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In this lecture, we see a theme boggle tangible against Aron Nimzowitsch.
So Bogoljubov was later to have a world championship match with Alexander Alekhine.
But in the Carlsbad tournament of 1929, this was nimzowitsch his finest hour.
It's interesting to see games from installments and especially against Bogoljubov So D4 from Bogdan
Nimzowitsch plays nine of six C for E six is brainchild opening the Nims are engine to is aiming to
double the pawns and he does so immediately.
Bishop take C free.
We have B tanks b6g free.
Bishop B seven.
Bishop G two both sides Castle and now Rookie eight.
This is a very interesting kind of waiting move.
It's sometimes designed to play E5 in certain variations, but if we look concretely, if H six was
played D five, we can just play D six here.
It's not such a big deal
as as long as in this position E takes D five.
That would be a mistake of note h four And here this situation is a is to White's advantage.
So there is there are some points the rookie eight early, sometimes 94 can be a useful resource in
some of the variations.
So rookie ain't we have rookie one.
So for example here, if D five, E takes 94, there is actually 94 well supported by the rook and pawn
and black has the advantage there.
Or if we look at 94 then we can use 94 here as well.
See text and play nine, take four and all of a sudden E two is under fire.
So yes, rookie A is a little bit mysterious, but it has some elements of prevention.
We have Rook E one, DD six, Quincy two and now Bishop E four.
So this keeps a lock and key over white playing E four If I wanted to play E four with Quincy to an
E4, and that's not there at the moment.
So Queen bee free we have 96 and Bishop have one.
So it moved 12.
It looks as though White's really quite passive, but can Nimzowitsch actually make something out of
this particular pawn structure?
And there is an option option or an option to take on F3 as well, but that's going to give White a
lot of pressure potentially.
We see E five So this is interesting also Knight A four like a five rather is interesting for C five.
This would be constituting, for example a very interesting position for blank where.
There's great control over the light squares.
And for example, here we could play E five and then take on G two and then Quincy eight.
And this resembles another Nimzowitsch game where the Queen replaced the bishop on the diagonal.
So this variation is just actually already just better for black.
If you look at white structure, it's pretty miserable.
So we see E5 though that's a great move as well.
D takes E5.
If Bishop E free, we can play 95 and try and try and tap into the weakness of C4 somehow.
E4 could be useful here and actually we could play the transformative D5 in this situation to take C4.
The result here, if we have this nice g for Bishop C one queen of six, we're really doing quite comfortably
here and we're looking at F two.
If every E takes nine, takes 90 C four, as example on Knight, it's a really quite aggressive here
and we're doing really well off the Queen E, six, H and G.
Both knights can conspire on the E three square sometimes if Bishop G to the 95 Queen D one we can consider
H six just a simple h six just waiting for white to do something.
And once you really just tie it down here, we don't have to be in a rush to take any pawns or anything.
We can have just the massive binding on the position like this.
So D takes though, it kind of isolates these double pawns.
So there is a bit of a transformation here.
Nine six If Bishop G to this just will lose material because the back row is not connected up yet.
If we look at that rocket's potentially unprotected, we can just play.
Bishop takes our free E text and now Knight takes our free check to win E one.
So a knight takes E five was played, Rook takes E five.
So this is a great move keeping black structure intact, keeping a grip on the E file.
We have bishop and former rookie eight and Free Bishop B seven.
Perhaps better in terms of prevention would be Bishop C six just in case there's any C five.
So this is interesting.
The modern positional players seem much more emphatic sometimes about prevention like Karpov and Adams.
But with Bishop B seven, this is actually kind of encouraging.
C five under the right circumstances because of the unprotected piece on B seven.
So if Bishop C six, as example, the knight could come to D seven, Queen come to F six.
It's a really comfortable position.
So Bishop B some we have Rook 8190 7e4, Queen F six, Bishop G two and now 95.
This is actually a little bit of an inaccuracy if A five queen B 595 Black's doing so well here, but
95 was played.
We have rook D two This was once moments to try something like C five.
Yeah, if g five then sure.
Bishop takes E five, D takes D seven.
You can see that White's been given a tiny bit of play.
Bounce.
What's the alternative if DD takes?
The thing is Bishop takes hare.
And if Queenside Rook rd seven looking at F seven and you can see that there's a bit of play here.
The four, it's even.
So this is one of the reasons why, as well as prevention, we shouldn't be asking for certain possibilities
by having unprotected pieces or downsides.
That's going to encourage exploitation of unprotected pieces.
So anyway, Nimzowitsch was let off a bit with Rocket D two rookies, seven Rook D one again C five
Here is actually a good shot.
So D takes Bishop takes E five, and if Queen takes, then there's a four.
And if Queen H five, Queen RD one, this is going to be actually a position where.
Blacks only going to get a small edge in this rook and pawn ending.
And if we look at this again with Rook takes five, that actually runs into a four and black would actually
be losing after E five looking at B seven.
