WEBVTT 00:01.230 --> 00:01.970 Hi there. 00:02.600 --> 00:09.420 And I would like to show you an iconic game example, which kind of put a certain way of playing against 00:09.420 --> 00:12.890 the character on our business, you know, far less popular. 00:13.560 --> 00:17.190 So this is Nîmes, which against Capablanca played in 1927. 00:17.190 --> 00:18.340 The New York Times. 00:19.080 --> 00:23.430 We see efore from them switch carriers back to playing the curriculum. 00:24.840 --> 00:32.580 Now, the Khankan, in contrast to the French defense, which is, he says, doesn't often leave, you 00:32.580 --> 00:35.550 know, about Beshir in the advanced version of the French defense. 00:35.560 --> 00:42.600 We see this by Bishop, which in fact reflects an issue that sometimes is addressed by black athletes 00:42.600 --> 00:48.720 playing for BASIX, the ASX, to try and exchange off this so-called bad strategically. 00:48.720 --> 00:54.210 That's one of the plans later or sometimes to wriggle around like this if sexers played later. 00:54.540 --> 01:00.170 So the various plans to do with a CIA bishop, which is a defining feature of the French defense. 01:00.750 --> 01:08.520 Now, when we play the Karakoram, it's like sometimes we can actually get a similar kind of position 01:08.520 --> 01:09.540 in the advance. 01:09.540 --> 01:16.350 But without the so-called bad bishop, in a way, potentially because we're not leaving a bad piece 01:16.350 --> 01:22.830 within our pawn structure, we can get some of the more aggressive perks of fighting against this advance 01:22.830 --> 01:28.380 pawn chain, like undermining with C5 later, but without the so-called bad bishop. 01:28.830 --> 01:31.950 We see Capablanca playing Bishop five. 01:32.400 --> 01:35.040 Yeah, and then Savitch plays Bishop Differe. 01:35.280 --> 01:36.180 This whole bishop. 01:36.180 --> 01:38.850 The fray is far less popular nowadays. 01:39.390 --> 01:42.630 Much more popular is Nigel Schwartzberg of Bishop Itou. 01:43.260 --> 01:44.820 It doesn't exchange off. 01:44.820 --> 01:48.930 It keeps this kind of more peace tension, doesn't it? 01:48.930 --> 01:52.200 Exchange off that bishop and leaves black with some congestion issues. 01:52.620 --> 01:55.380 But at this time, you know, opening theory wasn't so involved. 01:55.890 --> 02:05.220 And Bishop, differe actually means strategically black in a way, has a French defense version, too, 02:05.220 --> 02:07.560 without a bishop kind of upgrade. 02:08.160 --> 02:15.780 In a way, we see Knights, Seefried, Queen Bee, Sex, Margita and LC five. 02:15.780 --> 02:20.580 So Black is able to get some good counterplay going on the queen side. 02:21.360 --> 02:28.410 The Tanks Bishop S.C five White Castles, ninety seven point eighty four Queens. 02:28.410 --> 02:30.950 Quincy thinks the specialists that off. 02:31.410 --> 02:33.210 So why does have this bishop. 02:33.210 --> 02:35.250 But it's not that great. 02:35.760 --> 02:39.570 OK, could be worse with a Pawni for but it's not that great. 02:39.570 --> 02:44.960 Here we see Bishop Infrequency seven and four is actually played. 02:47.100 --> 02:50.340 So what is it about this position? 02:51.540 --> 02:53.200 It's not entirely bad, Bishop. 02:53.220 --> 02:53.790 Sure. 02:54.270 --> 03:02.670 On the other hand, black without any bishops seems to have some great perks in terms of peace and harmony. 03:03.000 --> 03:06.180 For example, this this square and this square in particular. 03:07.800 --> 03:13.170 Quite often they're nice enough French the defense after you exchange off the bad bishop, they are 03:13.170 --> 03:15.030 good outpost choirs generally. 03:16.830 --> 03:18.990 And it's something to think about here. 03:18.990 --> 03:23.370 Nine to five is played night sea sings but eighty-one. 03:23.520 --> 03:24.330 Gee, thanks. 