Hi there.
In this light, we're going to look at the so-called backwood --'s so all these points so terrible
as they sound.
Well, we send a very, very high stakes game, a rapid game between Caruana and Mangahas Colson to
the side of the world chess champion.
This is a very, very important match in 2018, after the classical sectional match all ended in drawer's,
Magnus perhaps likes the idea of just going to a faster format to prove his superiority, because actually
it seems the quicker the time to control, the more distance there is between him and his peers.
So generally that, you know, this in theory favors Magnus Carlsen.
Statistically, this format we see EFORE and Magnus chooses the Sicilian defense 93 96 and goes into
the Sicilian sophistic of which is a five year.
Now, this is an opening I absolutely loved as a kid, I actually had some printouts all around my room
because I thought it was a cool sounding name, even though I think it does feature a backward --,
you're actually offering the opponent a backward -- target.
So why would you do this?
Well, there are other compensating factors.
That's why you would do this.
The Knights are using a lot of time to go around key central squares quite often.
You know, there's plans later of this neutze coming to kind of probe your D5 square in front of the
back pawn.
But it will take time.
Sometimes you get the darn square bishop, and that could be days before the opponent is up and down
the sides.
It's a legitimate opening.
And the whole opening has been really popularized because of the 2018 match by Magnus Carlsen.
So the Caecilians Festival is a very, very important example of why even, you know, the worst named
kind of --, one of the worst thing --'s backward -- sounds a bit, you know, backward, you
know, not not very, very positive in a sense.
So but it does have positive aspects.
We see 95 being played.
And in fact, Waitz, instead of trying to create an outpost of a space in front of the backwood --
I kind of place in a slow way, in a way to try and slowly probe this desex, you know, later.
So it's actually also it's changing the poor majority situation that this side of the board, there's
a four to three majority if we split the board.
So blacks got the poor majority here on this side of the board and poor majority on the queen side.
We seek for like she thinks there's a common trap to be aware of sense then, queeny, for it's unpleasant.
For example, if Aztec's believes the rook and we try and avoid this double check with Bishop, the
66 is chirpily so it's a trap to be aware of.
So Ninety-Six sorry, after CIFOR 96 is played, we see Queeny for him, but it can be handled in this
case with Bishop Eighty-seven.
But why is pressurizing that back with -- immediately?
So does this give y a kind of theoretical edge to do this?
Well, it is defended with Quamby adequately for the moments now we see age four, which is interesting,
age five.
For Magnus Bishop, every night is Kentz with a sex pack.
There is an issue of this back with -- being used for the -- break.
C5, especially seven was played then C five.
And this actually can lead whites who have a passport.
So that would be a translation of advantages potentially in White's favor, considerably in its favor.
So this is a very real downside.
If the backward points translated into a big positional advantage for one like this, it's just very
unpleasant indeed, this this kind of scenario.
So the night is CEX with urgency for Seifi.
Was that effective.
We see ninety three now a5 the queen drops back and now a four.
Very interesting.
The Queen drops bank seven.
And now Jeoffrey this does weaken these late squares.
And in fact one of the powers of this pawn here is that it can play a supporting role, as we're about
to say.
We will say Queen C8 E2 and now we see Bishop Jefford.
So trying to exchange off these lines quite a bit to kind of amplify an underlying Waitz potential like
square weaknesses.
Rocsi, one.
We see now Bishop E to Queen E to Queen at 5:00 a.m. C five is played here, so is actually doing well
to attack the backward pawn in this scenario, maybe better.
We can have one, for example, Queen dropping back King due to this.
Should be OK, fine.
But we'll see five immediately Bangui's castles and we see actually the point is to try and create a
passport here with CSX, which on the surface looks interesting.
We see B tanks, these tanks, it looks all on the surface very, very interesting.
But there's a danger sometimes with the passport can actually just be a weak point to be picked off.
We see Quincy full and our bishop designs and seemingly lucrative 95 is played.
So it looks like, well, the back report is pure torture, there's no there's no benefits of -- at
all.
Why do people play this, Resnikoff?
