Hi there in his lecture, I'm going to try and answer the question, what makes a pool structure kind
of strong or weak?
What is a good -- structure in general?
For me personally, a pawn structure plays in a serving role to give you good moves, basically winning
moves and winning plans, if it doesn't serve you in that role, then it's like the tail wagging the
dog.
The pawn structure is your servant.
If it doesn't give you winning plans and tactics, then maybe it's not very good.
So here is an interesting, vivid example of pawn structure at work.
Nigel Short against John Tymon in the 1991 Interpol installment, bound for e4e for Monju Short.
So Nigel has been one of Britain's leading grandmasters.
We have Knights have sex, the Annacone Defence Defense, the defence e 595 for Desex Mewshaw plays
the modest Afri G Sex Bishop, C for Knight B Sex Bishop Be Free Bishop G7 Queene to.
So at the moment the Portrush is pretty interesting.
Why is content with a -- wench in a sense a slightly extra extra space see sex.
Both sides castle we see here a treat which restricts that bishop so the pawn structure isn't a serving
role here to give whites a comfortable edge in the centre space age, the bishop is blunted so the annoying
pin doesn't have to be dealt with.
So no horrors of a pin space or anything if we see a form stopping a form from blank.
Details, details.
And it seems as though Black's a little bit active lately for forcing move.
Nineteenth Queen takes a blacks hitting that if form.
That seems to be a vulnerable pawn.
It's supported.
And now esx this balance that Bishop C8.
So interesting decision here, it was things perhaps that the bishop could be a target later if it was
on air five and also why it potentially has sex so black is radically stopping e sex as a potential
threat as well.
But there are downsides.
So is the pool structure making life easier for whites or for black hair?
Well, this bishop is not very happy.
It's blunted by the -- on sex.
We have one shared file here, a two way road, potentially.
Can white dominate this or can black dominate this within 90 to 95, like every Queen C5 and then Queen
efore?
The queen does have some interesting syncing options, for example, queen or maybe Bishop sings later
going in for an attack queen before trying to parry things in advance.
But now a very, very interesting decision.
What goes into a kind of self penned in general?
We shall do this, but it's just a relative penance, not an absolute pen.
However, black can inflict on white structural damage and thus choose.
So with night be sex choose to do so would not be sex.
We seem to be free.
This introduces this unveils Bishop Avery as a potential threat as well as supporting the bishop.
Black takes the time to take that.
That does cover the Avery Square against a free and whites actually hair place B to Seaforth.
This keeps the Queens on the board.
It is threatening Bishop Avery currently.
And if we look at this position, whites, despite this fracture, despite having an isolated apelin,
doubled C --'s Y is actually better.
You have to ask the pawn structure who is it serving better here?
Why it's much better here, why it's much freer.
In fact, if this was European football, why is in a position soon to try to kind of take control of
board by this default.
If we can establish dominance of the default, that would be an interesting advantage in accumulating
advantages.
Like Williams, finance has approved of the idea.
You want to accumulate advantages and it seems as though, well, actually, you know, structurally,
surely this this really counts as a negative.
You know, these pawns here.
Well, if black was in such a great shape, couldn't you know, wouldn't this, Paul, try to be supportive
of the aid?
The thing is, Bishop afraid of queen bee the won't takes the default here of the queen for once, virtually
taking this defo and here with this poor much on E5 has got fantastic attacking potential here, for
example, like this by nineteen eighty six.
But a fine, huge attacking potential is afforded to whites here.
In a way we can feel that the pawn structure and in a real game, you know, you play in real games,
you play, you might need to test the waters to see if it apparently really damaged structure either
for you or your opponent gives amazing fun in terms of plans and winning moves, because that's what
really is the role of a pool structure, is to support you to win games, not just to look good, not
just to look solid.
So we see here rookie eight, not of the eight.
And now the one taking that defo this is like possession in European football where, you know, you
don't just go and try and score.
We try and keep possession, keep passing the ball around, wearing the opponent out, making them work
hard, make them run all over the place by here on the chessboard.
We're controlling the defo here.
We've got possession is like positional, you know, possession.
Quincy, five, four.
Look at this queen.
It's got great options.
Look at this, bishop, great options.
This bishops blunted this.
Bishops blunted Wentz pieces have more scope here.
We see B6 trying to give the bishops some scope on dayglo slight downside.
If it leaves to go onto a more exotic diagonal, it will leave the seven behind.
Sometimes this might be dangerous.
So we see Bishop Efrain Quincey six and eight.
