WEBVTT 00:01.170 --> 00:01.810 Hi there. 00:02.340 --> 00:05.970 In this lecture, we're going to ask what is a minority attack? 00:06.330 --> 00:07.920 You might have heard of this phrase. 00:08.850 --> 00:15.300 Somewhere, minority attack, it's not Minority Report, that's a film of Tom Cruise, which is a very 00:15.300 --> 00:16.780 good sci fi overall. 00:18.010 --> 00:27.840 OK, so minority attack before this is like family against or with against short. 00:27.850 --> 00:39.990 So Britain's Nigel Short, we see F six, C 40 and free D five nights every night. 00:39.990 --> 00:42.240 BDM Yeah. 00:42.240 --> 00:43.950 I'm just setting up an opening for you. 00:44.490 --> 00:50.270 And actually you know what, we're going to get the so-called Coles bad pawn structure. 00:50.460 --> 00:50.820 I don't know. 00:50.820 --> 00:51.600 That sounds bad. 00:51.600 --> 00:52.890 It's not as bad as it sounds. 00:52.890 --> 00:58.650 The Carlsbad pull structure and it's invoked with C takes D the exchange variation of the Queen's Gambit 00:58.650 --> 00:59.160 declined. 00:59.520 --> 01:04.500 We often get this structure like this where Black is taking back with the Apelin. 01:04.860 --> 01:07.380 So we've got a semi open cifas here. 01:08.670 --> 01:15.600 And the Carlsbad structure is a great structure for implementing a minority attack as well as being 01:15.600 --> 01:16.770 technically possible. 01:17.160 --> 01:19.050 We see after Bishop G five C6. 01:19.050 --> 01:20.520 Let's examine this for a moment. 01:22.500 --> 01:25.680 What is it about this Carlsbad structure which makes sense? 01:26.910 --> 01:30.000 You know, an absolute classic recipe to use a minority attack? 01:31.020 --> 01:33.960 Well, the minority attack is a minority of --'s here. 01:34.360 --> 01:36.150 There's the majority here on this side. 01:36.600 --> 01:42.720 But minority attack, I know these points of say, I'm just taking the theoretical sense in the theoretical 01:42.720 --> 01:49.830 sense, you're exchanging often fancy sex, leaving this -- potentially isolated and this -- potentially 01:49.830 --> 01:50.400 backward. 01:51.420 --> 01:55.500 And let's not use let's use a red arrow for consistency. 01:56.430 --> 02:01.650 If you can isolate that -- that's going to be prone to frontal attack later without its fellow pawns. 02:02.160 --> 02:06.960 And the same with with that one, you know, it's going to need pieces, the support. 02:07.470 --> 02:13.590 And also, of course, you've got a nice outpost's square on C five, which is a tendency for backward 02:13.590 --> 02:13.830 --. 02:13.830 --> 02:15.600 Sometimes you don't even need to eliminate them. 02:15.900 --> 02:20.370 You just celebrate the square in front of them with an outpost, nice juicy outpost. 02:20.760 --> 02:22.560 So that's the recipe. 02:23.040 --> 02:28.020 So in the Queen's Gambit Exchange version, you're going for this pawn shop. 02:28.170 --> 02:28.980 This goes bad. 02:30.270 --> 02:36.000 But, you know, this minority attack can occur in other opening variations. 02:36.420 --> 02:42.250 One of the fundamental features even of the Sicilian defense and I'll just make a note, you know, 02:42.270 --> 02:42.630 we're here. 02:42.630 --> 02:43.750 It moved some of it free. 02:43.770 --> 02:45.330 But let's just rewind. 02:46.080 --> 02:49.380 And just for a moment, let's look at the Sicilian defense. 02:49.890 --> 02:58.980 One of the key properties of the Sicilian defense, potentially in some games at least, is sometimes 03:01.320 --> 03:09.960 black is able to use the pawn minority of pawns to later attack a majority and cause structural damage. 03:10.470 --> 03:11.430 And you might think, well. 03:14.170 --> 03:16.010 Can't we do that on the other side of the border? 