WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.650 Hi there. 00:01.680 --> 00:06.780 In this lecture, I'm going to show you one of my favorite isolated queens -- games. 00:06.900 --> 00:11.940 It's a very attacking game from Raymond Keene, a British grandmaster against another British grandmaster, 00:11.940 --> 00:14.250 Anthony Miles, in 1976. 00:14.640 --> 00:18.750 Hastings tournament's around 13, so nights have free from Raymond King. 00:18.750 --> 00:19.950 We have six. 00:20.670 --> 00:21.750 C four. 00:22.500 --> 00:23.340 C five. 00:24.720 --> 00:25.800 93 nights. 00:25.800 --> 00:26.580 C six. 00:26.970 --> 00:27.630 E three. 00:27.660 --> 00:29.220 E six d4. 00:29.220 --> 00:32.940 d5c tanks d59 tanks, three five. 00:33.180 --> 00:37.080 Bishop D3 And now black gives white the isolated Queen's pawn. 00:38.100 --> 00:40.730 So it does have perks here. 00:40.740 --> 00:44.070 We've cleared out actually the third rank, that's one thing. 00:44.490 --> 00:48.240 So Rook Cliffs are statistically more likely later on. 00:49.440 --> 00:56.010 Rook less like for example, if we imagine later that E4 is available or D free and then switching to 00:56.010 --> 01:00.090 a kingside attack, the king is usually going to live on G8. 01:01.620 --> 01:07.230 There's also the hooks on E5 and C5 which can be useful, and you can see that the bishops are alive 01:07.230 --> 01:10.800 and kicking and the adjacent fouls could be good for Rooks as well. 01:11.100 --> 01:17.010 So overall, even though the pawn structure has suffered, the pieces benefit. 01:17.040 --> 01:23.040 The pieces are very active here and isolated queen, pawns, queen, pawn possessions. 01:23.040 --> 01:26.850 It's arguably the top pawn structure to master. 01:26.850 --> 01:32.370 You can check out my pawn structures course for all sorts of pawn structures, but basically the IQ 01:32.700 --> 01:37.290 wise, that Queen's pawn can arise from a number of different openings. 01:37.590 --> 01:42.570 So seeing iconic attacking games could actually in effect help. 01:43.650 --> 01:46.470 Your middle game in all of those openings, you're getting the IQ. 01:48.390 --> 01:51.210 So Bishop E7 is played. 01:51.210 --> 01:53.730 It's good to know both for it and against it. 01:53.850 --> 01:55.620 It's got its up and down sides. 01:55.860 --> 02:04.590 So here both sides console and we see Rocky one and now Lloyd's have sixes played. 02:05.840 --> 02:07.190 Bishop G5. 02:09.690 --> 02:11.740 None of this -- is immune. 02:12.340 --> 02:14.570 That's just something you shouldn't do. 02:14.590 --> 02:18.190 964 You can see why for ten points, what would you play? 02:18.940 --> 02:23.230 You know, this bishop takes age seven check and once winning the queen. 02:25.180 --> 02:32.890 So we have night before black is adopting a blockade strategy hitting the bishop. 02:32.890 --> 02:38.560 The bishop is preserved, but the knight could end up blockading on D5 this isolated Queen's pawn. 02:38.980 --> 02:43.750 B 695, Bishop B seven. 02:44.260 --> 02:46.780 And here comes an attacking rook left. 02:46.780 --> 02:53.860 So yes, I say queen pawn positions often give attacking potential to be celebrated. 02:54.520 --> 02:57.350 So what do you think is the move? 02:57.390 --> 02:57.910 Yeah. 02:58.390 --> 02:58.660 Yeah. 02:58.660 --> 02:59.740 I've given you enough clothes. 02:59.740 --> 03:01.540 I think it's actually rookie free. 03:01.540 --> 03:04.450 It's very direct, very attacking. 