WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.540 Hi there. 00:01.830 --> 00:06.420 In this election, I'm going to show you an iconic example of double --'s and why they can sometimes 00:06.420 --> 00:07.960 be a very, very bad thing. 00:09.180 --> 00:12.020 So the example game is Mattsson against them. 00:12.030 --> 00:15.660 Savitch played in cold Batwoman's of 1929. 00:16.260 --> 00:23.370 So defo for medicine, Nîmes, which is the name behind the so-called Nîmes Indian defense, which is 00:23.860 --> 00:25.820 very, very popular even today. 00:26.280 --> 00:28.120 So this is back in 1929. 00:28.140 --> 00:36.720 This is his kind of brainchild opening where a lot of his ideas in his work, my system, a kind of. 00:37.640 --> 00:45.070 On the lines were examples of how double pawns and restraints and prophylaxis and the wider sense prevention 00:45.370 --> 00:52.950 measures designed to minimize the opponent's counterplay are kind of a features of this opening. 00:52.960 --> 00:59.170 Sometimes, if it plays too casually, we seem like a free amines, which just doubles the pawns here. 00:59.940 --> 01:04.960 You might think, well, OK, there's a dance competition with our counterpart, though that can sometimes 01:05.410 --> 01:06.190 be dangerous. 01:06.550 --> 01:12.010 Yep, it's Black's job to try and close the possession and make sure this bishop doesn't see the light 01:12.010 --> 01:12.550 of day. 01:13.090 --> 01:21.550 We see Desex Quincy to Queen Elizabeth and the bishop actually goes to a free week five. 01:21.610 --> 01:25.390 So that bishop is kind of locked for the moment, Jeoffrey. 01:25.390 --> 01:31.120 And now be sex bishop, G2, Bishop B seven, both sides counsel. 01:31.120 --> 01:35.560 So why has the double pawns, are they weak in their own right? 01:36.040 --> 01:40.690 Sometimes for a weakness to actually bear witness, it needs to be exploitable. 01:41.080 --> 01:47.230 That's the way often Lee the son, what seems to be a number of theoretical weaknesses in the position, 01:47.230 --> 01:51.940 you have to ask the key question, are they actually exploitable weaknesses? 01:52.240 --> 01:58.120 And if your number of weaknesses goes down from five to one or five to zero, that's fine, because 01:58.120 --> 02:02.860 at least then you're focusing on something that's actually exploitable in a practical sense. 02:03.730 --> 02:08.500 So here in the actual context of your position from a more theoretical perspective. 02:08.710 --> 02:15.670 So the bear in mind, because one of you know, the dangers of being a bit too theoretical is that you 02:15.670 --> 02:21.400 get very, very enthusiastic after checking out -- sites, of course, all names of which my system 02:21.670 --> 02:29.320 like I was and I ended up losing a few games because I wasn't really asking more brutal practical questions 02:29.320 --> 02:34.690 like all these witness witnesses act exploitable in my particular position. 02:35.080 --> 02:42.940 By here we have exploits Berty going up because there's a kind of strategic bishop exchange the lights 02:42.940 --> 02:46.170 choir bishop is a guardian and that is a square. 02:46.180 --> 02:48.160 Its guardians sometimes have lights, choirs. 02:48.370 --> 02:56.110 Any notion of protecting that privacy for now disappears and limbs which now occupies that diagonals 02:56.110 --> 02:59.590 the queen will check and targets immediately. 02:59.590 --> 03:04.670 The C4 pawn may have to defend it with a pissants. 03:04.690 --> 03:05.710 That's another problem. 03:06.190 --> 03:12.010 Pawns that needs to be managed with your pieces can can sometimes overload your position and make all 03:12.010 --> 03:14.320 your pieces kind of very passive. 03:14.320 --> 03:16.630 Having to protect just pawns. 