WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:01.950 Hi there. 00:01.980 --> 00:06.240 In this lecture, we see Nathan MANHEIMER against Aaron and Zwick. 00:06.270 --> 00:11.080 In 1930, Frankfurt Tallman to run 4e4 from MANHEIMER. 00:11.100 --> 00:20.010 We see a French defense from the switch D Ford 59c for a bishop before and now a kind of delayed exchange 00:20.010 --> 00:20.490 variation. 00:20.490 --> 00:21.780 E takes D five. 00:22.020 --> 00:23.280 So E takes the five. 00:23.280 --> 00:24.420 We have 9f3. 00:24.810 --> 00:32.970 Now, although the pawn structure is symmetrical, you can at least make the pieces asymmetrical, i.e. 00:32.970 --> 00:35.910 you don't have to imitate 9f3 of 9f6. 00:35.910 --> 00:44.340 So in them Nimzowitsch plays 97 and this is actually kind of valuable because we want to exchange off 00:44.340 --> 00:46.350 generally the Lion Square bishops. 00:46.350 --> 00:54.300 So the knight actually supports a strategic bishop exchange from E seven we see Bishop de Fray like 00:54.300 --> 00:59.490 BC, six, H three and five. 00:59.490 --> 01:05.430 This strategic bishop exchange weakening went on the loin squares so white obliges with bishop takes 01:05.430 --> 01:05.820 at five. 01:05.820 --> 01:09.420 So we have nine takes our five And now after castling. 01:09.420 --> 01:13.890 Yeah, like the Nims are engine, we sometimes want to double pawns. 01:13.890 --> 01:15.120 We're doubling pawns here. 01:15.120 --> 01:19.380 Bishop, take c3b takes and this C four square. 01:19.680 --> 01:22.980 Its weakness is amplified because of the departure of the light square. 01:22.980 --> 01:29.010 BISHOP So it makes a great outpost square, and so does E four for that matter, both supported by the 01:29.010 --> 01:30.270 D five pawn. 01:30.270 --> 01:31.480 So bear that in mind. 01:31.480 --> 01:33.750 These are candidate outpost squares. 01:33.990 --> 01:38.460 Weak squares can become mighty knight outposts. 01:39.390 --> 01:41.250 So we're making use of white squares. 01:41.250 --> 01:48.480 And our goal, our mini goal, small win accumulates some small wins or small advantages outposts. 01:48.480 --> 01:56.310 So we see Black castling, Queen de Fray and now 96, highlighting both candidate outposts. 01:56.850 --> 01:59.070 And note the bishop isn't particularly good. 01:59.070 --> 02:03.540 It's driving on the other side of the road, so to speak, on a like square. 02:03.540 --> 02:05.700 It's on a dark square That bishop isn't great. 02:05.700 --> 02:14.220 Here we have Knight G five with the crude frats of chap mating with Queen 6h7 that's addressed. 02:14.220 --> 02:19.110 We have Bishop F for Queen of six and now Bishop DD two. 02:19.110 --> 02:20.610 This is not good. 02:20.610 --> 02:25.320 Black is getting the upper hand now after this white should have played. 02:25.320 --> 02:31.380 Bishop takes D six here it seems of the C takes knight F three ac eight. 02:31.380 --> 02:41.070 This position as example is going to be about even although white has double pawn, so is black. 02:41.610 --> 02:52.080 And yeah, I mean this is going to be about even so with Bishop D2 the outpost dreams are starting to 02:52.080 --> 02:52.800 be fulfilled. 02:52.800 --> 02:54.060 We have H six 02:58.560 --> 03:06.900 knights F three black could have played more precisely perhaps here with Knight A five just going for 03:06.900 --> 03:11.970 the C four square and a free rook for eight, as example. 03:12.240 --> 03:17.400 Black's got a very comfortable position here, but H six does give a bit of a target. 03:17.520 --> 03:19.410 The h six pawn now. 03:19.950 --> 03:24.660 And in fact after King H seven there is kind of a clever move. 03:24.660 --> 03:32.160 Knight H two with the idea of playing knight G four with tempo hitting the Queen. 03:32.670 --> 03:38.250 And there's a kind of an eccentric, eccentric looking move played by Nimzowitsch here, but it does 03:38.250 --> 03:41.490 seem to meet the requirements of the position tactically. 03:41.820 --> 03:43.350 Guess what Nimzowitsch plays. 03:43.350 --> 03:44.700 It's quite amusing. 03:48.040 --> 03:49.360 It's Queen eight. 