hi, in my study i come across this very brilliant concept, planning an attack based on pawn formation, taking control of open, half open files in order to realize a plan based on subtleties of pawn formation, sometimes they exist, but other times they must be created as in the case of backward/isolated pawns etc etc. for example here is a game showing this very feature
van Der Berg - Kramer 1950
please note that 11...g6 start a plan of trying to exchange light squared bishop but is too slow!
after 17.bxc6 bxc6 whites strategy has produced a weak backward pawn on c6 and open files with which to use for infiltration, outflanking and other manoeuvrings.
18.Ne5 and white attacks this weakness right away!
is this not brilliant and amazing! if anyone has any other games with a similar idea can you please post them so that the concept may be fully sounded down in my thick head - regards robbie.
Originally posted by robbie carrobieAll my posts about the black side of the exchange Queen's Gambit. he he
hi, in my study i come across this very brilliant concept, planning an attack based on pawn formation, taking control of open, half open files in order to realize a plan based on subtleties of pawn formation, sometimes they exist, but other times they must be created as in the case of backward/isolated pawns etc etc. for example here is a game showi ...[text shortened]... lease post them so that the concept may be fully sounded down in my thick head - regards robbie.
That is what black has to deal with (the minority attack b4,b5, and bxc6).
While black is tending to that weak pawn structure, he must create active play on the kingside.
Have you heard the one about pawns pointing in the direction you should attack ?
1.d4 d6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 is a simple way to look at this.
Look at d6 and e5 pawns. They seem to point to the kingside. Black's play in many variations with this structure (including the King's Indian Defense) is in fact a kingside attack. Black usually seeks to get the classic duo (e5 and f5) and get something going.
1.c4 and 2.d3 in the English Opening is similar. White's pawns point to the queenside. Sure enough, white's play is to play for b4 and a queenside attack most of the time.
The pawn structure can be a good guide to the correct plan. 🙂
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsactually my friend i had hoped that it would be you who would respond, yes, i have heard of the pawn finger pointing the way our play should go and as a frequent user, although not very well i hasten to add of the kings Indian, both as black against 1.d4 and as white against the french i understand the king side attack, frequently when playing the black side of kings Indian against 1.d4 i usually get punished for having a weak d6 pawn - any games Paul illustrating the concepts of planning due to open files, half open files, weak or isolated pawns most appreciated, as these are new concepts to me, but only if you are not busy and have the time - kind regards Robbie.
All my posts about the black side of the exchange Queen's Gambit. he he
That is what black has to deal with (the minority attack b4,b5, and bxc6).
While black is tending to that weak pawn structure, he must create active play on the kingside.
Have you heard the one about pawns pointing in the direction you should attack ?
1.d4 d6 2. ttack most of the time.
The pawn structure can be a good guide to the correct plan. 🙂
Let me dig up the Karpov-Kasparov game retaining to weak pawns.
Kasparov was using the Tarrasch Queen's Gambit and turning a lot of heads at one point. He took the isolated pawn, got very active, and blew them away. When he met up with Karpov for the title, Karpov was prepared! Karpov exploited the pawn weaknesses to perfection and put an end to Kasparov and the Tarrasch (for a while anyway 🙂 ).
In this one, Kasparov never even got the least bit active.
I can't find the exact game that I was thinking of though.
It may have been a Rubinstein game instead.
I seem to remember the c5 square being exploited beautifully.
Let me have another look in my books. 🙂
I didn't remember who played it, but I remembered where I saw it. 🙂
Buy The Most Instructive Games Of Chess Ever Played By Chernev.
That's right, I said buy it !!!
Many many themes and beautiful, instructional games are in that one.
This is only a game score.
I often commit the crime of clicking through games, rather quickly, and acting like I got something from them.
Games like this need to be setup with a real board and played over.
Each move should take more than the time of a mouse click.
You need Chernev's annotations to walk you through it and explain the brilliance herein.
I am about ready to read the book a third time myself. 🙂
Originally posted by badivan1actually my Canadian friend, it was not the opening that was of interest, no no, that could never be as i never play queens gambit or any of the 1.d4 openings, it was but the strategy that led to the creation of a weakness that was ultimately exploitable that was of interest, openings are openings and chess is chess!
btw, i think 10...Ne4 equalizes
in response to your revelation, aren't all openings based on pawn formations?
however if you would like to explain to me why or how all openings are based on pawn formation then i will be really grateful - regards Robbie.
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsmy goodness that was a hungry knight! nothing worse, being saddled with a mince bishop against an active knight, its as good as a man down!
[pgn][Event "Moscow-Wch I Unzicker,W"]
[Site "Moscow-Wch I Unzicker,W"]
[Date "1984.01.10"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Anatoli Karpov"]
[Black "Garry Kasparov"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[EventDate "?"]
[ECO "D34"]
[PlyCount "139"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.g3 Nf6 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O O-O 8.Nc3 Nc6 9.Bg5 cxd4 10. ...[text shortened]... being exploited beautifully.
Let me have another look in my books. 🙂
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficswhat a beautiful game, yup im buying it! actually i have derived the most from your suggestions, the best book i ever bought was suggested by you, attacking with 1.e4 john Emms - an amazing book!
I didn't remember who played it, but I remembered where I saw it. 🙂
Buy The Most Instructive Games Of Chess Ever Played By Chernev.
That's right, I said buy it !!!
