Shadowing Practice: SPEED vs JYNXZI CHESS BATTLE - Learn English Speaking with Video

Ladies and gentlemen, in today's video, I will be covering a chess match played between two of the most recognizable streamers in the world.

The first is Aisho Speed.

If you don't know who Aisho Speed is, he's done international world tours.

He's been to dozens of countries, has made an unbelievable amount of viral content, just traveled the entire World Cup and made videos from there.

and his opponent is none other than Jinxie, the bright protégé of the Gotham chess community.

In March, April, and May of this year, we trained together.

He won a tournament.

Since then, he's gone on to other games like League of Legends.

He plays a ton of Rainbow Six games that I would love to learn one day, but are a little bit difficult for me.

And they played a chess match when they did Who is the Best Gamer.

They each selected some games they want to play and one of the games was chess.

Also, I joined an esports org.

That's another big announcement.

I'm with Basilisk now, Science's esports team, joining some amazing names there if you know anything about the world of esports.

And if you don't, check out Basilisk.

They made me real handsome in this nice collared shirt.

More details to come.

There's articles out on chess.com today.

You know, you guys can go check those out.

Super excited.

I will be the head of chess.

I will be responsible for content initiatives and all sorts of other things.

So cannot wait.

And as the head of chess for Basilisk, I would like to show you this game.

So, the game kicks off with Pawn 2A4.

Which I am, I'm not a big fan of Pawn 2A4 here as a first move.

Let me also turn on the sounds of the board.

Also, move highlights, for some reason, are not on. And I sneezed.

A lot of things are going wrong so far.

A4, not...

Okay.

When we start the beginning of a chess game, we need to go in the middle.

Having said that, Speed doesn't play chess, really.

I think he's only played a handful of games in his life.

He once played against Manny Pacquiao.

I have a video on this channel, Speed Pacquiao, where Pacquiao pulled off something incredible.

He made Speed choose a pawn, and then he checkmated him with it, which is kind of unbelievable.

Now, Jinxie, very principled, an opening that he learned, both from his cousin and from me in content, the Carl Khan defense.

I mean, this is excellent.

Putting a pawn in the center.

The truth is, there is no Karo Khan against a4.

You try to put two pawns in the center if you can.

If you dominate the entire center of the board, it allows you to develop your knights and your bishops.

And I would love to see Speed playing a little bit more chess.

So I gotta train him on good fundamentals and good principles.

Speed here plays pawn to d4.

Now we're kind of back in a normal queen's pawn game where the knight has come out to c3.

a4 is still a little bit of an enigmatic move, a little bit mysterious, but it is what it is.

And now black should probably develop the knight or the bishop.

And the reason why you want to develop the bishop is

because you would like to play e6 and finish the triangle of pawns.

But if you play e6 now, you block your light squared bishop.

Jinxie goes here.

And unfortunately here, tragedy strikes.

In this position, speed goes e3.

Yeah, not great.

It hangs a queen. And Jinxie takes it.

and speed here he gets very gets very annoyed

because his his live chat his audience was telling him moves

they were just writing moves like a5 knight f3 bishop f4 b4 e3

and he saw e3 now you might be thinking isn't

that not a good thing shouldn't you not read your chat when playing yes.

The short answer is yes, because your chat could give you the best moves.

That's why chess tournaments for money on chess.com, you have no chat.

You can't, right?

This is clearly not that.

And it's clear here that even listening to the chat is very dangerous because they could sabotage you.

And that is exactly what happens.

Now, let me be very clear.

This position is still completely winnable with white.

It just depends on who's playing it and what the level difference is.

Any two players here in the world above 2,000, black will win 49 out of 50 times.

One game, you might make a draw or lose.

And obviously, the time constraint.

If you're playing a one-minute game, this is still very losable for black.

Totally losable.

And Jinx, he goes e6.

Super principled he's going to get his knight out, his bishop, his other knight.

When you're up a queen for a bishop, you want to make trades.

Trade pawns, trade knights, trade bishops.

Speed goes f3.

Nice little spiky pawn move.

If the knight comes in, it's not going to be able to access the position.

And here are the next few moves that I would like to see are developing the bishop, developing the knight, castling.

That's exactly what Jinxie does.

Now, I know what you're thinking if you're still here.

If you're an audience member that is a little bit older, you're wondering why I made this into content at all.

I am asking myself the same question.

I'll be very honest.

Some of you are going to complain about this video.

You will.

You're going to be like, make the slow run, make something else.

I want to see content where I can learn something.

I get it.

But the beginners are watching this.

Now, speed here goes here.

That's not a good move.

That loses the bishop to the pawn, to the pawn.

A better move would have been to develop the bishop safely.

