Understanding Pawn Structure | Chess Middlegames
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Pawns are the soul of chess, and understanding how to play in certain pawn structures is crucial to understanding the middlegame.
If you can imagine a position without the pieces on, just the pawns, then the situation and the plans you will have to look for will become much clearer. That is what I would like to emphasize with this video. Know the battlefield you are fighting on! The pawns make up the battlefield, and their constellation will determine whether it will be an all out onslaught or a maneuvering game of minds in which tricks, bluffs and mind games will be employed instead of open warfare.
I have gone through the most common pawn structures in chess, and I have attempted to briefly explain the main features of each. What you have to do is find out what types of pawn structures most commonly occur in your own games. Are they open or closed? What are the pawn breaks you usually play? Once you are able to answer there, and more questions concerning pawn structure, your strength will increase ten-fold, and your understanding of the position will amplify greatly!
1) Open Center Positions - these pawn structures are characterized by open e and d files. They often involve piece trades early on and revolve around taking up the open files with your rooks.
2) Closed Center Positions (Advance Caro-Kann) - positions with blocked pawn formations require pawn breaks. Look for a pawn break at the tip of your pawn chain in order to gain activity and increase the scope of your pieces.
3) The Open e-file
4) French Defense Structure
5) Ruy Lopez Structure
6) Sicilian Najdorf Structure
7) Maroczy Bind Structure
8) Caro-Kann Structure
9) King's Indian Structure
10) Benoni Structure
11) Karlsbad Structure
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1:28 1) open center
4:09 2) closed center advance caro-kann
5:30 3) open E-file
7:34 4) french structure
9:01 5) ruy lopez structure
10:35 6) sicilian najdorf structure
13:13 7) maroczy bind structure
15:52 8) caro-kann structure
17:23 9) king's Indian structure
19:25 10) benoni structure
21:39 11) karlsbad structure
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Great presentaion! "Often in the caro kann your bishop is going to be stuck on c8" Are you sure man? I think in most major lines black indeed gets his bishop out (in the style of caro kann). For example in the "main line": .. 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5 5.Ng3 Bg6 etc . In the "advanced variation": 3.e5 Bf5 etc. In the "two knights": 2. Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 etc.
I play the Karpov (Nd7 instead of Bf5). In those lines the bishop can be stuck on c8 if you are forced to play e6 after Bc4 and Ng5. I was referring to those positions. Should have been more clear, sorry.
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I play caro-kann and and queens gambit. So the minority attack helps me in both end. Nice video
Same
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I ask many coaches but no one reply about pawn structures but you told very good sir thank you sir 👏👏👏👏
Always great to watch your videos master. Thanks for all the knowledge.
Thanks very much for the support and for watching:) The little knowledge I have, I'm happy to share!
Thanks for the info. I am new to the game. Always wanted to learn to play. Videos like these make it possible for me to learn quickly. Visual learning works the best for me. Thank you for putting these lessons together!
Great video! I never did an organized study of chess. Chess jumping around loose stuff. Now I m trying to do it in a more methodic way and your video is super well organized and very well explained. Thanks!
I'm happy to help if I can! Thanks!
Wonderful instruction on an important aspect of the game. The power and significance of statics.
Minor quibble: Although the number of possible pawn structures is tremendous, it is not infinite. However, it may be great enough to be considered approaching infinite. 😉 Math educator. Sometimes it shows.
That is correct. The number is huge, but not infinite. I agree. Sorry for the mistake:) What I meant to say is that you can never learn them all, so it's smart to be able to visualize the most often occurring ones by using pattern recognition. And thank you:)
Great video which I have watched many many times! Thanks!
Another great video about a subject that is very difficult to understand for most players. Your explanations are clear and very good. Thanks for taking your time to teach us about middlegames.
Thank you for the support and for watching:)
Great job, thanks a lot, even though I didn't understood most of it, still learning. Maybe after one or two weeks. BUT THANKS A LOT. Keep up the good work
Thanks for so much good quality content!
Could you add the stone wall structures for black and white, and other structures that start out with dutch defence, pirc, pirc-czech, and others openings with f4 and f5 moves at the beginning please.
Very instructive and helpful video. thank you :)
Thank you Bulent:)
pawn structures are hard. They move forward straight, but they take to the left or right. Also, if you sit in front directly of someone, you can't move forward. It will take me time to get the hang of it.
This is another great video. Well explained plans for each position. Younger doing a great job. Thank you!
Glad you like it Markus. Thanks!
What about the best pawn structure at all? The HANGING PAWNS!
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Very useful lesson. I learn a lot with your video lessons. Thank you very much!!
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Good video. Understanding pawn structures is the most crucial part of chess.
I never has any kind of coaching.This is all new to me
thanks. very helpful again.
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Haha, cheers mate:) I really appreciate that!
Very interesting. Thanku! Pawns are chess' soul
This is super helpful
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This video is a masterpiece
Great explains
Many thanks.
Really good video.
21:46 I love how CZcams decided that this chapter shall be called "The Cow's Butt Bone Structure"
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Thanks. Very nice explanations👍
No problem Ali!
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Great Video
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Where does the Dutch Defense (classical) fit? Especially end game wise as well, because the break with ...f4, ...e4, ...g5 is obvious.
Hi I am trying to study birds opening.
I wonder if you have a video about it
Thank you for your very instructive and detailed videos.
Not yet. But I will make one in the future. For now you can check out Simon Williams' videos on the Dutch and some of his own games. They are great to get a feel for early f4/f5 openings.
Really great video! The clarity of your explanations are insanely good, I'd recommend anyone who enjoyed this video to check out his other videos too!
Nicely explaination sir thanks
No problem, Vikram. Thank you for watching:)
excellent!
Glad you think so:)
Awesome
Very helpful!
Happy to hear that!
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I will be recording my training games as much as possible. Thank you for the suggestion. I will try to record 3-4 a week
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I dont know what to do after developing the minor pieces and rooks, most of the time i wait, for my opponent to initiate, some times my opponent would play without even developing all pieces and still break through, most of the time i defend in middlegame, and then i would blunder.😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
what exactly does he mean by pawn break? is it the same thing as a backward pawn that is weak? or is it a place where the pawns physically seperate?
You want to occupy holes in the opponent's pawn structure with pieces, not pawns.
Understanding the pawn structure has always been my biggest problem. So much in chess depends on the pawns - defense, break, open files and diagonals, endgames, weak squares, space... And it's difficult to understand. This video won't be enough for me. No matter how many videos I watch, no matter how many books I read, I will never understand it well unless I practice with real people. Seeing theory in practice is all I need to understand it. But since all practice is simply playing random games on Lichess, how can I learn? I wish coaching was affordable.
Funny how I don't understand the Caro-Kann and on the other hand I'm relatively good in Semi-Slav.
spd7693 chess.com is a good place to start
Pawn puzzles exist
@@sherllymentalism4756 Woah where
what about the italian pawn structure?
Excellent again, reminds of one of my most unread books, written by Hans Kmoch ...
( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Kmoch ) "pawn power in chess".
Maybe you can read it and make a vid?
it would be much more better if you included the other pieces in the video . Thank you.
Maged Albehairy nope
I am not familiar with the Kalashnikov variation in the Najdorf Sicilian! Obviously this was a Freudian slip. Funny one, too! We all know that you meant Sveshnikov.
no slip, check
can you do on the sicilian dragon pawnstructure
I will be making videos on some pawn structures in depth. I think one will be on Sicilian structures, and the dragon one of them.
7:35 Sicilian?
*French. Blunder
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the most important thing in chess is pawn structures. vote up if you agree vote down if you not
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