03:24.900 --> 03:28.890 I know that night is case, which is a weakening move though. 03:28.890 --> 03:33.150 -- Don't go backwards and it's like yeah after night. 03:33.150 --> 03:42.810 Thanks Efrain Queen takes Efrain Capablanca plays a move to kind of guarantee King's safety and reduce 03:42.810 --> 03:47.460 the dynamic potential of white possession as soon as you do that. 03:49.900 --> 03:55.690 You can get a free hand to kind of an infiltration plan gaining access to more and more squares, potentially 03:56.020 --> 04:03.020 without the worries of the opponents counterplay we see H5, which kind of creates a romantic cell on 04:03.020 --> 04:10.930 the position for blacks king safety as it is prompted to play G5. 04:12.630 --> 04:20.750 So we get this very, very nice, juicy looking square and black just cancels her. 04:23.110 --> 04:29.590 Not fearing the pawnbroker, it's like any dangers for the black king have been severely reduced and 04:29.620 --> 04:38.080 this is a juicy square waiting for the night's arrival, we see 94 queen bee sex work have to rob FCD, 04:38.560 --> 04:44.140 a free Roxie seven defraying 95. 04:44.500 --> 04:47.770 So, OK, the night on this occasion is not going to five. 04:49.150 --> 04:56.290 However, it's still the case that White hasn't really got any meaningful strategic POUM break, which 04:56.290 --> 04:58.450 might have been used to liberate the pieces. 04:58.450 --> 05:03.330 The pieces are kind of passive in this pawn structure. 05:03.580 --> 05:08.350 So and yeah, there's no bad in sight, there's no bad bishop in sight. 05:08.830 --> 05:12.970 And yet the harmony feels much greater for blacks position. 05:13.570 --> 05:18.370 I mean, Nimes, which himself was so impressed by this game, he said as though Capablanca was using 05:18.520 --> 05:19.890 his system against him. 05:20.980 --> 05:32.860 We see rookie to rookie ain't King Jitsu and now ninety six eighty two rookies, rookie to and ninety 05:32.860 --> 05:34.720 seven here, Brooke. 05:34.720 --> 05:43.810 Eighty two rookie for and shrinking G-7 rook after and now a five rookie to. 05:43.810 --> 05:51.250 And now Ashley does come to a five because white knight is actually kind of useful on the four and it's 05:51.250 --> 05:57.220 exchanged off and we see a very, very clever move now which again make sure White doesn't have any 05:57.220 --> 05:58.040 strategic boom. 05:58.060 --> 06:00.550 Break off the night takes a five. 06:00.550 --> 06:01.690 How would you take care? 06:10.820 --> 06:19.280 Can blanket actually takes with takes five if you allow strategic Homebake, the harmony kind of increases, 06:19.550 --> 06:22.930 you know, with things like ESX later as a potential threat. 06:23.300 --> 06:31.490 And also D5 is is weak as well as some of the major key points that it could potentially be taken off 06:31.490 --> 06:32.300 or pressurized. 06:32.630 --> 06:34.350 So you don't really want to take like this. 06:34.370 --> 06:41.090 So he takes his place and it looks as though all of our H5 that's not all actually Queen of France played. 06:41.450 --> 06:51.020 If Quintet's H5 rechange a strong and how Rupesh four is strong and four is quite weak if you have to 06:51.560 --> 06:52.110 rotate. 06:52.110 --> 06:57.710 Therefore this is actually rather good for black and there'll be a upon. 06:57.770 --> 07:01.990 The Queen is actually on this occasion better than two rocks in this particular scenario. 07:02.810 --> 07:04.490 It seems so. 07:05.450 --> 07:15.800 Queen Afri is played and now a shocking kind of move, but reassuring the king safety and not having 07:15.800 --> 07:18.500 to tie a whole piece up to H5. 