10 Concepts About Pawn Tension

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What I learned this video: 3:40 How to keep bishops confined in their starting areas better 6:35 Bishops are most effectively used in open positions 7:24 Sometimes comparing the knights and bishops you have to the knights and bishops your opponent has can help you find your best moves 12:20 Backwards pawns can be very useful in breaking through and lining up batteries Probably more that I forgot to write down but I definitely learned more than I ever have watching a chess tip video I look forward to watching more videos, keep it up great stuff

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Exactly the lesson i wanted. There are pawn breaks, threats to make the bishop ineffective, centre counters, literally most confusing part of chess. Thx for this lesson

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"…to play the pawns well; they are the soul of chess: it is they which uniquely determine the attack and the defense, and on their good or bad arrangement depends entirely the winning or losing of the game." - Philidor

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Pawns are the pillars of chess, but not sure about the "soul" of it

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Is that the bozo who came up with the Philidor defense? OMEGALUL

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​@@ziwuri Don't doubt Philidor would have wiped the floor with you any day. He was an amazing international Grandmaster, and deserves unlimited respect. And you think HE's the 'bozo'?!!

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@@forlanifan lil bro it's called a joke, obviously he was a great player but the Philidor defense is objectively a shxt opening

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Nice to have all these concepts covered under one video! Thanks. I still think of occupied squares more than empty, and possibly weak, squares and holes.

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Thx Nelson and thx for sneaking in, the minority attack!!

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This is a great video. For all the traps and tactics that exist it feels like knowing when to move your pawns is a black art. Every time I am reviewing a game with the computer and it shows I should have taken a pawn in one direction or another sometimes it's confusing as to why. I'm getting better at it but I'll definitely be watching this video more than once

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This is a really good video. I find pawn tension can be an overlooked topic so I'm glad you made a video on it.

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I'd also want to add onto point #10 playing f6 as white has the potential for alot of queen check tactics on the dark squares, so if you play it always keep an eye out 😜 awesome video thanks heaps

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Thanks for this video! Very instructive with great and concrete examples. I like the way in which you explain the ideas behind moves and their drawbacks.

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Things you might consider adding. Pass Pawns: 1. Capturing, Trading, or pushing a pawn to create a pass pawn (or a second pass pawn to create a pass pawn pair) 2. Pushing pawns to create tempo (i.e. a check or an attack on a higher value piece) 3. Supporting (i.e. not moving ) pawns to maintain defense (of a piece, a position, or one's own king) 4. End Game Scenario If it's the end game and the queens are gone and you are down to single bishop, keep in mind what color square is the bishop on? Keeping your pawn on the same color as that bishop might enable you to protect it with the bishop. Especially if your opponent has the same color bishop or a knight,

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Re #9: Pawns are the only pieces (men?) that cannot undo their move. Whenever you push or capture, that pawn no longer controls that square. 18:15 Re #10: Putting a pawn on f3 also weakens the g3 square (see #9) and opens up the kingside to potential attacks.

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That's funny! I mentioned in my previous comment that I wondered if there are nuances to pass and push, and you talked about push nuances right after I posted that comment!

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Wow this video is so original and incredibly helpful for beginners! I remember looking for this sort of information about pawn tension a couple months ago and didn’t find anyone who came even close in terms of clarity of explanation. You picked out great opening examples too. Btw the c4 variation of the exchange French is called Montecarlo, it’s my main weapon against the French currently because i can deal with the resulting open positions better than with the ones of the advanced variation.

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[@G102Y5568]

One additional Pawn concept that’s important to consider is overextension. Pawns have limited mobility relative to their attacking potential, so if a Pawn is placed actively close to the opponent’s pieces, it generally creates more problems than benefits, because it has to be babysat by the player’s pieces. The key to gaining a space advantage with Pawns is knowing just how far you can push them before the benefits of space are outweighed by the costs of overextension.

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I have problem with having space to develop my pieces, right from opening. Therefore, I am enjoying his lesson on pawn tension

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excellent reporting

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Great video, I think I see people blunder their main pieces because they don't manage their pawns correctly.

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Well I was about to go to bed, until I saw you posted this haha

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You used the term "discovered attack". It is very clear what a discovered attack is by your use of the term in your example. I thought it meant "Oh! Look at that! I can take that rook over there!", Could you create a lesson dedicated to terms like this, please. One that comes to mind is "tempo", or "captured with tempo", or "moved with tempo", or "moved gaining a tempo". I have tried searching for tempo explanations, but not with much success. Pass, push, are there nuances that aren't as obvious as the literal move itself? I see the the thinkific link below, so this may well be the route I need to go. Thanks for the great lessons, Nelson!

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I care about creating holes in the 3rd or near files, but after watching this video, I understood that I have to keep in mind of creating holes in the 5th file( when I play white ) , I lot of times it's annoying as Nelson said when opponent places a knight there, even though nowadays I don't usually get into such position. Helpful content, Thankyou

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I think that it was Ben Feingold that I heard say the "f" in fPawn stands forget about it. You enumerated his reasons for not liking to move this one.

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6:33 I wonder how did you trade your knights for the black bishops here :)

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6:12 I think there are 2 good moves there, First is to play be3 with the idea to simply defend or to play dxe5 because after dxe5+ we can play bd2 which helps us to develop bishop and castle also if something like Ng4 then u can simply play h3 kick that knight out and you are fine.

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Came back to this video to brush up on pawns. Could you actually do a 10~15 minute video on the isolated D pawn as it is a very common occurrence that a lot of hacks like me don't know how to play with or against. Thanks

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10:07 That's the Monte Carlo French

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As a general rule I like to move my opponent's pawn structure away from the center columns.

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@04:40 in the video, would you prefer to play c4 instead of dxe5? or does that lead us down a different rat hole that does not lead us to an open e-file?

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Are you gonna make some content related to the world championship match?!

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3:35 Black decided to play 1 ... e6, so I think that Black should accept that bBc8 is now a bit restricted. It seems to me that 3 e5 creates a bigger problem for Black: bNg8 can't go to f6, its best square, and must thus go to e7 or h6.