03:16.330 --> 03:20.620 Sometimes it's not possible, depending on where the king is, you like weakening your king, but because 03:20.620 --> 03:26.140 these are queen side pawns that, you know, you're more likely to be able to use them to to destroy 03:26.140 --> 03:30.210 the opponents pawns, Russia or weaken, at least to some degree. 03:30.580 --> 03:33.580 So, yeah, you have a poor minority here. 03:34.180 --> 03:42.160 Whenever you have queen side, especially queen side pawn minorities, they can be a weapon just frohna 03:42.730 --> 03:45.700 the majority of pawns to cause structural damage. 03:46.570 --> 03:53.050 So anyway, bear in mind some some games, the selling you do actually see a minority attacked in some 03:53.050 --> 03:53.310 games. 03:53.370 --> 03:55.710 Bobby Fischer in self-defense. 03:56.140 --> 04:00.090 So the minority is not completely distinct. 04:00.130 --> 04:05.860 Let's go back to our favorite game is not completely distinct to the so-called Carlsbad bad structure, 04:07.330 --> 04:14.020 but the Carlsbad structure, like the Sicilian defense, does have that same open sea fowl. 04:15.160 --> 04:22.180 And so when we do the structural damage, because we've got this summit and CFO will have natural pressure 04:22.330 --> 04:27.670 on C6, it's like we're underlining our existing pressure on C6. 04:29.020 --> 04:34.190 Sometimes we just want to emphasize our existing wins to make them more emphatic and more effective. 04:34.720 --> 04:38.110 It's a win that we have kind of the cifas pressure. 04:38.770 --> 04:42.250 But Black, you know, does have the evol pressure on black. 04:42.880 --> 04:48.940 Sometimes one a week wants to weaken on every, you know, maybe like five F face, but sometimes it 04:48.940 --> 04:50.290 weakens the king doing so. 04:52.300 --> 04:57.980 So the essential difference for the side doing the minority attack, you've also got a factory where 04:57.980 --> 04:59.110 your king is. 04:59.680 --> 05:04.780 If you're not weakening your king, sometimes you can really get away of a great minority target without 05:04.780 --> 05:05.680 too much backfire. 05:06.250 --> 05:15.600 So here we see Bishop is Quincy to Black Council's bishop defraying Brookie age free and wonderful place. 05:15.970 --> 05:21.400 Ain't we see Bishop for a five White Castles six. 05:21.790 --> 05:22.960 This is setting the scene. 05:23.530 --> 05:30.030 The Sky bishops get exchanged off, which does mean in principle, by the way, if we have an outpost 05:30.040 --> 05:34.000 out on C five, it's less assailable. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.270 It's more unassailable because there's nothing to take off. 05:37.270 --> 05:46.540 If we end up with an outpost in front of a backward pawn, we see rook every one bishop, he says a 05:46.540 --> 05:50.590 free Ruki seven avy one, rook eighty eight. 05:51.640 --> 05:54.070 And they'll be for this minority attack. 05:54.070 --> 06:00.670 This undertone plan is, you know, the difference between much stronger players and just tactical players 06:00.670 --> 06:09.820 without really an awareness of the template plans which could further enhance and accumulate positional 06:09.820 --> 06:10.690 advantages. 06:11.260 --> 06:13.330 You do want to be a tactical monster. 06:13.450 --> 06:19.390 That is one of the main priorities of this course that you're much more of a tactical monster than before 06:19.390 --> 06:20.530 you entered the course. 06:20.860 --> 06:23.470 This is a level two section on pawn structure. 06:24.670 --> 06:30.250 This is when you want to step up your game and differentiate yourself further from your fellow tacticians 06:30.610 --> 06:37.150 to really understand what's going on in pawn structure and where you want to head for important structure. 06:37.150 --> 06:43.660 What you want to achieve structurally is going to help you accumulate advantages, which is one of the 06:43.660 --> 06:44.410 main principles. 