Many many themes and beautiful, instructional games are in that one.
[pgn][Event "match-tournament"]
[Site "Ch URS , Leningrad/Moscow (Ru"]
[Date "1941.??.??"]
[Round ...[text shortened]... rein.
I am about ready to read the book a third time myself. 🙂
here is a game by Scottish player, from British championship, who despite having expended a tempo creates weakness on a half open file and exploits it to advantage.
morrison - povah - British championship 1978
having expended a tempo on 5.d3 white plays 9.d4, positionally if black captures he will find himself with a weak backward pawn on a freshly opened d file, and while apparently not normally a weakness in Sicilian defense, however after the committing move e6 it will be hard for black to defend d6
for example after 9...cxd4 10.Nxd4 a6 (otherwise 11.Ndb5 is crushing)
and black is no good, with a backward exposed d pawn and weak queen side dark squares!
Hi again.
I didn't recommend that book!
Maybe, it was gayschessplayer.
He recommended Winning With The Modern, and you gave me credit for that one too. hehe
I'm the anti-opening book guy, remember. 🙂
I blitzed through that game, and it looked really nice.
I will take a longer look in a little while.
I have about ten things going. 🙂
Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromficsEleven🙂
Hi again.
I didn't recommend that book!
Maybe, it was gayschessplayer.
He recommended Winning With The Modern, and you gave me credit for that one too. hehe
I'm the anti-opening book guy, remember. 🙂
I blitzed through that game, and it looked really nice.
I will take a longer look in a little while.
I have about ten things going. 🙂
-- "And what is the queenside pawns advantage?"
-- "When you have more pawns over there"
-- "And if I have less?"
-- "Hmh, well, it's a minority pawn attack as you see it in the Queen's Gambit"
-- "And if the pawns are equal?"
-- "Then it has to do with their formation"
So in order to get the initiative with the queenside pawns you have to count their quantity And their quality. This is the reason why Alekhine claimed that "...one of the most characteristic prejudice of the modern theory is the significance of a pawn majority in itself, without evaluation of the configuration of this given pawn superiority or the placement of the pieces".
By the time I was trying to grasp this concept reading Shasin's "Attacking the Queenside" circa 1992, I was studying the "Art of War" too; and all of a sudden I realised that the Chinese philosopher warrior would be a brilliant chessplayer, for somewhere he quotes:
-- "Your whole army must be visualised as a complex of differ, ball-schemed units spread on a table; and it must be ever ready to roll as a whole towards a single direction, just like when somebody raises suddenly one edge of the table".
Queenside Majority
Marshall-Capablanca 0-1 NY 1909
Flamberg-Alekhine 0-1 Manheim 1914
Alekhine-Teichmann 1-0 Berlin 1921
Capablanca-Bogoljubow 1-0 London 1922
Rivlin-Botvinnik 0-1 Leningrand 1925
Alekhine-Euwe 1-0 Amsterdam 1937
Euwe-Flohr 1-0 AVRO 1938
Smyslov-Szabo 1-0 Hastings 1954-55
Petrosian-Bronstein 1-0 Moscow 1967
Fischer-Taimanov 1-0 of course, Palma de Mallorca 1970
Karpov-Bagirov 1-0 Riga 1970
Stein-Tal 1-0 Leningrand 1971
Minority Attack
Lasker-Capablanca 0-1 Havana 1921
Saemisch-Alekhine 0-1 Dresden 1926
Keres-Najdorf 1-0 Margate 1939
Smyslov-Keres 1-0 Hague/ Moscow 1948
Castaldi-Reshevsky 0-1 Dubrovnik 1950
Najdorf-Geller 0-1 Zurich 1953
Geller-Horowitz 1-0 USSR Vs USA NY 1954
Petrosian-Krogius 1-0 Tbilisi 1959
Nikolic-Rivas 0-1 Bor 1986
Qualitative Advantage
Janowski-Capablanca 0-1 NY 1916
Kupchik-Capablanca 0-1 Lake Hopatcong 1926
Capablanca-Treybal 1-0 Carlsbad 1929
Sultan Khan-Flohr 1-0 Hamburg 1930
Botvinnik-Kan 1-0 Moscow 1931
Petroff-Grau 1-0 Buenos-Ayres 1939
Botvinnik-Boleslavsky 1-0 Moscow 1945
Stahlberg-Taimanov 0-1 Zurich 1953
Rashkovsky-Geller 0-1 Sochi 1977
Kasparov-Martinovic 1-0 Baku 1980
Chiburdanidze-Akhmilovskaya (coz ye robbie ye lov the lassies) 1-0 Sofia 1986
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Originally posted by robbie carrobieFurthermore my trustee feer
beetle dude, you are a learned gentlemen, when a chess player speaks about mobility, restricting the mobility of his opponent and creating greater mobility, what does this mean and how is it done?
you have to realise that the chessplayer is eager to get a pawn structure which it tolerates exchanges better, for this is the proper preparation for a good finale. The concept "Initiative-Activity-Complications" derives from this aspect; then you have to pick your advantage.
So you protect the strongest pieces of yours whilst you exchange or neutralize the strongest pieces of your opponent.
The mutual relationship of your pieces is critical: so in the endgame you prefer to have R+B vs R+N, Q+N vs Q+B, 2B vs 2N, and 2B vs B+N.
However in the middlegame there are no "good" and "bad" pieces; there are solely weel placed and bad placed pieces