So this issue, it's it's in terms of prevention, it's good if we don't have tactical downsides.
Yeah we're just asking for trouble really.
Sometimes prevention or not, we shouldn't be having downsides that undetected pieces they can crop
up as liabilities in the variations.
But I played the Passive Rook 81 and we have Bishop C six finally dissuading C five now that there's
a safe B takes so rook have.
So that's a great preventative move.
Now finally, so preventive preventative by not having an unprotected piece, we have rook eight Bishop
f186 should be two.
So how to transform this structure?
We have King H So improving the king a little bit or trying to queen a free queen e sex this pawn cannot
be taken.
We see Quincy one If queen takes a seven, we simply play rook eight.
Thanks very much.
Just trapping the queen.
So Queen C one But now.
Yes.
What would you play with Black for?
Ten points.
Yep.
F while trying to undermine the structure.
If you take C for this will be missing a tactical shot.
Can you see what White would play here?
In this moment.
This bishop takes H six again, kind of under protected pieces and points here.
Bishop, S.C. four And one could win basically a perpetual check draw out of this situation, totally
salvaging situation.
So this creates some liability that's avoided.
So that's great to avoid that Nimzowitsch played F5 just to undermine the structure.
E Thanks.
Queen takes her five.
Queen RD two If Bishop takes E five here, Rook takes E five.
This situation with Queen H five and say this G for Queen H Well, this is just better for Black Black's
dominating that file.
So Queen D two we have Queen F seven.
This is looking at C four again sometimes.
So we have Queen D for protecting C four among other things.
If Bishop takes E five, Rook takes E5.
This situation we can play here in this situation, it's just better for black here.
Overall, after King Black's fine.
For example, if Bishop f one we can play nine six our free check.
It has to be careful about free.
If rook df1 96 this situation we can double the pawns over here.
And this is similar.
Well, this is a bit of a nightmare we can play.
Bishop takes our free.
This is great great for playing so queenly for tried 96.
This unveils an attack simultaneously against E2 and F4 to do even more structural damage.
Bishop dd free is played if Bishop C one.
Yes, we're just going to take on E two.
No backfire.
So Bishop de Fray Knight takes F4, Queen takes F4, Queen takes F4 and look at white structure.
They're like grandma's teeth, hair.
I joked in a YouTube video many years ago, but it is look at the structure.
This is such a success in terms of destroying the opponent's structure.
And there is really an exploitable weakness now this F4 so that's targeted.
So F five we have Bishop D seven.
This pawn is being picked off.
And is it enough to win?
Well, the rest of the structure is also pretty weak.
So Rook f2 we have rook takes e to Bishop takes Ede.
So that's the only way.
Because if rook takes it, it would take on D three.
So Rook So Bishop takes E two.
We have rookie eight king f2 rookie five rook five Nimzowitsch doesn't mind simplification here.
He's confident after G five fixing the f pawn.
This is a winning ending so rook times details.
This does give a natural path for the king to use to come to see five later.
And you can imagine when bishop he thinks how the stronger this will be.
So c five was played now little too late.
B takes bishop a six, E four.
So this is creating potentially a 2 to 1 pawn majority A for King g7a5e takes our free so a 2 to 1 pawn
majority King takes a free king F six king every king E five Bishop C for Bishop G for 6h5.
The pawns are pushed.
This poor majority is to be exploited.
So Bishop D one should be now g four end of game about resigned here if Bishop eight six as example
g3h takes h next.
What we can do is just transition into a winning king and sometimes so g two can have to well, we can
get our king to be aggressive.
This ending scenario is going to be absolutely winning just with the king coming to scoop up the dart
square pawn on C free and that's a big pass pawn.
So here this is getting bad.
So yes, the final position G four.
So it's interesting how you know a player relatively strong in the world at the time and to be playing
Alexander Alekhine is just positionally kind of crushed but it seems as though Nimzowitsch perhaps shouldn't
have advertised how strong he is with the tournament book it seems, you know, maybe there was a greater
possibility of being chosen as a world championship challenger.
Challenger if sometimes had been a little bit more modest in his writings.
He seems to be advertising his system as well as detailing the annotations of the tournament.
So it's interesting that it's annotated, the whole tournament.
But yeah, it does seem to be pretty systematic this game in terms of doubling the structure on both
sides of the board, quite vivid example of pawn structure damage and transitioning the pawn structure,
modern accuracies, improving with modern super grandmasters.
So as part of prevention, not to have liabilities is something to be.
Borne in mind.
Bishop seven is a potential liability to see five sometimes.
Why take that theoretical risk?
It's good to shut down as much as possible, take absolute to the absolute maximum and the idea of prevention.
So not just active surveillance.
If we take NIMS, which is idea that for example, passports, we need them under lock and key, we
need things under lock and key or maximum surveillance or maximum dissuasion of tactical possibilities.
But it was relatively under control and why it didn't really get any counts by the way he played it.
So yeah, a real, you know, one way game here.
I hope you enjoyed this.
Thanks very much.