WEBVTT 00:00.900 --> 00:01.470 Hi there. 00:02.100 --> 00:09.240 In this case, I just want to talk about generally how if you want to improve as a chess player, there's 00:09.240 --> 00:12.990 an argument for getting experience of different pawn structures. 00:15.550 --> 00:21.480 I'd say that's divided into specific pawn configurations, which can arise from specific openings. 00:21.870 --> 00:28.920 But for sure, the specific structural elements I've tried to outline in this section, you know, like 00:28.920 --> 00:34.770 the double pawns, the pros and cons of double pawns, backward pawns, isolated pawns, hanging pawns, 00:34.980 --> 00:44.850 the structural elements and certain key methods like, you know, undermining or pawn breaks, certain 00:44.850 --> 00:46.770 key methods or the minority attack. 00:47.370 --> 00:52.140 It's like these key methods that are given special names like mine to take these key methods are important 00:52.140 --> 01:00.840 to know because the elements in particular will constitute so many different types of pawn configurations, 01:00.840 --> 01:02.970 pawn structures, skeleton's formations. 01:03.300 --> 01:11.070 Those are occasions when you hear pawn, scouten formation structure, all those acase, those particular 01:11.070 --> 01:11.820 configurations. 01:11.820 --> 01:14.850 If you know the elements, you've got a better idea of what's going on. 01:16.860 --> 01:21.960 So, yeah, it's very, very important, at least in this introduction section, to know about the elements 01:23.130 --> 01:25.650 and you can either do that, you can train on grandmaster games. 01:25.650 --> 01:26.220 You want to do that. 01:26.250 --> 01:32.610 It's good to have actual practical experience with the different elements of pawn structure as well 01:32.610 --> 01:35.880 as perhaps specific pawn configurations. 01:36.840 --> 01:41.930 Now, my arguments are sometimes a little bit unique. 01:41.940 --> 01:49.590 If you play, for example, the London system, which I do recommend as a system, I recommend as a 01:49.590 --> 01:56.970 system because it means you don't have to spend a lot of your time memorizing tons and tons of opening 01:56.970 --> 02:02.330 theory, which seems to be a modern trends, because it seems like a conscientious thing to do. 02:03.750 --> 02:08.520 But, you know, old school thinking is you actually try and understand things. 02:08.520 --> 02:10.320 You don't just memorize facts like in history. 02:10.320 --> 02:12.870 You don't just understand all the dates. 02:12.870 --> 02:15.180 You understand the motivations, the empathy. 02:17.890 --> 02:24.020 For what has happened in history, to avoid repeating the same mistakes in the future, a dynamic approach 02:24.020 --> 02:26.860 to understanding is not necessarily just memorizing stuff. 02:27.340 --> 02:35.950 And when we talk about using a system, you know, some strong players might think, oh, you shouldn't 02:35.950 --> 02:40.620 be playing one system because it would, you know, stop with one as a chess player. 02:40.810 --> 02:46.350 But my argument would play any systems is that it gives you more time to do literally on your own, 02:46.360 --> 02:47.450 your training schedule. 02:47.470 --> 02:50.320 You can spend more time on other weak links in your game. 02:50.320 --> 02:52.630 You can spend more time on tactical training. 02:53.020 --> 02:57.700 Tactics is a really major priority without a tactical understanding. 02:57.700 --> 03:01.900 It's actually no good knowing the more sophisticated stuff because you fall flat on your face tactically 03:02.080 --> 03:07.930 trying to implement anything, especially when you're playing against dynamic pull structures. 03:07.930 --> 03:13.990 You need to be acutely aware of the threats the opponent is making at any stage of your implementation 03:13.990 --> 03:17.860 of slightly improving the pool structure because they can blow you apart tactically. 