Hi there in this that's, shall we say, an example of the downsides of having an isolated queens born
or AQAP as it's a brave radiated.
This is a manual laska against Capablanca in their world championship match of 1921.
We see the four D5 from Capablanca Larcker place before we see ESX Mitzy Free five six five, eight,
seven.
Every black Herzl's night every night.
Beatties seven Queen seats are now C five.
So this is aggressive against the whites -- sense.
There's a lot of -- central tension here.
With these -- facing each other, will the tension be resolved?
We see this one white could have resolved the tension by playing C takes the five and this possession
is interesting to consider where in fact, Black has an isolated Queen's pawn and white has a small
edge.
Technically, white plays rook to the one we see queen a five bishop devery.
Here, if takes the five, there should also be fairly OK, for example, this position is about even
so Bishop differe was played and now age, sex, age four, she takes the form he takes.
And now Capablanca gives Laska the isolated Queens form.
So one has to work out the pros and cons for both sides.
Here is their attacking potential, for example, for White with this point, can these hooks be used?
Can this efo this adjacent FRB use my rook or the CFO later these adjacent files?
From Black's perspective, how solid is the blockading point?
D5 Can simplification be used to further weaken that pawn?
Fundamentally, and I say to the Queen's pawn as an example of a structural weakness where no fellow
pawns can really help it.
So it's dependent on pieces sometimes for support.
And there's a famous quotation that's the isolated Queen's pawn spreads gloom lie all around the board.
So it can it can happen like that because if pieces get tied down to just defending weak pawns, then
they're not really playing a major role in the game.
It's more of a passive role we see might be sex.
The bishop drops back to be Frank Bishop, D7, White Castles and now and now Rook AC eight.
We see 95 and the bishop goes to be five, so Black is trying to exchange of pieces and show that this
is a long term liability.
This one state, Queensland, Route F1 and all night beedi five, we have Bishop Tastee five.
This is perhaps a little bit controversial here.
This vote, Bishop 65, it seems her bishop takes six, Bishop takes Bishop takes the five he takes.
And even though it's given up both bishops and what has the two nights with 94 in this concrete situation,
it seems as though this is quite interesting for whites who come in with Queen five looking at these
five.
And yeah, this is pretty interesting, this position.
It seems as though, you know why it's got some prospects here.
For example, winning like that.
Why has prospects basically.
So what is black?
Actually, do you know it's a difficult position for black hair, in fact.
So I mean, there are variations of the game which could have ended, you know, differently.
But we see here this move instead, which is Bishop 65, and it gives black a relatively easy time of
it.
After 1965, Bishop takes nine times.
OK, so blacks have got a knight and bishop against the two nights we see queen bee free.
The bishop moves.
And the thing is here, the bishop doesn't go to a six.
Because of the seven heads they were and then 95 would be interesting for wouldn't that be a nice outpost's
square?
So we see Bishop C6 1986 and interestingly and importantly, BTX puts the brakes on the DFI --.
And I think.
Hold on, hold on.
This is a nice lay.
A -- star -- now in itself.
This is the last day of --.
So why are these have less influence than the ice queen?
Well, yeah, they are kind of interesting and they do provide peace activity, for example, the BFO.
So structure versus peace activity is is the common trade off to look out for.
But, you know, if Black had played Knight Takes White could potentially dissolve that.
I'd say queen spawn as well.
So it's all about the trade offs that are being made here.
This position looks fairly pleasant, for example, for white as an example.
So we see how the breaks are being put on at the expense of blacks pawn structure.
We see Rocky five hitting the queen.
The queen draws back Queen C to Rook FDA.
And you can see that White doesn't really want to nanny this pawn, but is being forced into passivity.
So here we see the five and further simplification, and this helps blackspot structure a little bit,
she 65 five.
So actually this is starting to look like a miserably defensive position.
That's the trouble with structural weaknesses.
They have a dependency on pieces which should be doing other things, not just nannying --'s.
They create dependency on pieces so they can pacify potentially the opponent's pieces and position in
general we see be fraying.
And now we see H5.
Which reinforces the ninth position against any potential G4 from white later age, free age for making
sure that there's no job for the absence of needed.
And we see Quealy Free C6, Caernarfon G.
Six Queen, one queen before now.
It has to be pointed out, in the interest of fairness, I do want to insert something here, which
perhaps I shouldn't.
Lasco was world champion for a huge amount of time and.