07:19.040 --> 07:20.210 We see kinky sex. 07:21.800 --> 07:25.520 That's a good sign when your pieces don't just have to look after weak pawns. 07:25.520 --> 07:33.470 The King Relief's, you know, Holbrook of duty and these roots can really work together to do something 07:33.470 --> 07:35.480 on this side of the board instead. 07:36.020 --> 07:41.980 So the king protects H5 very usefully and it's as though why it doesn't have any strategic form breaks. 07:42.890 --> 07:45.080 That's a really desirable thing in general. 07:45.080 --> 07:47.000 And I kind of test maybe of harmony. 07:47.720 --> 07:51.950 One of the tests, you know, if the opponent has strategic pawn, right, you got worries. 07:52.280 --> 07:56.960 If you got worries, you know, the opponents got counterplay, the defense got counterplay, can't 07:56.960 --> 08:03.740 make steady inroads and gain access to important squares systematically to accumulate advantages by 08:03.740 --> 08:03.930 here. 08:03.940 --> 08:05.150 Yeah, there's less worries. 08:05.540 --> 08:09.740 It doesn't have a strategic pawn break at their disposal. 08:09.740 --> 08:15.410 Rook Edyta, we see infiltration rookie fall and now rotifer is played. 08:17.810 --> 08:24.830 By the way, instead of looking for Quincy, saying's doesn't play the so-called minority attack where 08:24.830 --> 08:28.880 a minority of --'s is attacking a majority is actually possible. 08:28.910 --> 08:34.190 It's the aim of this minority attack is to inflict structural damage. 08:34.410 --> 08:37.810 You can imagine taking there'll be a weakened ANC pawns. 08:38.270 --> 08:42.950 So the minority attack is actually a very important concept in pawn structures. 08:42.950 --> 08:49.040 Generally, we see Rook one day to be before so eight eight. 08:49.760 --> 08:57.140 And, you know, in this version it will be we see in this faction, it will be a very pleasant alternative 08:57.140 --> 08:58.340 to the gang continuation. 09:00.320 --> 09:03.530 So let's not get carried away in the game, actually, rookie forwards. 09:03.570 --> 09:08.450 I just wanted to make note there was a hint of a potential minority attack in this position. 09:08.870 --> 09:11.330 But this is there are other ways to win games. 09:11.330 --> 09:13.420 You don't always have to use a minority attack. 09:13.790 --> 09:16.030 So this is the chosen path infiltration. 09:16.760 --> 09:23.330 We see the default Route C for queen after Queen B five King Jeoffrey. 09:25.530 --> 09:32.760 Roxy takes the four she takes in Quincy for you can see the systematic accumulation of vantages hair 09:32.760 --> 09:38.230 without an excuse of minority attack when it's kind of frozen looking after the pawns. 09:38.670 --> 09:40.160 This isn't great harmony. 09:40.380 --> 09:44.690 This is relegating the pieces to just passive defenders. 09:45.150 --> 09:54.360 King to be five King Jiwon before I'm black is just increasing the advantage, making more dangerous 09:54.360 --> 09:56.520 potential passports one day. 09:56.820 --> 10:02.880 If this pawn advance advances without actually being weak, we see Quincy one infiltration. 10:03.330 --> 10:08.280 King Jeoffrey are now very, very cheeky. 10:08.280 --> 10:15.270 Infiltration Queen one rogue defraying rookie one white has been tied up totally in knots. 10:16.290 --> 10:21.390 Rook Efrain wrote Daewon be free. 10:22.920 --> 10:23.550 And now rook. 10:23.550 --> 10:26.250 See one way is in a kind of zugzwang. 10:29.270 --> 10:38.960 We see rock, every rock, F1 and the game ended here, if Queen Jitu had to resign, if Queen G to 10:39.620 --> 10:41.840 that, we just win the Queen, we brought you on. 10:44.430 --> 10:50.340 If Queen Desu, then Queen Guancheng and Queen divorced, check out. 10:51.850 --> 10:58.840 If Kwangju to hand and quintets every check, so yes, just like getting a basic, you know, a zugzwang, 10:58.840 --> 10:59.710 it's so bad. 11:00.200 --> 11:01.960 Why all this without the minorities? 