03:49.390 --> 03:55.810 The thing is, if Queen Gee seven, that does run into if we look the downsides of this position without 03:55.810 --> 04:00.370 even calculating the opponent's moves, it looks as though we could stick a skewer into this. 04:00.640 --> 04:02.940 Imagine the summer barbecue was sick. 04:02.950 --> 04:07.060 Stick a skewer into this queen and rook and knight G four. 04:07.090 --> 04:08.710 Yeah, we're going to do that. 04:09.460 --> 04:10.680 There's no time for F five. 04:10.690 --> 04:11.260 We're going to play. 04:11.260 --> 04:14.200 Bishop takes H six as white and win material. 04:14.860 --> 04:23.440 And the thing is, if five, then Queen Bee five is a right pain in this position. 04:23.440 --> 04:29.740 The two unprotected pawns do not bode well if h59e free. 04:29.890 --> 04:36.090 They're still attacked like D six and one could take a center pawn with advantage. 04:36.100 --> 04:39.820 So Queen H eight addresses some of the tactical concerns here. 04:40.660 --> 04:41.860 Queenie four is played. 04:41.860 --> 04:51.100 So you might wonder, what is this Queen e free if Bishop are four, then h five and white could take 04:51.100 --> 04:54.490 and rook ab1 with an edge. 04:54.490 --> 04:56.500 That's a way of playing it for white. 04:56.500 --> 04:58.950 Still to just go for this bailout. 04:58.960 --> 04:59.950 Get rid of the Knights. 04:59.950 --> 05:03.820 Basically, they make great outposts in this particular position. 05:04.720 --> 05:09.750 So that would help the LightSquared campaign if just one of the knights was eliminated. 05:09.760 --> 05:11.500 If Knight G four. 05:13.150 --> 05:16.270 What do you think the key point here is tactically? 05:20.010 --> 05:24.360 Okay, we can actually just play our five in this position. 05:24.540 --> 05:32.040 And if it takes H six, just leave the ninth stranded queen of six and just play like this to exchange. 05:32.040 --> 05:34.440 And with 94, this is at least equal. 05:35.280 --> 05:38.730 Why it has some problems with this night stranded on h six. 05:40.710 --> 05:43.820 So Queenie is played but now the Queen returns to G seven. 05:43.830 --> 05:46.870 You might think, what is going on here? 05:46.920 --> 05:50.520 The thing is queen of phrase. 05:50.520 --> 05:51.840 Plaintiff 94. 05:51.840 --> 05:53.220 Guess what we have here? 05:57.350 --> 05:58.820 You know, we have five. 05:58.820 --> 06:02.330 And if nine takes a six, we have F for winning material. 06:02.480 --> 06:06.710 But otherwise, yeah, this is like, awkward. 06:08.730 --> 06:09.780 To say the least. 06:10.020 --> 06:12.780 You know, having a stranded night in some situations. 06:13.840 --> 06:15.700 It's not doesn't bode well. 06:17.260 --> 06:24.820 So Queen Frey looking at D five and that shielded with tempo. 06:24.820 --> 06:28.160 So 94 and a nice outpost square. 06:28.750 --> 06:31.540 It's not necessarily a permanent one because there could be every later. 06:31.540 --> 06:33.460 But for the moment, the bishop moves. 06:34.480 --> 06:38.040 We have a five queen free and now a five. 06:38.050 --> 06:41.530 The knights are going into these weak squares. 06:41.980 --> 06:43.390 We have four. 06:43.420 --> 06:54.100 This is unfortunate because it just leaves the four knights just to be absolutely glorious in this possession. 06:54.820 --> 06:59.800 So why didn't fancy f three here? 07:00.370 --> 07:05.920 Black does have interesting options just retreating tonight. 07:05.920 --> 07:06.970 It still looks good. 07:06.970 --> 07:07.600 Just retreating. 07:07.600 --> 07:09.700 The knight and the other light can come to C4. 07:10.090 --> 07:16.810 So wanted to keep the position may be closed as much as possible. 07:16.960 --> 07:24.160 If Queen B five, we have B six here and C freeze on the fire. 07:24.160 --> 07:27.760 So it doesn't really matter about D five dropping this position. 07:28.720 --> 07:36.160 We can take our time with Rook for eight and actually threaten c six to trap the Queen. 07:37.420 --> 07:39.640 And let's say Queen B five. 07:39.670 --> 07:41.230 Then we can take on C free. 07:41.230 --> 07:43.050 And we have a nice tactic here. 07:43.060 --> 07:44.680 Can you see what that is for? 07:44.680 --> 07:45.550 Ten points? 07:47.550 --> 07:47.990 Yep. 07:48.330 --> 07:49.800 Queen takes the for. 07:50.900 --> 07:52.910 And we're winning a pawn here. 07:52.910 --> 07:54.860 So that would be very nice. 07:55.190 --> 08:04.460 So, okay, so F for though was played, we have 27 points free and now Quincy 695 and the Queen goes 08:04.460 --> 08:10.670 back, wrote B one, B six, King H turned 94. 