03:18.670 --> 03:24.370 So if you play a specific system of a specific pool structure all the time and just try and, you know, 03:24.400 --> 03:30.600 play this kind of run the system with the triangle, which, by the way, I don't totally recommend 03:30.610 --> 03:35.920 in my long term course, I show how the system is totally dynamic, depending on what the opponent does. 03:37.300 --> 03:44.410 So even within the system, you know, a true martial system is not setting up a particular form information 03:44.620 --> 03:45.400 all the time. 03:47.320 --> 03:53.080 But even if you do this, yeah, the person is actually literally the time you can spend on other aspects 03:53.080 --> 03:53.560 of chess. 03:53.560 --> 03:57.580 You know, there's also endgames Capablanca was a big fan of learning the endgames. 03:57.580 --> 04:01.810 First thing for beginners to start with the Angang first, then a bit of a mental game, then a bit 04:01.810 --> 04:07.690 of the opening set, a little bit of a foundation, then revisit the in-game level, you know, level 04:07.690 --> 04:09.850 up, then revisit the mental game there. 04:09.890 --> 04:13.560 Well, that's what I'm trying to do in this course, essentially the level numbers. 04:14.470 --> 04:17.530 So why do we need to know in principle? 04:20.270 --> 04:24.800 A diversity of different structures, I would say the elements of the most essential before you look 04:24.800 --> 04:30.620 at specific -- charges, there are pros and cons of each of the elements, and it's great to be acutely 04:30.620 --> 04:34.670 aware of these trade offs that occur quite often. 04:35.540 --> 04:40.190 A seemingly dodgy -- structure gives huge dynamic potential. 04:41.000 --> 04:45.560 So if you're going to play with dynamic structures, you need speak from that point of view, a very 04:45.560 --> 04:50.690 strong tactician sometimes, especially if you're mekaal tell you can play with backward pawns, but 04:50.690 --> 04:51.620 only for example. 04:53.880 --> 05:01.050 You know, Mikoto was playing the piano, they reached its heyday in 1960, and he was having huge success 05:01.050 --> 05:06.300 with the moning, even though structurally it's a bit suspect the boloney, you know, it's got this 05:06.600 --> 05:08.070 desex backward --. 05:08.790 --> 05:10.740 And yet he won loads of games. 05:10.740 --> 05:16.530 There are there are moments, tactical moments, if you're an extremely skilled tactician where you 05:16.530 --> 05:21.660 can see all the positives with dynamic structure and you get fantastic combinations and tanks. 05:22.200 --> 05:28.350 But if you're not Mikoto and you play with these slightly dicey, dodgy pawn structures controversial, 05:28.350 --> 05:31.970 then you could just be punished without a fight. 05:32.670 --> 05:35.800 Your your, you know, might not see any benefits. 05:36.090 --> 05:40.440 So it's important to build your tactical foundations even before any talk of power structures. 05:40.650 --> 05:45.300 I mean, that's one of my key points here, that if you're going to play the dynamic paunches, you 05:45.300 --> 05:47.340 better be good, you know, tactically. 05:49.110 --> 05:54.180 And we can actually use our openings to direct where we don't even have pawns, when we use gambits, 05:54.180 --> 05:59.550 when we clearly when we clear the sense of when there's more peace activity, it makes the games more 05:59.550 --> 06:00.200 tactical. 06:00.450 --> 06:05.820 So even playing things like the Kings game, which one sounds, if it gives you a flair for the romantic 06:05.820 --> 06:12.600 era of chess, for sacrifices for hand-to-hand combat on the chessboard, that's good training, very, 06:12.600 --> 06:16.770 very good training for when you play the dynamic pawn structures. 06:19.000 --> 06:24.430 So, yes, there's a tangible foundation and there's an elemental foundation of structures that you 06:24.430 --> 06:30.070 should at least know the power structure elements, the pros and cons, in my view, like the back report, 06:30.070 --> 06:32.050 I say, but you need to know the pros and cons of those. 06:32.050 --> 06:34.120 And that's what this section does. 06:36.020 --> 06:39.750 And you don't literally always have to play these things yourself, you're going to look at the world 06:39.750 --> 06:43.350 champions, the champions, generally, the champions in your country, if you prefer. 06:43.830 --> 06:48.120 You may have had more personal contact with your country's champion of your states. 