move a6.

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Maybe a little bit too passive of a move.

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Snodfish here is ready to absolutely take my soul.

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It wants to go h4.

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That move, first of all, gets the pawn closer to promotion, but also controls g5.

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It wants to plant a knight there and then block my vision of the position.

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Wants to start capitalizing on its two -pawn advantage.

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Here, bishop e2 was the move played.

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And I gotta tell you, I didn't know if this was the first mistake or if this was a trap.

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Because again, the move bishop e2 stops guarding this pawn now

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if i take this pawn it looks like oh white can't castle

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and white's not going to castle this way but

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if i take the pawn knight g5 comes in right defended this is under attack

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and if i defend that i can say goodbye to this rook

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so my rook is actually trapped so i'm sitting looking at the position like the gpt6 just set a trap

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now i didn't want to risk it

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so i followed my plan queen a4 not the best move

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at this very moment it was better to actually play c4 first

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but i played queen a4

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and finally finally astro made a mistake finally it took a long long time uh

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and uh the mistake is that here instead of castling it should play bishop to g5.

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This move does a couple of things.

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It puts pressure on my position, it blocks my rook, but also now this move is well met with a retreat of the queen.

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Previously the bishop was blocking the queen's path, and that might be a little bit too subtle.

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Now I'm never generating any counterplay.

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I'm down two pawns.

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I'm actually completely lost.

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I'm lost because I don't have any counterplay.

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None.

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I can play rook e8.

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It will just play h4.

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I'll get my knight out it's just going to go g4 or g3.

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White has a rock solid position and two extra pawns.

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All my pawns are frozen.

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I cannot push any of my pawns at all.

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Yeah, I'm just lost, which is kind of sick.

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Lucky for me, Astra made a mistake.

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I went here, and it lost the pawn on c2.

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Now, actually, white is still much better.

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Black is up a pawn, but white has the bishop pair,

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and white has a much faster direct attack against the black king i think white will generate an attack much quicker

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um but you have to be precise here

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so here you know you got to play like bishop d1

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which is a weird move and then when i go here

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and threaten may you got to go g3

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and then this bishop kind of goes somewhere else

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and then it's not so simple i have to say this position uh astra plays something

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which looks a lot more human it moves uh the rook to attack my queen

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and now i retreat my queen to g6

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uh and still it's plus three i am completely lost

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which has never happened against any of the previous gpts uh

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so definitely this one is quite a bit stronger uh g3

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finally an inaccuracy although it's kind of difficult to even understand

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why well apparently you needed to go knight h4 instead of

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being passive you needed to be massive uh you counter attack

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and defend at the same time my queen has to go

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somewhere i'm trying to avoid a trade of queens i'm trying to play like queen g7 or queen h7.

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And what white does next is force a trade of queens.

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When you have a material advantage, you want to trade pieces frequently.

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But also if your opponent's only hope is to counterattack your king, it's probably a good decision to trade off their most powerful piece.

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If I try to avoid the queen trade, my queen will likely be chased down.

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And yeah, sure, like I can keep kind of zigzagging out of there.

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But at some moment, what will happen is white will just start attacking me like my queen avoided a trade

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but in the process i lost complete control of my position

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but astra played a reasonable move too instead of playing this

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knight h4 business it went g3 it's not made i really

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thought the game was gonna end here i thought the video was gonna be me getting to this position

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and then you know checkmating it it went g3 now i

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decided i gotta get my knight out right i'm attacking the queen

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but also i'm improving my knight and here i made a mistake.

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Here, instead of what I did in the game, Stockfish, which is watching two morons play chess, wants to bring the rooks over, etc. It even considers f6,

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which I would never consider because that opens up the lines to my king.

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But I thought, look, weak square, let me go knight a5.

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Like, what could possibly be wrong with knight a5?

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Well, apparently knight a5 just sucks.

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Apparently knight a5 is just an idiotic move.

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This knight should be back here.

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It does not want to wander over this way.

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If white gets out of there with rook e1 and then rook a2, my knight actually is just ass.

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Like if I take the bishop, that's not a particularly good move because that bishop wasn't doing anything anyway.

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But I went knight a5.

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You know, I thought I was playing normal.

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Astra responded bishop d1.

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Oh, and by the way, if you're still here, shout out to you for having an attention span of 12 minutes.

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At the end, I will reveal the guess the elo of Astra.

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So I you know, I asked it to estimate our ratings based on this game, and it gave a breakdown of the game.

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Now the game gets really interesting.

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Bishop d1 countering the move knight b3 by giving away the bishop is a gross positional mistake.

