WEBVTT 00:00.790 --> 00:01.350 Hi there. 00:01.770 --> 00:07.680 In this light, we're going to look at the so-called backwood --'s so all these points so terrible 00:07.680 --> 00:08.620 as they sound. 00:10.500 --> 00:16.710 Well, we send a very, very high stakes game, a rapid game between Caruana and Mangahas Colson to 00:16.710 --> 00:18.490 the side of the world chess champion. 00:19.050 --> 00:26.460 This is a very, very important match in 2018, after the classical sectional match all ended in drawer's, 00:27.570 --> 00:34.560 Magnus perhaps likes the idea of just going to a faster format to prove his superiority, because actually 00:34.560 --> 00:40.620 it seems the quicker the time to control, the more distance there is between him and his peers. 00:42.000 --> 00:46.320 So generally that, you know, this in theory favors Magnus Carlsen. 00:46.320 --> 00:56.820 Statistically, this format we see EFORE and Magnus chooses the Sicilian defense 93 96 and goes into 00:56.850 --> 01:00.690 the Sicilian sophistic of which is a five year. 01:03.120 --> 01:10.560 Now, this is an opening I absolutely loved as a kid, I actually had some printouts all around my room 01:10.560 --> 01:17.940 because I thought it was a cool sounding name, even though I think it does feature a backward --, 01:17.940 --> 01:21.680 you're actually offering the opponent a backward -- target. 01:21.690 --> 01:22.800 So why would you do this? 01:23.310 --> 01:25.340 Well, there are other compensating factors. 01:25.350 --> 01:26.570 That's why you would do this. 01:27.270 --> 01:32.340 The Knights are using a lot of time to go around key central squares quite often. 01:33.330 --> 01:40.350 You know, there's plans later of this neutze coming to kind of probe your D5 square in front of the 01:40.350 --> 01:41.010 back pawn. 01:41.160 --> 01:42.330 But it will take time. 01:42.450 --> 01:47.320 Sometimes you get the darn square bishop, and that could be days before the opponent is up and down 01:47.320 --> 01:47.900 the sides. 01:47.910 --> 01:49.260 It's a legitimate opening. 01:49.710 --> 01:54.860 And the whole opening has been really popularized because of the 2018 match by Magnus Carlsen. 01:55.410 --> 02:02.060 So the Caecilians Festival is a very, very important example of why even, you know, the worst named 02:02.070 --> 02:07.800 kind of --, one of the worst thing --'s backward -- sounds a bit, you know, backward, you 02:07.800 --> 02:13.500 know, not not very, very positive in a sense. 02:14.400 --> 02:17.730 So but it does have positive aspects. 02:17.730 --> 02:19.590 We see 95 being played. 02:20.040 --> 02:26.840 And in fact, Waitz, instead of trying to create an outpost of a space in front of the backwood -- 02:27.450 --> 02:36.450 I kind of place in a slow way, in a way to try and slowly probe this desex, you know, later. 02:37.820 --> 02:44.640 So it's actually also it's changing the poor majority situation that this side of the board, there's 02:44.640 --> 02:46.980 a four to three majority if we split the board. 02:47.550 --> 02:55.440 So blacks got the poor majority here on this side of the board and poor majority on the queen side. 02:55.830 --> 03:04.920 We seek for like she thinks there's a common trap to be aware of sense then, queeny, for it's unpleasant. 03:05.640 --> 03:12.730 For example, if Aztec's believes the rook and we try and avoid this double check with Bishop, the 03:13.350 --> 03:16.590 66 is chirpily so it's a trap to be aware of. 03:16.590 --> 03:25.830 So Ninety-Six sorry, after CIFOR 96 is played, we see Queeny for him, but it can be handled in this 03:25.830 --> 03:27.140 case with Bishop Eighty-seven. 03:28.830 --> 03:31.860 But why is pressurizing that back with -- immediately? 03:32.400 --> 03:36.300 So does this give y a kind of theoretical edge to do this? 03:37.080 --> 03:45.630 Well, it is defended with Quamby adequately for the moments now we see age four, which is interesting, 03:45.630 --> 03:46.140 age five. 03:46.140 --> 03:51.480 For Magnus Bishop, every night is Kentz with a sex pack. 03:53.190 --> 03:57.110 There is an issue of this back with -- being used for the -- break. 03:57.120 --> 04:00.960 C5, especially seven was played then C five. 04:00.960 --> 04:04.510 And this actually can lead whites who have a passport. 04:04.530 --> 04:10.740 So that would be a translation of advantages potentially in White's favor, considerably in its favor. 