03:05.500 --> 03:15.490 If a free had been played, this should lead to a small age for white Queen D Free is looking at age 03:15.490 --> 03:15.910 seven. 03:15.910 --> 03:22.630 So Knight takes Bishop six and Queen H seven mate you know so say G six is played bishop, age six. 03:22.630 --> 03:27.340 This position is actually rather dangerous for black of the Queen H three. 03:27.340 --> 03:30.400 Another point about I say Queen spawns this file. 03:30.550 --> 03:37.390 As mentioned, it's good for Rooks, but here in particular that foul is associated with a soft spot 03:37.390 --> 03:38.890 where the king is the only one protecting. 03:38.890 --> 03:43.750 F7 So actually, say rooks the eight was played. 03:43.750 --> 03:46.390 What would you play here in this position? 03:48.870 --> 03:49.440 Yeah. 03:49.820 --> 03:51.180 Nine takes F seven. 03:51.840 --> 03:52.530 This is crushing. 03:52.710 --> 03:56.010 For example, King takes queen, takes E sixes, mate. 03:56.010 --> 03:56.580 So. 03:57.360 --> 03:59.700 So that's why, you know, this variation is very interesting. 04:00.150 --> 04:08.910 So let's say Bishop f8 though, that secures E six, Bishop G five so that for instance, potentially 04:08.920 --> 04:14.070 94 Bishop G seven makes 94 less effective. 04:14.730 --> 04:16.920 So Bishop E4 though. 04:18.460 --> 04:20.200 And let's say a six. 04:20.440 --> 04:27.520 And why gives up the LightSquared bishop to try and improve things, improve the pressure on the dance 04:27.790 --> 04:31.240 with Queen four and this pawn is now shielded by the opponent's pawn. 04:31.270 --> 04:35.440 This position is a small edge, but it's not as fun as what we're going to see in the game. 04:35.680 --> 04:40.060 So Avery was plausible, but rookie free, this immediate rook left is very interesting. 04:40.450 --> 04:45.250 G6 now a very interesting way of playing it hand. 04:45.280 --> 04:46.840 How would you play this Rook? 04:49.750 --> 04:54.670 It's ag3e, three, three, two G free or two H. 04:57.540 --> 04:57.930 Okay. 04:57.990 --> 05:07.080 It's to Jeffrey if going to age frame, there's actually no concrete combination associated with this 05:07.320 --> 05:08.250 age free hair. 05:09.810 --> 05:17.060 If 97 bishop takes 87 hair, we can try Quincy one but is not that effective. 05:17.070 --> 05:21.240 Black Knight takes E5 and Black is ready always with five. 05:21.630 --> 05:29.760 If we go in and as f five, protecting age seven and blacks going to be with a small age that on on 05:29.760 --> 05:36.460 D 25 again there's no problem at five hair and it's just even so, it doesn't really seem as though 05:36.460 --> 05:38.100 it has too much going for it. 05:38.790 --> 05:43.890 Bishop, age six, does seem a viable option, and if the rook moves rook G3, that's where the rook 05:43.890 --> 05:45.990 belongs here, forcing the work to move. 05:45.990 --> 05:47.190 Encouraging the work to move. 05:48.240 --> 05:50.490 This is a good attack position. 05:50.490 --> 05:54.150 Still, White has a definite advantage of the F4. 05:54.960 --> 05:55.470 Yeah. 05:57.440 --> 05:57.770 Yeah. 05:57.770 --> 06:00.130 It's not that unstable to play this. 06:00.140 --> 06:07.010 There's enough attacking compensation if takes for example here we carry on and you know. 06:07.870 --> 06:09.430 We're protecting the rook now. 06:09.790 --> 06:10.950 The bishop of the knight. 