WEBVTT 00:01.620 --> 00:07.380 Hi there in this that's, shall we say, an example of the downsides of having an isolated queens born 00:07.380 --> 00:10.110 or AQAP as it's a brave radiated. 00:10.620 --> 00:16.460 This is a manual laska against Capablanca in their world championship match of 1921. 00:17.880 --> 00:30.480 We see the four D5 from Capablanca Larcker place before we see ESX Mitzy Free five six five, eight, 00:30.950 --> 00:31.350 seven. 00:32.130 --> 00:36.780 Every black Herzl's night every night. 00:36.780 --> 00:40.200 Beatties seven Queen seats are now C five. 00:40.200 --> 00:44.220 So this is aggressive against the whites -- sense. 00:44.460 --> 00:47.730 There's a lot of -- central tension here. 00:47.730 --> 00:51.690 With these -- facing each other, will the tension be resolved? 00:51.690 --> 00:58.500 We see this one white could have resolved the tension by playing C takes the five and this possession 00:59.400 --> 01:06.480 is interesting to consider where in fact, Black has an isolated Queen's pawn and white has a small 01:06.480 --> 01:06.750 edge. 01:06.750 --> 01:13.500 Technically, white plays rook to the one we see queen a five bishop devery. 01:16.640 --> 01:24.010 Here, if takes the five, there should also be fairly OK, for example, this position is about even 01:24.560 --> 01:32.710 so Bishop differe was played and now age, sex, age four, she takes the form he takes. 01:32.720 --> 01:37.510 And now Capablanca gives Laska the isolated Queens form. 01:38.450 --> 01:42.260 So one has to work out the pros and cons for both sides. 01:42.260 --> 01:48.430 Here is their attacking potential, for example, for White with this point, can these hooks be used? 01:48.860 --> 01:54.650 Can this efo this adjacent FRB use my rook or the CFO later these adjacent files? 01:55.100 --> 01:58.130 From Black's perspective, how solid is the blockading point? 01:58.130 --> 02:02.420 D5 Can simplification be used to further weaken that pawn? 02:02.900 --> 02:09.890 Fundamentally, and I say to the Queen's pawn as an example of a structural weakness where no fellow 02:09.890 --> 02:11.660 pawns can really help it. 02:11.960 --> 02:14.750 So it's dependent on pieces sometimes for support. 02:15.350 --> 02:21.980 And there's a famous quotation that's the isolated Queen's pawn spreads gloom lie all around the board. 02:22.520 --> 02:28.880 So it can it can happen like that because if pieces get tied down to just defending weak pawns, then 02:28.880 --> 02:31.340 they're not really playing a major role in the game. 02:31.340 --> 02:34.550 It's more of a passive role we see might be sex. 02:36.080 --> 02:44.900 The bishop drops back to be Frank Bishop, D7, White Castles and now and now Rook AC eight. 02:47.140 --> 02:56.380 We see 95 and the bishop goes to be five, so Black is trying to exchange of pieces and show that this 02:56.380 --> 02:58.350 is a long term liability. 02:58.360 --> 03:05.060 This one state, Queensland, Route F1 and all night beedi five, we have Bishop Tastee five. 03:05.080 --> 03:08.750 This is perhaps a little bit controversial here. 03:08.870 --> 03:19.300 This vote, Bishop 65, it seems her bishop takes six, Bishop takes Bishop takes the five he takes. 03:19.930 --> 03:27.970 And even though it's given up both bishops and what has the two nights with 94 in this concrete situation, 03:28.600 --> 03:35.320 it seems as though this is quite interesting for whites who come in with Queen five looking at these 03:35.320 --> 03:35.830 five. 03:36.160 --> 03:39.370 And yeah, this is pretty interesting, this position. 03:40.330 --> 03:43.420 It seems as though, you know why it's got some prospects here. 03:43.570 --> 03:44.910 For example, winning like that. 03:45.280 --> 03:46.780 Why has prospects basically. 03:47.500 --> 03:48.160 So what is black? 03:48.160 --> 03:53.080 Actually, do you know it's a difficult position for black hair, in fact. 03:53.440 --> 03:57.850 So I mean, there are variations of the game which could have ended, you know, differently. 03:57.850 --> 04:08.380 But we see here this move instead, which is Bishop 65, and it gives black a relatively easy time of 04:08.380 --> 04:08.590 it. 04:08.590 --> 04:12.370 After 1965, Bishop takes nine times. 04:13.180 --> 04:20.070 OK, so blacks have got a knight and bishop against the two nights we see queen bee free. 04:20.290 --> 04:21.190 The bishop moves. 04:22.690 --> 04:28.180 And the thing is here, the bishop doesn't go to a six. 04:31.600 --> 04:39.280 Because of the seven heads they were and then 95 would be interesting for wouldn't that be a nice outpost's 04:39.280 --> 04:39.830 square? 04:40.360 --> 04:51.160 So we see Bishop C6 1986 and interestingly and importantly, BTX puts the brakes on the DFI --. 04:51.490 --> 04:52.010 And I think. 04:52.030 --> 04:53.080 Hold on, hold on. 04:53.410 --> 04:54.290 This is a nice lay. 04:54.290 --> 04:56.460 A -- star -- now in itself. 