WEBVTT 00:01.410 --> 00:01.980 Hi there. 00:02.700 --> 00:10.020 In this election, we see Serguei carry action against one of Britain's leading grandmasters for many, 00:10.020 --> 00:15.480 many years, Michael Adams, who, by the way, around the same age as Ms. 00:15.510 --> 00:21.240 I saw him first hand dominates like British chess, British junior chess at the time. 00:21.810 --> 00:26.280 And his amazing positional style is absolutely an inspiration. 00:27.930 --> 00:34.670 There was one particular grandmaster game where he completely crushed, in my view, the opponent positionally. 00:34.680 --> 00:35.810 And this is that game. 00:36.150 --> 00:37.500 It's in the London system. 00:38.130 --> 00:51.140 So Soga come out and play defo 96 from at 45 every six nights at C five, Seefried 96. 00:51.150 --> 00:52.520 So so far so good. 00:52.920 --> 01:02.100 Both sides have harmony between their pieces and --'s might be to bishop desex the bishop drops pank 01:02.490 --> 01:11.610 Adams councils bishop defraying these things and now one plays 95 Bishop Bee seven and now efore. 01:11.640 --> 01:18.510 So generally this is for to be an interesting idea to kind of go from one system into a kind of stone 01:18.510 --> 01:22.860 wall with the bishop on Jeoffrey rather than see one. 01:24.690 --> 01:29.100 Fundamentally, though, there is an Achilles heel in White's position. 01:29.100 --> 01:35.580 In doing this, there is a potential for a complete lack of harmony between especially the Donetsk membership 01:36.030 --> 01:36.780 and the rest of them. 01:36.780 --> 01:42.390 -- It's a dangerous strategic danger to have a very, very bad bishop. 01:43.140 --> 01:50.310 And this game occurs to me as one of the more vivid examples in the back of my mind about bad bishops. 01:50.790 --> 01:58.290 And we see ASMs pursuing quite a classic strategy, which, OK, he didn't invent. 01:58.290 --> 02:03.090 There's evidence of this in earlier games of Tameem Chozen back in the 60s. 02:03.420 --> 02:05.730 It's very difficult to invent anything absolutely new. 02:06.180 --> 02:15.660 But against this kind of setup, blackmail plays 97, reinforcing a full control, making sure that 02:15.670 --> 02:20.370 if don't you know, happening any time soon, Queensferry now might have five. 02:21.750 --> 02:23.160 Putting pressure on White Center. 02:23.340 --> 02:25.280 We see Bishop after Bishop S7. 02:25.710 --> 02:32.700 On the point of this, Bishop A7 is to really get a boyens on the position and leave this bishop as 02:32.700 --> 02:35.430 a prisoner within its own pawn chain. 02:36.660 --> 02:46.080 We see G4, Ninety-Six, G5 and now at night Effy for any hopes of a white attack are getting reduced 02:46.080 --> 02:46.470 here. 02:47.370 --> 02:53.400 The harmony is not so good in White's position, especially in this Bishop and Closed-End like this. 02:54.300 --> 02:57.360 Bad bishops are also, it seems to be a major points. 02:57.780 --> 03:02.100 When neural networks arose and started beating the strong, strongest chess of the world. 03:02.610 --> 03:10.260 Quite often they understand that a bad bishop is a great example of a lack of harmony between power 03:10.260 --> 03:16.160 and structure and pieces and what kind of dynamically exposed that even against the strongest engines 03:16.180 --> 03:17.400 the world here. 03:17.400 --> 03:18.450 This by Bishop. 03:19.140 --> 03:20.700 Yeah, it's a major issue. 03:20.700 --> 03:26.610 And why is a adventurists and casting queen aside, however? 03:26.970 --> 03:33.690 Because then Kingside is impossible right now because of 962 and it would be a lot of further hassle 03:34.800 --> 03:36.030 to do anything about that. 03:36.030 --> 03:38.310 Giving up the only good bishop. 03:38.340 --> 03:42.330 The position is out of the question of bishop takes evil. 03:42.330 --> 03:48.570 I mean, black would have great options and this bishop could be dangerous on this diagonal, on the 03:48.570 --> 03:52.830 A6 to EF1 diagonal, but black would be dominant in this position. 03:53.490 --> 03:55.710 So White Castles Queen side. 03:57.120 --> 04:06.840 And then we seek for Bishop Caesar and now be five Queen Aintree and now pressure on White's pawn chain 04:06.840 --> 04:15.870 with before we see Knight takes for details e form if 1984. 04:16.200 --> 04:25.770 This is less precise it seems Bishop Yone and here Rook Jiwon Y actually might get something a reasonable 04:25.770 --> 04:26.730 position at least. 04:26.730 --> 04:27.120 Yeah. 04:29.370 --> 04:32.670 So this is the most accurate play details easeful. 04:33.390 --> 04:34.830 We see Bishop Iwon. 04:35.550 --> 04:39.180 And the point here now is Bishop DFI. 04:39.180 --> 04:42.930 This facilitates a major front of the frame. 04:43.590 --> 04:47.520 So there is great harmony in Black's possession much more than once. 04:48.720 --> 04:52.860 And you know this threat of before Express's great options. 04:55.390 --> 05:02.440 We see I mean, for me, this is also reminiscent of a classic game where Adams actually being spun 05:02.440 --> 05:07.120 off in a similar game, especially five similar kind of positional moves that this bishop. 05:07.450 --> 05:08.620 Well, it seems bad. 05:08.620 --> 05:12.810 It's got and she got that lovely the five square that Adams has given to her. 05:13.330 --> 05:16.810 So the harmony really, really impresses me. 05:16.810 --> 05:25.690 Here we see Ruchi won't be free, takes seats, should be won, and now F5 is played. 