Indeed Mr. Szuveges, pawn structure is one of the beautiful things in chess, this game blew my mind:
Lasker V Capablanca, Moscow 1935
"The penalty of passivity" (From Ch1 of A.Soltis' "Pawn Structure Chess")
This game did a couple of things for me, the most obvious are the appreciation of a beautiful game of chess. As I said even if I never reach a level of chess to be able to pick out one lasker-esque move i'll still be able to enjoy a game like that. Secondly, through studying pawn structure, it opened up a whole new way to study Space, Tempi, Blocking off the opposition whilst gaining play slowly for yourself. And thirdly it showed me that even though I appreciated and understood the buildup, I failed to understand many of the tactics/choices at the end without the notes (forget about being able to pick out any of those moves for myself!) and so am justified in choosing to study 43820 tactical problems before I continue with this part of chess study.
ps. for some reason it put the game in twice... The second game is the complete one
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