Hi there in this introductory lecture, I'm going to explain what a pawn structure is and why they are
important to recognize and how you can use the kind of template plans once you recognize the pawn structure,
and they can arise sometimes from many different openings.
So if we play E4 and for example, C6, the COCOM, this information where detainees efore 1984 is played
is sometimes known as the correct formation and it gives rise to various plans stereotypically, which
you can use or be aware of, at least during an actual game.
For example, sometimes they'll be far pressure.
You can build up on F5, sometimes in this structure F7 and sensitive.
So you pick up a lot of ideas and plans and you can even check out a number of example games to see
the pros and cons for both sides.
So that's an example of the Corrao formation.
So the feature is that Black has that pressure on the Diffa and you have the pressure on the iPhone.
So that is a formation, a pawn structure.
If we go back and instead we play things as an example, the French defense and we look at D 45, E
five, the advanced French.
This is actually an E5 -- chain and generally black will be on the lookout for exchanging off the
bishop.
That kind of bad bishop won't be looking to get Dan's career opportunities.
And maybe we can black on the dark squares.
So, you know, exchanging of these bishops.
Sometimes the Donetsk membership's quite often, you know, have black castles.
Kingside, it can be quite dangerous because there's a natural flow like a river flow where the pawn
chain is directed towards the king.
So it's are quite often black uses the option of casting coincide.
So the various plans for both sides, the E5 pawn chain features potentially undermining, trying to
undermine from Black's point of view once points at the fall, try and put more and more pressure on
defore.
So the aelfwine pawn chain usually comes from the advanced French most often.
In the Sicilian defense, of course, we have the open variation and within that, if black sense of
an early structure like this, this is a shavon in construction with that little -- center and why
it's going to be on the lookout later for the 595.
If Black plays an early E5, so say I can't say it means he thinks he's a E5, that leaves a definitive
hole and that's sometimes called a bomb's lafsky hole.
There's the dragon formation, which, you know, comes from the dragon, which is essentially got its
own templated plans.
Once Black Place decides to commit to think outside, one's often trying to exchange off the spaceship
for this one and go for a Kingside attack so you can see different openings give rise to different pawn
structure formations.
And each of those has pros and cons for either side.
One of the more common is the isolated queen pawn situation, which can arise from a whole range of
different openings.
So say like this and why it plays like this.
And black plays like this as an example and details, we have the ice queen spoon so this can arise
from a different opening or it could arise from an evil opening.
It can arise from many, many different openings.
And knowing the pros and cons of having the ice queen spawn is very, very interesting.
You've built if you can build up model games, my my advanced -- structure course is there, you know,
which you can check out.
It has over forty five hours with pros and cons for both sides.
So this is just a brief, very, very brief introduction to -- formations.
There are kind of template plans you can use from the world chess champion ideally, but seeing how
both sides can increase their advantage in general, what -- brings to make use of a -- break is
when you're putting tension on the peninsula and kind of liberating pieces quite often.
But we're going into that and another nation.
So this introduction is just to introduce you to -- formations.
Some of the more at one of the more outrageous ones is the stone wall formation, which is literally
it's like you're building a stone wall.
So, for example, like this, you're literally building a kind of stone wall formation which can be
having many, many perks here, especially if you can control the four square.
Sometimes that's routine moves like McAffrey to HFA to be aware of.
If you're playing against the stone wall says literally a structure as well as a kind of system.
The stone wall formation,
another one, another formation, which has been controversial in years because the opening not being
used as much as the Benoni information.
So out of the modern boloney, Black accepts a kind of week the sex --.
So quite often in the boloney, white will play moves like neutze D to to C for to target this desex
--.
So yes, there is some kind of striking and more rare -- formations which are.
Which are very interesting to consider as well.
It depends what openings that leads to these poor informations and sometimes there's a level of controversy
associated with them.
This point black quite often has you know, black has the upsides of the Queensland poll majority,
this same phone to play with.
So, you know, it was played in the past with great success by the likes of Celtel, peak popularity,
1960, the only formation.
So formations come in and out of fashion.
They have pros and cons.
They have template plans where you can potentially be aware of, at least in your own games.
And that helps the whole mental game planning generally.
But of course, at the ground level move to move, you need to be, you know, super tactically alert.
A lot of the mental game is about tactics.
A lot of it is also about, you know, pull structure and plans revolving around pulled structure.
So it's like a fluency being built up in some structures that, you know, the basic plans of both sides,
what both sides in general want to achieve and of different structures or formations.
The two words are kind of interchangeable, in my view, structure of information.
So I hope this brief overview get just of a few different pawn configurations.
There are also some structures which look a bit as though they have pulled structure, structural liabilities.
So from a Nimda engine, you can actually have the so-called double --'s I say here a free.
And why has the double bonds that have been sometimes great upsides of having the double bonds there's
hanging --'s, which can result from quite often the taunts go a variation of the Queen's comments.
So for example, like this with B6 being played and then later C5 as an example.
So the hanging points there, like an extended version of isolated queens born where the adjacent falls
can be useful for black.
So yeah, hang --'s so-called hanging --'s configuration.
So yeah, there are certain what seems to be a little bit, you know, quite extreme structures basically,
you know, with double hanging balls.
But yeah, they have, they all have them there up and down sides to be aware of.
There's no necessarily like really, really bad structure.
And unless it's a terrible opening, you know, these openings kind of level, usually at least at the
club level.
So, yes, I hope this is a good general gist of confirmations and so much.