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In this lecture, we see Nathan MANHEIMER against Aaron and Zwick.
In 1930, Frankfurt Tallman to run 4e4 from MANHEIMER.
We see a French defense from the switch D Ford 59c for a bishop before and now a kind of delayed exchange
variation.
E takes D five.
So E takes the five.
We have 9f3.
Now, although the pawn structure is symmetrical, you can at least make the pieces asymmetrical, i.e.
you don't have to imitate 9f3 of 9f6.
So in them Nimzowitsch plays 97 and this is actually kind of valuable because we want to exchange off
generally the Lion Square bishops.
So the knight actually supports a strategic bishop exchange from E seven we see Bishop de Fray like
BC, six, H three and five.
This strategic bishop exchange weakening went on the loin squares so white obliges with bishop takes
at five.
So we have nine takes our five And now after castling.
Yeah, like the Nims are engine, we sometimes want to double pawns.
We're doubling pawns here.
Bishop, take c3b takes and this C four square.
Its weakness is amplified because of the departure of the light square.
BISHOP So it makes a great outpost square, and so does E four for that matter, both supported by the
D five pawn.
So bear that in mind.
These are candidate outpost squares.
Weak squares can become mighty knight outposts.
So we're making use of white squares.
And our goal, our mini goal, small win accumulates some small wins or small advantages outposts.
So we see Black castling, Queen de Fray and now 96, highlighting both candidate outposts.
And note the bishop isn't particularly good.
It's driving on the other side of the road, so to speak, on a like square.
It's on a dark square That bishop isn't great.
Here we have Knight G five with the crude frats of chap mating with Queen 6h7 that's addressed.
We have Bishop F for Queen of six and now Bishop DD two.
This is not good.
Black is getting the upper hand now after this white should have played.
Bishop takes D six here it seems of the C takes knight F three ac eight.
This position as example is going to be about even although white has double pawn, so is black.
And yeah, I mean this is going to be about even so with Bishop D2 the outpost dreams are starting to
be fulfilled.
We have H six
knights F three black could have played more precisely perhaps here with Knight A five just going for
the C four square and a free rook for eight, as example.
Black's got a very comfortable position here, but H six does give a bit of a target.
The h six pawn now.
And in fact after King H seven there is kind of a clever move.
Knight H two with the idea of playing knight G four with tempo hitting the Queen.
And there's a kind of an eccentric, eccentric looking move played by Nimzowitsch here, but it does
seem to meet the requirements of the position tactically.
Guess what Nimzowitsch plays.
It's quite amusing.
It's Queen eight.
The thing is, if Queen Gee seven, that does run into if we look the downsides of this position without
even calculating the opponent's moves, it looks as though we could stick a skewer into this.
Imagine the summer barbecue was sick.
Stick a skewer into this queen and rook and knight G four.
Yeah, we're going to do that.
There's no time for F five.
We're going to play.
Bishop takes H six as white and win material.
And the thing is, if five, then Queen Bee five is a right pain in this position.
The two unprotected pawns do not bode well if h59e free.
They're still attacked like D six and one could take a center pawn with advantage.
So Queen H eight addresses some of the tactical concerns here.
Queenie four is played.
So you might wonder, what is this Queen e free if Bishop are four, then h five and white could take
and rook ab1 with an edge.
That's a way of playing it for white.
Still to just go for this bailout.
Get rid of the Knights.
Basically, they make great outposts in this particular position.
So that would help the LightSquared campaign if just one of the knights was eliminated.
If Knight G four.
What do you think the key point here is tactically?
Okay, we can actually just play our five in this position.
And if it takes H six, just leave the ninth stranded queen of six and just play like this to exchange.
And with 94, this is at least equal.
Why it has some problems with this night stranded on h six.
So Queenie is played but now the Queen returns to G seven.
You might think, what is going on here?
The thing is queen of phrase.
Plaintiff 94.
Guess what we have here?
You know, we have five.
And if nine takes a six, we have F for winning material.
But otherwise, yeah, this is like, awkward.
To say the least.
You know, having a stranded night in some situations.
It's not doesn't bode well.
So Queen Frey looking at D five and that shielded with tempo.
So 94 and a nice outpost square.
It's not necessarily a permanent one because there could be every later.
But for the moment, the bishop moves.
We have a five queen free and now a five.
The knights are going into these weak squares.
We have four.
This is unfortunate because it just leaves the four knights just to be absolutely glorious in this possession.
So why didn't fancy f three here?
Black does have interesting options just retreating tonight.
It still looks good.
Just retreating.
The knight and the other light can come to C4.
So wanted to keep the position may be closed as much as possible.
If Queen B five, we have B six here and C freeze on the fire.
So it doesn't really matter about D five dropping this position.
We can take our time with Rook for eight and actually threaten c six to trap the Queen.
And let's say Queen B five.
Then we can take on C free.
And we have a nice tactic here.
Can you see what that is for?
Ten points?
Yep.
Queen takes the for.
And we're winning a pawn here.
So that would be very nice.
