WEBVTT 00:01.260 --> 00:07.050 Either in this election, we're going to look at double pawns from a more positive perspective, they 00:07.050 --> 00:08.400 do have their upsides. 00:08.400 --> 00:15.810 Make both Iraq, who was the kind of follower of the Soviet chess school then a lot of research into 00:15.810 --> 00:17.600 double structures. 00:17.610 --> 00:24.240 He did seem to play a lot of games where he volunteered the opponents to double his pawns. 00:24.590 --> 00:30.100 So this is one of the more dramatic examples from the 1940 USSR championship. 00:30.360 --> 00:32.810 So he's white against Kaguri 11 fish. 00:35.250 --> 00:46.740 So CIFOR, e5, we see Netsky every night at 6:00, every night he sings the four Eatings 1964 and now 00:46.740 --> 00:47.790 Bishop before. 00:48.510 --> 00:56.030 So he's allowed what seems to be quite a nasty pin and also fairly awkward as well to parry that pin. 00:56.550 --> 01:00.430 You know, if White wants to avoid double pawns, just loses a piece instead. 01:01.200 --> 01:05.090 So in fact Bobolinks just pins the G5. 01:05.550 --> 01:10.700 But it's been a special age for and now black in fact, double points. 01:11.400 --> 01:15.550 However, White has this dance guayabera without a counterpart now. 01:16.110 --> 01:18.630 And that put that pin is slightly annoying. 01:18.630 --> 01:23.280 We see 95 every protecting C4 96. 01:23.280 --> 01:29.540 The bishop draws back now 94, which his Sifry and friends the double the pawns over here. 01:30.960 --> 01:32.790 So line is not worried. 01:32.970 --> 01:34.020 Quincy too. 01:35.010 --> 01:40.980 He gives up what was, you know, potentially a compensation for the double pawns that bishop power 01:40.980 --> 01:41.790 is now gone. 01:42.600 --> 01:44.760 In exchange, though, he's activated the rook. 01:44.760 --> 01:47.550 There's a translation of things going on. 01:47.910 --> 01:56.810 The double pawns give that rook activity we see desex and now therefore restricting that night Queenie's 01:57.300 --> 02:04.170 and now keeping the rook active, leaving it on each one just manually kind of sorting out King's safety 02:04.680 --> 02:07.110 of King off to the black king. 02:07.110 --> 02:11.820 By contrast, it's still in the center and it looks a bit scary to Castle. 02:11.820 --> 02:15.510 Kingside Knight is played by counseling. 02:15.510 --> 02:16.980 May have been the best move. 02:18.180 --> 02:22.770 For example, rookie one and only four blacks should be OK here. 02:22.770 --> 02:24.990 This is perhaps more blacks should have done. 02:25.800 --> 02:31.910 Instead, black leaves the king in the center with Efate thinking that maybe you know why it's not in 02:31.920 --> 02:36.330 a position, especially with this horrendous double pawns, why it's not in a position to do anything 02:36.330 --> 02:37.110 too scary. 02:37.560 --> 02:43.740 But lo and behold, this next move shows don't underestimate double pawns, especially when they are 02:43.740 --> 02:49.740 not restrained and blockaded as there was, which recommends these are not under total restraints. 02:50.100 --> 02:50.880 And guess what? 02:50.880 --> 02:56.780 But when plays in this possession, which starts to underline the fact that the king is in the center, 02:57.150 --> 03:01.920 that particular downside of Black's possession is celebrated here. 03:01.920 --> 03:04.290 This next move, I wonder if you can guess it. 03:07.100 --> 03:13.730 So chess is often in the middle game for me, it's like you're an assassin on chess board, you have 03:13.730 --> 03:16.760 to bring the opponent down through that down sides. 03:17.210 --> 03:25.850 A detailed understanding of the downside sides can help you focus any calculation efforts you make and 03:25.850 --> 03:27.350 hear the tactical moves. 03:27.350 --> 03:34.460 C5 with that view in mind that the Kingstone sensor is a powerful move where we see detoxified being 03:34.460 --> 03:36.980 played if desex. 03:36.980 --> 03:45.620 Just to give you an example, Bishop B5 Chac and here, you know, C6 there will be Knight Sex potentially 03:46.940 --> 03:48.500 and I'm -- the King of rock. 03:48.500 --> 03:50.020 This will be extremely unpleasant. 03:50.960 --> 03:58.040 So if that's out of the question and Kafe has to be played, this is just noise for whites and doubling 03:58.040 --> 04:00.140 the pawns will advantage blacks. 04:00.140 --> 04:02.020 Pieces are not very coordinated here. 04:03.380 --> 04:12.140 If Bishop D7 instead of taking the pawn, then she takes he takes again. 