03:16.630 --> 03:20.440 It's like they've been they've been relegated in their roles as love. 03:20.470 --> 03:22.840 The Queen going on attacking to be around the king. 03:22.840 --> 03:25.330 It's it's hanging around protecting weak pawns. 03:25.330 --> 03:26.950 Here we see knights. 03:26.950 --> 03:30.910 He says, look after you won and now knights a five. 03:30.910 --> 03:34.720 And unless it wants to lose a pawn, just give it up. 03:37.090 --> 03:39.100 Went for the exchange of Queens. 03:39.100 --> 03:43.400 The problem is sometimes weaknesses to be exploited. 03:43.400 --> 03:46.840 People are actually translated into another form of weakness. 03:47.350 --> 03:51.220 We're changing the double pawn now with them, which is that next move. 03:51.580 --> 04:00.100 He turns up from technically a double pawn to just hold a strategic hole in its structure so there's 04:00.100 --> 04:02.800 no lights, choir guards in around that hole. 04:03.100 --> 04:05.140 This night's far away from protecting it. 04:05.410 --> 04:09.040 And in fact, it makes a fantastic place for a night. 04:09.460 --> 04:12.520 So that night there's no frontal attacks because of that. 04:12.520 --> 04:17.410 Paul on Sifry, It's a very, very cozy position for the Knights forces. 04:17.410 --> 04:18.310 The bishop back. 04:18.310 --> 04:19.600 It was hitting the bishop. 04:20.020 --> 04:27.970 And now, in fact, Black uses a kind of pawn lever or pawn break to further liberate blacks pieces, 04:27.970 --> 04:29.280 activity and pressure. 04:29.590 --> 04:33.940 I hope you can see what that has, where two pawns are in conflict. 04:34.390 --> 04:38.500 We can use a very, very powerful pawn break or pawn lever here. 04:38.740 --> 04:39.540 So what do you think? 04:39.550 --> 04:41.830 Black plays her positional move. 04:43.390 --> 04:50.980 OK, ASX and it's tapping into the fact also that it's difficult to actually play for here. 04:51.640 --> 04:55.060 If A4 is played, then attacks on that pawn is pinned to the rook. 04:56.080 --> 05:00.880 So we have big takes, which emphasizes Black's rook. 05:00.880 --> 05:04.060 Now, semi and foul is a delight to have in general. 05:04.150 --> 05:05.950 It's like a one way road of traffic. 05:06.100 --> 05:10.150 You've got cars going down that one way road and there's no reverse traffic. 05:10.150 --> 05:11.140 This is Nidhal. 05:11.440 --> 05:16.840 Quite often the whole point of gambits is to get not just the lead, but these key somehow and fouls 05:16.840 --> 05:21.700 to pressure the opponents to let them slip up because the x rays as well that's going on. 05:21.700 --> 05:23.020 This brook is extraneous. 05:23.710 --> 05:25.840 It provides all sorts of tactics. 05:26.140 --> 05:29.260 But in the short term, A2 is now on the fire. 05:29.260 --> 05:36.930 That is a new weakness as well as this amazing night out post on that hole in its structure. 05:37.300 --> 05:43.400 That's home, we have details, but he takes the night looks after things on CIFOR as well, as well 05:43.400 --> 05:46.090 as the work they're both looking after Desex. 05:46.370 --> 05:48.740 That's not a problem like Jita. 05:48.770 --> 05:53.120 Now, the other night joins in the fun hitting Sifry. 05:53.960 --> 05:59.210 We see different Waitz pieces have just not been normal pieces throughout this game. 05:59.210 --> 06:01.940 They've been relegated to looking after weak pawns. 06:03.380 --> 06:10.280 I ain't just building up logically, harmoniously the pieces working together as a team in that battery 06:10.280 --> 06:15.380 to hit a two and why in desperation place a here. 06:16.130 --> 06:18.710 It's a very, very difficult position indeed. 06:18.720 --> 06:23.900 How does one actually defend this data in 1962? 06:23.900 --> 06:26.900 You know, so this is in desperation. 06:26.900 --> 06:31.460 But now Names, which plays 95 Hazelbrook and this is just devastating. 