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But if anybody's watching this rate at 119 or lower or a little bit higher, keep your pieces safe from the enemy.

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That is one thing you really got to do.

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So the bishop goes out to b5.

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Jinxie takes it.

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And it shows you the difference.

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Like Jinxie peaked at 500 in chess, which is a shame because I guarantee, like if he and I worked together more,

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he could get to a thousand and that would be a major milestone

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but chess is not as fun to play as some other video games.

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That's just the reality.

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It can be a bit brutal.

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And, you know, it shows you the level difference.

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Like, he immediately scoops it up, and now speed pushes this pawn forward.

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These pawns now clamp the center, but every time you move a pawn in chess, something gets stronger and something gets weaker.

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A pawn moving controls new squares, and then, look at this, different color arrows for you to visualize, right?

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Blue, you used to guard those squares, and here, rather than castling, he goes here.

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And I think at this point, Jinx, he actually was feeling a little bit bad.

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He was like, hey, you should stop this.

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You should move your king because I'm going to jump in here with my knight.

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He was coaching a little bit here.

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Speed was doing his best.

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He ended up going knight back to A2.

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That doesn't stop the threat.

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This is obviously somebody who has not played chess.

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And chess can make you look very, you know, it can make you look worse than you actually are.

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It's very much a game of skill.

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There's no luck.

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Like in poker, I can go right now to Las Vegas

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heads up against one of the best players in the world and luckily win the pot.

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And I know the poker people that watch this are going to be like, that's not true.

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The better player always wins in the end.

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In chess, it's purely skill-based.

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There is a phenomenon in the world of chess that

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if you were locked in a room and had to defeat Magnus Carlsen, you're never leaving.

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You have to beat him to get out of the room.

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You're literally never leaving.

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You can live multiple lifetimes.

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You're never going to win.

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Maybe one of those lifetimes, you're born as a better chess player than you are now, which probably won't be, you know, even that difficult.

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Jinxie castles.

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I think he was feeling a little bit bad.

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Knight 2f3 here.

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Again, knight 2f2 is the best move.

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He goes g6.

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I don't know.

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I mean, again, I want to bring out the knight.

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I want to bring out the queen.

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When both sides have seven pawns in this position, both sides have seven pawns.

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Actually, I think white has eight.

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White has eight pawns.

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You need to make pawn breaks.

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Pawn breaks open up the position.

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h4 here played.

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And now I like this queen b6, activating the queen.

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He's going to take this pawn and try to get his queen in over here.

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He always has knight of two.

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He's not playing it.

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He finally does play it, and it actually does fork the rook anyway, but now the rook is protected.

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Now, the way you win this position, you clean this up with the black pieces.

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You take this pawn on b5.

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You get in here with the queen.

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You just absolutely obliterate everything in the position, or you bring the knight and the bishop as well.

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You put this rook on the open file.

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You can send this to an endgame where you simply trade the bishop, and then you trade the knight, and then you trade the rook, and then obviously you win, or you can win this game by checkmate.

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Now, this is a very brave move from speed, but it's unfortunately not going to work.

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He runs the king into the position.

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King c3 does not work.

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The best move now is queen e2, which is a very nice move.

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Queen e2 doesn't just attack the knight.

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It's not attacking the pawn.

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It is attacking the knight.

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What it does is it prevents the king from ever going back.

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That's the most important thing.

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Now that the king is out here, the king is going to be subjected to the knight, the bishop, the rook on c8, and this is just game over.

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Jinx, he plays a little bit more impulsively, plays queen a5 check, which is fine.

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The king goes to d3, and now he plays a very professional move.

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Top move of the computer, brings the rook to the open file.

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This is an amazing move, good for understanding how to convert a winning position.

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Speed continues to run the king around, king e2, he stops protecting the pawn on c2 with that move.

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Jinx, he spots it instantly, and I think at this point he was like, all right, I'm gonna just win this game.

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But Jinxie, even months ago, had a blind spot for king captures.

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He forgets that kings can actually participate offensively.

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He could take this.

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Maybe he let it go.

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You guys would know.

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You probably watched the game live.

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Knight to d7 was the move.

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He forgets that the rook, I mean, it's a full rook.

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You lose the rook, and speed actually takes it.

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Unfortunately, speed doesn't have a lot of time remaining.

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He can't really mount a comeback, and Jinx, he replaces the rook, and knight c3 is a very creative idea.

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It actually attacks the queen, and if you don't pay attention with black, you're going to straight up lose the queen.

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Unfortunately, now you've lost this piece, and a queen and a rook together are just going to dominate a knight and a bishop every single time.

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Speed's trying his best.

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He goes pawn up to b3, but that opens up the vision of the queen.

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It's actually even better to play rook takes c3.

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I'm having a funny bug in this position.

