WEBVTT 00:01.290 --> 00:01.790 Hi there. 00:02.700 --> 00:05.800 In this lecture, we're going to introduce Anatoly Karpov. 00:06.870 --> 00:09.900 So just a very, very brief overview of Anatoly Karpov. 00:10.200 --> 00:14.120 His style seems to be quite influenced by Capablanca. 00:14.130 --> 00:22.470 It's a logical kind of risk free, elegant kind of style at times and in a couple of languages. 00:22.470 --> 00:24.730 Also, a big influence on Bobby Fischer as well. 00:25.830 --> 00:31.250 So still throwing away from complexity and unnecessary complications. 00:31.260 --> 00:36.660 He even has a quotation that if he can even get just a microscopic advantage without basically a hint 00:36.660 --> 00:41.500 of controversy, he'll choose that of something which is rather, you know, less clear. 00:42.090 --> 00:48.090 So he doesn't mind, even if you want is tiny, as long as it's non-controversial and with the style 00:48.090 --> 00:49.920 of play, you know, is very, very effective. 00:49.950 --> 00:54.960 He also himself, when he's been interviewed, is a big fan of Trigram. 00:54.960 --> 01:00.150 Chosen is like using to chosen style of play, but not to draw, but to win. 01:00.870 --> 01:04.890 That was his little joke, that people think maybe he's just trying for a draw. 01:04.890 --> 01:11.670 But as he's trying to win by this kind of risk free, non-controversial approach and, you know, it's 01:11.670 --> 01:16.370 from these players that I particularly like to kind of dampen down my own risk taking. 01:16.770 --> 01:22.080 So Bobby Fischer is a great role model, I think, for for chess. 01:23.040 --> 01:28.980 And Anton Chekhov, another one, if you want to sort of dampen down your level of risk and become a 01:28.980 --> 01:31.390 more universal player. 01:32.520 --> 01:40.890 So Karpoff had to win the world title by default, unfortunately, because phishers conditions for that 01:40.890 --> 01:48.810 match that should have taken place in 1975 didn't take place for you have a list of conditions and one 01:48.810 --> 01:49.710 or two were not met. 01:50.400 --> 01:52.020 So he was defaulted. 01:53.310 --> 01:59.800 As world chess champion and because of that, he really tried to prove he was a true world chess champion. 02:00.120 --> 02:07.380 He won kind of an unprecedented number of high level tómas, such huge domination, never actually been 02:07.380 --> 02:09.620 seen before in a world chess champion. 02:09.630 --> 02:12.590 So he really did prove he was champion of the world. 02:13.500 --> 02:22.890 So basically, he was the official world chess champion from 1975 by default to 1985 when he was defeated 02:22.890 --> 02:23.820 by Garry Kasparov. 02:24.180 --> 02:31.140 He played five matches against Kasparov for the title from 1984 to 1990 without ever defeating Spieth 02:31.140 --> 02:39.950 in a match, later becoming world champion once again after Kasparov broke away from Friday in 1993. 02:40.380 --> 02:48.180 So he held the Feet, a world title from 1993 to 1999 when he resigned his title in protest against 02:48.180 --> 02:51.380 Fidel's new world championship rules. 02:53.030 --> 03:00.470 So it's Tómas successes include over 160 first place finishers, peak elo rating of 27, 80 and 100, 03:00.500 --> 03:08.270 two months at world number one is the third longest of all time Behind's Magnus Carlson and Garry Kasparov 03:08.900 --> 03:13.030 since the set in the inception of the Phedre ranking less than 1970. 03:13.550 --> 03:20.000 So a really highly accomplished world champion who had something to prove to the whole world after he 03:20.000 --> 03:24.840 kind of defaulted was defo to the title, were able to, you know, beat Fischer. 03:25.250 --> 03:29.870 So there's huge speculation that remains would have been Fischer, would Fischer of crush them. 03:30.870 --> 03:31.670 I'm not going to say. 03:31.740 --> 03:34.880 I think Fischer was a little bit the favorite. 