06:10.990 --> 06:14.050 There's things like Bishop G5, especially Queen Size, the Bishop G5. 06:14.170 --> 06:14.730 It's all. 06:14.740 --> 06:18.280 It's all very, very dangerous. 06:20.200 --> 06:21.790 This this kind of position. 06:23.920 --> 06:25.590 I'll give you an example. 06:25.600 --> 06:26.170 Bishop G. 06:26.170 --> 06:28.360 Five had the knights protecting the rook. 06:28.360 --> 06:34.480 If the queen forced to go there, then horrible things might happen with Queen size. 06:36.040 --> 06:40.260 Bishop six, Jack Bishop G seven Shank. 06:40.270 --> 06:44.560 And here we actually have basically a forced mate sequence. 06:44.590 --> 06:46.600 Knight six Check here. 06:47.740 --> 06:51.610 Knight takes off six, Bishop takes off six check. 06:51.610 --> 06:54.730 And the point is, the king's abandoning H seven now. 06:54.880 --> 06:56.980 So we play for five points. 06:58.120 --> 07:02.410 Bishop takes H seven and there's an unstoppable basically rook g eight here. 07:03.820 --> 07:07.180 This is only delaying rook c one and then playing against mated. 07:07.180 --> 07:09.630 So it's very precarious actually. 07:09.640 --> 07:13.600 These situations after 94 that that pawn cannot be taken. 07:13.630 --> 07:16.750 So say 97, 96, this is just a big advantage. 07:16.750 --> 07:24.400 So basically in a nutshell, actually Bishop G5 does seem like a tasty option. 07:24.400 --> 07:25.660 Sorry, Bishop H. 07:25.660 --> 07:35.200 Sex does seem a tasty option as a prelude to G Frain in the game. 07:35.200 --> 07:42.850 Rook G Freeze played immediately and we have rookie sex now. 07:42.850 --> 07:48.610 Perhaps Black could improve things here with 96. 07:48.610 --> 07:59.080 Just trying to look at D for the downside of the D4 knight takes bishop takes and if h4b583855. 07:59.080 --> 08:05.530 Bishop H sex rookie black seems to be just about okay actually. 08:05.530 --> 08:09.340 So this is about even this position. 08:10.600 --> 08:11.290 Yeah. 08:12.480 --> 08:15.570 So yeah, it seems as though 96 is plausible here. 08:17.740 --> 08:18.880 Very interesting stuff. 08:19.960 --> 08:26.320 So OC rookie eight though was played and we have Bishop h6 and now big mistake rookie eight just moving 08:26.320 --> 08:29.260 the rock here is a big mistake There's a load of pressure on G6. 08:30.070 --> 08:37.060 If we look at this G6 it looks as though this this is not about to be hard, not about to be cracked 08:37.240 --> 08:40.690 wide open if see six instead. 08:43.050 --> 08:44.800 What this might do. 08:44.820 --> 08:45.240 Yeah. 08:45.250 --> 08:46.350 Taking the exchange. 08:46.350 --> 08:49.470 Isn't that clever here? 08:51.660 --> 08:55.290 That kind of strengthens Black's king's safety. 08:55.650 --> 08:57.240 This position falls a bit way. 08:57.240 --> 08:59.340 Black has definite compensation. 09:00.540 --> 09:01.680 We could. 09:03.910 --> 09:04.780 Play. 09:05.140 --> 09:06.610 We could try. 09:09.640 --> 09:11.140 Nine takes G six, though. 09:19.190 --> 09:21.020 This is actually interesting. 09:21.170 --> 09:27.140 If each takes Bishop takes after it's Queen Bee one, there's Queenie eight. 09:27.620 --> 09:32.840 It's interesting, but if Black's playing like a supercomputer like this, Black should live to tell 09:32.840 --> 09:35.170 the tale and actually be even there. 09:35.180 --> 09:37.010 So, yes, 96. 09:37.700 --> 09:41.150 It does seem as though this is the way to go. 09:42.530 --> 09:45.130 So either nine takes G6 or Bishop takes F8. 