WEBVTT 00:01.170 --> 00:09.900 Hi there in this introductory lecture, I'm going to explain what a pawn structure is and why they are 00:09.900 --> 00:18.270 important to recognize and how you can use the kind of template plans once you recognize the pawn structure, 00:18.750 --> 00:22.430 and they can arise sometimes from many different openings. 00:24.000 --> 00:35.460 So if we play E4 and for example, C6, the COCOM, this information where detainees efore 1984 is played 00:35.460 --> 00:44.340 is sometimes known as the correct formation and it gives rise to various plans stereotypically, which 00:44.340 --> 00:47.660 you can use or be aware of, at least during an actual game. 00:48.060 --> 00:50.370 For example, sometimes they'll be far pressure. 00:50.370 --> 00:56.700 You can build up on F5, sometimes in this structure F7 and sensitive. 00:57.030 --> 01:05.640 So you pick up a lot of ideas and plans and you can even check out a number of example games to see 01:05.640 --> 01:07.370 the pros and cons for both sides. 01:07.800 --> 01:11.010 So that's an example of the Corrao formation. 01:12.780 --> 01:19.070 So the feature is that Black has that pressure on the Diffa and you have the pressure on the iPhone. 01:21.270 --> 01:23.690 So that is a formation, a pawn structure. 01:24.120 --> 01:36.000 If we go back and instead we play things as an example, the French defense and we look at D 45, E 01:36.000 --> 01:37.350 five, the advanced French. 01:37.360 --> 01:44.340 This is actually an E5 -- chain and generally black will be on the lookout for exchanging off the 01:44.730 --> 01:45.300 bishop. 01:46.170 --> 01:50.460 That kind of bad bishop won't be looking to get Dan's career opportunities. 01:50.460 --> 01:52.680 And maybe we can black on the dark squares. 01:53.340 --> 01:55.620 So, you know, exchanging of these bishops. 01:55.620 --> 02:01.830 Sometimes the Donetsk membership's quite often, you know, have black castles. 02:01.840 --> 02:07.500 Kingside, it can be quite dangerous because there's a natural flow like a river flow where the pawn 02:07.500 --> 02:09.030 chain is directed towards the king. 02:09.050 --> 02:13.740 So it's are quite often black uses the option of casting coincide. 02:14.100 --> 02:20.540 So the various plans for both sides, the E5 pawn chain features potentially undermining, trying to 02:20.550 --> 02:26.880 undermine from Black's point of view once points at the fall, try and put more and more pressure on 02:26.880 --> 02:27.450 defore. 02:28.440 --> 02:34.500 So the aelfwine pawn chain usually comes from the advanced French most often. 02:37.680 --> 02:46.860 In the Sicilian defense, of course, we have the open variation and within that, if black sense of 02:46.860 --> 02:54.380 an early structure like this, this is a shavon in construction with that little -- center and why 02:54.390 --> 02:57.120 it's going to be on the lookout later for the 595. 03:00.170 --> 03:13.010 If Black plays an early E5, so say I can't say it means he thinks he's a E5, that leaves a definitive 03:13.010 --> 03:16.550 hole and that's sometimes called a bomb's lafsky hole. 03:19.100 --> 03:24.230 There's the dragon formation, which, you know, comes from the dragon, which is essentially got its 03:24.230 --> 03:25.550 own templated plans. 03:26.060 --> 03:31.670 Once Black Place decides to commit to think outside, one's often trying to exchange off the spaceship 03:31.670 --> 03:38.720 for this one and go for a Kingside attack so you can see different openings give rise to different pawn 03:38.720 --> 03:39.950 structure formations. 03:40.400 --> 03:44.400 And each of those has pros and cons for either side. 03:44.570 --> 03:51.380 One of the more common is the isolated queen pawn situation, which can arise from a whole range of 03:51.380 --> 03:52.360 different openings. 03:53.210 --> 03:59.300 So say like this and why it plays like this. 04:02.760 --> 04:10.560 And black plays like this as an example and details, we have the ice queen spoon so this can arise 04:10.560 --> 04:14.610 from a different opening or it could arise from an evil opening. 04:15.570 --> 04:17.540 It can arise from many, many different openings. 04:17.550 --> 04:22.980 And knowing the pros and cons of having the ice queen spawn is very, very interesting. 04:23.020 --> 04:31.170 You've built if you can build up model games, my my advanced -- structure course is there, you know, 04:31.170 --> 04:32.080 which you can check out. 04:32.090 --> 04:35.670 It has over forty five hours with pros and cons for both sides. 04:35.920 --> 04:41.730 So this is just a brief, very, very brief introduction to -- formations. 