06:44.410 --> 06:50.020 The first world chess champion, when I'm slyness was saying that a successful attack or combinations, 06:50.290 --> 06:53.800 there's a great foundation in accumulating advantages. 06:53.800 --> 06:58.300 First, to make sure when you do those combinations, there's just no defense. 06:59.320 --> 07:05.350 So here, OK, we're accumulating advantages with points, 8x8, especially seven and I'll be five. 07:05.350 --> 07:07.780 The minority attack is in full flow. 07:09.470 --> 07:16.510 Plan dare not take, you know, be weakening both of these pawns, putting more pressure on the pieces 07:16.510 --> 07:19.340 to have to defend them after because it's not fellow pawns. 07:19.660 --> 07:32.140 Defending fellow pawns 94 is played if C5 instead you might ask detainees queen takes this situation. 07:32.610 --> 07:38.620 Black Planktos have fragmented pawns here and they're not particularly pleasant, for example, like 07:38.620 --> 07:39.010 this. 07:39.010 --> 07:44.930 It's not particularly nice that blockades where defore is quite nice for white wine has the advantage 07:44.950 --> 07:45.190 here. 07:46.300 --> 07:53.500 So ninety-four is played, beatings, beatings and now Rokeby sex. 07:53.500 --> 07:59.860 So at least our show has avoided the situation where he's got an Apple target. 07:59.860 --> 08:01.480 He's dissolved that time again. 08:02.230 --> 08:04.750 But here there is still a C6 -- target. 08:05.500 --> 08:12.910 We see 98 see Queen takes Queen F six and then a very, very interesting decision to take. 08:13.320 --> 08:15.720 The counterplay of Black's position. 08:19.040 --> 08:26.700 And it seems a bit strange because this night is not, you know, that energetic, OK, in my opinion, 08:26.750 --> 08:31.360 age four, but sometimes it does have the tactical knife or the roots are not there, just sitting pretty. 08:31.640 --> 08:34.290 There is a functionality behind the rocks. 08:34.310 --> 08:37.430 It does sometimes, but not effort which might support nights free. 08:37.850 --> 08:40.020 And you can see some dangers there tactically. 08:41.900 --> 08:46.490 So, in fact, the decision is made to just take off this thing. 08:46.760 --> 08:48.220 No hassle for the night. 08:49.220 --> 08:53.630 We have Queen 66 and now there's a hassle factor here. 08:53.630 --> 08:54.500 This pawn has pins. 08:54.500 --> 08:55.120 Black is threatening. 08:55.130 --> 09:00.450 Bishop takes on pinning no CANF one and the Kings OK on one here. 09:00.470 --> 09:07.550 And this particular situation, F six, we have Roquet one queen each five threatening TotEx. 09:07.550 --> 09:11.690 Bishop takes three to unwind Afri. 09:12.590 --> 09:15.260 OK, that's addressed with 91. 09:15.260 --> 09:17.030 Sometimes you do have to go back to the Knights. 09:17.540 --> 09:18.800 That is part of the winning. 09:20.910 --> 09:21.550 Procedure. 09:21.960 --> 09:27.510 And if you're worried about playing, you know, defensive Petrosian style moves to win games, not 09:27.510 --> 09:29.230 just draw them, just remember Karpoff. 09:29.250 --> 09:33.750 Yeah, he did say in an interview that he plays like Petrosian, but just to win. 09:33.750 --> 09:34.460 Not at all. 09:34.650 --> 09:40.840 So this looks like a kind of move, which is this game is this is a game you want to win. 09:41.400 --> 09:45.900 It is actually is a structural target simplex position. 09:46.320 --> 09:49.270 We see Queen at five and this is fresh. 09:49.290 --> 09:51.320 And let's take a look at E3. 09:51.690 --> 09:56.550 Yeah, you have to be acutely aware of the opponent's tactical possibilities while carrying out these 09:56.550 --> 09:59.580 positional plans, which makes them a little bit more tricky. 10:01.680 --> 10:07.710 To actually achieve in reality without being blasted off the board by major tactician, but yet that 10:07.710 --> 10:16.460 Paul is on pins here, OK, 25 again, renewing this kind of tactic, fine. 10:16.860 --> 10:18.180 The king goes to age, too. 10:19.290 --> 10:21.360 Are we all done with black threats? 