In the Key World Championship match with Capablanca, you had to play in a very hot climate in in Cuba
and the conditions were not that great last year, not normally such a passive player.
I just want to say that the end, because I have been harassed and bullied by someone on YouTube telling
me I have to cover Laska games, and whenever I did quite often Lasker's ask for accuracy is like this
world.
I mean Capablanca as accurately as this world as well.
But I'm just saying that this game is also influenced by the climate.
There is such a thing as win probability in chess.
So I can tell you all the lessons under the sun.
But you need to bear in mind if you do want to win and not just learn about chess to use every conceivable
advantage you have, if you can win on time, sometimes just win on time.
If you can put the opponent in hot climates, put them in hot climates, OK, if you can win the ice
that Queensland is on the board, then win with this.
But this is not a typical lascar game.
He's not usually this passive.
I have to tell you, to clear my conscience about showing in this game example, this instructive game
example.
Sometimes these games are played under conditions which are not favorable to one of the players, are
maybe more favorable to another player.
So Kovalenko, you know, used to the climate.
Cuban climate perhaps is more comfortable physically during the process of this game.
But now, yeah, on the board, it looks like pure torture.
This game, it's absolute pure torture in hot temperature.
Even worse.
I can I can sympathize with that because we know and I'm recording this actually in a hot summer's day.
So I have great sympathy for Laska on this occasion, as an aside.
So anyway, King one, which apparently was Whitesell move.
And when I say settled move, they had adjournments back in those days and world championship matches
so they'd see them in an envelope and then later that would be opened up and play would resume.
So anyway, we see a five after the adjournments queen bee to a four.
And now Capablanca is creating another weakness.
Sometimes it's not enough just to have one structural weakness to target.
If you have two structural weaknesses to target, you can more usually, and this is probability as
well, overload the opponent if they have two things to juggle.
Two weaknesses to nany.
We have Queen Veto Queen 62.
Rook takes the two he takes, he takes Rokeby six.
So both weaknesses are being hit and we see now the three.
And this is just pure torture, this possession.
None of the dynamic potential of the icey queen's pawn is being expressed in this game.
It's a real downside and it's just creating misery for the entire opposition.
We see HHG offtakes.
The the rook is more active.
Black's rooks are very active.
And you can just put a lot of pressure now on White's position.
Rook to ninety one and we see 97 to the torture of whites.
Possession continues 93.
Rocsi one check can't in ninety six putting pressure on the four ninety one and they'll be one.
So both of these targets are being pressurized, keeping in a very passive kind of frozen once frozen
state, the pieces having to cling on to these pawns.
So now we see actually King E to.
And now Atlantic route takes, he is played, yeah, Cameron is aware of the concrete stakes, sometimes
you do have to be acutely aware of the tactics to be able to exploit structural weaknesses like this.
Windsor now roadsigns be free because if Rook takes be free, then 1964, check winning, be free.
And that's just a winning game.
Two points up.
So yes.
Ouch.
King a free rook before Knight Free 97 92.
We have a five check kafta and now G5 The Torture Continues G4 96 Natsheh 194 Czech King and found rugby
one checking to check King AF1 Rook have to check King one rook a2 so pure torture you know why can't
can peacefully resign here but the game carried on a little bit and yeah Capablanca improving his King
possession check and more probing and now we come up to another Saillard for tournaments.
So these games are long and arduous it seems and Capablanca finds a move, writes it down, puts it
in an envelope and sells a five.
OK rook the free and we have that 884 road sixty four King Si five one the four Jack King D5.
So the pawns pretty dangerous pass pawn.
And that convinces Emmanuel Laska he's really wasting his time with this possession even though he's
just one pawn down Casablanca's rook on the set of very restrictive weights.
King that's a key and game principle to bear in mind.
Work on some of passport, pawn another key and in principle more active king another key and game principle.
All the pros, all the all the kind of, I hate to say trump cards, but the rule with black hair,
all the trump cards with black hair.
So yes, white did resign.
So, yes, let that be a lesson to you from various different perspectives, don't agree to play a world
championship match on your opponent's turf in a hot climate.
Don't don't get an ice queens Queens situation against Capablanca, especially one of the greatest and
game experts of all time to play out on the multiple adjournments of a torturous number of hours just
to have your pieces just getting increasingly passive and dropping a key point at some points and just
being ground down.
So, yes, they can be absolutely miserable.
Things like queen spawn situations if your opponent can simplify and grind you down.
OK, that's instructive.
That's very much.