04:56.740 --> 04:58.050 This is the last day of --. 04:58.660 --> 05:02.080 So why are these have less influence than the ice queen? 05:02.250 --> 05:09.460 Well, yeah, they are kind of interesting and they do provide peace activity, for example, the BFO. 05:10.780 --> 05:16.150 So structure versus peace activity is is the common trade off to look out for. 05:16.960 --> 05:23.110 But, you know, if Black had played Knight Takes White could potentially dissolve that. 05:23.110 --> 05:24.520 I'd say queen spawn as well. 05:25.000 --> 05:28.000 So it's all about the trade offs that are being made here. 05:28.930 --> 05:33.720 This position looks fairly pleasant, for example, for white as an example. 05:34.240 --> 05:38.710 So we see how the breaks are being put on at the expense of blacks pawn structure. 05:40.240 --> 05:42.070 We see Rocky five hitting the queen. 05:42.070 --> 05:46.030 The queen draws back Queen C to Rook FDA. 05:46.060 --> 05:52.330 And you can see that White doesn't really want to nanny this pawn, but is being forced into passivity. 05:54.910 --> 06:04.710 So here we see the five and further simplification, and this helps blackspot structure a little bit, 06:05.410 --> 06:07.310 she 65 five. 06:08.560 --> 06:13.620 So actually this is starting to look like a miserably defensive position. 06:14.020 --> 06:16.050 That's the trouble with structural weaknesses. 06:16.060 --> 06:22.150 They have a dependency on pieces which should be doing other things, not just nannying --'s. 06:22.480 --> 06:28.360 They create dependency on pieces so they can pacify potentially the opponent's pieces and position in 06:28.360 --> 06:30.220 general we see be fraying. 06:32.880 --> 06:34.830 And now we see H5. 06:36.240 --> 06:44.100 Which reinforces the ninth position against any potential G4 from white later age, free age for making 06:44.100 --> 06:46.820 sure that there's no job for the absence of needed. 06:48.180 --> 06:52.930 And we see Quealy Free C6, Caernarfon G. 06:52.950 --> 06:57.080 Six Queen, one queen before now. 06:57.150 --> 07:02.910 It has to be pointed out, in the interest of fairness, I do want to insert something here, which 07:02.910 --> 07:04.980 perhaps I shouldn't. 07:05.490 --> 07:12.570 Lasco was world champion for a huge amount of time and. 07:14.420 --> 07:22.400 In the Key World Championship match with Capablanca, you had to play in a very hot climate in in Cuba 07:22.400 --> 07:27.140 and the conditions were not that great last year, not normally such a passive player. 07:27.380 --> 07:36.170 I just want to say that the end, because I have been harassed and bullied by someone on YouTube telling 07:36.170 --> 07:43.580 me I have to cover Laska games, and whenever I did quite often Lasker's ask for accuracy is like this 07:43.580 --> 07:44.000 world. 07:44.540 --> 07:47.890 I mean Capablanca as accurately as this world as well. 07:48.200 --> 07:51.670 But I'm just saying that this game is also influenced by the climate. 07:51.980 --> 07:55.070 There is such a thing as win probability in chess. 07:55.460 --> 07:58.400 So I can tell you all the lessons under the sun. 07:58.880 --> 08:05.660 But you need to bear in mind if you do want to win and not just learn about chess to use every conceivable 08:05.660 --> 08:09.590 advantage you have, if you can win on time, sometimes just win on time. 08:09.980 --> 08:15.410 If you can put the opponent in hot climates, put them in hot climates, OK, if you can win the ice 08:15.430 --> 08:17.630 that Queensland is on the board, then win with this. 08:17.630 --> 08:20.810 But this is not a typical lascar game. 08:20.810 --> 08:22.400 He's not usually this passive. 08:22.940 --> 08:28.490 I have to tell you, to clear my conscience about showing in this game example, this instructive game 08:28.490 --> 08:29.060 example. 08:29.360 --> 08:34.550 Sometimes these games are played under conditions which are not favorable to one of the players, are 08:34.550 --> 08:37.160 maybe more favorable to another player. 08:37.160 --> 08:40.460 So Kovalenko, you know, used to the climate. 08:40.850 --> 08:45.470 Cuban climate perhaps is more comfortable physically during the process of this game. 08:45.860 --> 08:49.130 But now, yeah, on the board, it looks like pure torture. 08:49.280 --> 08:52.940 This game, it's absolute pure torture in hot temperature. 08:52.940 --> 08:53.720 Even worse. 08:54.110 --> 09:01.580 I can I can sympathize with that because we know and I'm recording this actually in a hot summer's day. 09:01.580 --> 09:06.170 So I have great sympathy for Laska on this occasion, as an aside. 09:06.170 --> 09:11.720 So anyway, King one, which apparently was Whitesell move. 09:14.260 --> 09:20.950 And when I say settled move, they had adjournments back in those days and world championship matches 09:21.140 --> 09:27.310 so they'd see them in an envelope and then later that would be opened up and play would resume. 