09:45.140 --> 09:53.220 Yeah, this position, it just seems as though this, for example, blacks should be relatively okay. 09:53.240 --> 09:54.020 There's more work to do. 09:54.020 --> 09:59.390 But actually even here in this variation in this particular operation, White ends up with an advantage. 09:59.390 --> 10:02.530 But is the exchange for white? 10:02.540 --> 10:06.380 But you look at the pawns, the pawns are pretty solid. 10:06.380 --> 10:08.210 And Black's also got the bishop here. 10:08.330 --> 10:10.760 So it's not the end of the world for black hair. 10:12.830 --> 10:13.400 Okay. 10:13.400 --> 10:16.390 So, you know, black has got the extra pawn and the bishop. 10:16.700 --> 10:19.880 So essentially, that is the way that it should have been played. 10:19.890 --> 10:20.990 96. 10:21.980 --> 10:23.450 That's the key point here. 10:23.480 --> 10:29.820 With rookie eight, White now nudges the knights and it goes to see six. 10:29.840 --> 10:32.990 If it went to D five, like BD five. 10:35.150 --> 10:42.290 We get a very dangerous situation after Bishop takes G six, F takes three, H takes Queen D three now 10:42.290 --> 10:49.250 threatens Rook takes G six if Bishop if eight, Rook takes G six and we're cracking open the black king 10:49.250 --> 10:49.950 possession. 10:49.970 --> 10:50.870 Ouch. 10:52.590 --> 10:55.460 And if so, that's just the delay tactic. 10:55.680 --> 10:57.390 We're still crashing through here. 10:57.810 --> 11:00.100 This is nasty night. 11:00.390 --> 11:01.020 Five. 11:03.280 --> 11:04.500 And those big friends. 11:04.510 --> 11:07.930 So one of them is Bishop E5. 11:08.170 --> 11:08.950 There's huge threats. 11:09.190 --> 11:12.520 If Queen takes Bishop E5, Black's going to give up the Queen. 11:12.670 --> 11:17.020 So anyway, 96 though, was was played. 11:18.340 --> 11:21.620 So is there a combination here and how exactly does it work? 11:21.640 --> 11:24.060 You have to be precise with this combination. 11:24.070 --> 11:30.430 So yeah, the pieces are all optimized to blast through Black's pawn chain around the king. 11:31.510 --> 11:36.100 This is for me, what makes this such an amazing attacking game. 11:36.100 --> 11:38.290 And I say Queen pawn demonstration. 11:40.370 --> 11:40.970 Okay. 11:41.000 --> 11:44.190 It's played with very high precision 19th century sex. 11:44.210 --> 11:44.840 Thanks. 11:45.140 --> 11:48.230 Bishop takes G6 f thanks. 11:48.620 --> 11:49.790 No, not playing. 11:49.790 --> 11:50.870 Rook takes G6. 11:50.870 --> 11:51.590 Check. 11:52.040 --> 11:54.410 But actually, that's a clue. 11:54.440 --> 11:57.470 What move is great here for white? 12:03.500 --> 12:05.630 So you don't want to mess You don't want to mess this up. 12:05.630 --> 12:06.290 Really. 12:06.980 --> 12:10.050 It's easy to mess up these positions, especially if you're done immature. 12:10.070 --> 12:17.090 You have to play very precisely as a general rule because the opponent can count sack material just 12:17.090 --> 12:20.560 to try and give a cold shower to your attack. 12:20.570 --> 12:23.510 You don't want the cold shower treatment. 12:23.510 --> 12:27.470 So there's a very precise move which justifies the whole thing. 12:28.010 --> 12:30.230 Otherwise, it's made to look as though it's nothing. 12:30.470 --> 12:32.870 So that move is Queen B one. 12:34.610 --> 12:36.760 If queen defray, you've just messed it up. 12:36.770 --> 12:39.790 Unfortunately, 95 is the resource using that pin. 12:39.800 --> 12:42.350 It's a tempo gainer and a hit hits the queen. 