WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.620 Hi there. 00:01.650 --> 00:07.530 In this lecture, we see an iconic demonstration of light square strategy and blockade strategy and 00:07.530 --> 00:09.990 not giving the opponent a shred of counterplay. 00:10.530 --> 00:16.080 This is a real one way game, thanks in part due to one's mistakes. 00:16.080 --> 00:23.340 So playing with the white pieces, homeless convict Mattison and playing the black pieces. 00:23.340 --> 00:26.370 One of the founders of the hyper modern score, Aaron Nimzowitsch. 00:26.370 --> 00:32.340 This is in 1929 Carlsbad tournament Round 12 D fall for Madison. 00:32.340 --> 00:37.590 We see Nimzowitsch playing nine of six, C four, E six and now Nimzowitsch is Nimzowitsch India named 00:37.590 --> 00:37.950 after him. 00:37.950 --> 00:39.420 Bishop before is allowed. 00:39.720 --> 00:43.920 A lot of modern players will play Knight f free to force Queen's Indian territory. 00:43.920 --> 00:50.970 So Knight C free allows this pin we see Knight air free and nimzowitsch without waiting just takes on 00:50.970 --> 00:57.870 C free just doubling white's pawns and saying, well, the bishop could be useful, but I'm going to 00:57.870 --> 01:02.670 try and make sure at least one of the bishops, especially this one, doesn't have a good time in this 01:02.670 --> 01:03.360 position. 01:03.360 --> 01:12.030 So we see D six, which is part already of a campaign to lock down potentially these double pawns to 01:12.030 --> 01:12.990 restrain them. 01:13.080 --> 01:18.420 And in doing so, the bishop is also potentially restrained, as we'll see. 01:18.420 --> 01:26.670 So Quincy two, Queen E seven, so Bishop a free the bishop decided to go over to a free instead of 01:26.670 --> 01:32.910 G five, which may be isn't a great decision, but now we have C five. 01:32.910 --> 01:41.550 So at the moment the bishop doesn't seem that great on a free we have G three, B six, Bishop G two, 01:41.550 --> 01:50.040 Bishop B seven, both sides Castle and now Knight H four White obliges for a strategic bishop exchange 01:50.040 --> 01:54.360 which does weaken white basically on the light squares like C four. 01:54.360 --> 02:01.200 So Nimzowitsch takes on G two and also he gets a parking space for his queen, which could be useful 02:01.200 --> 02:02.730 for attacking c four. 02:03.090 --> 02:10.050 So that's all good, especially with Czech Now after King G two, we have this Czech King G one and 02:10.050 --> 02:11.160 now Queen E six. 02:11.160 --> 02:17.580 So just hitting a free with tempo and C four, so with tempo as well. 02:17.610 --> 02:26.250 Queen B free and now C six with a big frats of a five to just simply win the C four pawn. 02:26.250 --> 02:31.020 We see rook for one and now Knight five and white has to oblige. 02:31.020 --> 02:38.790 Basically, if White doesn't want to lose a pawn with Queen B five, but underbidding the pawns sometimes 02:39.240 --> 02:40.320 doesn't really help. 02:40.320 --> 02:41.820 So Nimzowitsch just takes. 02:41.820 --> 02:46.560 And we have a magnificent knight outpost on C four, Bishop C one. 02:46.740 --> 02:49.920 And now with Bishop C one, the Rooks are not connected. 02:49.920 --> 02:53.940 So this is an unprotected piece and it means a six is more powerful. 02:53.940 --> 02:59.250 Now White can't react with a four if a four we're just taking. 02:59.250 --> 03:00.510 And thanks very much. 03:00.510 --> 03:01.710 Thanks to that pin. 03:02.070 --> 03:06.150 So black is increasing now the pressure of the B tanks. 03:06.150 --> 03:07.800 There's pressure on the A foul. 03:08.100 --> 03:15.240 And what is kind of helpless in this position already we see D tanks C five and now B, take C five. 03:15.270 --> 03:18.180 The Knights holds the D six pawn. 03:18.420 --> 03:19.590 There's no real problems. 03:19.590 --> 03:21.000 There's no worries in this position. 03:21.000 --> 03:21.870 So the queens are off. 03:21.870 --> 03:24.630 There's no king safety worries, for example. 