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I would like to show it to you if it's possible.

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The mate evaluation is showing up for white.

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Do you see that?

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I'm extending the screen.

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It says M5, but it's for white.

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Whereas if we go back a move, the evaluation is in black's favor.

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Absolutely hilarious.

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Chaz.com?

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I mean, I don't know if you think that, maybe it's because I'm on dark mode.

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I don't know.

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B3, queen C3, queen takes C1, and with one second remaining on the clock, this is the only move at which point Rook to C2 would be made.

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A dominant victory for the protege.

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Where's he from?

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Something like Tarpon Springs?

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Is that the meme of that community?

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Listen, this game was like a sparring session between somebody who just entered a martial arts gym

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and somebody with half a decade of experience.

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Jinxie looked good in this game.

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I'm a firm believer this man can eclipse 500, but he stopped playing as much chess as he did earlier in the year, and that's all good.

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Those were the glory days.

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If one day he wants to return and make a run to four digits, I firmly believe that we can do it together.

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And last but not least, if Speed wants to play more chess, which I have to tell you, he did not seem particularly excited to play chess.

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This is a guy who is in extremely good physical shape, does a ton of backflips, crazy challenges, travels the world.

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chess might not really be might not really be a speed no pun intended full pun intended

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anyway

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if this video ends up getting watched by community members from

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Jinx here from speed welcome to the world of chess it's

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great here watch as much content as you like you're gonna get better for sure you're gonna play games

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that look ridiculous like that at the beginning

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but then you're gonna improve very rapidly and stop making as many mistakes like Jinxie did by the way

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became a very very very decent player in just like a month two months of practice

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that's all I have for you today we will get back to regularly scheduled programming whether it's top players engine games,

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Gezdilo, whatever tomorrow shout out to Basilisk, go check them out on their social media,

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can't wait to do more collaborations with the folks on their roster including top 10 players Anish Giri

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and Vincent Keimer so I'm not going to help them win the esports world cup

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but I will help them make a tremendous amount of content and hopefully start some new initiatives that's all

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Get out of here.

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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson

This B2 speaking lesson is built on the video “SPEED vs JYNXZI CHESS BATTLE”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: pawn, chess, knight, speed, bishop. This video has 232 sentences and 2477 words to shadow. The speech runs for 13:19. The speaker talks fast, about 186 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. Only 81% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.

Key vocabulary in this video

The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:

Word	Pronunciation	Meaning
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…
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…
checkmate	/ˈt͡ʃɛkmeɪt/	Word called out by the victor when making a move that wins the game.
losable adjective		That can be lost.
dominate verb	/ˈdɑ.məˌneɪt/	To govern, rule or control by superior authority or power.
poker noun	/ˈpoʊkɚ/	A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
unbelievable adjective	/ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/	Not to be believed.
intend verb	/ɪnˈtɛnd/	To fix the mind upon (something, or something to be accomplished); be intent upon
backflip noun	/ˈbæk.flɪp/	An act of rotating one's body 360 degrees in the backward direction.
constraint noun	/kənˈstɹeɪnt/	Something that constrains; a restriction.
endgame noun	/ˈɛnd.ɡeɪm/	The final stage of a game of chess, when there are few pieces left.
enigmatic adjective	/ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/	Pertaining to an enigma.
impulsively adverb	/ɪmˈpʌlsɪvli/	In an impulsive manner; with force; by impulse.
obliterate verb	/əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/	To destroy (someone or something) completely, leaving no trace; to annihilate, to wipe out.
offensively adverb	/əˈfɛnsɪvli/	In an offensive manner.

Phrasal verbs you will hear

Word	Meaning
bring out verb	To elicit, evoke, or emphasize (a particular quality).
end up verb	To bring to a conclusion.
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.
open up verb	To open.
check out verb	To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
get back to verb	Return to (an activity)
pull off verb	To remove by pulling.

Sentences worth repeating

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

You're never going to win.
I'm having a funny bug in this position.
Do you see that?

Grammar in this video

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

Structure	In the video
Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing	chess, which is · somebody who has · check, which is
Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now	has made · has come · has not played
Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it	were locked · is protected · be subjected

Pronunciation to watch

The speaker uses 48 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, don't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.

The “sh” and “zh” sounds: protégé /ˈpɹoʊtəˌʒeɪ/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, martial /ˈmɑɹʃəl/
Long words — get the stress right: unbelievable /ˌʌnbɪˈliːvəbl̩/, enigmatic /ˌɛnɪɡˈmætɪk/, impulsively /ɪmˈpʌlsɪvli/, obliterate /əˈblɪtəˌɹeɪt/, offensively /əˈfɛnsɪvli/

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 pawn, chess, checkmate.

What is the Shadowing Technique?

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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?