So why is trying to weaken these dance squares by exchanging off that defensive bishop?
Bishop H.
Eight.
If Bishop takes a six, her queen takes this situation.
Why has a crushing blow?
Rakti five.
You know, I'm not going the major interference basic basically means the noise is free to help the
queen without getting mated on to major interference stall tactic behind the scenes guarantees.
Why it's kind of, you know, absolutely crush or jamai.
The queen didn't go to ESX.
Another example here, if Queen D7, Queen STS 87 is not as good as 1997.
This is absolutely lethal.
The Lefsetz checkmating Queen takes seven, doesn't go anywhere.
And it's just enough for a perpetual check in this fashion.
Critics say it looks tempting, but there's nothing actually there.
But with Nighttime's H7, this is crushing Essex's the France, and if to have sex trafficking, queen
is absolutely crushing stuff.
So anyway, back to the game, Bishop Age sex.
We see the bishop avoiding that exchange.
So once controlling even more now is Bishop controlling seven and eight and now rook the eight.
There should be seven.
And look at that D7 square at sensitive black cannot resolve the situation without being background
mated with the bishop g7 if rook eighty-eight then.
So if Rook takes on a takes the eight route, takes the AIDS, have sex.
This is just devastating of the F7 Queen takes the eight.
This is just crushing stuff like this.
So Bishop, G-7 was played this weekend, potentially blacks dance choirs, but white retreats that
rock keeping the tension there, keeping possession, putting pressure on something so white dominates
this default.
Answer the question, if you can, please, which side's pawn structure is serving them better to give
them winning plans and winning tactics?
White's white structure is giving all sorts of fun, basically.
Boils down to a lot of fun to be had for the opposition here, and in fact, after a Catholic bishop
takes king, takes women for a breathtaking continuation, which makes this game kind of at the immortal
level of the queen of six king kings, it seems as though I once got all the possession in the world.
But how do we actually finish off the opponent?
Well, if we look at the section of how we actually win games, either the opponent resigns, we could
win on time, or actually there's another option we can make.
The opponent, in fact, Nigel Shaw, has had the quotation that pulls a nice but checkmate, you know,
ends the game.
It wins the game.
How can we do that here where we can threaten a deadly form pawn age for so threatening to have a deadly
form borne by black players?
H5 Black is not waiting for H5 86 Kwangju.
Some might say black players age five just put that on board.
If AIDS H5 Bishop B some 86 form -- will win the game.
However, age five said, we're back to square one, are we square one, so to speak?
Well, guess what the winning move is if I give you five seconds to pause video, you have complete
possession.
In this position, black is tied in knots, black cannot do anything constructive or fun, Black's position
is locked up, blocked out, so to speak.
Are with blacks position in locked up my usual place, King H2.
And guess what, this king is quite a piece in this position.
This is the mortal king walking free rookie, a king at four.
There was a big threat of just joining the queen.
The checkmate on G7 bishop is played.
If King aged seven here, then 95 Czech and A takes f7 check is crushing of the 95 check from the rock.
Seven is checkmate there as an example.
And here if King G-8 then knights rook takes F7 as crushing.
So for example rotates Queen six and seven and coordinates seven.
Checkmate so black Bishopsgate.
But now the King war continues and actually the game ended here.
Black is in no way able to defend this position.
If Bishop takes these seven, you know, black resigns, then king age six, we've made to follow.
Yeah, and if King Eighty-seven, guess what, the power of the pen peso Paul is illusionary here,
so which piece of pawn is absolutely pens?
And so what is an illusion of the fence?
The -- on F7 and spend the power of the pen, peaceful -- is illusionary.
It's not really supporting sex we can play Queen takes Jesus, check her a sex check and in fact, we
can land king of sex on this occasion.
The King helping the queen.
And if Queen takes her free check, gee, thanks, Bishop, thanks, we have queen checkmate, absolutely
beautiful stuff.
So when someone asks you about Paul structure being good or bad or when you want to think about pawn
structure, you have uncertainty's.
You can draw on this example.
It's a vivid example.
Sometimes you can accept Fracture's ugly.
--'s look at the functionality is not all and how it looks.
It's what it does for you.
It's serving role.
Does it make.
Does it enable you to have winning plans and winning tactics?
That's a key question.
We all generally enjoy winning.
That's generally the point of trying to learn about chess.
We generally want to win games.
So Portrush structures, you know, they are a good pawn structure is one which serves you well better
than the opponent.
OK, that's how much.