Hi there.
In this lecture, we're going to ask what is a minority attack?
You might have heard of this phrase.
Somewhere, minority attack, it's not Minority Report, that's a film of Tom Cruise, which is a very
good sci fi overall.
OK, so minority attack before this is like family against or with against short.
So Britain's Nigel Short, we see F six, C 40 and free D five nights every night.
BDM Yeah.
I'm just setting up an opening for you.
And actually you know what, we're going to get the so-called Coles bad pawn structure.
I don't know.
That sounds bad.
It's not as bad as it sounds.
The Carlsbad pull structure and it's invoked with C takes D the exchange variation of the Queen's Gambit
declined.
We often get this structure like this where Black is taking back with the Apelin.
So we've got a semi open cifas here.
And the Carlsbad structure is a great structure for implementing a minority attack as well as being
technically possible.
We see after Bishop G five C6.
Let's examine this for a moment.
What is it about this Carlsbad structure which makes sense?
You know, an absolute classic recipe to use a minority attack?
Well, the minority attack is a minority of --'s here.
There's the majority here on this side.
But minority attack, I know these points of say, I'm just taking the theoretical sense in the theoretical
sense, you're exchanging often fancy sex, leaving this -- potentially isolated and this -- potentially
backward.
And let's not use let's use a red arrow for consistency.
If you can isolate that -- that's going to be prone to frontal attack later without its fellow pawns.
And the same with with that one, you know, it's going to need pieces, the support.
And also, of course, you've got a nice outpost's square on C five, which is a tendency for backward
--.
Sometimes you don't even need to eliminate them.
You just celebrate the square in front of them with an outpost, nice juicy outpost.
So that's the recipe.
So in the Queen's Gambit Exchange version, you're going for this pawn shop.
This goes bad.
But, you know, this minority attack can occur in other opening variations.
One of the fundamental features even of the Sicilian defense and I'll just make a note, you know,
we're here.
It moved some of it free.
But let's just rewind.
And just for a moment, let's look at the Sicilian defense.
One of the key properties of the Sicilian defense, potentially in some games at least, is sometimes
black is able to use the pawn minority of pawns to later attack a majority and cause structural damage.
And you might think, well.
Can't we do that on the other side of the border?
Sometimes it's not possible, depending on where the king is, you like weakening your king, but because
these are queen side pawns that, you know, you're more likely to be able to use them to to destroy
the opponents pawns, Russia or weaken, at least to some degree.
So, yeah, you have a poor minority here.
Whenever you have queen side, especially queen side pawn minorities, they can be a weapon just frohna
the majority of pawns to cause structural damage.
So anyway, bear in mind some some games, the selling you do actually see a minority attacked in some
games.
Bobby Fischer in self-defense.
So the minority is not completely distinct.
Let's go back to our favorite game is not completely distinct to the so-called Carlsbad bad structure,
but the Carlsbad structure, like the Sicilian defense, does have that same open sea fowl.
And so when we do the structural damage, because we've got this summit and CFO will have natural pressure
on C6, it's like we're underlining our existing pressure on C6.
Sometimes we just want to emphasize our existing wins to make them more emphatic and more effective.
It's a win that we have kind of the cifas pressure.
But Black, you know, does have the evol pressure on black.
Sometimes one a week wants to weaken on every, you know, maybe like five F face, but sometimes it
weakens the king doing so.
So the essential difference for the side doing the minority attack, you've also got a factory where
your king is.
If you're not weakening your king, sometimes you can really get away of a great minority target without
too much backfire.
So here we see Bishop is Quincy to Black Council's bishop defraying Brookie age free and wonderful place.
Ain't we see Bishop for a five White Castles six.
This is setting the scene.
The Sky bishops get exchanged off, which does mean in principle, by the way, if we have an outpost
out on C five, it's less assailable.
It's more unassailable because there's nothing to take off.
If we end up with an outpost in front of a backward pawn, we see rook every one bishop, he says a
free Ruki seven avy one, rook eighty eight.
And they'll be for this minority attack.
This undertone plan is, you know, the difference between much stronger players and just tactical players
without really an awareness of the template plans which could further enhance and accumulate positional
advantages.
You do want to be a tactical monster.
That is one of the main priorities of this course that you're much more of a tactical monster than before
you entered the course.
This is a level two section on pawn structure.
This is when you want to step up your game and differentiate yourself further from your fellow tacticians
to really understand what's going on in pawn structure and where you want to head for important structure.
What you want to achieve structurally is going to help you accumulate advantages, which is one of the
main principles.
The first world chess champion, when I'm slyness was saying that a successful attack or combinations,
there's a great foundation in accumulating advantages.
First, to make sure when you do those combinations, there's just no defense.
So here, OK, we're accumulating advantages with points, 8x8, especially seven and I'll be five.
The minority attack is in full flow.
Plan dare not take, you know, be weakening both of these pawns, putting more pressure on the pieces
to have to defend them after because it's not fellow pawns.
Defending fellow pawns 94 is played if C5 instead you might ask detainees queen takes this situation.
Black Planktos have fragmented pawns here and they're not particularly pleasant, for example, like
this.
It's not particularly nice that blockades where defore is quite nice for white wine has the advantage
here.
So ninety-four is played, beatings, beatings and now Rokeby sex.
So at least our show has avoided the situation where he's got an Apple target.
He's dissolved that time again.
But here there is still a C6 -- target.
We see 98 see Queen takes Queen F six and then a very, very interesting decision to take.
The counterplay of Black's position.
And it seems a bit strange because this night is not, you know, that energetic, OK, in my opinion,
age four, but sometimes it does have the tactical knife or the roots are not there, just sitting pretty.
There is a functionality behind the rocks.
It does sometimes, but not effort which might support nights free.
And you can see some dangers there tactically.
