Minority Attack! | Pawn Structure - GM Yasser Seirawan - 2013.07.24

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.

[@mestreale]

Yasser seems like such a cool person, always calm and funny. Very good teacher and was even better playing the game!

[@SuperShakespeare]

some of the best chess lessons on youtube - thx to Yasser - great stuff

[@Idontunderstandchess]

thanks for the lesson. man the pre minority attack history of chess is really interesting

[@MrSupernova111]

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!

[@dr.drakeramoray789]

i like the guys giving lectures here. finegold is like the ultimate trashtalker, while yasser is always chilled and eloquent :D

[@ep-spdchess52]

+Seymore Butts still I am a Finegold fan.

[@tashikrtv6878]

Omg, is that GM Joey?

[@nickgonda9921]

Amazing lectures, thanks to Yasser Seirawan and the St. Louis Chess Club for making them available on KZbin

[@jhonmarkdalida7165]

thx for the video !

[@peristiloperis7789]

just fantastic

[@marianorivera3272]

Yasser is like a Disney character. He doesn’t seem capable of being evil despite being brutal on the board.

[@Ermakovis]

Will there be Yasser giving lectures in Moscow?

[@marksaiki1474]

This is well explained. Mark s

[@spd-kv6sd]

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.

[@DJCA_UK]

Capablanca-Janowski NY 1913 was a classic example of a minority attack from move #26: [Event "New York INT"] [Site "?"] [Date "1913.??.??"] [Round "3"] [White "Capablanca, JR."] [Black "Janowsky, Dawid"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C48"] [Annotator "minority attack"] [PlyCount "107"] [EventDate "1913.??.??"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bb5 a6 5. Bxc6 dxc6 6. O-O Bg4 7. h3 Bh5 8. Qe2 Bd6 9. d3 Qe7 10. Nd1 O-O-O 11. Ne3 Bg6 12. Nh4 Rhg8 13. Nef5 Qe6 14. f4 Bxf5 15. Nxf5 exf4 16. Bxf4 Bc5+ 17. Be3 Bf8 18. Qf2 Rd7 19. Bc5 Bxc5 20. Qxc5 Kb8 21. Rf2 Ne8 22. Raf1 f6 23. b3 Nd6 24. Rf4 Nxf5 25. Qxf5 Qxf5 26. Rxf5 {[#]} Re8 27. g4 b6 28. b4 Kb7 29. Kf2 b5 30. a4 Rd4 31. Rb1 Re5 32. Ke3 Rd7 33. a5 Re6 34. Rbf1 Rde7 35. g5 fxg5 36. Rxg5 Rh6 37. Rg3 Rhe6 38. h4 g6 39. Rg5 h6 40. Rg4 Rg7 41. d4 Kb8 42. Rf8+ Kb7 43. e5 g5 44. Ke4 Ree7 45. hxg5 hxg5 46. Rf5 Kc8 47. Rgxg5 Rh7 48. Rh5 Kd7 49. Rxh7 Rxh7 50. Rf8 Rh4+ 51. Kd3 Rh3+ 52. Kd2 c5 53. bxc5 Ra3 54. d5 1-0 The first minority attack in the Queen's Gambit Exchange was played by Steinitz! [Event "London International"] [Site "London"] [Date "1899.06.13"] [Round "11"] [White "Steinitz, Wilhelm"] [Black "Lee, Francis Joseph"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "D53"] [PlyCount "76"] 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bxf6 Bxf6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Qb3 c6 9. Bd3 Re8 10. Nge2 Nd7 11. Qc2 Nf8 12. O-O g6 13. b4 a6 14. a4 Be7 15. b5 axb5 16. axb5 Rxa1 17. Rxa1 f5 18. Ra8 Nd7 19. Na4 Nb6 20. Nxb6 Qxb6 21. Nc3 Bd7 22. Qa2 Rxa8 23. Qxa8+ Bd8 24. Na4 Qc7 25. b6 Qc8 26. Qa7 f4 27. Nc5 fxe3 28. Nxb7 exf2+ 29. Kf1 Bf5 30. Bxf5 Qxf5 31. Nxd8 Qd3+ 32. Kxf2 Qd2+ 33. Kf3 Qd3+ 34. Kg4 Qf5+ 35. Kg3 Qd3+ 36. Kh4 Qxd4+ 37. g4 Qf6+ 38. Kg3 Qe5+ 1/2-1/2 I like Seirawan a lot but that view of chess history is an absolute cartoon.

[@gurji77]

how do you get that mouse cursor color and design?

[@monsterban7999]

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.

[@gregbattis]

I am referred to a structuralist at my chess club too!

[@MadderMel]

5 elements in chess!,that's more than in the universe isn't it?

[@MadderMel]

Everybody and his brother !

[@fraOppland]

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.

[@MrPogi-lf5gz]

im having a hard time defeating 1426 elo computer..:( any suggestion how i beat him?

[@soakedbearrd]

Brayn Brigoli yes, get better

[@newenglandsun4394]

+Brayn Brigoli Get all of your pawns out into the attack. Computer will have difficulty with what the heck is going on and will resign.

[@botloosigk]

I would say: an attack starts when there is an imbalanced position.

[@Querent2000]

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.

[@MrSupernova111]

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.

[@Abdallahalfazari]

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

[@silichroma96]

смотрел без звука

[@Malvegil357]

The USSR vs The World was a 10 board team match, not 12.

[@MrSupernova111]

So?

[@Malvegil357]

@@MrSupernova111 I was probably correcting something said in the video.

[@newenglandsun4394]

Wrong, Yasser! It was 18. ... Nd8 that Tal played!