tygxc wrote:
"He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess." - Tarrasch
That quote really hurt me.
Any tips on how to play with an IQP?
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Nov 26, 2021
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assassin3752 wrote:
aun try not to trade pieces if you have an isolated pawn unless it's absolutely necessary to. the only way to weaken an isolated pawn is to trade pieces until there are no more defenders left
Thank you.
A great resource is the book:
"Isolani Strategy. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn"
by Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Stetsko, Adrian Mikhalchishin
A white isolani is powerful, a black isolani is weak. The single tempo tips the scale.
Nov 26, 2021
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tygxc wrote:
A great resource is the book:
"Isolani Strategy. Strengths and Weaknesses of the Isolated Queen's Pawn"
by Alexander Beliavsky, Oleg Stetsko, Adrian Mikhalchishin
A white isolani is powerful, a black isolani is weak. The single tempo tips the scale.
Aye. Thanks.
Nov 26, 2021
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#26
Optimissed wrote:
Too much of a generalisation. ^
Agreed, but a nice “rule of thumb”.
assassin3752 wrote:
ok boomer
who?
OH SHOOT HE IS BACK
Nov 26, 2021
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#30
bruh @CriticalPhantom this is an educational thread and your posts have no place here so stop posting if you won't post relevant to the topic
ninjaswat wrote:
bruh @CriticalPhantom this is an educational thread and your posts have no place here so stop posting if you won't post relevant to the topic
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Nov 26, 2021
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#34
AunTheKnight wrote:
B1ZMARK wrote:
AunTheKnight wrote:
I am always scared of getting an isolated queen’s pawn, but no more! I just need some help on using it as a ‘dynamic advantage’. Thanks to any advice in advance.
lay more opening with iqp
Could you elaborate?
if you play e4, try panov attack vs caro. Try alapin vs sicilian.
if you play d4, close your eyes and pray your opponent is a nimzo-indian player.
against d4, play the tarrasch defense.
Nov 26, 2021
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#35
AunTheKnight wrote:
I am always scared of getting an isolated queen’s pawn, but no more! I just need some help on using it as a ‘dynamic advantage’. Thanks to any advice in advance.
There's actually a book called "Isolani strategy". (uscfsales.com)
Here is a famous example in the Sicilian where black voluntarily accepts the isolani
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008424
Nov 27, 2021
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#38
goldenbeer wrote:
As long as Q and bishops are in the game, I’m considering it as an advantage, since many diagonals are open. A common useful setup is to orient bishops towards the opponent king (Bc1,b2,d2,e3 and other one: Bc4, d3) and try to engage one of the rooks (sometimes you don’t even need to castle so the H rook is directly into attack by playing h4-h5) additionally pour your Knights around the enemy king. Since your pawn structure is weakened already and the setup I’ve suggested is very aggressive, to keep the king safety you may don’t play with your other pawns until you get some advantage from your attack.
Thank you, @goldenbeer. Great advice.
Nov 27, 2021
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#39
tygxc wrote:
Here is a famous example in the Sicilian where black voluntarily accepts the isolani
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1008424
Thanks for the game. I’ll look into it.
Nov 27, 2021
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#40
ThePatzerKID wrote:
these 2 videos dramatically changed my understanding of IQP positionshttps://youtu.be/oBsW9tOxwpE https://youtu.be/QPnjrAYn3-8
Thanks, mate!
"He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess." - Tarrasch