So, in fact, the decision is made to just take off this thing.
No hassle for the night.
We have Queen 66 and now there's a hassle factor here.
This pawn has pins.
Black is threatening.
Bishop takes on pinning no CANF one and the Kings OK on one here.
And this particular situation, F six, we have Roquet one queen each five threatening TotEx.
Bishop takes three to unwind Afri.
OK, that's addressed with 91.
Sometimes you do have to go back to the Knights.
That is part of the winning.
Procedure.
And if you're worried about playing, you know, defensive Petrosian style moves to win games, not
just draw them, just remember Karpoff.
Yeah, he did say in an interview that he plays like Petrosian, but just to win.
Not at all.
So this looks like a kind of move, which is this game is this is a game you want to win.
It is actually is a structural target simplex position.
We see Queen at five and this is fresh.
And let's take a look at E3.
Yeah, you have to be acutely aware of the opponent's tactical possibilities while carrying out these
positional plans, which makes them a little bit more tricky.
To actually achieve in reality without being blasted off the board by major tactician, but yet that
Paul is on pins here, OK, 25 again, renewing this kind of tactic, fine.
The king goes to age, too.
Are we all done with black threats?
Are we done?
I think we are.
Or are we not?
No, we're not quite at five.
We're not done yet.
Black is threatening Queen six after the nine centralizes.
This is good because we're taking off a box.
We like our piece essentials.
It's not just protecting.
You have to jump into the outpost.
Sci fi.
We see that might retreat sometimes not retreats.
Not bad if it can come back with vengeance.
Centralising Queen ESX.
Now there's no threat, right?
Black is not actually threatening anything is he King Jiwon Rook's.
Yeah, it's good to be aware of the apparent threats at all times.
So Black seems to have a passive position.
But can we intensify the pressure?
Is it our turn to try and do something?
Now we see Rokeby seven.
There's a kind of relative pain building up, especially if we can double cross rook f7.
In fact, we do double rook's.
Now this is a luxury position because we've also got this Sify, which looks really nasty, doesn't
it, for King and Queen.
Wow.
That outpost square in front of the back whipworm from this minority attack is really looks pretty dangerous
actually tactically now for the opponent for for a change.
We you know, the opponent is not making the frat's, not calling the shots as that sometimes also kind
of refer to calling the shots my Alitalia's or making the threats.
We're calling the shots now, queen, before we see the eight ninety five Jews, the outpost Jews here,
because the bishops have gone, sometimes you want to arrange that yourself to exchange of the underlying
bishops to make your outpost juicier.
So Queen State, we see queen bee sex.
What is going on here.
Page five and then we see now Roxxy seven paragraph is coming off.
But look at C6, it's vulnerable.
But look at King's safety with a rock on the 7th.
Can't we target G7 soon?
We see a seven.
Quincy eight, Rokeby seven seven.
Are we making progress?
If H four was played then there's ninety six hitting the rook, hitting G7 common squares and if Rudy
seven be eight ouch.
Skua tactic.
You can see the foundation of tactics is essential to be able to live to play this game live on the
chessboard without being blasted tactically by your opponent to actually show that one day you can build
up pressure and and your own tactical, you know, concrete implications.
So Bishop f7 neutralises ninety-six queen r7 frat's rook takes f7.
We're calling the shots, we have eight and then we're calling the shots again, threatening the rook.
It's our turn.
And now of the rookie.
That's the weakness of the last move isn't it.
Doesn't that we can f7 how do we celebrate this weakness of the last move.
What would you play here if I give you five seconds, pause the video and finally we can check all checks
and not just to our own king.
Finally, with oppositional methods, we accumulated advantages.
We have a dominating position 966 right now.
The combinations flow, G takes root, takes f7 and look at blackspot structure here.
It's in Iraq.
Isolated pawns, fragmented pawns between five.
We have Czech and our Queen f7 and the game actually ended here as crushing if rook eight then G for.
It's the way of minimizing hassle hagey for.
So, for example.
If Queene for Quintet's affects his crushing check, it's only a token check, nothing to be afraid
of.
Sometimes these checks, there might be a little token check here, but once they run out, once these
checks right out.
Yeah, that's it.
That's just desperate.
Rotates age free, but black is absolutely busted here.
The big fat is Queen Eighty-six meeting of the Queen HSM.
So blacks busted her.
So anyway, the game actually ended on Queen F7.
So we see a classic minority attack in this game.
So the parks, OK, we didn't get to have a weak poll like seven measures.
Make sure that was dissolved the week policy six different story, nice blockade square also through
the weaknesses were able to get pressure on that seven Frank and through that pressure on the seven
Frank and the general dominated the possession, there was a kind of overload of blacks position resulting
in a weakness of the last move like might crash for about seven.
Frank, we reached a situation where black resigns.
So it's an interesting minority attack example.
You can find your own minority attack.
Examples on my porch, of course, has quite a few more that.
So in this in this case, though, I just wanted to get the basic grounding in Putin's Russia in this
section.
So I hope you're more aware now.
What is a minority attack?
Yes, it's quite often within the Coles brand structure, but not reserved for Coles bad structure,
which is not as bad as all that.
You can sometimes play a minority take from the Sicilian defense on some games.
If you look carefully enough against Bobby Fischer sometimes being attacked, it's just where you have
a poor minority, especially where your king doesn't live, that you can use as a sort of structural
weapon and attack to weaken the opponent structure on that side of the board, even against, paradoxically,
a majority.
I know it seems a bit silly.
You're using a minority to attack a majority.
Generally, you don't want to do that.
Someone is bigger.
You don't want to, like, do that.
But no, the smaller side on that occasion, because the king, the crown jewels are not behind it.
Yeah, it's kind of you can do that, but sometimes great advantages resulting.
OK, and so much.