Hi there.
In this lecture, I'd like to introduce you to the concept of imbalances.
These are the differences.
You get positive and negative from a certain opening.
So, for example, if we go into the so-called French defense and play nice Jeoffrey here, we're inviting
this pen and this is going straight into the quinoa variation.
And in this variation, there are sets of imbalances.
Black has a superior pawns, rich White House double pawns, but White has a bishop on the square without
a counterpart.
So quite often the plans are to do of celebrating the positive imbalances or differences from the opening
position, which is often aiming to, for example, celebrate this bishop sometimes with a pawn sacrifice
or too many games of Bobby Fischer.
He sacrificed his pawns to make sure that this positive difference in position is celebrated, especially
without accountable, but also the extra space advantage here.
And the pawn chain being an effective pawn chain also has opportunities later on dark squares, tactical
opportunities.
If you have a DFI pawn chain instead, then you're looking for like square opportunities.
So say default have see for Jesus.
And we go into the so-called King's engine, the fence.
There are variations where White gets an interesting.
Light, square advantage.
So say this, possession with E 535 one as a square pawn chain and quite often, you know, like squares
later are the way games are one tactic on the light squares.
And because black has pawns on task, has also this pronounces aplan quite often that one often wants
to try and trade off these bishops to amplify blacks line square weaknesses.
So every plan, every pawn structure, every opening quite often has these imbalances.
One opening, which you might say, well, doesn't surely the exchange French where you exchange here
doesn't have too many imbalances.
That's true, but it sometimes has a kind of pressure initiative which can still be meaningful and still
actually went away.
And sometimes black, you know, plays to really shake up things by putting the king on the queen side.
So there are ways and means, for example, say like this, there are ways and means for black to actually
fight for imbalances even though the pawn structure is symmetrical.
But for me, you know, one of the more pronounced examples, and that's why I started with that.
First, there's in the French defense, you know, the quinoa in particular to me is a clear example
of imbalances in a position where, you know, blacks got the structure and whites got the bishops.
This also happens in the engine, though.
If we look at the names, the engine the fans wear, white also collects, in fact, the dance choir
bishop quite often.
So, for example, here, this situation, blacks got the structural advantage.
But what has this dance, bishop, which could be dangerous later.
So its job is to try and liberate the two bishops, especially this one, and prove that maybe the Kingside
is weak later when black holes was Kingside.
So there's a burden of proof.
In fact, it's like two people are trying to argue their case for what the positive differences of the
opening chosen are.
You're trying to argue your case, and that's why just memorizing the storm moves might not be enough.
You need to know kind of model games for where, you know, the bishop is liberated in some way and
proven.
If you can see example proofs, then you can base your plans based on those little game proofs and opening
connects more intimately with your mental game.
So these differences carry through to the mental game and even to the in-game echoes the end game.
So every opening has these sets of imbalances when you play.
This is set in defense against this Essendon offense is another example.
So say the opensource in in defense, black is trading off a flagpole for a sensible and you might think
this is actually good for and games in the future.
Maybe if you know that lost the game.
Sometimes there are ferocious attacks before that.
So, say, in the night of.
Yeah, both sides are trying to prove that imbalances quite often.
The CFO has been used expertly by Bobby Fisher and the elbow square and all the perks associated with
that CFO needs to be fully understood.
And why has this defined pressure and sometimes can build up attacks on the Kingside sometimes later
he's playing for queeny one queen jeoffrey queen for.
But anyway, the point is the opening sets the set of differences that both sides play on.
And both both players are giving themselves an education, quite often in different pawn structures,
etc..
So these set scenes or Tubby's starting positions are great learning vehicles to play from both sides,
sometimes, especially the pawn structure, which pervades in many, many different openings.
They have their pros and cons to celebrate.
So that's also something you want to celebrate the positive and dampen the negative of the opponent.
So the concept of differences in general, you want to basically it's rather selfish.
You want to celebrate the positive aspects and downplay the negative, whatever it exists from the opening,
whatever pawn structure exists from the opening.
So say you're playing with an isolated queen's pawn.
You want to celebrate the positives and downplay the negatives.
So say we have this possession and let's say we get an isolated queen's pawn when they play this and
they play this.
From Black's point of view, the positive favorable imbalances will be the blockade.
Square 525 trying to.
At this point, trying to simplify and maybe winning games where this pawn, this isolated queen's pawn
is weak.
So White is trying to use the upsides of this.
I think ball like these hook squares, not that one, these squares, C5 and A5, this pressure on the
EFO, the CFO sometimes is trying to create a battery here.
And so you'll see that in the pawn section.
In fact, some of the pros and cons of certain power structures which reflect more structural imbalances
and that there's a range of these differences.
You could think about the more long term differences which persist quite a lot throughout the game and
the shorter kind of initiatives that way up in a bit of time of development.
And they could evaporate unless they're stored translated into something else, they can evaporate quite
easily.
So the imbalances, you know, go from more static to dynamic.
The dynamic sometimes only exists for a short period of time.
So each opening has its, you know, favorable differences for both sides.
And it's up to you to really celebrate hard those.
And that's where tactics is a key instrument as well.
If you're a brilliant tactician, then maybe a slight advantage you have in time in a particular moment
gives you a winning attack if you play your cards right.
So you have to be a major tactician to celebrate sometimes a small time advantage.
But for the structuralists, the longer term aspects of the position that might be applied over several
moves because the advantage is not going anywhere.
It's there might be some weakness in the families pull structure.
It's difficult for that weakness to disappear instantly.
So imbalances take various forms.
They have a short term to long term.
And it's your job to play on your favorable imbalances.
So a good plan is one which generally plays an on on your favorable advantages or imbalances.
OK, so I hope that's kind of clear about these openings.
And generally that's an interesting theory of openings in general to think about settlements imbalance
theory.
OK, and so much.