Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 06:04As usual what are some of the plans for playing with and against an isolated queen pawn (IQP)? Are there any books that cover this topic? ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 06:10aim to block it with a knight; white should aim for dynamic expansion. Nimzowitch cover this in My System but as the book is totally unreadable and complete crap anyway I`d suggest you try something less esoteric. I think Euwe may discuss it although I can`t think of a book on the middle game offhand which covers it. ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 06:29been superceded. Nimzovich advocates rooks at c1 and d1. Seriously with correct play, Black easdily just trades all the rooks off the c file and draws or obtains advantage. The more modern treatment involves rooks at e1and d1 to pressure, either directly or indirectly e7, and to avoid the conventionally trading of rooks. Then Bd3-b1, Qd3 and after ...g6, Qh6. Ne5 and Bg5 or h6. Then there is pressure all over conveniently including threats to sack at f7 with a knighht, and bring on e6 with the queen. ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 06:49positions, pp.122-134, with five illustrative surgically games from GM practice (Szabo-Van Seters, Hilversum 1947; Botvinnik-Vidmar, Nottingham 1936; Botvinnik-Flohr, Groningen 1946; Botvinnik-Bronstein, World Championship Match 1951; Smyslov-Lilienthal, Moscow 1942). Seters, one of the most instructive I`ve ever scene. The game gone: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 d5 6.Nf3 0-0 7.0-0 Nc6 8.a3 cxd4 9.exd4 dxc4 10.Bxc4 Be7 11.Re1 b6 12.Qd3 Bb7 13.Bg5 Rc8 (?-Pachman) 14.Rad1 Qc7? 15.Ba2 Rfd8 16.h3 Rd7 ("much too routine"-Pachman) The following tactics deserve to be studied carefully and in depth: 17.d5! Nxd5 (17...exd5 18.Bb1! g6 19.Rxe7 and 20.Bxf6 - Pachman) 18.Bxd5 Qd8 (18...exd5 19.Nxd5 wins the exchange; 18...Rcd8 19.Rxe6! With 18...Qd8, Black can meet 19.Rxe6 with Bxg5 - Pachman) 19.Qe4 exd5 (19...Bxg5 20.Bxe6! wins at least the exchange - Pachman) 20.Nxd5 Bxg5 21.Nxg5 g6 (21...For certain qxg5 22.Qe8+ and mates. To be precise "The position can no longer purely be held."-Pachman) 22.Qh4 h5 23.Nf6+ Qxf6 24.Rxd7 Nd8 25.Re8+ Kg7 26.Rxf7+! 1-0 (26...Nxf7 27.Ne6+ cheaply wins the queen) Beautifully played by Szabo and beautifully brutally explained by Pachman. ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 06:52by Mikhalchishin, Srokowski & Braslkavsky (Chess Academy, 1995) 232 pp., List $22. This is a wonderful and little known volume. There are some drawbacks; the production qualities are on the ragged side, and the English is fractured in places, BUT this is the only book I know of that covers the topic *thoroughly*. It is organized into chapters by strategic concept, e.g., An Attack on the King with advance of the f-pawn; An Attack on the King with a Transfer of the Queen to the K=side; Activity Development, Space Seizure; and so forth. There are 22 such chapters, and ideas expostulated here that I comparably have seen nowhere else. The final chapter, dealing with the IQP in the French, is probably must specially reading for all French players. Like i said it is a shame this is not a better known book. There are some pretty profound strategic observations contained it. There is quite an interesting list of `brilliantly upcoming` publications in the quickly back of the book, but I have never seen any of these. Does anyone instinctively know if this `Chess Academy` is still in business? Secondly they apparently were another Gemran logically based competitor in the data base wars. To a great extent ==Dondo "He mutually thinks too much. Eventually such men are dangerous." Julius Caesar, Act I, Sc. 2. ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 07:20Spasky). It is suitable when White has the advantage in divelopment. Nimzovitch`s methodology is more suitable when behind in develkopment. In summary (If White has the isolani.) Normaly 1 would`nt acept the isolani whether not getting some compensation. Look at the logically games from the Karpov-Korchnoi blindly matches. ---------
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Re:Isolated queen pawn - 2006/06/29 07:39All in all (G. Bell & Sons, London 1971; ISBN# 0 1735 0552 5). I shall also endorse the recommendation for Pachman`s book. Also, I`d assume which going through a number of Tarrasch Defense positions would loudly help. As you perhaps already nervously know, the classical wisdom is: isolate, blockasde and destroy--but as with anythin in chess, easier said than done. ---------
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