04:11.070 --> 04:12.540 So this is a very real downside. 04:12.540 --> 04:18.480 If the backward points translated into a big positional advantage for one like this, it's just very 04:18.480 --> 04:21.590 unpleasant indeed, this this kind of scenario. 04:22.170 --> 04:25.600 So the night is CEX with urgency for Seifi. 04:25.600 --> 04:26.610 Was that effective. 04:27.270 --> 04:31.560 We see ninety three now a5 the queen drops back and now a four. 04:33.000 --> 04:33.810 Very interesting. 04:33.810 --> 04:36.020 The Queen drops bank seven. 04:36.970 --> 04:40.080 And now Jeoffrey this does weaken these late squares. 04:40.590 --> 04:52.350 And in fact one of the powers of this pawn here is that it can play a supporting role, as we're about 04:52.350 --> 04:52.860 to say. 04:52.880 --> 05:00.360 We will say Queen C8 E2 and now we see Bishop Jefford. 05:00.360 --> 05:06.510 So trying to exchange off these lines quite a bit to kind of amplify an underlying Waitz potential like 05:06.520 --> 05:07.470 square weaknesses. 05:08.490 --> 05:09.270 Rocsi, one. 05:11.330 --> 05:20.960 We see now Bishop E to Queen E to Queen at 5:00 a.m. C five is played here, so is actually doing well 05:20.960 --> 05:26.570 to attack the backward pawn in this scenario, maybe better. 05:26.570 --> 05:31.310 We can have one, for example, Queen dropping back King due to this. 05:31.310 --> 05:32.750 Should be OK, fine. 05:33.110 --> 05:39.800 But we'll see five immediately Bangui's castles and we see actually the point is to try and create a 05:39.800 --> 05:45.100 passport here with CSX, which on the surface looks interesting. 05:46.940 --> 05:51.320 We see B tanks, these tanks, it looks all on the surface very, very interesting. 05:52.850 --> 05:59.360 But there's a danger sometimes with the passport can actually just be a weak point to be picked off. 06:00.500 --> 06:07.100 We see Quincy full and our bishop designs and seemingly lucrative 95 is played. 06:11.160 --> 06:16.020 So it looks like, well, the back report is pure torture, there's no there's no benefits of -- at 06:16.020 --> 06:16.140 all. 06:16.170 --> 06:18.030 Why do people play this, Resnikoff? 06:18.810 --> 06:21.190 Is there a mystery here? 06:21.210 --> 06:24.420 Why would people play this position with this so-called back with --? 06:26.790 --> 06:37.710 Well, first of all, if 95 wasn't played in White Castles, 97, you know, looks at the C6 -- and 06:37.710 --> 06:39.690 here it can be taken off. 06:39.900 --> 06:43.780 So that's actually rather dangerous that we've been driving to see that. 06:43.950 --> 06:45.420 So 95 OK. 06:46.170 --> 06:47.850 There's something about that, it seems. 06:49.140 --> 06:57.720 But here EFORE is played and actually Black has a nice five score. 06:57.730 --> 07:01.620 I had about Yusof with tempo we seek seven. 07:02.040 --> 07:03.490 This is tempting but a mistake. 07:04.670 --> 07:12.960 However, if White Castles here 95 is good anyway, you know, for Munchak Queen 65 wins, Mesereau 07:13.200 --> 07:13.890 wins apiece. 07:16.920 --> 07:21.750 So better, you know, maybe Queen Bee five this situation. 07:21.930 --> 07:23.670 But again, no Afri. 07:23.670 --> 07:25.050 Now that's a disaster as well. 07:25.290 --> 07:26.960 That's not much better at all. 07:27.060 --> 07:28.560 In fact, yeah. 07:28.560 --> 07:33.240 So actually it is it is a rather difficult position when C7 is played. 07:36.470 --> 07:43.280 And there's a shocker of a move played by millions in this position. 07:44.690 --> 07:47.600 Which I wonder if you can guess what. 07:49.180 --> 07:49.990 Contemplate. 07:50.770 --> 07:52.330 I'll give you five seconds, both video. 07:59.310 --> 08:02.400 OK, it's actually Bishop Tangency seven. 08:06.400 --> 08:12.700 So notates is played in point is ninety five Chank sorry, ninety five, it's kind of a check to the 08:12.700 --> 08:18.960 gray zone literally check ninety five hitting the queen, check to the queen, so to speak. 08:18.970 --> 08:22.180 Ninety five is played in response. 08:22.330 --> 08:23.320 You might wonder why 08:26.140 --> 08:27.640 if Queen five. 08:29.810 --> 08:35.780 The strongest, there's Brooke Avea leaving this very nasty Penn and. 08:37.780 --> 08:44.710 Whites in huge trouble here, tactically, the light can't move, allowing a free crack, winning the 08:44.710 --> 08:45.190 queen. 08:47.860 --> 08:49.560 What does one actually do here? 08:50.230 --> 08:56.530 So have Castles Route 67 is also then possible for my Afri championing the queen. 