03:24.750 --> 03:30.600 There's just a lot of pressure on the white position And a knight, which is kind of showed it frontally, 03:30.600 --> 03:32.610 is a dream Knight on C four. 03:33.180 --> 03:35.850 How can White get to that knight to exchange it off? 03:35.850 --> 03:44.040 Knight G two is played maybe with ideas of 93 to try and challenge it, but now 95 dispels that idea 03:44.160 --> 03:46.410 covering a free hitting C free. 03:46.410 --> 03:47.670 So it's with tempo. 03:47.880 --> 03:52.650 The rook goes to D free, but now Black's rooks just pile up on the poor A to pawn. 03:53.220 --> 04:02.010 And now we see E four And guess what Nimzowitsch plays here which actually ends the game move 23 So 04:02.010 --> 04:04.170 for 100 points, what would you play here? 04:08.740 --> 04:10.110 Yeah, 95. 04:10.120 --> 04:17.410 This is actually just winning material now by force White resigned if Rook D won because you know where 04:17.410 --> 04:25.330 else if rook D two that goes into a free check and I'm picking up DD too. 04:25.330 --> 04:26.470 It's pretty nasty. 04:27.460 --> 04:30.580 And if rook dd one might take C free. 04:31.120 --> 04:36.700 Well, this is big trouble if rook d2, not a free check. 04:38.680 --> 04:39.310 Yep. 04:40.600 --> 04:42.730 If Rookie won a free check. 04:43.870 --> 04:44.350 Yeah. 04:44.710 --> 04:49.390 It's just losing further material and a two can drop if Rook have won. 04:49.810 --> 04:51.400 There's horrible things here. 04:51.430 --> 04:54.040 Just taking out a two is a good move. 04:54.190 --> 04:56.650 So, yes, very nasty game. 04:56.650 --> 04:57.910 You know, this is absolutely crushing. 04:57.910 --> 05:01.410 For example, so White resigned after 95. 05:01.420 --> 05:08.440 It shows that sometimes un doubling the pawns can lead to magnificent Knight outposts. 05:08.440 --> 05:13.180 The C4 square was weak early on, was weak and early on. 05:13.180 --> 05:15.790 The strategic Bishop exchange favoured black. 05:16.000 --> 05:20.680 In fact, take the King favoured black to do all of this with tempo, a lot of this with tempo. 05:20.680 --> 05:25.540 So a strategically one position is a position like this. 05:25.930 --> 05:32.200 There isn't much counterplay, you're just ramping up the power of one's pieces, putting even more 05:32.200 --> 05:36.220 pressure onto until they're going to be losing material by force. 05:36.220 --> 05:38.380 It's an iconic game to me. 05:38.380 --> 05:40.320 I hope it becomes an iconic game to you. 05:40.340 --> 05:47.560 It shows sometimes the seemingly, you know, paradox of pawns when they're doubled. 05:47.560 --> 05:52.000 Sometimes you want to double them to gain access to key squares. 05:52.690 --> 06:01.170 Sometimes the advantages pour into other advantages, even though visually the double pawns are doubled. 06:01.180 --> 06:02.920 Look at the power of the pieces. 06:03.160 --> 06:07.810 If the pieces are really supercharged hitting new targets, then that's a favorable exchange. 06:07.810 --> 06:13.920 We have a mighty knight outpost created in the absence of the pawn on C4. 06:13.930 --> 06:15.970 So these are things to bear in mind. 06:16.210 --> 06:21.190 The dynamics of chess, how advantages flow into other advantages or weaknesses flow into other more 06:21.190 --> 06:25.810 exploitable weaknesses, ideally, where your pieces can really exploit things more. 06:26.050 --> 06:33.910 So yeah, a great illustration of double pawns, restraint strategy, great knights versus the bishop. 06:34.780 --> 06:39.010 And yeah, just dominating the whole possession without any counterplay, without any shred of counterplay. 06:39.010 --> 06:41.140 So really controlled chess. 06:41.140 --> 06:47.500 And it's no wonder that for example, take Ram chosen who hated losing, took Nimzowitsch as an inspiration 06:47.500 --> 06:54.340 because we find in these Nimzowitsch games these very one way game strategically crushing games where 06:54.340 --> 07:00.760 there was hardly any risk at all of black losing after getting this strategically one position. 07:00.760 --> 07:07.510 So yes, very reassuring way of playing chess and the Nims are engine Nimzowitsch is brainchild is still 07:07.510 --> 07:12.190 alive and kicking today as a really popular opening opening at super grandmaster level. 07:12.190 --> 07:16.180 But if you play the namesake engine, you also need to know about the Queen's engine as well. 07:16.630 --> 07:20.110 Okay, I hope you enjoyed this one and so much.