08:11.000 --> 08:14.660 So the queen supports that outpost. 08:14.660 --> 08:17.630 If White wanted to take on C four, it's not very good. 08:18.140 --> 08:18.890 Bishop E three. 08:18.890 --> 08:21.650 If nine take c4d takes. 08:21.650 --> 08:23.720 This is more than a small win. 08:23.720 --> 08:27.830 This is a significant positional advantage here. 08:28.520 --> 08:31.430 Black can freely build up the pressure in various ways. 08:31.430 --> 08:38.240 Double the rooks play for g five later, maybe switch to the g player all away from the glare of the 08:38.240 --> 08:38.920 bishop. 08:38.930 --> 08:40.310 Use light squares. 08:40.940 --> 08:42.050 It's just a big position. 08:42.050 --> 08:46.460 So Bishop E three we have g five here. 08:47.090 --> 08:55.550 G frame if f takes g five, we can play H times and E five is on the fire. 08:55.910 --> 09:03.110 So if the light goes back rook g eight with lots of new options coming like g four to Black's advantage. 09:03.110 --> 09:13.070 So g free was tried rook have six rook be1 rook g eight bishop c one and now b five. 09:13.070 --> 09:20.870 This gives some new options which could be useful sometimes like queen A six to look at a two if a five 09:20.870 --> 09:28.700 instead as example here with 19 c4d takes white might actually have a threat in the possession of rook 09:28.700 --> 09:30.020 takes e four. 09:30.440 --> 09:38.570 So trying to win F six and say King G six this position, we don't need the hassle here. 09:38.570 --> 09:42.650 Black does have a small edge, but why have this hassle? 09:43.010 --> 09:47.060 So yes B five Reinforce the outpost. 09:47.720 --> 09:57.200 Reinforce the C4 outpost don't white favorably or at least to relieve some of the pain with 1964 No. 09:57.500 --> 10:07.400 B five great move 9f3 if rookie two we can actually press with g four here H takes F takes and rook 10:07.400 --> 10:07.760 tanks. 10:07.760 --> 10:10.070 E four is mostly harmless. 10:10.160 --> 10:15.560 Queen takes E for queen at five big avoids the black so Knight have three. 10:15.740 --> 10:20.360 We have G four here H takes rook takes a third out post. 10:20.570 --> 10:22.550 It's glorious really. 10:22.550 --> 10:27.650 It's a glorious looking position with this bishop being silly in this structure. 10:27.960 --> 10:29.000 Lack of harmony. 10:29.000 --> 10:38.060 91 The Rooks build on the G file recovery Queen Yates Alekhine's gun construction traveling the pressure 10:39.530 --> 10:41.480 on G three that supported H five. 10:41.480 --> 10:44.150 It looks as though H four is absolutely winning. 10:44.480 --> 10:47.600 King g2h4 Rook h one. 10:47.600 --> 10:51.110 But the king is here, which is a nuisance factor. 10:51.110 --> 10:52.040 Rook H six. 10:52.040 --> 10:53.750 Sheldon King Rook H Free. 10:54.680 --> 11:03.320 And now actually time is taken to really try and get another small win without clarifying the issue. 11:03.320 --> 11:06.050 Over here we have Queen G six. 11:06.230 --> 11:08.540 So this is just a lot of fun. 11:08.540 --> 11:14.450 We've created a wonderful playground here that we don't really need to worry about the opponents. 11:14.450 --> 11:22.940 Why should we clarify potentially unfavourably when we can just ramp up the pressure a bit more, try 11:22.940 --> 11:24.890 for some other small wins? 11:25.010 --> 11:26.660 We have Bishop free. 11:26.840 --> 11:33.260 If Rook have won here, we could play c, d, six and. 11:34.150 --> 11:41.050 Actually consider like THG Free OC because we can play 94. 11:41.080 --> 11:42.250 Then that will be the point. 11:42.550 --> 11:46.630 So pulverizing g free with advantage. 11:47.830 --> 11:51.310 Yeah, we could do that in that situation. 11:52.720 --> 11:58.150 So anyway, but Bishop free was played which has a weakness of the last move. 11:58.150 --> 12:02.920 It's not holding a free which means this is more effective because there's no a phrase spotted by the 12:02.920 --> 12:03.510 bishop. 12:03.520 --> 12:08.920 So this is a which pounces on that weakness on the last move with Queen 86. 12:10.270 --> 12:13.630 So we have Bishop F2 and this pawn is taken creating. 