03:35.150 --> 03:39.950 I would say I think Fischer was a little bit the favorite in 1975. 03:40.580 --> 03:44.960 But OK, now here I have an iconic game. 03:44.960 --> 03:52.810 Well, in my view, which is kind of representative of anatomical, perhaps kind of Python's style of 03:52.850 --> 03:55.610 play, sucking the life out of the opponent's positions. 03:55.910 --> 04:02.570 And it's against John Lennon who awarded me, by the way, he's a British grandmaster who describes 04:02.570 --> 04:08.120 himself quite often as a coffeehouse player, so interested in tactics and combinations of dynamic play. 04:08.360 --> 04:12.040 But all the dynamism is taken away from his position in this game. 04:12.650 --> 04:17.350 No thanks due to the structure chosen, in my view, against Anatoly Karpov. 04:17.720 --> 04:26.240 So John actually gave me my my award, Lloyd's National and 18 award that was was actually given to 04:26.240 --> 04:28.370 me by a by John Lund. 04:28.370 --> 04:32.210 So I have an interest in John. 04:32.240 --> 04:37.640 And generally the King's Indian defense is a major exponent and very, very sharp dynamic player. 04:37.640 --> 04:39.250 You know, I kind of like those kind of players. 04:39.590 --> 04:45.140 So here we see Karpoff playing E4 and John Allen tries to create a sharp tactical game. 04:45.410 --> 04:46.630 So let's see what happens. 04:47.150 --> 04:53.900 So we see FDX, DFAC takes night, takes the form of six. 04:53.900 --> 04:55.520 So Commonwealth now plays nicely. 04:55.520 --> 05:01.280 Three, we see 96 and we head into after ninety five desex efore. 05:01.280 --> 05:03.920 We're going into the caecilians fashion kick off. 05:04.220 --> 05:06.260 And this is one of my favorite variations. 05:06.260 --> 05:13.330 It was when as a junior we see here in this position Bishop ESX quite often nowadays, you know, before 05:13.340 --> 05:20.270 B5 it is the major move to consider where White can play in and ninety five or bishop states have sex 05:20.270 --> 05:20.660 usually. 05:21.080 --> 05:28.670 But here we see Bishop Essex and structurally yeah there is a hole on DFI of the Ball's Lafsky holds 05:28.670 --> 05:36.820 it sometimes called it can be used as a kind of way of restricting blacks can't play with Kampo, you 05:36.830 --> 05:40.730 know, python style of play, these kind of pull structure holes. 05:40.970 --> 05:44.960 They can be very, very bad news for your levels of counterplay. 05:46.990 --> 05:50.930 John Allen is a great, you know, chess book offer. 05:51.290 --> 05:58.730 And in The Secrets of Grandmaster Chess, he has talked about how grandmasters in general kind of avoid 05:58.730 --> 06:03.620 situations without counterplay like her, like you'd avoid the plague in general. 06:04.340 --> 06:12.710 So here Knight CIFOR is played Rook's Yeats, Bishop takes off so of volunteers, the dance crowd bishop 06:13.100 --> 06:15.830 to kind of get a very iron grip over that. 06:15.830 --> 06:18.770 The Five Square and it's with tempo. 06:18.770 --> 06:21.910 OK Queen DHC Free seven. 06:22.370 --> 06:28.160 So can Black actually make use of this dance guayabera of our counterpart in this particular situation. 06:28.550 --> 06:30.950 We see Bishop see for both sides. 06:30.950 --> 06:36.370 Castle Bishop G five a four eight Queen E to G sex. 06:36.410 --> 06:40.690 So Black is trying to drum up counterplay on the Kingside King. 06:40.700 --> 06:46.880 Each one the bishop drops back before an hour five Commonwealth takes he takes five. 06:47.570 --> 06:51.380 Jiyu takes an hour before we see Bishop takes the five. 06:51.380 --> 06:57.500 So relinquishing the lights go choir bishop 1964 to actually make way for the dance choir bishop to 06:57.500 --> 07:07.670 be more significant on this diagonal we see a five to seven foot AC 197 rook after one and now Knight 07:07.670 --> 07:08.750 takes Bishop say so. 07:08.750 --> 07:14.330 White's bishop is pretty dominant, looking in the center in front of that backward pawn. 07:16.880 --> 07:22.100 There are certain I mean, there seems to be a chain, a kind of logical chain of the sequence of world 07:22.100 --> 07:22.690 chess champion. 