Dr. Can, you have a very good understanding of end game technique. Well done. homework spoiler - no engine In this knight vs. bishop endgame, the bishop has a two space gap, controlling the knight in the classic position, so should be moved only if a significant advantage can be found. It also might allow white to place black into zugzwang. However, black can place the knight on the e5 and c5 outposts, so that must also be addressed. Bg7 h5 Bh6 g4 cxg4 hxg4 hxg4 Ne5 Bf4 Nxg4 f3 preventing the knight from using the e5 outpost and any other useful square. Bg7 Ne5 Bxe5 dxe5 Kc7 Kc8 d6 cxd6 Kxd6 Kb7 and white will win the pawns on the king-side and easily win. The main idea here seems to deny the use of the e5 outpost by the knight, and also keep the black king stuck with the c7 pawn.
Thank you! Is there a way to transform the pawn structure on the queenside to our benefit, with the idea of eventually creating a passed pawn there? ☺️
@@Dr.CansClinic The queenside pawn attack is c3 K8 b4 axb4 cxb4 Kb7 Bb7 h5 Bd4 Nb8 (Ne5 loses) Nb8 a4 bxa4 axb4 and black is in zugzwang and has to deal with the passed a pawn which gives white too much time to capture all other pawns. Imho all lines are very forcing, hard to pick the best.
That was a brilliant lesson. Endgame are difficult and often taught quite theoretically but you managed to provide some hooks to base play on. Very helpful. I had a few ideas. b4 to free things up, a x b4, K x b4, but not sure how to move on from this position. Also .. B g7 (which is in the spirit of your lesson) this forces h5. Then B h6 again forcing g4 or white simply takes the pawn. f x g4 ..hxg4 and this improves whites pawns on the Queenside. This seems to be pretty good.
Thank you for your kind feedback! b4 is a sound idea, but can we prepare it nicely by playing another move first, also to be able to change the pawn structure to our benefit?
This is an eye opener to the bishop's moves, now I won't trade my bishops unnecessarily in my games henceforth. I will sure check out your course on chessable. Bishops is a good tool to support pawn breaks, once studied and played well! This analysis is explicit! Thanks Dr. Can. I wish you were my personal Coach already 😅
I am so happy and humbled to read your kind comment, thanks ❤️ Please ask me anything on Chessable while studying those courses! I will be your personal tutor/coach while you study those courses :)
An absolutely FANTASTIC video 🎉 real eye opener 💡 since i started to look at these videos i tend to think that this is the kind of information that's needed very early in one's chess life as a novice 🤔 How pieces work and their abilities disadvantages, and advantages,but very early in our chess life we hastily start chess with openings and puzzles😔i tend to believe that information shoud have structure,so the mind can make sense and apply infomation and see the the logic of the pieces at play,as a senior player i spent so much time trying to put information together from books an trying to get the mind to make sense,then down the road theres so much knowledge yet untapped 👏👏👏💯💯💯💯💯
Thank you soo much for your humbling thoughts 🙏 I fully agree that order matters when it comes to chess (any) learning. There are more foundational knowledge that should be thought first.
Fascinating homework position, white to me holds all the cards our bishop dominates the knight, we have a lovely pawn on d5 controlling valuable squares and our king is far more active, black has little counterplay so I think we can play this slowly and try and get our king to c6 initially tiying down the black king to the pawn on c7, if allowed I think I would try to get our king to b7... Should black move the knight forwards to either c5 or e5 then I believe we could capture with our bishop on our terms as once black recaptures with I'd guess the d pawn we can push our own pawn to d6 breaking open the queen side... On the other side of the board we have Bg7 threatening the A6 pawn as and when required but once we move our bishop and relenquish the guard of c5 and especially e5 I think this allows black some counterplay so I'd be tempted to play slowly and concentrate on attacking the queen side as the king side is basically looked, I'm shore there will be much better answers but that's what I'd attempt
Looking at the situation after your suggestion, I think, I should be looking at c3 preparing b4 to achieve this therefore trying to force the ex change on b4, then we can push a5 which will give us the outside passed pawn!
In this position I would play: 1- Bg7, h5 2-Bh6, g4 3- cxg4, hxg4. 4- hxg4-Ne5 5- g5, Ng4 6-c3, NxB. 7- gxN .... maybe. a kind of hope chess, but I don't see what else black can do without losing the knight to get a better result.
Thank you! I will write it down to my video list ideas. The reason I did not do them yet is that those theoretical endgames have already been covered elsewhere on YT.
Thank you again Dr. Can for excellent lesson! Re: Homework - endgames are a lot harder for me to analyze, but I think the goal here is to eventually put black in zugzwang. I see a couple ideas but they have to be carefully played: 1) Getting the white king to c6 putting pressure on the backward pawn on c7 and tying down black's king to defend... 2) Getting the bishop Bg7 to start staring at the h6 pawn, but note that this gives up control of c5... I think Kc6 is where I would start, get the king up the board and pressure c7 and tie down the other king.
Thank you so much for your motivating thoughts! Good points! Can you also spot a smart way to create a passed pawn on the queenside? Perhaps and outside passer even? ☺️
I made a Chessable course on this very theme of awakening pieces using pawns, by undermining squares www.chessable.com/the-art-of-awakening-pieces/course/103448/
Hi Doc. I would do a pawn break on the king side of the board. Relocate the bishop on e3 the f3 f4 ; start harrasing the king and take the pawns if they push their paw i take with h pawn if they take e4 i take with my bishop. The other possibility is to relocate bishop on g7 start munching pawns if they try to save their pawn on h6 then Bishop threaten pawn on g5 if g5 moves down then my pawn on f3 will capture.
These are all good ideas. But have you looked at c3 + b4 plan, with the idea of creating a passed pawn on the queenside and giving one more problem to White?
In minute 30.02 Alekhine masterpiece after white e5 black Qg5 threatening mate in c1 let try e5 , Qg5 Qxg5,fxg5 f6 ,Nh7 f7+ , Kg7 Bxh7,Kf1 white winning too right? ,Sir
If your opponent has a knight is on the side of the board, it is worth taking with an undeveloped bishop to create doubled pawns by taking the knight, is it a good, bad or a balanced exchange? Anyone please?
It depends on context as most things are in chess ☺️ If it is a terrible knight on the rim with no future, I would not like to trade my bishop for that piece, for the sole purpose of creating doubled pawns (piece activity is more important than structure in chess).