10:21.370 --> 10:22.000 Are we done? 10:22.830 --> 10:23.670 I think we are. 10:24.090 --> 10:24.900 Or are we not? 10:25.560 --> 10:27.840 No, we're not quite at five. 10:27.840 --> 10:28.590 We're not done yet. 10:28.890 --> 10:33.670 Black is threatening Queen six after the nine centralizes. 10:33.690 --> 10:35.580 This is good because we're taking off a box. 10:35.590 --> 10:37.250 We like our piece essentials. 10:37.260 --> 10:38.180 It's not just protecting. 10:38.180 --> 10:40.290 You have to jump into the outpost. 10:40.530 --> 10:40.950 Sci fi. 10:40.950 --> 10:43.530 We see that might retreat sometimes not retreats. 10:43.530 --> 10:45.330 Not bad if it can come back with vengeance. 10:45.330 --> 10:48.030 Centralising Queen ESX. 10:49.740 --> 10:51.070 Now there's no threat, right? 10:51.240 --> 10:58.390 Black is not actually threatening anything is he King Jiwon Rook's. 10:58.620 --> 11:01.170 Yeah, it's good to be aware of the apparent threats at all times. 11:02.160 --> 11:04.860 So Black seems to have a passive position. 11:06.420 --> 11:08.070 But can we intensify the pressure? 11:08.070 --> 11:10.470 Is it our turn to try and do something? 11:10.470 --> 11:13.020 Now we see Rokeby seven. 11:13.950 --> 11:19.800 There's a kind of relative pain building up, especially if we can double cross rook f7. 11:19.800 --> 11:20.940 In fact, we do double rook's. 11:20.940 --> 11:26.720 Now this is a luxury position because we've also got this Sify, which looks really nasty, doesn't 11:26.730 --> 11:28.980 it, for King and Queen. 11:29.670 --> 11:30.180 Wow. 11:30.180 --> 11:37.830 That outpost square in front of the back whipworm from this minority attack is really looks pretty dangerous 11:37.830 --> 11:40.860 actually tactically now for the opponent for for a change. 11:42.540 --> 11:49.440 We you know, the opponent is not making the frat's, not calling the shots as that sometimes also kind 11:49.440 --> 11:52.950 of refer to calling the shots my Alitalia's or making the threats. 11:53.460 --> 12:01.620 We're calling the shots now, queen, before we see the eight ninety five Jews, the outpost Jews here, 12:01.620 --> 12:06.780 because the bishops have gone, sometimes you want to arrange that yourself to exchange of the underlying 12:06.780 --> 12:10.440 bishops to make your outpost juicier. 12:11.550 --> 12:13.740 So Queen State, we see queen bee sex. 12:14.910 --> 12:15.840 What is going on here. 12:16.920 --> 12:22.770 Page five and then we see now Roxxy seven paragraph is coming off. 12:23.190 --> 12:25.170 But look at C6, it's vulnerable. 12:25.470 --> 12:27.810 But look at King's safety with a rock on the 7th. 12:28.710 --> 12:30.510 Can't we target G7 soon? 12:32.190 --> 12:33.280 We see a seven. 12:33.280 --> 12:36.300 Quincy eight, Rokeby seven seven. 12:36.300 --> 12:37.260 Are we making progress? 12:38.370 --> 12:48.620 If H four was played then there's ninety six hitting the rook, hitting G7 common squares and if Rudy 12:48.630 --> 12:50.400 seven be eight ouch. 12:50.400 --> 12:52.020 Skua tactic. 12:53.670 --> 13:01.260 You can see the foundation of tactics is essential to be able to live to play this game live on the 13:01.260 --> 13:06.180 chessboard without being blasted tactically by your opponent to actually show that one day you can build 13:06.180 --> 13:11.370 up pressure and and your own tactical, you know, concrete implications. 13:11.880 --> 13:18.440 So Bishop f7 neutralises ninety-six queen r7 frat's rook takes f7. 13:18.450 --> 13:25.110 We're calling the shots, we have eight and then we're calling the shots again, threatening the rook. 13:25.110 --> 13:25.890 It's our turn. 13:26.640 --> 13:27.810 And now of the rookie. 