12:42.350 --> 12:43.160 It's a disaster. 12:43.160 --> 12:45.470 It hits the queen and protects G6. 12:48.090 --> 12:49.710 It's no good here. 12:53.360 --> 12:58.190 If they takes you know, queen takes and there's no attack. 12:58.220 --> 13:07.130 If Queen Bee one wrote saying see free takes Bishop E4 and the attacks just gone completely. 13:08.480 --> 13:11.270 So, yes, this is just very unfortunate. 13:12.530 --> 13:18.530 Now, you might wonder in the case of robotics, G6 yeah, Black Stars actually have to tread carefully 13:18.530 --> 13:19.400 here. 13:20.900 --> 13:24.590 So if black takes them, black gets mated. 13:24.710 --> 13:27.020 You know, there are dangers lurking in the position. 13:27.350 --> 13:32.390 But how you know what happens here then, which makes this good for black? 13:32.390 --> 13:35.140 Well, actually not King of seven. 13:35.150 --> 13:36.560 What would we play here? 13:36.560 --> 13:37.550 Which is strong? 13:38.720 --> 13:39.130 Okay. 13:39.140 --> 13:47.960 We have actually rotates f six check here and on bishop tanks, because if king tanks we can play D 13:47.990 --> 13:51.080 tanks e5 with a lot of fun and games to bring the king out. 13:51.860 --> 13:56.870 If the king goes back to f7, we can play Queen H seven mating. 13:57.200 --> 13:59.780 If the king comes out to play with King takes E5. 13:59.780 --> 14:06.800 We have Bishop G seven Shank and here have four check and we're bringing in this rook potentially on 14:06.800 --> 14:07.250 A1. 14:07.250 --> 14:08.130 Soon we're broke. 14:08.150 --> 14:08.900 Have one. 14:09.110 --> 14:11.990 And that's mating fun stuff. 14:12.020 --> 14:14.880 If the king had stepped back to have seven there, by the way. 14:14.880 --> 14:16.490 Yeah, Queen H seven is checkmate. 14:16.880 --> 14:18.440 So these loins. 14:19.490 --> 14:19.850 Yeah. 14:19.880 --> 14:21.080 King seven is not working. 14:21.080 --> 14:26.220 But believe it or not, King H seven And this does question our time. 14:26.270 --> 14:28.490 Our queens attacked, our rooks attacked. 14:28.760 --> 14:31.250 We could try Rook G seven check. 14:31.280 --> 14:31.970 KING Thanks. 14:31.970 --> 14:37.780 H Thanks, but we're running out a bit of we're running out of steam here. 14:37.790 --> 14:39.320 Queen This is starting to look really odd. 14:39.320 --> 14:40.640 The sounds of the Queen. 14:40.640 --> 14:41.750 H Three king tanks. 14:41.750 --> 14:43.130 G Seven de tanks. 14:43.130 --> 14:49.460 E Five black can go on the counter attack with queenly four doesn't have to be pushed around anymore. 14:49.670 --> 14:53.300 Queen D four offering a peace to get things back in order. 14:53.300 --> 14:57.740 Black's hugely material up anyway now so yes that's why. 14:58.610 --> 15:07.050 Queen D three it's not working some some concrete evidence there why this is not working 95 rotates 15:07.100 --> 15:07.580 G six. 15:07.580 --> 15:08.000 Yeah. 15:08.030 --> 15:09.320 King H seven. 15:09.320 --> 15:16.490 I know it's crazy looking stuff, but it does kind of double our attacking forces. 15:17.840 --> 15:18.680 So. 15:19.220 --> 15:21.950 And if we look again now, what about Queen C two? 15:21.950 --> 15:24.140 Again, this is an inaccuracy. 15:24.140 --> 15:29.120 495 cropping up as a resource here. 15:29.870 --> 15:35.990 So the thing is D takes there's 94 putting a spanner in the works and using that pin against the knight. 