09:28.720 --> 09:35.770 So anyway, we see a five after the adjournments queen bee to a four. 09:37.120 --> 09:41.580 And now Capablanca is creating another weakness. 09:41.860 --> 09:45.810 Sometimes it's not enough just to have one structural weakness to target. 09:46.180 --> 09:55.240 If you have two structural weaknesses to target, you can more usually, and this is probability as 09:55.240 --> 09:59.410 well, overload the opponent if they have two things to juggle. 09:59.410 --> 10:00.820 Two weaknesses to nany. 10:01.330 --> 10:03.640 We have Queen Veto Queen 62. 10:03.640 --> 10:08.240 Rook takes the two he takes, he takes Rokeby six. 10:08.260 --> 10:14.560 So both weaknesses are being hit and we see now the three. 10:15.520 --> 10:17.800 And this is just pure torture, this possession. 10:18.250 --> 10:23.440 None of the dynamic potential of the icey queen's pawn is being expressed in this game. 10:24.070 --> 10:28.480 It's a real downside and it's just creating misery for the entire opposition. 10:28.900 --> 10:31.270 We see HHG offtakes. 10:31.830 --> 10:33.610 The the rook is more active. 10:33.610 --> 10:35.530 Black's rooks are very active. 10:35.770 --> 10:38.980 And you can just put a lot of pressure now on White's position. 10:39.430 --> 10:45.550 Rook to ninety one and we see 97 to the torture of whites. 10:45.550 --> 10:48.370 Possession continues 93. 10:48.370 --> 10:55.630 Rocsi one check can't in ninety six putting pressure on the four ninety one and they'll be one. 10:55.630 --> 11:03.730 So both of these targets are being pressurized, keeping in a very passive kind of frozen once frozen 11:03.730 --> 11:07.390 state, the pieces having to cling on to these pawns. 11:09.130 --> 11:16.480 So now we see actually King E to. 11:18.590 --> 11:25.850 And now Atlantic route takes, he is played, yeah, Cameron is aware of the concrete stakes, sometimes 11:25.850 --> 11:32.780 you do have to be acutely aware of the tactics to be able to exploit structural weaknesses like this. 11:32.780 --> 11:40.970 Windsor now roadsigns be free because if Rook takes be free, then 1964, check winning, be free. 11:41.690 --> 11:43.610 And that's just a winning game. 11:44.420 --> 11:45.380 Two points up. 11:46.100 --> 11:47.120 So yes. 11:47.120 --> 11:47.720 Ouch. 11:47.990 --> 11:54.500 King a free rook before Knight Free 97 92. 11:54.500 --> 12:06.560 We have a five check kafta and now G5 The Torture Continues G4 96 Natsheh 194 Czech King and found rugby 12:06.560 --> 12:20.720 one checking to check King AF1 Rook have to check King one rook a2 so pure torture you know why can't 12:20.720 --> 12:31.130 can peacefully resign here but the game carried on a little bit and yeah Capablanca improving his King 12:31.130 --> 12:40.160 possession check and more probing and now we come up to another Saillard for tournaments. 12:40.160 --> 12:46.670 So these games are long and arduous it seems and Capablanca finds a move, writes it down, puts it 12:46.670 --> 12:49.160 in an envelope and sells a five. 12:50.480 --> 13:02.600 OK rook the free and we have that 884 road sixty four King Si five one the four Jack King D5. 13:03.260 --> 13:05.930 So the pawns pretty dangerous pass pawn. 13:06.290 --> 13:12.590 And that convinces Emmanuel Laska he's really wasting his time with this possession even though he's 13:12.590 --> 13:18.170 just one pawn down Casablanca's rook on the set of very restrictive weights. 13:18.170 --> 13:21.080 King that's a key and game principle to bear in mind. 13:21.080 --> 13:27.050 Work on some of passport, pawn another key and in principle more active king another key and game principle. 13:27.380 --> 13:35.030 All the pros, all the all the kind of, I hate to say trump cards, but the rule with black hair, 13:35.170 --> 13:37.160 all the trump cards with black hair. 13:38.180 --> 13:40.760 So yes, white did resign. 13:43.920 --> 13:52.920 So, yes, let that be a lesson to you from various different perspectives, don't agree to play a world 13:52.920 --> 13:56.740 championship match on your opponent's turf in a hot climate. 13:57.120 --> 14:02.930 Don't don't get an ice queens Queens situation against Capablanca, especially one of the greatest and 14:02.940 --> 14:11.790 game experts of all time to play out on the multiple adjournments of a torturous number of hours just 14:11.790 --> 14:19.770 to have your pieces just getting increasingly passive and dropping a key point at some points and just 14:19.770 --> 14:20.920 being ground down. 14:21.270 --> 14:23.580 So, yes, they can be absolutely miserable. 14:23.580 --> 14:30.980 Things like queen spawn situations if your opponent can simplify and grind you down. 14:32.280 --> 14:34.030 OK, that's instructive. 14:34.520 --> 14:35.130 That's very much.