04:42.480 --> 04:47.700 There are kind of template plans you can use from the world chess champion ideally, but seeing how 04:47.700 --> 04:54.900 both sides can increase their advantage in general, what -- brings to make use of a -- break is 04:54.900 --> 05:01.020 when you're putting tension on the peninsula and kind of liberating pieces quite often. 05:02.370 --> 05:05.420 But we're going into that and another nation. 05:05.700 --> 05:09.540 So this introduction is just to introduce you to -- formations. 05:09.930 --> 05:15.510 Some of the more at one of the more outrageous ones is the stone wall formation, which is literally 05:15.510 --> 05:17.000 it's like you're building a stone wall. 05:17.580 --> 05:24.720 So, for example, like this, you're literally building a kind of stone wall formation which can be 05:25.380 --> 05:30.630 having many, many perks here, especially if you can control the four square. 05:31.680 --> 05:36.060 Sometimes that's routine moves like McAffrey to HFA to be aware of. 05:36.060 --> 05:41.610 If you're playing against the stone wall says literally a structure as well as a kind of system. 05:41.610 --> 05:42.770 The stone wall formation, 05:45.960 --> 05:52.170 another one, another formation, which has been controversial in years because the opening not being 05:52.170 --> 05:55.350 used as much as the Benoni information. 05:55.350 --> 06:00.750 So out of the modern boloney, Black accepts a kind of week the sex --. 06:02.400 --> 06:14.610 So quite often in the boloney, white will play moves like neutze D to to C for to target this desex 06:14.610 --> 06:14.950 --. 06:15.660 --> 06:22.020 So yes, there is some kind of striking and more rare -- formations which are. 06:24.660 --> 06:26.670 Which are very interesting to consider as well. 06:26.880 --> 06:32.790 It depends what openings that leads to these poor informations and sometimes there's a level of controversy 06:32.790 --> 06:34.400 associated with them. 06:34.570 --> 06:41.540 This point black quite often has you know, black has the upsides of the Queensland poll majority, 06:43.110 --> 06:45.250 this same phone to play with. 06:45.630 --> 06:51.070 So, you know, it was played in the past with great success by the likes of Celtel, peak popularity, 06:51.090 --> 06:53.310 1960, the only formation. 06:53.730 --> 06:56.190 So formations come in and out of fashion. 06:56.550 --> 06:57.810 They have pros and cons. 06:57.810 --> 07:03.000 They have template plans where you can potentially be aware of, at least in your own games. 07:03.240 --> 07:07.070 And that helps the whole mental game planning generally. 07:07.620 --> 07:12.240 But of course, at the ground level move to move, you need to be, you know, super tactically alert. 07:13.200 --> 07:15.210 A lot of the mental game is about tactics. 07:15.210 --> 07:21.680 A lot of it is also about, you know, pull structure and plans revolving around pulled structure. 07:22.800 --> 07:29.430 So it's like a fluency being built up in some structures that, you know, the basic plans of both sides, 07:29.730 --> 07:36.210 what both sides in general want to achieve and of different structures or formations. 07:37.750 --> 07:43.280 The two words are kind of interchangeable, in my view, structure of information. 07:43.680 --> 07:50.790 So I hope this brief overview get just of a few different pawn configurations. 07:51.030 --> 08:00.120 There are also some structures which look a bit as though they have pulled structure, structural liabilities. 08:00.420 --> 08:07.920 So from a Nimda engine, you can actually have the so-called double --'s I say here a free. 08:07.920 --> 08:16.710 And why has the double bonds that have been sometimes great upsides of having the double bonds there's 08:16.710 --> 08:24.030 hanging --'s, which can result from quite often the taunts go a variation of the Queen's comments. 08:24.150 --> 08:33.120 So for example, like this with B6 being played and then later C5 as an example. 08:33.510 --> 08:38.910 So the hanging points there, like an extended version of isolated queens born where the adjacent falls 08:38.910 --> 08:40.290 can be useful for black. 08:42.900 --> 08:48.240 So yeah, hang --'s so-called hanging --'s configuration. 08:50.790 --> 08:57.270 So yeah, there are certain what seems to be a little bit, you know, quite extreme structures basically, 08:57.900 --> 08:59.490 you know, with double hanging balls. 08:59.880 --> 09:05.160 But yeah, they have, they all have them there up and down sides to be aware of. 09:06.390 --> 09:09.750 There's no necessarily like really, really bad structure. 09:11.100 --> 09:17.370 And unless it's a terrible opening, you know, these openings kind of level, usually at least at the 09:17.370 --> 09:18.090 club level. 09:19.830 --> 09:29.010 So, yes, I hope this is a good general gist of confirmations and so much.