So, okay, so F for though was played, we have 27 points free and now Quincy 695 and the Queen goes
back, wrote B one, B six, King H turned 94.
So the queen supports that outpost.
If White wanted to take on C four, it's not very good.
Bishop E three.
If nine take c4d takes.
This is more than a small win.
This is a significant positional advantage here.
Black can freely build up the pressure in various ways.
Double the rooks play for g five later, maybe switch to the g player all away from the glare of the
bishop.
Use light squares.
It's just a big position.
So Bishop E three we have g five here.
G frame if f takes g five, we can play H times and E five is on the fire.
So if the light goes back rook g eight with lots of new options coming like g four to Black's advantage.
So g free was tried rook have six rook be1 rook g eight bishop c one and now b five.
This gives some new options which could be useful sometimes like queen A six to look at a two if a five
instead as example here with 19 c4d takes white might actually have a threat in the possession of rook
takes e four.
So trying to win F six and say King G six this position, we don't need the hassle here.
Black does have a small edge, but why have this hassle?
So yes B five Reinforce the outpost.
Reinforce the C4 outpost don't white favorably or at least to relieve some of the pain with 1964 No.
B five great move 9f3 if rookie two we can actually press with g four here H takes F takes and rook
tanks.
E four is mostly harmless.
Queen takes E for queen at five big avoids the black so Knight have three.
We have G four here H takes rook takes a third out post.
It's glorious really.
It's a glorious looking position with this bishop being silly in this structure.
Lack of harmony.
91 The Rooks build on the G file recovery Queen Yates Alekhine's gun construction traveling the pressure
on G three that supported H five.
It looks as though H four is absolutely winning.
King g2h4 Rook h one.
But the king is here, which is a nuisance factor.
Rook H six.
Sheldon King Rook H Free.
And now actually time is taken to really try and get another small win without clarifying the issue.
Over here we have Queen G six.
So this is just a lot of fun.
We've created a wonderful playground here that we don't really need to worry about the opponents.
Why should we clarify potentially unfavourably when we can just ramp up the pressure a bit more, try
for some other small wins?
We have Bishop free.
If Rook have won here, we could play c, d, six and.
Actually consider like THG Free OC because we can play 94.
Then that will be the point.
So pulverizing g free with advantage.
Yeah, we could do that in that situation.
So anyway, but Bishop free was played which has a weakness of the last move.
It's not holding a free which means this is more effective because there's no a phrase spotted by the
bishop.
So this is a which pounces on that weakness on the last move with Queen 86.
So we have Bishop F2 and this pawn is taken creating.
You know, nice outside passport.
Which white is in knots here?
Spectacularly in knots.
So Bishop E one tied up in knots.
So a five king of one white can only watch spectate as this pass -- is just pushed.
There's no.
Kind of advantage in taking on H for any time, you know?
Y It takes on H four.
You know, there are going to be tactics like Rook takes G one check and queen size E one.
You know, it's nasty with that pin on the bishop there.
So it's just watching this pos pawn increase the advantage a free 1a2 and here white resigned if bishop
f two.
You know what?
We can actually just play night b two and say the queen moves.
Then we're going to play Queen S.C two track.
And here, this is getting embarrassing.
91 disconnects in rock from a one.
And Queen two, We can just take the queen's off.
And queen.
Yeah.
Wonderful positional demonstration of outposts as small wins.
And you can see that it creates a situation.
We can just really enjoy the position without the worry of our opponent.
Basically, we've just shut down our opponent opponents with all these visually crushing outposts.
It really is visually crushing demonstration and not rushing not rushing to resolve any situation,
reinforcing outposts with B5 just in case.
And we just get a position with very little to worry about.
So you can see that nimzowitsch in this particular game, you can see how he'll be a great influence
over future world champions like Tigran Petrosian, who didn't like losing.
You know, if we draw, so what?
But, you know, Karpov was taking the approach of Petrosian much more aiming to win with this low risk
positional style positional domination.
Just putting himself beyond the fate in the art world, you know, before going onto the attack or if
you're petrosian maybe never going on the attack, just not losing is the priority, you know, because
he doesn't like losing.
So, yes, such a comfortable position with all of these outposts and pressure.
But yeah, waiting for a significant weakness of the last move, not resolving the tension, not letting
way off with something concrete to calculate, but instead waiting for another weakness to crawl creep
in this poor little pawn on a two.
Yeah, with Queen a six out.
It's just whites just in such a positional bind.
It really is a beautiful game to play over and revisit it If we can outplay opponents like this.
This is absolutely marvelous.
So I hope you enjoyed this one as much as me.
Okay.
Outposts take away points.
Value the small wins of outposts where shutting down the opponents counterplay where limiting options.
The The Knights are always functional.
Of course, in various ways they're safeguarding our position.
So yes.
Don't hurry when you have a superior position, try and get yet another issue.
It could be a weakness of the last move.
Pass pawns are great if you can generate a pass pawn and the opponent kind of unable to do anything
against an incoming pass pawn queening.
So yeah, a fun game.
I hope you enjoyed it so much.