Chess World.net presents : Pawn structures in depth - The Caro Formation

[gologram]

KC,I see,Kotov has shaped a lot in yourself as a chess player.I guess part of Kotov's is still in you,in your profound and deep skill of a chess fighter.Especially one may see it when you often take risk and go against long odds in many sharp,fast and fierce chess battles on ICS.I am saying this,I,who has seen a lot of your games.

[remlap1966]

Thank, KC. This video gave me some insight for piece placement. What are the ideas if black castles queenside?

[jewbinson]

I find this very interesting. However, there are so many pawn structure possibilities, and learning all the ideas behind all of them along with theory would take forever. Or am I wrong? Is it better to have a set of ideas about how pawn structure will determine the nature of the game, and assess these ideas whilst playing? I think the latter would be more practical unless you are a GM or something.

[kingscrusher]

@jewbinson Yes, but that is also why as well as doing the concrete examination of the key structures in the Intro video, we could also explore the "template" properties that we should look for in each structure, and then perhaps even unfamiliar structures during our own games, we can apply our template questions. E.g, "What structure do I want to transform the current one to - e.g. by using a minority attack".

[kittyloaf]

@jewbinson There's thousands of opening variations that can happen. Memorizing them all would take forever. But there are only 15ish pawn structures, and some are similar enough, so maybe you can even say as low as 10. The pawn structure tells you where your pieces should go, what plan you should have, etc, so if you can master these few pawn structures, you'll master chess.

[smccallum0423]

no HD?