00:00It's also a beauty. It's something that creates a masterpiece, you know, a picturesque position that I think you can enjoy.
00:10That's why we have chess composers, people who spend their lives creating these positions.
00:16And while many predicted after computers' arrival, the end of the game of chess,
00:25we could actually see how computers are helping to find these beautiful positions.
00:31Because when you look at this endgame databases, you can dig deep down and find some positions that are just so beautiful and they make people feel happy.
00:41This is one of the purposes of the game of chess.
00:44It's that you can enjoy not only finding good moves, but also celebrating great combinations created by others.
00:54It's very important to remember that even if you learn a new pattern, and if you learn how to apply it,
01:02that even slightest change in the position could actually hurt combination, could actually change the evaluation.
01:10So let's look at one of the classical positions.
01:13So white king goes on d1, let's put two rooks on c4 and a1, and black king goes on d3, and black rook is on h8.
01:25So white has an extra rook, but this rook is attacked, and it's a double attack.
01:33It's not just rook as an attack, but it's also mate is another threat.
01:37So can white defend against both threads?
01:44Of course, you can simply, you know, give a check and sacrifice a rook, then it's a draw.
01:49But can you win the game?
01:51And here is a trick.
01:53So white can protect against both threads by making a temporary sacrifice,
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