07:22.700 --> 07:29.900 But if you do study them, it's almost as if the more static oriented world champions get replaced with 07:29.900 --> 07:35.960 more dynamic static, as in terms of the power structure suppressing counterplay, you know, sniffing 07:35.960 --> 07:41.930 out the company of opponents get replaced by dynamic, aggressive like players, more tactical in nature. 07:42.260 --> 07:47.210 So Karpoff with Kasparov, you know, Capablanca with Alexander Alkene. 07:47.330 --> 07:50.750 So when you choose well, champions try and reinforce. 07:51.080 --> 07:51.770 Strengthen your. 07:51.860 --> 07:59.120 Game, you know, maybe it's good to have that little pattern choose a more static world champion first 07:59.600 --> 08:05.030 like Capablanca, then choose Al-Hakeem, let's just go in sequence, actually, if you just go in sequence, 08:05.480 --> 08:09.830 because that's the sequence of seemingly the first in the first 13 more champions. 08:09.830 --> 08:14.660 Hell, the battles were it's like the stars put themselves in check, so to speak. 08:15.170 --> 08:18.530 But he can't have the kind of python as he's sometimes done. 08:18.860 --> 08:25.970 Trying to get rid of the life and activity of the opponent's position is in a dominant way already. 08:25.970 --> 08:32.770 So Roxxy, too, we have Queeny seven black is, you know, lacking a plan here when you have no plan. 08:32.790 --> 08:38.510 Generally, a common advice is to improve your best piece by how you know Black's pieces seem. 08:39.080 --> 08:43.370 It's very difficult to there's no bad piece to really improve. 08:43.700 --> 08:50.420 We see Queene three Republicans, CIFOR, Roxxy seven Jeoffrey. 08:51.800 --> 08:52.100 Yeah. 08:52.100 --> 08:56.900 So kind of is like playing like two game shows in reducing the risk. 08:56.900 --> 08:58.910 But he's actually playing to win, not to draw. 08:59.330 --> 09:01.340 We see rookie eight, Ruchi two. 09:01.340 --> 09:02.420 That's the difference. 09:02.660 --> 09:08.570 It's this it's this interview in Gibralter which was very revealing to me that conf actually literally 09:08.570 --> 09:14.420 said that that is a role model is actually taken, I'm chosen, but just to win and not to draw. 09:14.810 --> 09:20.680 So just bear that in mind when you study both, you know, competent and later sorry, Petrosian and 09:20.690 --> 09:21.530 later Karpoff. 09:22.070 --> 09:28.340 So we see Queen of Things and now Karpov does actually show he is interested in winning is opening up 09:28.340 --> 09:29.120 this GFR. 09:29.690 --> 09:34.010 So this is going to create common squares on like squares, for example, huge pressure potentially 09:34.280 --> 09:40.970 on Ja'far Quincy, Free Rook Jeoffrey and now B4 has been offered. 09:41.020 --> 09:41.870 It's taken. 09:44.350 --> 09:52.030 If Queen takes every have been played, this situation with one is actually just an advantage for White. 09:54.040 --> 09:59.950 So Queen takes before we see Rock the Rocks, Dublin Queen Bee to and now Rook G5. 09:59.950 --> 10:03.610 So is just you know, it doesn't that pawn loss. 10:03.610 --> 10:05.260 It's still a bind over here. 10:05.260 --> 10:09.910 This pawn is is singlehandedly locking down blacks Queensland anyway. 10:10.450 --> 10:17.860 So basically why it's just been given in practice quite a bit of time to intensify the GFR pressure. 