Dr Can, this is one of the best chess lessons I’ve seen on RU-vid. Thank you! So glad I discovered your channel a few weeks ago. You deserve 100,000 subscribers.
you are a great tutor and will shurely soon gain more followers as you give the big picture in your trainings. One little thing: when you want you viewers to pause and think about a position , give them a few seconds more time, because youtube often just starts an ad at these moments and its very easy to miss the right moment to hit the pause button.
Thanks for the feedback! Some of my videos have been already prerecorded but I will keep that in mind for my future recordings. So don't expect a fix instantly, but it will eventually happen!
I am looking forward to studying the art of awakening pieces. I am now on the final tests of your calculation course. The course is brilliant, it's such a good idea to keep the lines short but to think broadly. Homework. I initially thought h5 but, as you say, it isn't checkers and white doesn't need to take. Then I thought Qh4 which is OK as it threatens f2 but it isn't in the theme of the lesson. I was a bit stumped but noticed the potential fork of f2 and d2. So e4 is a threat and forces a response from white. It also opens the h8 a1 diagonal for the black bishop, so e4 it is!
Thank you so much for your kind comment! Really appreciate your feedback on the calculation course! Please ask me anything while studying the art of awakening pieces too! Great answer to the hw question as well! Carlsen also played ...e4 to awaken his dark-squared bishop ☺️
In the second example I did find the a4 move, but my first instinct when you said "which piece is bad?" was to look at the e3 bishop, stuck behind all those pawns. When I couldn't find a way to free him I looked elsewhere and saw the b3 knight was stuck, but in a way that could be freed by going a4, similar to the previous example. I love this lesson - I'm always confused about when to move pawns, so this gives me something concrete to look for.
I've been stydying "Iron english", or the Botvinnik system. It seems to me, that a kind of Leitmotif is needed there. Making our pieces happy campers fits the bill perfectly! Thank you for arguing that point so convincingly.
I just want you to know that I took your chessable course and it was awesome! I learned a lot. My play changed drastically over night and now I look at pawns so differently now. They where confusing at first but your course shed a lot of light on them. Thank you!
Such feedback is soo motivating for me, thank you so much!! That was exactly the reason I created that course. I would really appreciate if you also rated the course on Chessable and copy/paste this comment there as course review. It really helps! 🙏
@@Dr.CansClinic Awesome! I love this playing style. It's so fun. I won 4 games in a row just now playing dynamically. I'm watching the course a second time just to make sure I have the material down. Thank you for replying. Have a wonderful day.
Really like the video 💯👏of using pawn play to activate pieces,a common occurrence in games where there's a fianchetto,and we have to activate the bishop great video 🎉
This is a wonderful topic for chess improvers with some excellent illustrative examples. I am probably going to check out your chessable course. I appreciate these 'techniques of good positional play' videos a lot! To your homework: I think ...e4 looks like a good continuation for black. Its forcing, threatening the fork e3! White replies Nxe4, but this clears a pawn which was preventing black's dark square bishop from activating. Now ... Bd4+! White must retreat the knight Nf2, because the alternative (moving the king) runs into ...Nf4#! The black can continue with Qh4. Looks pretty devastating.
Homework: my idea would be to sac the e pawn with e4 to activate the dark squared bishop. After Nxe4 Bd4+ the knight would have to go back and pin itself, otherwise we would have nasty discoveries with the d4 knight due to the light squared bishop, but I don't know if putting pressure on the knight with bishop, rook and queen is enough to compensate for the lost material. Maybe it's better to put the bishop on e5 instead, bring the queen to the h file, and go directly after the king
homework spoiler - no engine Down a piece, the compensation for black is a very open board controlling the center. First test e4 to both threaten the e3 fork and activate black square bishop. After e4, white's black square bishop starts to run out of squares. White Be1 is very poor. e4 Nxe4 Bd4+ Kh1 Ne3 Bxe3 Bxe3 Ra1 (Rc4 falls into d5 fork and Rc2 runs into Bxe4+ fork) Bxe4+ Bf3 Rxf3 Rxf3 Qf6 and white is winning by +3 or +4 This line seems quite forced any deviations are even worse for white, however I have not checked all deviations or calculated with an engine for errors.
@@ThortheMerciless 2...Nf2 doesn't seem legal so not sure what you mean. I did analyze not taking the pawn it is too strong it crushes black's black square bishop. And in these comments I can't analyze every weak white move. Plus I did make a later error but that can be avoided by not blitzing moves.
i like the last position (before homework). play f4 and e5 with the simple idea of opening the position. e6 is just the most straight forward and obvious continuation (such advanced pawns may be great assets in themselves only in this case it blocks the own pieces). in the second position you aim at improving the knight on b3 but there was no explanation of why the bishop on e3 wasn't the worse pieces being blocked by the d4 and f4 pawns. it seems it had no more obvious use but to exchange itself for the terrible knight on e7 but does it have any purpose beyond being not as bad as the knight on e7?