06:48.120 --> 06:54.940 You might have seen several or all the other United States grandmasters in later generations. 06:54.950 --> 06:59.280 So you might there's a balance between, you know, the champions and the ones you've also maybe have 06:59.280 --> 07:01.700 a personal connection or more personal interest. 07:02.010 --> 07:02.490 Fine. 07:02.790 --> 07:06.390 But you can get experience of different pool structures just by looking at most the games. 07:06.400 --> 07:08.700 You don't always have to play these different paunches yourself. 07:09.120 --> 07:14.820 And it's, you know, job, of course, is like this to draw your attention to key games with the examples. 07:15.210 --> 07:20.520 So, yeah, and understanding of different pools is essential, but you don't need to necessarily throw 07:20.520 --> 07:21.570 away your lunch system. 07:21.570 --> 07:28.620 And if you follow an amazing course, my my answers and you'll get a variety of points in any case, 07:28.620 --> 07:33.650 even with the London system, and you can still get lots of time for training other departments. 07:33.660 --> 07:38.640 It's like having multiple departments, your opening department, Millgate and going to Poland. 07:38.970 --> 07:42.420 And there's also other skills which relate like psychology. 07:42.420 --> 07:46.980 You've got to be able to take losses, got to have a thick skin to do post-mortem on your losses. 07:46.980 --> 07:53.250 Find out where you went wrong, come to come back better to truly put yourself beyond the fee in chess 07:53.610 --> 07:58.770 is to have a thick skin because then it doesn't matter if you are actually technically defeated. 07:59.340 --> 08:02.790 You as a chess playing entity will come back stronger the next time. 08:02.790 --> 08:05.460 Stronger, stronger, stronger and even on your wins. 08:05.460 --> 08:10.830 As Kasparov has highlighted, you find out improvements even in your wins because it's a battle out 08:10.830 --> 08:11.190 there. 08:11.850 --> 08:15.750 People to look at your wins and see, you know, is there a downside anyway? 08:15.750 --> 08:17.730 You've got to iron out your weaknesses like Beth. 08:18.030 --> 08:20.340 And in that face, she went over a wins. 08:21.420 --> 08:25.560 That's the Kasparov, you know, behind the writing of the Queen's Gambit. 08:25.560 --> 08:28.470 Netflix is something he emphasized, even your wins. 08:28.470 --> 08:30.870 You want to find out and come back stronger next time. 08:31.290 --> 08:36.990 But anyway, do you need to try out all these weird one for opening's just to get the constructors? 08:37.170 --> 08:38.160 Not necessarily. 08:38.700 --> 08:44.430 I think a tactical foundation comes before the more refined, you know, structural concerns. 08:45.720 --> 08:50.700 So essentially, if you're especially playing a dynamic pawn structure, so you're playing with backward 08:50.700 --> 08:57.690 pawns, backward, say, pawns, you know, hanging horns, whatever, you can leverage the dynamic 08:57.690 --> 09:00.960 opportunities, which might only be small windows of opportunity. 09:01.170 --> 09:03.480 And it's like in the only very small windows. 09:04.230 --> 09:09.150 And on the other side of the coin, if you're structuralist, you want to try and reduce the opponent's 09:09.150 --> 09:14.270 counterplay, but you still got to be totally aware at all times of what the opponent is tactically 09:14.280 --> 09:14.880 fraternising. 09:15.270 --> 09:20.190 So the tactical foundation is essential for you to be aware of the opponent's tactical threats and combinations 09:20.460 --> 09:22.710 and just not let them exist on the board. 09:23.190 --> 09:24.780 Or if they do, they're punishable. 09:25.260 --> 09:29.940 So tactics is the foundation prior, in my view, to structural concerns. 09:32.410 --> 09:38.680 But I hope this, you know, theoretical discussion as of views, so don't be too ashamed if you stick 09:38.680 --> 09:40.810 to the same structure, you got a lot of the comments. 09:40.810 --> 09:44.230 The master and psychology is a big part of human chess. 09:46.810 --> 09:50.950 We must put ourselves beyond the feet in terms of the technical defeat. 09:54.270 --> 10:00.650 So even if you lose, you come back stronger, stronger, stronger, stronger next time, OK, insulin's.