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Why?

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How do you make that decision?

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How do you avoid something like this?

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Well, it's the concept of the good bishop and the bad bishop

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so how do you know which one is which generally the good bishop stands on the opposite color complex

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of your dominant percentage of pawns in other words white has

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one two three four five six seven pawns on dark squares

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every single pawn they have is a dark square pawn

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That means your bad bishop is the same color as the pawns, usually.

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If this bishop was on this square or on this square, maybe not.

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But generally speaking, this is your more important bishop.

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You don't want to trade that bishop.

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Because if you trade your light -squared bishop, all your light squares get weaker.

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And guess who has a light -squared bishop?

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Me.

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Right now, my only bishop is kind of a bad bishop.

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First of all, in the French defense, the light -squared bishop is a bad bishop.

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that's kind of well known but in general

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if my bishop lost the center pawn

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and got to come alive on this diagonal

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that would be a massive problem more on that later

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because this is this is kind of ominous I'm just letting

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you know this is a bit of foreshadowing here ongoing

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so the opponent went bishop d1

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and right away I was understanding okay it's not a perfect player it's making some mistakes

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so I play knight to b3 takes takes and I'm even ready to part ways with this pawn But, okay, it went rook b1.

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It wants to attack my pawn.

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Stockfish doesn't like my next move at all.

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It, you know, I thought it was very normal.

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My pawn is hanging.

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I protect my pawn, right?

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Protect, attack, eat snack.

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It hates that move.

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Instead, Stockfish is like, this doesn't matter.

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Now you need to go queen h5 and just start walloping the opponent on the light squares.

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Which is kind of, it kind of makes sense.

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If my bishop could teleport over there, instead it's going to have to zigzag its way, right?

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That's a little bit better.

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I played bishop a4.

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Now it wants computer to go h4.

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It wants to go h4.

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It wants to put the knight back on g5 or maybe make a queen trade.

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h4 is a very difficult move.

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I did not, you know, if it started playing h4, what I thought was much more reasonable, given that there's a rook here and a king here and a pawn here, is to play the move c4.

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This move looks very logical.

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Why does it look logical?

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Well, I have a king on the other side of the board, right?

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That also opens up the bishop.

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If pawn takes, rook takes is a fork, that's probably bad.

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So I thought c4 was a very good move.

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For the record, I think Astra's playing a fantastic game.

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Here's the only problem.

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c4 better work.

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It's an explosive move opening up the position.

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But here's the thing.

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If I take this and survive, or if you take me and I survive, guess what's going to open?

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The light square diagonal to your king.

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It's a very double -edged sword.

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Now, I played the move here, which is not a good move.

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Well, it's okay.

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but apparently I can take, because after this, even if I go king b8 and lose my bishop, my queen would then attack the rook over here,

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and I can go knight takes g3.

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That's kind of disgusting.

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I didn't see that at all.

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Instead of against c4, I just went king b8, and now there's a very important moment here, and I think practically speaking,

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you have to play this move you have to understand what

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you are pushing for you have to go c5 c5 looks

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counterintuitive it looks like you're still blocking your own rook you're blocking your own bishop

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but you're not letting me ever open up my position

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and later you will go c6 maybe even sacrifice right get a bishop in right

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and you prevent the opening of the position a much worse move in this position is bishop b4.

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Finally, black has an advantage.

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I have an opportunity to get totally back into the game because of the move bishop b4.

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It looks like you are going to improve the position of the bishop, but that was the wrong moment to play that move.

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Instead, you needed to go c5.

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And now I don't have an easy move.

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If I go bishop b5, of course, you're just taking the pawn on b3.

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If I go queen h5, trying to go rook g4, you can even go c6.

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It's pretty sick.

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If bishop takes, you take on b3

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if pawn takes now you go bishop before

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and this is a totally different story as your bishop is getting in with some serious power

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but on this moment i can take take and now i'm actually winning

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because the rook is hanging what's funny is i played my

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next move too quickly i just autopiloted my next move uh

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because again i had opened the middle of the board and and i'm also, when I play these games, I frequently don't set the board up.

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Like, I don't have the position in front of me.

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I try to do it blindfolded.

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I just try to do it in my head.

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But, you know, once the illegal moves start, that's when I start putting up the position.

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Yeah, I can play blindfolded chess, but I've also played chess 25 years.

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So I was like, okay, I'm just going to very quickly play bishop c6.

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Bishop c6 is a huge mistake.

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Huge mistake.

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Even though it doesn't feel like it.

