Hi there in Atlanta, we're going to have a look at the upside of having an isolated queen's pawn,
or AQAP.
This is Raymond Kane against Anthony Myles, two of the leading British grandmasters at the time, battling
it out at Hastings Tilghman's 1976.
So nights are free from Raymond Keane.
He's very much into the hype modernist theory and plays the Reti opening.
Not committing a pawn just yet.
Might have six C4 C5.
So we have often night 93 96 in English opening every desex the 45 C tanks 965 Bishop Differe and now
White gets the so-called isolated queens form.
So the perks of this include the Hook Squares, C5 and A5, the adjacent C4 and EFO, sometimes good
for rug's white generally has extra space to play with, so the pieces are not that bad at all.
Contrast this to the Cape.
Bishop is kind of hemmed in, so can won't use the upsides of this situation and isolate Queensborough
when we see Bishop Estevan both sides Castle Rookie one might have things.
We see Bishop G5 and the night before.
So that night has made space for the other one to blockade the pawn on D five and not in front of that.
I say queen spawn blockading is generally a good standard recipe.
We see Bishop dropping back quite, quite often wants to use this battering, but it can't be used at
the moment clearly.
But that's not standard plan with the Osei Queen's Ball to celebrate the attacking opportunities that
White's extra space affords in this position.
You'll know also that the Third Reich is fairly clear of --'s the pawns here on the second rank mainly,
and this pawn here, there's no pawns on the third rank.
And if we think about that, that means our pieces can actually potentially use this vote rank.
We see Bishop B seven and in fact, this is sponsored by Roman King.
And he plays a move which is a little bit it seems very controversial that this rook, for example,
is not in the game and the bishop is just on B1 and this knight still on before.
And yet very, very interesting move, rookie free generating some direct attacking opportunities on
that Gevo or AFO.
So either Jeoffrey or HFA could be a great way to intensify the pressure we see desex.
Now, in general, this is providing Granite's, you know, a block a barrier to this bishop.
But is this that solid can actually be on the minds of this foundation, this apparent blockage of the
bishop, this pawn structure around the king, generally attacking players, the baron attacking players,
the better.
They are quite often undermining the pawn skeleton near the opponents.
King We see her rook Jeoffrey.
And this seems a little bit ridiculous.
Isn't that isn't a solid enough.
So that is given priority over Rook.
Very amazing what's going on here.
We see Rook sees Bishop and he thinks rookie eight and now this knight is nudged.
It goes to C six if the knight went to D5.
In fact White can play in a brutal manner here with Bishop takes g sex and head queen differe.
How is actually black defending this situation?
For example, Bishop?
I think Rook takes Jéssica check and we see whites attack crashing through to a checkmate as an example.
So it's very, very scary.
So we see Ninety-Six challenging that A5.
Right, but now the knight is used 966 to undermine that skeleton around the king.
And now guess what?
The continuation is here.
It's rather brilliant if I give you five cents for the video.
OK, Bishop, thanks.
Gee, thanks.
A very, very scary position for blacks king thing indeed, very, very scary.
We see offtakes g things.
And the key point now is made.
There's one key move in this position which is so much superior to other versions of events.
There are different versions of events.
What is the movie playing?
To further destroy Black's king in its position, if I give you five cents for the video.
OK, the new plan is actually queen bee one, this is much more effective than other squares.
If the queen has gone to defray, then the school shot 95, which protects the -- is really Konstanz
was the hits the queen and that -- is penned.
So this is a disaster is the absolute disaster like 95.
Queen Setsu also allows 95 because here 94, unless they can't be used, it's pinned to the queen.
So blacks are not given these resources in this version of events with Queen Bee one, this is very,
very difficult for black.
We see 95 here, details 94 and that's just taken once.
Got a big advantage.
K seven is played, but now black is in gigantic trouble.
Often they have sex check which takes Queen 66 check.
King James Bishop, G7 Jack Bishop, Queen Jesus.
Checkmate.
Yeah, this guy made a vivid impression on me that if you're an attacking player like I try to be,
the isolated Queens Ball can sometimes be a very, very nice pawn structure to have.
There are trade offs to these things.
This third rank was pretty dangerous to use for a rook.
The seemingly solid pawn chain around the opponent's king only needs one or two pieces sacrificed against
it to really soften it up.
A key move after Queen Bee wants to avoid any neat tricks black hat.
And we create a version of events where they brutally checkmating if Hannan's King some some people
voted this one of the more brutal ice like Queen's Pawn Games ever played and certainly makes a big
impression on me and shows, you know, we've really got to understand the pros and cons of our chosen
pawn structures and several different openings for the English opening or for one evil.
Conaghan Evil might lead to these situations where we have the same fundamental pawn structure.
So the more we can get the most the templates in place, it's like we're simultaneously.
Getting a very, very good idea of what to do in several, you know, multiple different openings which
lead to that particular pull structure with centralizing but refactoring our knowledge of chess.
So, yes, take up my contract.
Of course, I have over 40 hours of examples, pros and cons of each structure.
But this is this is just a very brief introduction to support structures in this course.
And you think, oh, it's a beginner's course case for sure.
Why have you even talked about pulling structures?
Well, we do have eight pawns at the start of the game and they are hugely influential.
Anatoly Karpov said, you know, once you know, you set out your pawns, you have this thing you have
you have to live with them all.
The fellow said, pawns of the soul of chess.
He treated them with great importance in the romantic era.
Pawns were just used to sort of open up lines brutally to maximize tactics, but on the understanding
of pawn structures and essentially the essential elements of pawn structures at least.
And that's what I'm trying to importance in this course, essential elements that to look out for within
a given pawn shops all have that up and down sides.
It's rather amazing duality in chess.
Otherwise this opening would be just unplayable.
In fact, if if if giving you an ISIS is Queens pawn guarantees, you're where no one will do that.
So it really you know, there are more accurate moves that black could have tried in this game to hold
the balance.
In fact, you know, to be fair, objective, there's a key moments in particular.
If we go back to this position in the game after move 15, it didn't have to be ending in a brutal attack.
Black could have actually, instead of rootsy.
I played in 96.
And the point is, if Knight takes Bishop takes this position should be about even.
That should be about even if White goes in with Bishop 86, then black can actually play this, sacrificing
the exchange with good compensation.
It should be at least equality.
So, of course, you know, a game of chess requires a mistake to be played, especially in human chess.
I would like to be played for one side to get the advantage for one side to eventually win.
So, yes, even you know, the things I saw at Queen's pawn structures do not guarantee a win.
It does require an element of imprecision to creep in at some point.
So anyway, I hope the takeaway points of this lecture are a bit clearer about the I say Queen's form.
It provides hooks, it provides freedom and liberation to the pieces.
The third round can sometimes be dangerous.
Going for the opponents king can sometimes be the thing to do because otherwise the defender might seem
to find to end games where your eyes like queen spawn is just a major liability to be picked off later.
So there are up and downs, obviously queen spawn situations to be aware of and so much.