Hi there in a slideshow, we illustrate the concept of probing the opponent's pawns so -- don't go
backwards, so they reflect an irreversible style of decision, one which can cause regrets.
And there's nothing you can do about it later.
You can't reverse those decisions.
So here Fisher against Adderson in the 1962 US championship is very interesting from a probing perspective.
Let's have a look.
So, E4 Anderson, play the Sicilian defense and we have a very nice he says the he takes 96, 96,
93 ESX.
This is commonly used as a way of entering into the caecilians vertical of the ninety five quite often
players nowadays they most often play DCX and we enter as sentence of which is kind of trendy because
Magnus Colston's popularized it in recent years.
But here there is also a distinct variation with Bishop before in its own right.
A slight downside of this variation is that it picks up the bishop pair.
However, with the five black does seem in principle to have, you know, reasonable prospects and compensation
we see of the eatings 965.
Bishop detA is played so Ninety-eight see free Bishop Tacy free.
So why does have this bishop hair and sometimes having a bishop hair and the bishop about a counterpart
can lead to the potential for probing the opponents pawns, which is essentially, you know, systematically
putting them here.
There is there is a threat against the G7 --, which needs to be addressed in some way.
We see the queen's coming off and Fischer as a player that likes to grind out wins.
And sometimes you do need to get the opponent to make metal pole moves and weaken their position.
You can't just rely on provocation strategies where you tempt the opponent's pawns forward to attack
you.
You sometimes need to actively probe the opponent's pawns to get them to move forwards.
Once you get them moving forwards, those irreversible decisions, maybe you can start to more easily
dismantle the opponent's position.
We see FCX already a concession.
This dance square with our counterparts in any games would surely love to eat up these pawns.
We see efore kind of saying, you know, E5 is not going to easily blunt this pressure without a fight.
You can have to isolate a pawn to to E5.
So the bishop is kept at bay as well.
And at the moment, unless Black wants to suffer an isolated Queen's Ball, you know, if it just doesn't,
that also opens up the frontal attack against that pawn.
The pawn without fellow pawns isolated is going to be, you know, weak pawns to really try and win
later.
So Black is contends with Bishop D7, Bishop CIFOR, we see Black Castling, White Castles, Kingsly,
seven, Rook Daewon.
So looking at that pawn, Rakoczy eight and now Caffrey, this is a dual purpose the rook can double
sure to help the bishop look at ESX, but it also can probe via Jeoffrey can probe this G-7 pawn again.
We see Bishopsgate and now Ruggie three probing move and you see this in the positional players like
come off Petrosian, the structuralist generally so champions in your country.
It might be Michael Adams in the UK.
So if you look at games of Yassa, so I know he's not active, but he's a great structuralist.
Look at the structure structuralists, how they probe the whole structure, trying to weaken the opponents
pawn structure.
You don't necessarily have to do active operations like the so-called minority attack to weaken the
structure.
You can just probe it or provoke it.
But probing is more your proactive in probing.
So we see Rook is seven rook jeoffrey.
So at the moment it seems black can respond adequately.
We see before and now there is an idea of B five and then bishop before to secure once the light leaves
control of before we see the B5.
So introducing Bishop before is a clear and imminent danger.
We see that rook going.
There's a bit of congestion here.
That route goes to D7.
If B sex then bishop before Skyring, you know, that's that's going to be great for white.
So rook eighty seven and that we see Bishop differe looking at eighty seven.
It's uncomfortable for black.
We see a committal pull, move 86, this weakens even more sex, but it also puts another -- on a
square.
If EF five, that would have left a big hole in Blackpool's Rashaun E5 Outpost's for why is also winning
material there immediately.
So age sex is played.
Rob, Jeoffrey.
And it looks as though is this like pointless?
Would you really plan move like Jeoffrey.
What is the expectation.
OK, let's run with it.
B sex is fight.
And the point is because we're looking at G7.
Hold on a sec.
Isn't that potential killer Colin Square G7?
Bishop before ouch, if the bishop goes to fight, what do we do about this --?
It's like squid's this one.
There's a method in the madness here from Fisher took the fall.
For the moment, though, we'd like to play Bishop a fight, but we don't want this downside, you know,
rotates efore, not route rotates F4.
So we address that.
We're threatening now Bishop Efate.
How does Black responds here, this is rather tricky, this situation.
Rather tricky indeed, Black responds with might be somebody in this position, you might wonder why
why not shield with five F G five F takes offtakes.
Well, that is damage in its own right.
There's work of six year looking at six blocks, piece pieces, a pretty passive had that bunched up
and passive.
What happens with Eighty-six here if we just take on G5?
This is a disaster.
So 97 was chosen inviting Bishop Efate, it seems, and Black is getting a bit dismantled out of the
Bishop 67.
So the probing had great effects.
To be fair, this is a bit of a sideline opening.
It's not usually thought that great to give the opponent the bishop power if the opponent is oblivious.
So the concept of probing, they might not see the benefits of probing the opponents pawns to force
them to move forward, using that bishop as a great use of the bishop in this example.
So we see the bishop going now to 1963, but still there's two pawns being targeted and its absence.
And if F7 has played, if Rook takes differe, that we could take.
And this position, even though it's obviously colored bishops, this is great for this position of
the Czech Bishop E5 This is great for White with resting Rocsi seven Czech no time for Naughtie business.
And here.
Yeah, we've got a great position and we can come back and all, you know we can do this G4 move and
this is just all great for why, why it's going to create a major passport here.
It's crushing, you know, with a five and B6 crap crack to crack open a passport on the queen side.
So anyway, so Brooke, F7 is played, not indulging, not thanks to free.
We see Desex King these things, and now another one bites the dust, Bruzzese free rotates 86 another
point by saying dust should be seven e five.
Check kindie five.
If the king has gone to D7 then as that heartattack to face Roxxy seven check and this check.
And this is just nasty disposition for like for example like this where it's a disaster for black,
it's absolute disaster.
That's actually check and mate.
So King D5 was played and we have a full routley to entrain King CIFOR, Rook AFTA.
So where the probing has occurred and where is like taking pause that gives rise naturally to your own
past.
-- Then they have less barriers to go down the boards becoming menacing passports.
So you has support given for geto and now the passport is free to run up the board potentially.
EFO Ruggie seven the rook offers it supports on route.
So the bishop is not just going to step it up for nothing.
We see King Taizé for H5.
Without further ado, without further delay, another eight, six and then seven black.
It gives up the bishop, but it's an easily one possession.
This passport is now ready to roll.
OK, the opponent resigned.
Harrison resigned.
Fisher for sure, outclassed many of his fellow U.S. competitors and as well as later getting a record
federating in general.
But here, this example with the bishop here is interesting.
Interesting is the bishop probing the opponents pawns?
You don't have to wait for the opponent to slip up with pushing pawn voluntarily.
It's an irreversible decision.
And as such, maybe you can sometimes provoke your opponents pawns forwards by doing nothing.
Sometimes all you can do probing.
It's an active operation.
More on the active side, especially if you've got an asset like the bishop there.
It's a great use of the possibilities of having the bishop power to probe the opponent's position,
encourage weaknesses.
When you win a key pawn or two, you've got the magic of passports, you're winning.
Probability shoots up as soon as you got passports.
OK, I hope you enjoyed that one and got some thoughts there for probing in your own games and so much.