04:12.170 --> 04:14.780 White has an active possession with both hooks being active. 04:15.200 --> 04:24.080 The B being H fouls and F five is also, you know, gives gives a marked advantage in space restricting 04:24.080 --> 04:24.440 that night. 04:24.440 --> 04:25.570 It's very unpleasant. 04:26.270 --> 04:27.960 Nine, eight, seven is another example. 04:28.050 --> 04:29.090 Bishop five track. 04:29.510 --> 04:35.420 And here this is just as well for one, but it's about even maybe that's one of the better times for 04:35.420 --> 04:35.780 black. 04:36.860 --> 04:44.300 So anyway, details was played, but this allows Bishop B five Jack and now 97 this joint. 04:45.990 --> 04:55.230 So if C6 hair, then that night is relevant for this transects when the rug, so 97, but now we have 04:55.710 --> 05:07.260 five kids in Queen Brook 81 and now G sex is played in Black Castles instead, then we just take on 05:07.260 --> 05:09.390 these seven and this is crushing. 05:09.690 --> 05:11.670 Just wait until I say so. 05:11.690 --> 05:12.420 Gee, thanks. 05:14.100 --> 05:20.790 Offering the sex -- that is actually taken and why it now threatens things like G for hitting the 05:20.790 --> 05:27.450 Queen and looking at the rock, you know, would be very awkward if if limiting the Apollos replies. 05:27.960 --> 05:29.400 But Rukavina is played. 05:32.380 --> 05:42.020 And we have G4 Icings, G5 Queene six Itou, so why does that hugely better? 05:42.550 --> 05:48.880 It seems, you know, the double pawns have been basically dissolved, giving way great pieces to play 05:48.880 --> 05:52.480 with her might be 694 that night. 05:52.480 --> 05:55.090 Can have that beautiful six square hair. 05:55.630 --> 06:02.890 King is seven of things Queen C6 and I seven, which is just building up the peace pressure. 06:03.940 --> 06:10.840 Bhishma 584, Bishop Rosebank back and after five Black had enough in this position and resigned. 06:11.800 --> 06:22.300 If he continues with GTA five, he takes Bishop for the strategic bishop exchange by weakens black on 06:22.300 --> 06:23.290 the line squares. 06:23.830 --> 06:27.610 And in particular here there's a crushing blow in this position. 06:27.970 --> 06:29.980 Can you spot it with the king in the center? 06:30.200 --> 06:33.700 Why don't we play here if I give you five seconds pause video. 06:37.320 --> 06:44.520 OK, queen, for check, the point is of the Queen 64, that leaves behind the seven wings of the last 06:44.520 --> 06:44.820 move. 06:45.120 --> 06:46.380 This is checkmate. 06:47.790 --> 06:54.060 So, yes, we see in this game, but I think, you know, has played many, many openings successfully 06:54.660 --> 06:58.760 accepting, you know, the potential horrors of double pawns. 06:59.250 --> 07:00.220 Was it a horror? 07:00.420 --> 07:08.370 Was it a horror story for why not particularly black, didn't spend moves or wasn't in a position to 07:08.370 --> 07:10.890 sort of lock up C5? 07:11.700 --> 07:20.310 And with C5 lurking essentially here, why it doesn't have any real bad pieces, in fact, is trying 07:20.310 --> 07:24.570 to prove that that is bad and it kind of liberates the position. 07:24.580 --> 07:32.790 And pretty quickly, this Seifi break, so the person with the double pawns sometimes has the potential 07:32.790 --> 07:36.940 to liberate their pieces from dissolving the double pawns. 07:37.320 --> 07:40.770 So translation things can occur. 07:42.060 --> 07:49.950 So sometimes you can translate even your weaknesses into peace activity, injections, breathing life 07:49.950 --> 07:54.580 into your position and exposing underlying weaknesses in the opponent's position. 07:55.200 --> 07:57.240 So a very interesting game example. 07:57.660 --> 07:59.620 Double bonds are not always that bad. 08:00.300 --> 08:02.200 It really depends on situations. 08:02.820 --> 08:05.460 So these are like structural elements. 08:05.460 --> 08:06.660 When you have double pawns. 08:06.670 --> 08:13.410 When I say a pawn or a backward pawn or even treble pawns, you've got to look for the up and down sides 08:13.410 --> 08:14.730 in the particular positions. 08:15.810 --> 08:21.750 And it's good to study each of these structural elements and finding examples, you know, from the 08:21.750 --> 08:29.370 champions, from the world champions, ideally for play for both sides to really understand a structure 08:29.370 --> 08:30.030 better. 08:30.060 --> 08:34.800 It's good to know the up and down sides, OK, and so much.