11:02.590 --> 11:03.220 Sorry about that. 11:03.230 --> 11:06.140 I think I was getting carried away there about that minority attack plan. 11:06.520 --> 11:06.880 Yeah. 11:06.880 --> 11:08.050 This at this key moment. 11:08.050 --> 11:09.760 Let's go back to this key moment. 11:09.760 --> 11:15.250 An infiltration plan was pursued instead of minorities, saying there are other cases where you might 11:15.250 --> 11:16.680 prefer minority attack. 11:17.140 --> 11:22.750 So just just to put that on the board again, actually, let's take that to a logical conclusion as 11:22.750 --> 11:24.730 an alternate way of winning. 11:25.810 --> 11:33.640 You know, this situation would have also led to Wyant being a very, very difficult position and losing 11:33.640 --> 11:34.360 position potentially. 11:34.370 --> 11:38.560 You can see how minority time could do extreme damage like this. 11:38.560 --> 11:43.480 And still, White's position would be fairly Homer Simpson constants remain. 11:43.480 --> 11:45.370 You know, the king is just secure. 11:45.380 --> 11:47.920 What is lacking in POUM breaks in both scenarios. 11:48.220 --> 11:51.490 So sometimes, you know, you have such a positioning, overwhelming gain. 11:51.490 --> 11:57.190 You know, there are different positional routes to win the game and all those routes, perhaps the 11:57.190 --> 11:59.050 opponent just has minimal counterplay. 11:59.590 --> 12:02.320 But yeah, the Capablanca method chosen Muki four. 12:03.100 --> 12:11.890 And then the infiltrations with the chicken variations on Naughtie Squares starts revealing themselves 12:12.250 --> 12:15.280 of the King Jeoffrey. 12:15.280 --> 12:21.190 Because while it's kind of stuck here, I mean, you know, the queen moves away from defore that drops 12:21.770 --> 12:24.160 which one is taken on defore. 12:24.880 --> 12:26.170 It's just horrible. 12:26.500 --> 12:28.060 The moves queen takes effort. 12:28.060 --> 12:30.310 I mean, look at the pain in this position. 12:33.540 --> 12:40.680 We can say, even though there's no obvious bad bishops in this example, the harmony, pain and pleasure 12:41.010 --> 12:49.980 is pronounced for both sides that, you know, white pawns are just pacifying totally the white pieces. 12:51.300 --> 12:54.540 So giving up key squares, you know, H1. 12:54.550 --> 13:02.880 Now, that weakness of the last move is a symptom of very, very passive position, just being overworked, 13:02.880 --> 13:03.720 overloaded. 13:04.800 --> 13:07.450 So these infiltrations there are just so painful. 13:08.880 --> 13:15.660 So, yeah, Nîmes, which was so impressed by the scheme, he just treated it as though Capablanca, 13:15.660 --> 13:20.580 the game actually ended, has a Capablanca used Nîmes, which is my system against them. 13:20.790 --> 13:21.420 So great. 13:22.710 --> 13:32.190 Peace and harmony, so that has implications for lack of counterplay, you have lack of counterplay 13:32.280 --> 13:37.020 or your parents that can't play ball or somebody from that perspective, you can make inroads. 13:37.020 --> 13:41.820 You can gain access more and more to key squares and, you know, almost zugzwang. 13:41.820 --> 13:46.080 The opponent like in this in this game, potentially, where any move they make, they're going to start 13:46.080 --> 13:47.310 losing material. 13:47.730 --> 13:52.170 You can get that level of positional power in possession. 13:53.730 --> 14:01.710 OK, I hope this is inspiring to think about how the pieces and pawns can one how many or not to your 14:01.710 --> 14:02.870 advantage or not. 14:03.420 --> 14:04.710 OK, and so much.