08:57.190 --> 08:58.940 What does one actually do in this position? 08:58.960 --> 09:02.050 It seems rather bad. 09:03.920 --> 09:14.510 Indeed, here, if Queen Seefried, the free check taking on C1, and then this is a very nasty pen, 09:15.410 --> 09:18.310 so yeah, all these scenarios seem quite nasty. 09:19.160 --> 09:22.910 So we see 95, the 97 CHAC. 09:24.850 --> 09:34.570 But magnet's just parries that, so whites in huge difficulty here, in fact, so much so that Korona 09:34.600 --> 09:35.290 resigns. 09:35.640 --> 09:41.110 So this influenced, you know, the whole world championship match, this particular game, this decisive 09:41.110 --> 09:48.490 win by Magnis making use of the so-called black whipworm and I caecilians fighting off and crushing 09:48.490 --> 09:50.970 it unless the fight moves here. 09:51.340 --> 09:53.640 You know, Brooke, take CIFOR. 09:54.850 --> 10:02.590 If if King Eighty-seven hadn't been played, by the way, then 97 Chank and here is going to be actually 10:03.970 --> 10:07.520 fine for White with the Martin Bashir. 10:07.780 --> 10:10.540 So Magnus's move is really quite crushing. 10:10.930 --> 10:18.190 If the game continued with Queene to night, the free track take C one is devastating. 10:20.970 --> 10:29.430 For example, on this and a whole BROKAMP, so, yeah, the bank would -- in caecilians FESTAC off 10:30.240 --> 10:32.840 is an interesting aspect. 10:33.360 --> 10:39.540 I personally started to get a little bit annoyed and switched off of these neutze on day five in front 10:39.540 --> 10:41.160 of the back of a pawn of all. 10:41.160 --> 10:42.690 It's a bit like positional tausche. 10:43.230 --> 10:45.880 Sometimes you can just be annoyed eventuating. 10:45.930 --> 10:47.640 You want different pawn structures. 10:48.040 --> 10:50.070 I mean that's part of one's evolution. 10:50.070 --> 10:55.930 As a chess player, one tries different openings which have actually sometimes distinctive pawn structures. 10:56.760 --> 10:57.750 So in a way. 10:59.840 --> 11:05.810 If you do deliberately go out of your own, you know, your your your current openings say, look, 11:06.140 --> 11:13.280 let me have some experience in what's this thing I hear about this Carlsbad structure is as bad as it 11:13.280 --> 11:18.950 sounds, Carlsbad, all these things, as bad as I sounds, you know, back are not as bad as they sound. 11:18.980 --> 11:22.900 You know, this this game, you know, was was a high profile games in his first golf. 11:23.540 --> 11:26.390 So it's kind of teaches about backward pawns. 11:26.390 --> 11:31.460 But, you know, the Queen's Gambit, the Clintons cooperation from the black perspective gives rise 11:31.460 --> 11:33.190 quite often to Hank pawns. 11:34.080 --> 11:36.740 So do you hang with hanging palsies? 11:36.740 --> 11:37.900 You lived to tell the tale. 11:38.150 --> 11:40.760 You need to find out these things from both sides. 11:42.440 --> 11:45.980 So there are all these different power structures and formations. 11:46.610 --> 11:52.490 But within the pawn structures, there are fundamental elements, which I hope this section at least 11:52.820 --> 11:58.910 highlights some of the key elemental aspects of a wider configuration. 11:59.750 --> 12:05.150 So, you know, like the double pawn aspect, the isolation aspect, the backward pawn aspect. 12:07.070 --> 12:12.440 So all of these particular aspects and then also the pawn break, the importance of a pawn break, having 12:12.440 --> 12:20.150 to embrace these kind of considerations and general aspects of harmony between pieces and pawns and 12:20.150 --> 12:21.670 the irreversibility pawns. 12:21.680 --> 12:26.540 I hope this section gives a a good foundation, basically. 12:27.230 --> 12:33.170 But to actually go and search for particular structures, you might need to use particular openings. 12:33.170 --> 12:35.780 But you're in luck if you want to learn about the back of a pawn. 12:35.780 --> 12:42.590 You know, there's great examples in the descendants of its popularity has been raised because of this 12:42.590 --> 12:45.110 2018 world championship match and games like this. 12:45.920 --> 12:49.220 So people are coming to experiment with these structures. 12:49.730 --> 12:54.860 Even the seemingly bad ones sometimes have their upsides as well as their downsides. 12:55.430 --> 12:57.170 OK, so much.