Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a fight between two attacking plans Boris Spassky and Mick Hotel, both former
world chess champions.
So 1979 Montreal tournament, round ten.
So, D4, we have.
This is in Canada.
Montreal is a Canadian province of Quebec and the second most populous city in Canada.
So okay, we have noise f six from Mikhail Tal, we have c4e6, nine, ten three, b6e3, Bishop B seven,
Bishop D three from Boris Spassky d5b3.
Bishop D six.
Both sides.
Castle Bishop B2 So it looks fairly symmetrical at this point.
If symmetrical pawns are actually a similar piece placement might be seven Knight BD two Queen E seven
Rook C one Rook 88 Quincy two and our C5 C tanks d5e tanks D tanks.
c5b tanks.
So we have here a hanging pawn structure.
You'll note that there are adjacent files here for black semi m fouls sometimes, you know these, these
are a double edged assets hanging pawns.
The job of the person against the hanging pawns is generally try and fix them down and win them.
Restrain, blockade, destroy.
We have Queen C free her Rook MP eight Rook 51 So the job of the person with the hanging pawns is to
use their dynamic potential.
And in this position the dynamic potential is used to liberate the pieces.
So guess what?
Mikhail Tal played here, which is very, very interesting.
Okay.
He just gets rid of them.
And I like the restraints.
He just gets rid of them with form.
So after eating three or four sea tanks before this bishop has been open up, it looks kind of vicious.
And this bishop is looking vicious.
Both bishops are looking kind of vicious.
We have queen, a five queen in Siberia.
This is an attacking ingredients.
The queen's away from the king, if nothing tasty, for instead perhaps Black's best is Bishop F4.
So, for example, here then, Bishop, if I'm say, weaknesses have been created around the king,
that bishop is even more dangerous.
And we get a position here where with best play.
It does seem as though one might actually be able to hold things.
So this kind of scenario.
And it looks as though it might even just just be equal.
So that was a best case scenario.
So it seems stemming from 1964.
Now, you might wonder, well, why Bishop F4 if Bishop takes age to check this great gift?
Circumstance isn't entirely convincing after King Jeffrey.
If we have queen the check for.
96.
Check.
Sorry.
96.
Queen C five.
Why ends up with an advantage here isn't totally convincing.
The great gift mechanism.
Sure, if King goes the G one, then it is more convincing because we have quite a vicious attack now.
With these pieces, everything is acting as a good team.
There has a small edge.
At least instead of 95.
If rook e5, that would be a mistake because Bishop F5 shows the resourcefulness of the white position
and finally gives up the Queen hair when it's actually doing really well.
That's one way to beat the great gift.
If you can do this.
It's loads of material for the Queen sacrifice.
So it's interesting in analysis, it does seem as though bishop form might be the way to go as the most
accurate.
If instead of G3, are you free just to see what the France saw?
95.63 Knight G4 You can see the soft spots are being hit quite heavily here.
Queen H for Bishop H to check Knight, say stuff to check and look, the Queen and Bishop are combining
on G2 so this is quite vicious if five Instead we look at this for a moment.
Queen E six, Queen C 495.
This is about even so.
Yes.
Anyway, intense analysis just reveals that Queen A5 is is a bad idea.
It's adding another attacking ingredient, queen out of the way in Siberia.
And also even worse, not not quite in spirit, a potential tempo gainer if we can gain time in our
attacking chess.
If you imagine the easy way for me to remember this, the importance of this, imagine you're given
two moves in a row.
Often it would be like winning if you have 2 minutes in a row.
Now here we've got a queen which is subject to tempo gaining so we can almost win a move for free potentially,
which might actually be useful for an attack.
So bear that in mind.
95 Knight takes E5, Bishop takes E5.
Then we have C4, which does make things whole load worse.
Bishop Geoffrey Queen 86.
This position still has a big advantage.
Ominous queen.
Thanks G2 mate.
France And here Bishop takes H to as example Queen H for check.
We're winning E one.
So yes, this is vicious.
If Queen C5, Queen e6 this position.
Yeah, the queen coming in causing weaknesses and havoc.
This is just advantageous for black Queen.
Thanks A7 going a little bit more in Siberia.
Knight, G4, Knight, F3, Rook Eights.
This position of Queen F6 is kind of vicious.
So as example, Bishop takes her three G tanks.
Bishop takes D4 Queen 64 relying on a bishop takes H seven mechanism.
But the thing is.
At the end of hair Black is a piece of I'm winning.