15:37.100 --> 15:42.650 And also yeah basically what is what is won't do her. 15:44.680 --> 15:45.610 So if. 15:47.380 --> 15:54.270 Rook g4 Queen deform blacks nearly okay. 15:54.280 --> 15:57.910 Whites only got slight edge here if anything. 15:58.720 --> 15:59.320 So yes. 15:59.320 --> 15:59.980 Fascinating. 15:59.980 --> 16:05.380 So the key move to get to keep the attack going is actually Queen B one for the record. 16:05.830 --> 16:12.430 In the case of Rook Times G6, you might think this is interchangeable with Queen B1 or Rook takes G6 16:12.430 --> 16:13.780 for Queen B one later. 16:14.900 --> 16:17.140 It's not quite the case of the Queen. 16:17.140 --> 16:23.290 B one is actually a resource for black hair Knight takes D for. 16:25.550 --> 16:29.570 And if road signs f 6.5 blunting the Queen. 16:30.800 --> 16:37.310 And if rotates e6 trying to undermine minor five route c5 if not e4 rook a five. 16:37.340 --> 16:38.720 Black's clinging on here. 16:40.390 --> 16:42.820 And ends up, you know, technically better. 16:43.060 --> 16:47.320 So, yes, Queen Bee one is is the key move to play. 16:47.350 --> 16:51.160 Queen one is absolutely the great move to play here. 16:52.480 --> 16:53.290 Okay. 16:56.360 --> 16:59.930 So here, getting bypassing all these tempo gainers. 17:00.380 --> 17:01.880 Yeah, that's a key thing. 17:02.150 --> 17:04.240 So you've got to be aware. 17:04.250 --> 17:08.540 You know, a lot of attacks they run with forcing moves on your side. 17:08.540 --> 17:13.910 You want to be the one doing forcing moves, but you've also got to sidestep the opponent's key forcing 17:13.910 --> 17:16.100 moves which might actually help their defense. 17:16.580 --> 17:23.060 So forcing moves help the attacker and they help the defender, as we've seen here demonstrated by Queen 17:23.060 --> 17:29.870 B-1, bypassing those moves which might help the defender amplify the attack, basically. 17:29.870 --> 17:39.920 So Queen B 195 is played here, but now D tanks E5 94. 17:42.350 --> 17:43.570 Lt takes effort. 17:43.580 --> 17:45.860 So this is absolutely crushing. 17:45.860 --> 17:48.200 Now, someone has a huge advantage here. 17:48.440 --> 17:53.750 Tony was played on in a sporting fashion after King 7.56 Jack Bishop takes. 17:53.750 --> 17:56.660 He played on until the champ mate, believe it or not. 17:56.990 --> 17:59.720 So that was generous for the game to end in checkmate. 18:00.290 --> 18:06.320 And for me, yeah, it's one of the more crushing, attacking games with the odds that the Queen's pawn 18:06.710 --> 18:09.410 exception has to be made for these super brilliant games. 18:09.410 --> 18:15.920 If they're not in the classic list of attacking players, I think that would impoverish this course. 18:15.920 --> 18:22.570 If we didn't cover some iconic games from people, you wouldn't think a major attacking player. 18:22.580 --> 18:27.050 Sometimes they have these brilliant attacking games which we can learn from. 18:27.290 --> 18:31.340 And for me this is inspirational for isolated queen pawn situations. 18:31.340 --> 18:36.290 And I say Queen Pawn is often resulting from many different openings. 18:36.290 --> 18:41.660 So this is an important game to know about, in my view, and the variations and the resources for both 18:41.660 --> 18:42.320 sides. 18:42.320 --> 18:44.810 So I hope you enjoyed this and got some points from it. 18:45.770 --> 18:46.550 Thanks very much.