05:26.200 --> 05:32.080 So Black's position, I would say, has very nice harmony compared to White's position. 05:34.340 --> 05:39.590 And why is a major like grandmaster about championship, you know, playing in one of the world championships? 05:40.730 --> 05:42.090 So we have details. 05:42.140 --> 05:44.530 Bishop Thanks, Rotifer. 05:46.190 --> 05:48.950 But now this other square is used at 5:00. 05:51.770 --> 05:54.800 We see here kindie, too. 05:54.830 --> 05:59.060 This is a very miserable position for white, tied up in knots. 06:00.830 --> 06:07.790 And now Queen 85, there's actually a square which is really kind of weak for white hair that Adams 06:07.790 --> 06:12.680 identifies because White's pieces are so locked up here. 06:13.190 --> 06:15.860 The bishop and this bishop, they're kind of locked up. 06:16.820 --> 06:23.360 Adams kind of gets a free hands even, you know, just just try this kind of thing with A1 and B2. 06:23.810 --> 06:30.860 We see King Itou, but now first taking white, basically one of White's better pieces, Bishop 65. 06:31.370 --> 06:34.520 So White really hasn't got too much counterplay. 06:35.000 --> 06:40.610 And if you have a kind of situation like this where the opponent minimize the counterplay, then you 06:40.610 --> 06:48.410 could look out for squares which they really can't handle very, very well, kind of, you know, unattended 06:48.410 --> 06:54.560 to squares or squares you can infiltrate, infiltrate via without worrying so much about giving them 06:54.560 --> 06:57.590 time to, like, do something nasty to your Kingside. 06:58.130 --> 06:59.900 So Adams has such a position. 06:59.900 --> 07:03.650 Rook ADHD is played. 07:03.650 --> 07:11.750 We see kafta if rook G one here then in fact Bishop C for check and Rook takes the one out. 07:12.080 --> 07:21.050 So King AFTA but now yeah this lunging move trying to break up spoon's have been to commit to that. 07:21.050 --> 07:23.120 Now there's also King's safety issues. 07:23.660 --> 07:27.560 White's position has really unharmonious and disconnected. 07:28.160 --> 07:31.490 We see Bishop D to Bishop CIFOR. 07:34.320 --> 07:35.710 With that bishop pinned to the rope. 07:35.740 --> 07:42.990 Now this is getting really nasty, Queen H5 and now, yeah, Beita is just there for the taking about 07:42.990 --> 07:50.140 any real problem and why he's just humiliated her with this tactic now, which is game ending. 07:50.430 --> 07:53.750 I wonder if you can spot it if I give you five cents for the. 07:59.950 --> 08:01.900 OK, it's real tasty, too. 08:03.550 --> 08:07.660 Yeah, the game ends here because if Rook takes the two, there's Quincy one Jack. 08:10.560 --> 08:11.640 And what does went to? 08:15.450 --> 08:25.830 If the one queen, 73 is chummy, if King F2, then Queen EF1 is actually checkmate the night controls 08:26.370 --> 08:26.960 Jeoffrey. 08:27.360 --> 08:29.190 So it's a positionally crushing game. 08:29.940 --> 08:36.090 It is one of the nightmare game examples, which is featured actually in my in my London system, because 08:36.090 --> 08:41.700 it's how not to play the London system of light, because you're you're getting a kind of stone wall 08:41.700 --> 08:45.460 where one of your bishops is kind of imprisoned. 08:46.110 --> 08:52.920 So, yeah, the concept of harmony for me is demonstrated in this game, peace, harmony quite vividly. 08:55.050 --> 08:57.300 But there are also several other games. 08:58.350 --> 09:05.730 Michael Adams, which are worthy of study, although we have a section on learning from the world champions, 09:05.730 --> 09:11.070 but you can also learn from your local country champions, their country, they are champions for a 09:11.070 --> 09:13.220 reason, I am pretty sure. 09:13.230 --> 09:18.310 You know, Michael Adams is renowned for his positional strategic understanding. 09:18.630 --> 09:26.760 In fact, I you know, I think a lot of the time he's using you know, he seems to be like a human version 09:26.760 --> 09:33.090 of the Lillah, you know, network in terms of human embrace, peace, harmony, positional play generally. 09:35.460 --> 09:39.450 And he's been a superb grandmaster for so many years. 09:39.630 --> 09:43.590 You know, you know, record number of years, over twenty, 700 consistently. 09:44.130 --> 09:50.130 To get that level of consistency, you need to be a very, very good player fundamentally. 09:50.700 --> 09:55.950 And if you look at his games, you will see lots of examples, positional examples where he's really 09:55.950 --> 10:00.170 minimized the counterplay of opponents dramatically. 10:00.780 --> 10:02.900 So, OK, this is a great example for me. 10:02.910 --> 10:09.600 I hope you enjoyed this example and get an idea that you shouldn't in this particular example, at least 10:10.140 --> 10:16.200 you should think carefully about how many of pieces and pawns, especially not having terrible bishops, 10:16.800 --> 10:19.770 because it just it just damages your counterplay. 10:20.400 --> 10:27.120 It means the opponent kind of gets a free hand to start attacking squares, which are very awkward to 10:27.120 --> 10:28.470 defend in your position. 10:28.470 --> 10:31.410 And you can't really do anything to counterattack. 10:31.500 --> 10:33.660 You've just destroyed your own counterplay. 10:33.960 --> 10:40.830 So harmony is a key ingredient to keep going to some extent in your position because otherwise you will 10:40.830 --> 10:43.680 just end up letting the opponent do whatever they want. 10:44.430 --> 10:45.990 OK, that's too much.