Hi there.
In this election, I'm going to show you an iconic example of double --'s and why they can sometimes
be a very, very bad thing.
So the example game is Mattsson against them.
Savitch played in cold Batwoman's of 1929.
So defo for medicine, Nîmes, which is the name behind the so-called Nîmes Indian defense, which is
very, very popular even today.
So this is back in 1929.
This is his kind of brainchild opening where a lot of his ideas in his work, my system, a kind of.
On the lines were examples of how double pawns and restraints and prophylaxis and the wider sense prevention
measures designed to minimize the opponent's counterplay are kind of a features of this opening.
Sometimes, if it plays too casually, we seem like a free amines, which just doubles the pawns here.
You might think, well, OK, there's a dance competition with our counterpart, though that can sometimes
be dangerous.
Yep, it's Black's job to try and close the possession and make sure this bishop doesn't see the light
of day.
We see Desex Quincy to Queen Elizabeth and the bishop actually goes to a free week five.
So that bishop is kind of locked for the moment, Jeoffrey.
And now be sex bishop, G2, Bishop B seven, both sides counsel.
So why has the double pawns, are they weak in their own right?
Sometimes for a weakness to actually bear witness, it needs to be exploitable.
That's the way often Lee the son, what seems to be a number of theoretical weaknesses in the position,
you have to ask the key question, are they actually exploitable weaknesses?
And if your number of weaknesses goes down from five to one or five to zero, that's fine, because
at least then you're focusing on something that's actually exploitable in a practical sense.
So here in the actual context of your position from a more theoretical perspective.
So the bear in mind, because one of you know, the dangers of being a bit too theoretical is that you
get very, very enthusiastic after checking out -- sites, of course, all names of which my system
like I was and I ended up losing a few games because I wasn't really asking more brutal practical questions
like all these witness witnesses act exploitable in my particular position.
By here we have exploits Berty going up because there's a kind of strategic bishop exchange the lights
choir bishop is a guardian and that is a square.
Its guardians sometimes have lights, choirs.
Any notion of protecting that privacy for now disappears and limbs which now occupies that diagonals
the queen will check and targets immediately.
The C4 pawn may have to defend it with a pissants.
That's another problem.
Pawns that needs to be managed with your pieces can can sometimes overload your position and make all
your pieces kind of very passive.
Having to protect just pawns.
It's like they've been they've been relegated in their roles as love.
The Queen going on attacking to be around the king.
It's it's hanging around protecting weak pawns.
Here we see knights.
He says, look after you won and now knights a five.
And unless it wants to lose a pawn, just give it up.
Went for the exchange of Queens.
The problem is sometimes weaknesses to be exploited.
People are actually translated into another form of weakness.
We're changing the double pawn now with them, which is that next move.
He turns up from technically a double pawn to just hold a strategic hole in its structure so there's
no lights, choir guards in around that hole.
This night's far away from protecting it.
And in fact, it makes a fantastic place for a night.
So that night there's no frontal attacks because of that.
Paul on Sifry, It's a very, very cozy position for the Knights forces.
The bishop back.
It was hitting the bishop.
And now, in fact, Black uses a kind of pawn lever or pawn break to further liberate blacks pieces,
activity and pressure.
I hope you can see what that has, where two pawns are in conflict.
We can use a very, very powerful pawn break or pawn lever here.
So what do you think?
Black plays her positional move.
OK, ASX and it's tapping into the fact also that it's difficult to actually play for here.
If A4 is played, then attacks on that pawn is pinned to the rook.
So we have big takes, which emphasizes Black's rook.
Now, semi and foul is a delight to have in general.
It's like a one way road of traffic.
You've got cars going down that one way road and there's no reverse traffic.
This is Nidhal.
Quite often the whole point of gambits is to get not just the lead, but these key somehow and fouls
to pressure the opponents to let them slip up because the x rays as well that's going on.
This brook is extraneous.
It provides all sorts of tactics.
But in the short term, A2 is now on the fire.
That is a new weakness as well as this amazing night out post on that hole in its structure.
That's home, we have details, but he takes the night looks after things on CIFOR as well, as well
as the work they're both looking after Desex.
That's not a problem like Jita.
Now, the other night joins in the fun hitting Sifry.
We see different Waitz pieces have just not been normal pieces throughout this game.
They've been relegated to looking after weak pawns.
I ain't just building up logically, harmoniously the pieces working together as a team in that battery
to hit a two and why in desperation place a here.
It's a very, very difficult position indeed.
How does one actually defend this data in 1962?
You know, so this is in desperation.
But now Names, which plays 95 Hazelbrook and this is just devastating.
Tactically, this position in the game actually ended here.
If the one then might.
SIFRY Ouch.
And why is the world going ahead and a free check will win the road.
Where is that real gain?
If he won, then, you know.
Yeah, I'm not afraid so.
Yeah, it's just, just devastating.
So and there's going to be dropping off of work AF1.
So it's a nightmare scenario.
It's a mortal game for double pawns.
And then the engine has proved itself and it's a modern soul.
It's, you know, Nîmes, which had these ideas back in the 1930s, basically the name the engine.
And he wrote that epic book, You know, my system.
And if you have a growth mindset and you do read books in general, by the way, and they make you a
bit overexcited about things, there is a learning phase of any new technology or conceptual ideas that
sometimes you're overexcited about it and you're not using it appropriately and you get bad results,
but then you start using it properly and you do get the real benefit.
So it's a bit like that pattern.
So and that's that's a phenomenon, you know, generally to be aware of.
So you actually have to contextualize and see the pros and cons basically with greater experience of
any exposure you have to concepts.
So when we look at structural weaknesses, they are in context.
There aren't they're not in a vacuum.
There are opponents pieces around.
Taxes are still vitally important in chess.
Pulled structure is not in a vacuum to exploit structural weaknesses.
Sometimes you also need to translate them into other advantages.
So it seems paradoxical that this lecture, which is about double pawns, were actually translating
the double --'s into a structural hole instead.
But that structural hole in this particular position leads to having a huge Atholl pressure and gigantic
central Ninth's night so central that they're winning even more material basically by force.
It's such a passive position of why this is just a very clear, crystal clear demonstration to have
another kind of strategic Krush where opponents counterplay levels so.
Dramatically low, and so Claire Black's playing Claire Analogical, so very, very famous, the Shell
Game.
I hope you take some of the finer points of this game and are in a better position to exploit double
pawns.
At least that gives the option.
Sometimes you can resolve them, if not win them.
Sometimes you can resolve them and just exploit the underlying whole week.
Pawns can sometimes create weak squares, holes in your opponents pull structure, which you can then
leverage, especially with a night owl.
Post the lights off the one of the best pieces for exploiting structural holes and intensifying the
pressure on the opponent's positions.
Winning material, winning the game.
OK, that's how much.