Is there a mystery here?
Why would people play this position with this so-called back with --?
Well, first of all, if 95 wasn't played in White Castles, 97, you know, looks at the C6 -- and
here it can be taken off.
So that's actually rather dangerous that we've been driving to see that.
So 95 OK.
There's something about that, it seems.
But here EFORE is played and actually Black has a nice five score.
I had about Yusof with tempo we seek seven.
This is tempting but a mistake.
However, if White Castles here 95 is good anyway, you know, for Munchak Queen 65 wins, Mesereau
wins apiece.
So better, you know, maybe Queen Bee five this situation.
But again, no Afri.
Now that's a disaster as well.
That's not much better at all.
In fact, yeah.
So actually it is it is a rather difficult position when C7 is played.
And there's a shocker of a move played by millions in this position.
Which I wonder if you can guess what.
Contemplate.
I'll give you five seconds, both video.
OK, it's actually Bishop Tangency seven.
So notates is played in point is ninety five Chank sorry, ninety five, it's kind of a check to the
gray zone literally check ninety five hitting the queen, check to the queen, so to speak.
Ninety five is played in response.
You might wonder why
if Queen five.
The strongest, there's Brooke Avea leaving this very nasty Penn and.
Whites in huge trouble here, tactically, the light can't move, allowing a free crack, winning the
queen.
What does one actually do here?
So have Castles Route 67 is also then possible for my Afri championing the queen.
What does one actually do in this position?
It seems rather bad.
Indeed, here, if Queen Seefried, the free check taking on C1, and then this is a very nasty pen,
so yeah, all these scenarios seem quite nasty.
So we see 95, the 97 CHAC.
But magnet's just parries that, so whites in huge difficulty here, in fact, so much so that Korona
resigns.
So this influenced, you know, the whole world championship match, this particular game, this decisive
win by Magnis making use of the so-called black whipworm and I caecilians fighting off and crushing
it unless the fight moves here.
You know, Brooke, take CIFOR.
If if King Eighty-seven hadn't been played, by the way, then 97 Chank and here is going to be actually
fine for White with the Martin Bashir.
So Magnus's move is really quite crushing.
If the game continued with Queene to night, the free track take C one is devastating.
For example, on this and a whole BROKAMP, so, yeah, the bank would -- in caecilians FESTAC off
is an interesting aspect.
I personally started to get a little bit annoyed and switched off of these neutze on day five in front
of the back of a pawn of all.
It's a bit like positional tausche.
Sometimes you can just be annoyed eventuating.
You want different pawn structures.
I mean that's part of one's evolution.
As a chess player, one tries different openings which have actually sometimes distinctive pawn structures.
So in a way.
If you do deliberately go out of your own, you know, your your your current openings say, look,
let me have some experience in what's this thing I hear about this Carlsbad structure is as bad as it
sounds, Carlsbad, all these things, as bad as I sounds, you know, back are not as bad as they sound.
You know, this this game, you know, was was a high profile games in his first golf.
So it's kind of teaches about backward pawns.
But, you know, the Queen's Gambit, the Clintons cooperation from the black perspective gives rise
quite often to Hank pawns.
So do you hang with hanging palsies?
You lived to tell the tale.
You need to find out these things from both sides.
So there are all these different power structures and formations.
But within the pawn structures, there are fundamental elements, which I hope this section at least
highlights some of the key elemental aspects of a wider configuration.
So, you know, like the double pawn aspect, the isolation aspect, the backward pawn aspect.
So all of these particular aspects and then also the pawn break, the importance of a pawn break, having
to embrace these kind of considerations and general aspects of harmony between pieces and pawns and
the irreversibility pawns.
I hope this section gives a a good foundation, basically.
But to actually go and search for particular structures, you might need to use particular openings.
But you're in luck if you want to learn about the back of a pawn.
You know, there's great examples in the descendants of its popularity has been raised because of this
2018 world championship match and games like this.
So people are coming to experiment with these structures.
Even the seemingly bad ones sometimes have their upsides as well as their downsides.
OK, so much.