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Yeah, knight takes g3 here is completely winning for me, but I didn't spot that.

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I played Bc6 with the idea to go here and continue kind of this attack.

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Why is this bad for me?

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I thought Bc6 was a very reasonable move.

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Why?

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Well, Rb3 is a mistake, obviously.

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I skewer the rooks.

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That's what happened in the game.

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I was like, oh, GPT is finally messing up.

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I have a completely winning position.

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Nope.

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White is better.

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How is that possible?

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White is better because of rook c3.

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And if I take, white is plus one.

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How, like, how can I possibly evaluate this?

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I think it's because ultimately white has so many extra pawns.

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White has two pawns and a bishop for a rook.

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And I mean, even if we go here, like, white is always safe.

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White is surviving.

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White has these pawns in the long run in the endgame.

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And the promotion square is the same color as the bishop, so it will be difficult to defend.

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I don't know.

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But I thought I was just winning here.

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Like, I thought, practically speaking, I have a completely crushing position, and the game is probably over in a couple of moves.

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Now, one more thing I would like to point out.

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As you get stronger at chess, you have to be able to activate your inner Doctor Strange.

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Where Doctor Strange sees, like, 14 million possibilities ahead, you don't have to see 14 million possibilities ahead.

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It would be a miracle if you even saw four possibilities ahead.

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What I'm suggesting to you is, there is a light -squared bishop here, there is a king here, There are open lines over here.

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Hey, wouldn't it be great if a rook or a queen landed on those two squares somehow, and we got a checkmate?

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This is the way you predict and plan an attack in chess.

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And by the way, you have to do the same thing against yourself.

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Now, in this game, I thought I was very safe.

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I thought the only pawn in front of my king is protected.

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I thought there's no easy way for the knight or the queen to get involved, so I honestly thought I was doing very well.

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My opponent went rook c3.

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and of course I can take the rook but there is something

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and I've wrote about this in my second book it's called

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relative value the value of a piece as a game is

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progressing normally a bishop is three a rook is five

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but right now this is not a three -point bishop at minimum four

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and this is not a five -point rook I would say four

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and a half maybe four they're worth about the same And as it pertains to this king, yeah, the bishop is problematic for sure.

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So queen h5, rook g4 is a huge threat.

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And I suddenly realized, oh, I am much closer to winning this game than I thought.

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Now Astra realized I didn't take the rook. So it retreated.

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But as you see, now black is winning.

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Black is winning because of a very vicious counterattack here.

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Even though white is up two pawns.

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I put my rook on g4 and the queen goes back.

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And it looks like right now I can't actually break through the position.

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I can.

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I can take the knight.

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Rook takes f3.

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And then I can play something taking on d4.

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But actually the most vicious move here is rook h8.

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And there's just no way to protect the attack.

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You have to go h4.

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That doesn't help.

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I take.

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You're pinned.

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My attack has arrived first.

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And it's arriving on the light squares but there's something even cooler

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and it has to do with my light squared bishop and

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that corner square

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and this will be added to your toolbox of chess skills

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over time i realized here i can take the pawn on d4

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because if i take the pawn on d4 my rook will deliver checkmate on h1

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what what am i talking about i'm gonna sacrifice my queen i can't do it now

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because the knight is protecting but i can play knight takes d4

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and the queen can't take because it would be lost the knight probably has to take

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if the knight doesn't take i will take the knight

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and win And the only other thing you have to calculate when you look at a move like knight takes d4 is, what if neither of these moves happen?

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Does my opponent have a check?

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Do they have a capture?

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Do they have a counter?

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They do.

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After knight takes d4, my opponent can play bishop d6.

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Unfortunately, I just move my king, and that's the end of the attack.

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I don't even have to sacrifice anything.

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There's no counter.

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There's no nothing.

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There's no way to get the queen over here.

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Nothing.

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So I went knight takes d4, and I don't think Astra saw this coming because it took

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and then kaboom queen takes h2

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and of course you have to calculate not just this you

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have to also calculate king f1 sometimes just a quiet move ends the game

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but in this case everything is losing for white first of all i can take this

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because if the queen takes my rook takes the queen by virtue of bishop to g2 check

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but second of all i can also play queen h1 king e2

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and at a minimum I can take this rook at an

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absolute minimum at a maximum I go here first the king either moves

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or the rook blocks and then I take

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and at no point is white fast enough with any sort of counterplay against me

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and so what actually happened is it took

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and then I managed to checkmate on h1

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but like I said this game took an hour

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and a half it thought for two three minutes at certain