12:14.840 --> 12:16.940 You know, nice outside passport. 12:16.970 --> 12:19.760 Which white is in knots here? 12:19.760 --> 12:21.860 Spectacularly in knots. 12:22.250 --> 12:24.230 So Bishop E one tied up in knots. 12:24.230 --> 12:30.140 So a five king of one white can only watch spectate as this pass -- is just pushed. 12:32.690 --> 12:33.710 There's no. 12:34.660 --> 12:39.250 Kind of advantage in taking on H for any time, you know? 12:39.310 --> 12:41.990 Y It takes on H four. 12:42.020 --> 12:48.160 You know, there are going to be tactics like Rook takes G one check and queen size E one. 12:48.160 --> 12:51.490 You know, it's nasty with that pin on the bishop there. 12:51.940 --> 13:03.010 So it's just watching this pos pawn increase the advantage a free 1a2 and here white resigned if bishop 13:03.010 --> 13:03.980 f two. 13:04.000 --> 13:04.990 You know what? 13:04.990 --> 13:11.350 We can actually just play night b two and say the queen moves. 13:12.580 --> 13:16.150 Then we're going to play Queen S.C two track. 13:16.540 --> 13:18.280 And here, this is getting embarrassing. 13:18.280 --> 13:20.890 91 disconnects in rock from a one. 13:21.610 --> 13:23.710 And Queen two, We can just take the queen's off. 13:23.710 --> 13:24.520 And queen. 13:24.820 --> 13:25.180 Yeah. 13:25.210 --> 13:30.190 Wonderful positional demonstration of outposts as small wins. 13:30.200 --> 13:34.570 And you can see that it creates a situation. 13:34.570 --> 13:39.550 We can just really enjoy the position without the worry of our opponent. 13:39.550 --> 13:47.260 Basically, we've just shut down our opponent opponents with all these visually crushing outposts. 13:47.260 --> 13:55.720 It really is visually crushing demonstration and not rushing not rushing to resolve any situation, 13:55.720 --> 14:00.340 reinforcing outposts with B5 just in case. 14:00.820 --> 14:04.360 And we just get a position with very little to worry about. 14:04.510 --> 14:10.420 So you can see that nimzowitsch in this particular game, you can see how he'll be a great influence 14:10.600 --> 14:15.070 over future world champions like Tigran Petrosian, who didn't like losing. 14:15.160 --> 14:17.570 You know, if we draw, so what? 14:17.590 --> 14:24.430 But, you know, Karpov was taking the approach of Petrosian much more aiming to win with this low risk 14:24.430 --> 14:27.610 positional style positional domination. 14:27.700 --> 14:32.860 Just putting himself beyond the fate in the art world, you know, before going onto the attack or if 14:32.860 --> 14:36.790 you're petrosian maybe never going on the attack, just not losing is the priority, you know, because 14:36.790 --> 14:37.810 he doesn't like losing. 14:37.810 --> 14:44.050 So, yes, such a comfortable position with all of these outposts and pressure. 14:44.380 --> 14:50.830 But yeah, waiting for a significant weakness of the last move, not resolving the tension, not letting 14:50.830 --> 14:57.610 way off with something concrete to calculate, but instead waiting for another weakness to crawl creep 14:57.610 --> 15:00.880 in this poor little pawn on a two. 15:01.510 --> 15:04.390 Yeah, with Queen a six out. 15:04.570 --> 15:08.830 It's just whites just in such a positional bind. 15:09.040 --> 15:15.010 It really is a beautiful game to play over and revisit it If we can outplay opponents like this. 15:15.010 --> 15:17.290 This is absolutely marvelous. 15:18.720 --> 15:20.940 So I hope you enjoyed this one as much as me. 15:21.720 --> 15:22.710 Okay. 15:24.150 --> 15:26.710 Outposts take away points. 15:26.730 --> 15:34.410 Value the small wins of outposts where shutting down the opponents counterplay where limiting options. 15:34.560 --> 15:36.870 The The Knights are always functional. 15:36.900 --> 15:39.870 Of course, in various ways they're safeguarding our position. 15:40.440 --> 15:41.520 So yes. 15:41.970 --> 15:46.920 Don't hurry when you have a superior position, try and get yet another issue. 15:46.920 --> 15:48.630 It could be a weakness of the last move. 15:49.140 --> 15:54.660 Pass pawns are great if you can generate a pass pawn and the opponent kind of unable to do anything 15:54.840 --> 15:57.600 against an incoming pass pawn queening. 15:57.600 --> 15:59.100 So yeah, a fun game. 15:59.100 --> 16:01.230 I hope you enjoyed it so much.