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Understanding Middlegame Strategies Vol.3 - The Hedgehog
by
Ivan Sokolov
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Throughout my playing career I have found the Hedgehog (with both colours) one of the most difficult type of positions to master. With White (the side with more space) there is always a danger to overextend oneself (or miss your opponent’s pawn break). While playing Black (the side with less space) there is always a danger to mistime your pawn break, or simply to not get counterplay and be overrun.
| Languages: | English |
| ISBN: | 978-3-86681-834-7 |
| EAN: | 9783866818347 |
| System: | Windows 7 or higher, Mac OS X (only download) |
| Published: | Mar 2022 |
| Delivery: | Download, Postal Delivery |
| Level: | Advanced , Tournament player , Professional |
Sample video
- Hedgehog - Part 1
- Introduction and Fischer vs Andersson
- Black pushes the g-pawn: Charbonneau vs Anand
- Regrouping: Kasparov vs Kramnik
- h-pawn push: Topalov vs Kasimdzhanov
- White fights the h-pawn push: Radjabov vs Kamsky
- Aggressive ideas for White
- White castles kingside and pushes the g-pawn: J. Van Foreest vs Bilguun
- Kingside pawn roll: Cramling vs Gruenfeld
- Hedgehog - Part 2
- Dark square control: Tal vs Polugaevsky
- White pushes the a-pawn: Agrest vs Nisipeanu
- White pushes the a-pawn 2: Firouzja vs Vachier-Lagrave
- Doubled-pawns: Acs vs Polgar
- Doubled-pawns 2: Eljanov vs Kudrin
- White castles queenside
- Diagonal domination: Romanishin vs Petrosian
- Diagonal domination 2
- Pawn structure change: Carlsen vs Wojtaszek
- Practice positions
- Description
- Position 1 - Black to move
- Position 1 - White to move
- Position 2 - Black to move
- Position 2 - White to move
- Position 3 - Black to move
- Position 3 - White to move
- Position 4 - Black to move
- Position 4 - White to move
- Position 5 - Black to move
- Position 5 - White to move
- Position 6 - Black to move
- Position 6 - White to move
Windows 7 or higher
Minimum: Dual Core, 2 GB RAM, DirectX11, graphics card with 256 MB RAM, (DVD-ROM drive), Windows Media Player 9, ChessBase 14/Fritz 16 or included Reader and internet access for program activation. Recommended: PC Intel i5 (Quadcore), 4 GB RAM, Windows 10, DirectX11, graphics card with 512 MB RAM or more, 100% DirectX10-compatible sound card, Windows Media Player 11, (DVD-ROM drive) and internet access for program activation.
MacOSX
only available as download! Minimum: MacOS "Yosemite" 10.10
The complexity of those positions is best illustrated in a Kasparov-Kramnik game – with both players allowing seemingly “obvious” mistakes. Charbonneau-Anand is another good example – a player of Anand’s stature landing in a terrible position, then missing his good attacking prospects. The game result was one of the biggest upsets of 2006 Chess Olympiad. There are different types of Hedgehog positions - many of them coming from the English opening where the White bishop is fianchettoed. In this video course I consider the “basic Hedgehog” pawn structure; like the one coming from the Kan Sicilian for example. Choosing the right plan at the right time is the key here - the ensuing positions are full of dynamic possibilities. I endeavour to show the most common (and a few less common!) plans for both sides and try to pinpoint typical mistakes and motifs. The basic aim of this video is to improve understanding of these complex positions and to help tournament players score better!
• Video running time: 4 hours (English)
• Extra: Training with ChessBase apps - Play key pawn structures against Fritz on various levels
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