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moments I don't know what it thought about I don't know what Astra was thinking about

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but it was playing very good moves and for a

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while it completely punished my opening mistakes i took way too

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many risks in this game i also played an opening i'm not that familiar with

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uh and uh yeah i mean it was it was the biggest advantage it had was plus three and a half

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and right around here had it gone bishop g5 i would have just like been completely lost

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which is which is kind of nuts

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if bishop g5 had landed this would have been a much longer battle

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and there is a very high chance i would have lost the game uh

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because it would have completely shut down my ability to create counterplay

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so i learned my lesson i'm not going to take as

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many risks next time maybe i'll run back a couple of games

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and try to play openings i'm a bit more familiar with

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and i told you in the beginning of the video

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that i would uh i would tell you the estimated rating

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um yeah it it said this you black 1400 to 1700

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chess .com rapid created threats with knight b3 found bishop a4

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to defend the pass pawn it gave me credit for defending a pawn.

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Amazing.

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White is 1 ,000 to 1 ,300.

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No chance.

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Absolutely no chance.

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Allowed the skewer, then played king h2, walking into force mate.

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So it's good to know that, you know, the guess the elo component of Astra is still complete gibberish, but yeah, it thinks that I'm 1 ,400,

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1 ,500, and it thinks that it played at 1 ,000.

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Very humble.

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That is all I have for you today.

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Let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for future episodes with Astra, but it knows how to play chest now and it's pretty good.

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Get out of here.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This speaking lesson is built on the video “GPT-6 Astra Solved Chess. Unbelievable”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: bishop, pawn, knight, queen, rook. This video has 436 sentences and 4677 words to shadow. The speech runs for 25:02. The speaker talks fast, about 187 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 78% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
bishop noun	/ˈbɪʃəp/	An overseer of congregations: either any such overseer, generally speaking, or (in Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Anglicanism, etc.) an official in the church…
pawn noun	/ˈpɔːn/	The most numerous chess piece, or a similar piece in a similar game. In chess, each side starts with eight; moves are only forward, and attacks are only…
knight noun	/ˈnaɪ̯t/	An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
chess noun	/t͡ʃɛs/	A board game for two players, each beginning with sixteen chess pieces moving according to fixed rules across a chessboard with the objective to checkmate the…
defend verb	/dɪˈfɪnd/	To ward off attacks against (something or someone).
castle noun	/ˈkɑːsəl/	A large residential building or compound that is fortified and contains many defences; in previous ages often inhabited by a nobleman or king. Also, a house or…
opponent noun	/əˈpəʊ.nənt/	One who opposes another; one who works or takes a position against someone or something; one who attempts to stop the progress of someone or something.
variation noun	/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/	The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing.
retreat noun	/ɹɪˈtɹiːt/	The act of pulling back or withdrawing, as from something dangerous, or unpleasant.
incredibly adverb	/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/	In an incredible manner; not to be believed.
trap noun	/tɹæp/	A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
sacrifice noun	/ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/	Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.
calculate verb	/ˈkælkjʊleɪt/	To determine the value of something or the solution to something by a mathematical process.
suck verb	/sʌk/	To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast).
promotion noun	/pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/	An advancement in rank or position.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
open up verb		To open.
get out of verb		To leave, exit or escape from; to become free of.
go back verb		To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time.
break through verb		To gain popularity.
bring out verb		To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
come out verb	/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/	To be discovered; to be revealed.
get in with verb		To become liked or accepted by and/or involved or associated with (especially a group of people)
give away verb		To make a gift of (something).

Sentences worth repeating

Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:

How do you make that decision?
How do you avoid something like this?
Why is this bad for me?
How, like, how can I possibly evaluate this?
Does my opponent have a check?

Grammar in this video

The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:

Structure	In the video
Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result	if the knight doesn't take i will take · if bishop g5 had landed this would have
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	is known · cannot be understated · is actually trapped
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	people who follow · six, which is · variation, which is
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has been · I've put · haven't followed

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 93 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, gonna. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: bishop /ˈbɪʃəp/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, promotion /pɹəˈmoʊʃn̩/, shout /ʃaʊt/, vicious /ˈvɪʃəs/
Long words — get the stress right: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, practically /ˈpɹæk.tɪ.k(ə.)li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, fortunately /ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/, problematic /ˌpɹɑ.bləˈmæt.ɪk/

How to practise with this video

Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like bishop, pawn, knight.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

Key vocabulary in this video

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Sentences worth repeating

Grammar in this video

Pronunciation to watch

How to practise with this video

What is the Shadowing Technique?