Thank you for your feedback! That bishop on e3 is a tall pawn currently indeed, but Bf2-h4 will make that piece happy. Could even trade it with Bf6 from there.
Feedback, there is no shortage of learning to be done on pawns in opening, middle-game and endgame strategy. Plenty of good topics like in this video to cover about pawns.
As Philidor wrote, "..good play of the pawns; they are the soul of chess: it is they alone that determine the attack and the defence, and the winning or losing of the game depends entirely on their good or bad arrangement" (well, he said it in French, but this is the generally accepted translation).
I feel that the homework position is rather different to the others. It appears that e4 is the best move, but while it increases the scope of the Bg7, it reduces the scope of the Bb7. Further, would it really be so strong if it didn't have the threat e3? Although that releases the Bb7 again, if it didn't also fork the Nf2 and Bd2, it wouldn't be so effective. If I didn't know we were supposed to be moving pawns, I would have been tempted by Nf4, which releases the Bb7 and, if Bxf4 exf4 also releases the Bg7.
Thank you! ...e4! was chosen by Carlsen too, as the g7-bishop becomes the king of the board after ...Bd4+. It also creates the ..e3 threat as you mentioned. There are obviously several lines to look at as you mentioned. You can see the full game here: lichess.org/9eE7XxLa
Random maybe not so useful advice. But personally i have a hard time remembering the name of your channel when i tell people about you because its never really said in the videos. Feel like others will relate, would you mind adding it into your intos or outros?
Thanks for the feedback! Do you mean pronouncing my channel's name in the videos? The problem is that "Can" is pronounced like "John", so that may create even more confusion :) But you can always share the link to the channel with your friends, right? :)
The first thing I notice in the homework position is that White's king is very weak and that all White's pieces are passive. It will take very long time for the misplaced knight on a4 to get back and defend the king; its movement are very restricted by Black's pawns on d6 and b4. The only available square for the bishop on d2 to move to is e1, and the knight on f2 would only have the square h1 available if Black is able to put the queen on h4 and the e5-pawn on e4. If the bad bishop on g7 could be activated, then the extra piece White have wouldn't matter. I want to play 1..e4, to activate the Bishop on g7, followed by 2..e3 to reactivate the bishop on b7 which was restricted by 1..e5, if White doesn't capture it with the knight. White is almost forced to play 2.Nxe4 due to the threat 2..e3. Here is the variations I calculated: 1..e5 2.Nxe4 Qh4 followed by 3..Be5 threatning mate on h2 and White is defenceless. 2..Be5 would be a mistake due to 3.Rxf8+ disturbing Black's setup. If White doesn't want to capture, the only moves available are 2.Be1 or 2.Nh1. In both cases Black respond with 2..e3 with a winning position. If White tries 2.Nh3, black answers with 2..Qh4 and the knight is lost since the only try to defend the knight with 3.Kg2 is crushed by the double check 3..Nf4+. A very interesting topic, pawn play in connection to piece activity in general and positional pawn sacrifaces in particular. This is an area I usually struggle with in my games, but after this video it has become much clearer what questions to ask in order to solve these kind of problems.Thank you so much!
3..Be5 threatning mate on h2 was the idéa of 2..Qh4, not a premove. On 1..e4 2.Nxe4 Qh4 3.Bg5 Black plays 3..Qh3 and if White tries 3.Nf2 Black plays 3..Nf4 with two variations: 4.Nxh3 Nxh3# and 4.Bxf4 Qg2# But you are right: 2..Qh4 is a bad move, not for the reason you gave, but because on 3..Qh3 white plays 4.Qd3 and Black has nothing after the forced queen trade.
That was a joke based on the fact that you said, "..followed by 3..Be5 threatning mate on h2 and *White is defenceless*". I agree that Black wouldn't play Be5 after 3.Bg5 if he had any sense.
Thank you for your detailed analysis, as always! ...e4! was chosen by Carlsen too, in a blindfold rapid game! Here is the full game: lichess.org/9eE7XxLa
Currently, they are only on Chessable platform (online). This comes with the advantage of the video option. Hopefully one day they will be printed on book ☺️
@@Dr.CansClinic I studied two of them so far. I learned that dynamic play is pawn play. And that when there is pawn tension on the board that usually indicates that there is a dynamic move. Then there are the static moves, hardly no pawn play. I think I'm understanding it? Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@FireboltJB Mostly correct. But dynamics can also emerge without pawns, e.g. sacrificing pieces to attack the king, etc. I made one video titled "Tactics, Calculation, Dynamics". You can have a look.
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