06:31.910 --> 06:35.820 Tactically, this position in the game actually ended here. 06:36.200 --> 06:39.110 If the one then might. 06:39.410 --> 06:40.800 SIFRY Ouch. 06:41.510 --> 06:46.180 And why is the world going ahead and a free check will win the road. 06:46.910 --> 06:47.990 Where is that real gain? 06:49.070 --> 06:50.540 If he won, then, you know. 06:51.080 --> 06:52.850 Yeah, I'm not afraid so. 06:54.800 --> 06:56.960 Yeah, it's just, just devastating. 06:59.300 --> 07:04.910 So and there's going to be dropping off of work AF1. 07:06.260 --> 07:08.180 So it's a nightmare scenario. 07:08.180 --> 07:10.580 It's a mortal game for double pawns. 07:11.360 --> 07:14.870 And then the engine has proved itself and it's a modern soul. 07:14.870 --> 07:21.050 It's, you know, Nîmes, which had these ideas back in the 1930s, basically the name the engine. 07:21.050 --> 07:23.810 And he wrote that epic book, You know, my system. 07:24.290 --> 07:34.160 And if you have a growth mindset and you do read books in general, by the way, and they make you a 07:34.160 --> 07:42.830 bit overexcited about things, there is a learning phase of any new technology or conceptual ideas that 07:42.830 --> 07:48.770 sometimes you're overexcited about it and you're not using it appropriately and you get bad results, 07:49.070 --> 07:51.650 but then you start using it properly and you do get the real benefit. 07:51.660 --> 07:53.180 So it's a bit like that pattern. 07:55.490 --> 08:00.350 So and that's that's a phenomenon, you know, generally to be aware of. 08:00.650 --> 08:05.810 So you actually have to contextualize and see the pros and cons basically with greater experience of 08:05.810 --> 08:08.120 any exposure you have to concepts. 08:08.700 --> 08:12.770 So when we look at structural weaknesses, they are in context. 08:12.770 --> 08:14.390 There aren't they're not in a vacuum. 08:14.750 --> 08:16.370 There are opponents pieces around. 08:16.370 --> 08:18.620 Taxes are still vitally important in chess. 08:19.160 --> 08:23.300 Pulled structure is not in a vacuum to exploit structural weaknesses. 08:23.300 --> 08:27.170 Sometimes you also need to translate them into other advantages. 08:27.350 --> 08:32.360 So it seems paradoxical that this lecture, which is about double pawns, were actually translating 08:32.690 --> 08:35.270 the double --'s into a structural hole instead. 08:35.630 --> 08:42.530 But that structural hole in this particular position leads to having a huge Atholl pressure and gigantic 08:42.530 --> 08:48.620 central Ninth's night so central that they're winning even more material basically by force. 08:49.190 --> 08:55.340 It's such a passive position of why this is just a very clear, crystal clear demonstration to have 08:55.340 --> 09:01.970 another kind of strategic Krush where opponents counterplay levels so. 09:03.660 --> 09:10.010 Dramatically low, and so Claire Black's playing Claire Analogical, so very, very famous, the Shell 09:10.020 --> 09:10.330 Game. 09:10.650 --> 09:15.660 I hope you take some of the finer points of this game and are in a better position to exploit double 09:15.660 --> 09:16.010 pawns. 09:16.020 --> 09:17.310 At least that gives the option. 09:17.640 --> 09:20.440 Sometimes you can resolve them, if not win them. 09:20.550 --> 09:24.540 Sometimes you can resolve them and just exploit the underlying whole week. 09:24.540 --> 09:30.330 Pawns can sometimes create weak squares, holes in your opponents pull structure, which you can then 09:30.330 --> 09:32.430 leverage, especially with a night owl. 09:32.430 --> 09:39.300 Post the lights off the one of the best pieces for exploiting structural holes and intensifying the 09:39.300 --> 09:40.860 pressure on the opponent's positions. 09:41.220 --> 09:42.660 Winning material, winning the game. 09:43.080 --> 09:45.090 OK, that's how much.