13:28.050 --> 13:29.940 That's the weakness of the last move isn't it. 13:30.390 --> 13:34.200 Doesn't that we can f7 how do we celebrate this weakness of the last move. 13:35.610 --> 13:40.500 What would you play here if I give you five seconds, pause the video and finally we can check all checks 13:40.980 --> 13:42.600 and not just to our own king. 13:42.600 --> 13:48.570 Finally, with oppositional methods, we accumulated advantages. 13:49.770 --> 13:53.430 We have a dominating position 966 right now. 13:53.430 --> 13:59.850 The combinations flow, G takes root, takes f7 and look at blackspot structure here. 13:59.850 --> 14:00.510 It's in Iraq. 14:01.740 --> 14:05.850 Isolated pawns, fragmented pawns between five. 14:06.000 --> 14:15.210 We have Czech and our Queen f7 and the game actually ended here as crushing if rook eight then G for. 14:17.870 --> 14:20.510 It's the way of minimizing hassle hagey for. 14:23.220 --> 14:24.270 So, for example. 14:27.410 --> 14:34.430 If Queene for Quintet's affects his crushing check, it's only a token check, nothing to be afraid 14:34.430 --> 14:34.660 of. 14:35.180 --> 14:41.180 Sometimes these checks, there might be a little token check here, but once they run out, once these 14:41.180 --> 14:42.060 checks right out. 14:42.300 --> 14:42.980 Yeah, that's it. 14:43.400 --> 14:44.240 That's just desperate. 14:44.240 --> 14:47.690 Rotates age free, but black is absolutely busted here. 14:48.230 --> 14:52.000 The big fat is Queen Eighty-six meeting of the Queen HSM. 14:52.790 --> 14:53.930 So blacks busted her. 14:54.320 --> 14:57.380 So anyway, the game actually ended on Queen F7. 14:58.550 --> 15:00.940 So we see a classic minority attack in this game. 15:01.730 --> 15:06.850 So the parks, OK, we didn't get to have a weak poll like seven measures. 15:07.820 --> 15:15.170 Make sure that was dissolved the week policy six different story, nice blockade square also through 15:15.170 --> 15:20.540 the weaknesses were able to get pressure on that seven Frank and through that pressure on the seven 15:20.570 --> 15:27.680 Frank and the general dominated the possession, there was a kind of overload of blacks position resulting 15:27.680 --> 15:31.640 in a weakness of the last move like might crash for about seven. 15:31.640 --> 15:35.060 Frank, we reached a situation where black resigns. 15:35.330 --> 15:37.490 So it's an interesting minority attack example. 15:38.090 --> 15:39.650 You can find your own minority attack. 15:39.650 --> 15:45.110 Examples on my porch, of course, has quite a few more that. 15:45.440 --> 15:50.300 So in this in this case, though, I just wanted to get the basic grounding in Putin's Russia in this 15:50.300 --> 15:50.780 section. 15:51.290 --> 15:52.850 So I hope you're more aware now. 15:52.850 --> 15:54.200 What is a minority attack? 15:54.200 --> 16:00.770 Yes, it's quite often within the Coles brand structure, but not reserved for Coles bad structure, 16:01.940 --> 16:03.320 which is not as bad as all that. 16:04.280 --> 16:08.120 You can sometimes play a minority take from the Sicilian defense on some games. 16:08.120 --> 16:13.580 If you look carefully enough against Bobby Fischer sometimes being attacked, it's just where you have 16:14.880 --> 16:21.650 a poor minority, especially where your king doesn't live, that you can use as a sort of structural 16:21.650 --> 16:27.740 weapon and attack to weaken the opponent structure on that side of the board, even against, paradoxically, 16:27.740 --> 16:28.610 a majority. 16:29.000 --> 16:30.290 I know it seems a bit silly. 16:30.290 --> 16:33.140 You're using a minority to attack a majority. 16:33.470 --> 16:35.660 Generally, you don't want to do that. 16:35.700 --> 16:36.250 Someone is bigger. 16:36.260 --> 16:37.730 You don't want to, like, do that. 16:38.090 --> 16:42.860 But no, the smaller side on that occasion, because the king, the crown jewels are not behind it. 16:43.220 --> 16:48.320 Yeah, it's kind of you can do that, but sometimes great advantages resulting. 16:48.920 --> 16:50.990 OK, and so much.