00:00It seems there's no more excitement left, but for a moment, black, you know, created this potential problem, having rook and knight at the same line, but if white simply tries to pin with rook at three, then king defends the knight, and we have nothing.
00:26We don't have any way of putting more pressure on this knight.
00:30So that's why all we need is just to make an intermediate check, rook e2.
00:36We're attacking the king, and if king runs on d4, then we do a fork. Remember? Fork.
00:43Double attack, king and rook, winning the material, and if king goes on f5, then we'll go rook e3, and then we'll win because of the pin.
00:51Black has no way of sacrificing an exchange and having a totally lost endgame.
00:57So it's important. Just another important thing, intermediate move.
01:03Often happens. You can easily miss it because, you know, you look at moves like rook f3 to create immediate threat,
01:12but actually rook e2 wins because it destroys black's coordination, so pushes the king.
01:19So that's also quite a useful example. Very few pieces left, but I think it's quite instructional.
01:35Let's have a look at this position.
01:39White has material advantage. It has, you may say, extra piece, because queen is roughly equal to two rooks,
01:47but white has an extra piece, but the problem is that this bishop is pinned,
01:52and it's the, it's an absolute pin because there's a king there,
01:56and black is preparing to go rook c1 just to have a second rook.
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