So.
Okay.
94, though, makes things worse because there's guess what there is here, which is, as I say, if
we have two moves in chess in a row, it's dangerous.
So tempo gaining as part of the attack Rook d5 It does like win a move for free because it hits the
Queen very strong.
It turns out the position is so strong Bishop saying thanks to check like for check is working well
here.
We can delay the ingredient rook d5 and this position 93 is extremely vicious.
So for example here Queen d6 check rook g5 check Rook takes E3.
This is brutal.
Attacking chess.
Yeah, it's just absolutely brutal stuff.
So this is just winning for black.
If we look at the teamwork here, side got a very pleasant position so okay about Rook D5 immediately
we have Queen D2.
If Queen St's a7 Bishop takes H to check Knight G for Shank, Queen H for the attack, it just flows
very well.
So this is just crushing.
So Queen D two and now.
Yeah, with the rook on D5.
So guess what is good here with the rook on D5.
This works extremely well.
Now Bishop takes ages to change this great gift.
So a king size has played.
If king if one rook h5 this position with Bishop A4 is nifty threatening rook h one checkmate.
There's no time to take the queen.
So rook takes.
But first, actually, first, we control these squares so there's no time to take the bishop.
The queen is taken.
There's no time to take the bishop on me because the rook H1 France.
So.
KING Do you want we're taking the queen and we're getting a big advantage here in this position of the
Four and Rook G5.
It's a big attacking build up still.
So, for example, this situation ends up being better for black.
If King H1 rook h5 that lovely rook left and here Bishop d6 check and now knight G4 is vicious head
with a beautiful idea.
Of well, Queen H for just just doubling as simple and strong.
And here we can ignore that Bishop takes 87 and we're just crashing through for a chump, mate.
So okay so King takes h two was played Rook H five.
Check King G one.
If King Geoffrey King out about 94, Jack Bishop takes he for Queen H for Jack King and free Queen 64
Jack Queen H four is now, mate, we've just cleared out the diagonals so that is now mate Bishop controlling
and three.
So King G one we have 94 and the game ends here.
They're all beautiful.
France, including Rook H one check here just to accelerate gaining tempo for a vicious, you know,
mating combination.
So Spassky resigns that move 22 It's really kind of shortish game 22 moves so if rookie one have a look
Rook h one shank with tempo Queen H for Czech Queen H two queen size G2 or Queen H one is mating.
And if three again, you know, Rook H one check.
Queen H four check this position.
Queen H to check Queen H one is mate because Knight controls F two.
So yeah, the game ending on G four.
So what we see in this game from an attacking perspective, the hanging pawns can just be can just disappear,
sometimes liberating, very vicious pieces towards the opponent's king.
So it's not about trying to maintain the structure.
If you're with the hanging pawns, you're looking for attacking chess as compensation against the opponent's
king.
So it's kind of a vivid game example of the advantages of hanging pawns, in my view, for the attacking
player.
And that's what we're all about.
We're all about the attack in this discourse.
So it's definitely a pawn structure.
Ingredients like isolated Queen's pawn, it's like an extension of the isolated pawn.
Serve them isolated, but look at the pieces as compensation.
So things have a duality and so do people.
There might be good and bad people in your life or whatever.
Look at the good side as opposed to the bad side.
This balance of perspective is important in life and in chess, so we can't just say that the hanging
pawns are bad.
You know, there's a good and bad sides double edged sword.
Sometimes they do lose games and the openings with hanging pawns needs to be played very carefully,
quite often with precision to be on the right side of the debate as the hanging pawns, worth it or
not.
But here, yeah, it's, you know, this this build up here, this classic, you know, central control
build up is the prelude to unleashing the D4.
So fun stuff.
Definitely.
It seems by the evidence of this game, it was well worth a punt, well offer, you know, a gamble.
But yeah, a fascinating game.
The dynamic pawn structures in general are our friends.
If we want an attacking game, we can influence our choice of opening by thinking about the pawn structures
which might result.
And we can also improve the openings we play by identifying the pawn structures within those openings.
And then I have got a particular course, the Ultimate Guides pawn structure.
You can see the pros and the cons of each structure.
Nimzowitsch recommended that we really need to master a pawn structure for its pros and cons in detail
before going on to another structure.
That's the best way to take it very, very seriously.
Each particular pawn structure to try and understand it.
Okay, so this is just an iconic game for me for the hanging pawns.
Hope you enjoyed it.
Got some points from it.
Had so much.