Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan discusses the five structural elements of chess: Space, Material, Time (Development), Pawn Structure and King Position, focusing on pawn structure and the importance of the minority attack.
Wow!! In the few years that I've been playing and studying chess I never came across this topic. Its baffling how far I've made it with so many knowledge gaps. I'm happy that I have Yasser Seirawan introduce me to this topic while I investigate further. Thank you for this lesson!
Well... It's kinda weird what GM Seirawan explains at the start, because I remember reading about the minority attack in a Capablanca book too. So we could say he was the first to talk about such a thing.
Pročitao sam negdje da želite jednu knjigu koju ja imam:"Zagadka Talja" drugo "Ja" Petrosjana, od Viktora Vasiljeva iz 1973.g.Kako da Vam je dostavim?Živim u BiH Tuzla.
It's funny, when I first began playing chess, one of the first chess books I bought was a Seirawan book. For some reason I pictured Yasser being less likable. Now that I have watched his lectures online, I realize I couldn't have been more wrong. Seirawan has a very friendly, inviting nature to his lessons. It just proves that the game of chess is more so than not played by classy people.
GM Seirawan, your lectures are very enjoyable and interesting. To improve on their actual educational value, please try to minimize the narration which includes remarks like, "knight here, bishop here" and "knight takes bishop, bishop takes bishop". Even if we can see you making the moves on the display board, this decreases the clarity. It's much clearer if you say, "knight to c3, bishop to c4", but when you step up to the screen in the room, we can no longer see what you're indicating on camera, and we are only guessing unless you name the moves specifically. Thanks for this series, which is helpful and entertaining.
Yasser was a top ten GM in the world and has decades of experience behind his belt. Yet, some nobody goes straight to youtube comments to teach him how to lecture. Talk about ignorance.
You're missing the point his point was it's hard to follow since it's recorded once he steps out of the frame for us we can no longer follow the moves and so less clarity which works against the educational purpose. Also they were very respectful and you are not. Not to mention how late by several years you are