10:18.190 --> 10:24.380 We see Queen of six rook 134, queen one checking due to queen bee to check cage free. 10:24.820 --> 10:31.570 Believe it or not, King, actually the king comes around to stop all the checks we see Roxxy seven. 10:35.810 --> 10:41.360 And yeah, I mean, this this is really interesting, you might think. 10:43.660 --> 10:54.640 You know, there are interesting options here in the possession, OK, but seven, we see a five and 10:54.640 --> 10:59.950 here is a critical mistake when he says it seems this makes things much worse, but it is a difficult 10:59.950 --> 11:00.230 position. 11:00.250 --> 11:01.450 I mean, look at this pressure. 11:02.590 --> 11:09.580 It seems here there is a move, a one if you're a supercomputer, yet you'll find this queen a one G 11:09.610 --> 11:11.800 one queen E five. 11:12.220 --> 11:13.660 And apparently this is OK. 11:13.660 --> 11:15.700 This is still black is imbalanced. 11:16.000 --> 11:21.510 The point is, you know, physics has been is one kept in lock and key, that possibility of things. 11:21.940 --> 11:27.790 So, yeah, if we look at Queen a one again, if Rook age five, her going for the right kind of attack 11:27.790 --> 11:31.900 style, then there is actually queen EF1 Chac. 11:32.380 --> 11:38.350 So the point of queeny one is to make sure that whites attack doesn't evolve too much and this apparently 11:38.350 --> 11:39.280 isn't even positioned. 11:39.460 --> 11:42.910 So queen of what a one might have been a missed opportunity technically. 11:43.360 --> 11:47.830 But things go really downhill now of the Queen of sex with Seabrooke H5. 11:51.420 --> 11:55.110 So and there's nothing to stop, it's evolving. 11:55.140 --> 12:03.740 Now, look, I have eight G.H. for this pressure on each sub ASX creating a fatal weakness of G pawns. 12:03.750 --> 12:10.530 Don't go backwards over this probing move, in effect, creating that fatal weakness on G six G four. 12:11.160 --> 12:14.940 Once the perch on G six, though, we see Rapke five. 12:15.910 --> 12:18.240 And here this is a real stunner. 12:18.240 --> 12:20.460 In fact, it looks as though Roxxy six. 12:20.460 --> 12:21.920 Well, that's what you're going to do, right? 12:22.410 --> 12:26.340 No, actually, RUGGIE five is played. 12:28.050 --> 12:33.300 Just saying, but, you know, what are you doing in this position, Ruchi six would actually be a welcoming, 12:33.300 --> 12:41.220 kind of forceful move and in fact, black could actually take care and then play rotates H5 check, 12:41.550 --> 12:42.480 G5 check. 12:43.050 --> 12:46.210 And this position isn't that black at all. 12:47.160 --> 12:52.230 So kind of avoids all this risk risk averse. 12:52.230 --> 12:53.250 And he plays this. 12:54.630 --> 13:00.540 He can improve the position before using that Jéssica Square slightly more to take out all risks associated 13:00.810 --> 13:04.730 with rookie sex to make it a lot more effective without any counterplay. 13:05.010 --> 13:06.990 So Rocsi ain't. 13:07.440 --> 13:09.060 But guess the Karpoff move here. 13:09.090 --> 13:10.290 It's crazy looking. 13:10.960 --> 13:12.480 I give you five seconds pause video. 13:17.320 --> 13:19.960 OK, it's Kingi for. 13:20.980 --> 13:22.700 Yeah, there's no tricks here. 13:22.720 --> 13:27.850 The king is actually supporting H5, there's no little tricks with sacking the queen and rotates, you 13:27.850 --> 13:34.200 find all the fun has been taken away and that's one of the static plans due to the dynamic. 13:34.450 --> 13:36.850 They take all their fun the way they take the toys away. 13:37.330 --> 13:38.890 The toys bring peace activity. 13:42.080 --> 13:46.910 You might think I'm going to have all these dynamic fun pools, structures to create my toys, my peace 13:46.910 --> 13:52.100 activity, my counterplay, that's all going to be taken away when you play a static flower and even 13:52.100 --> 13:52.890 Kasparov. 13:52.940 --> 13:55.670 To be fair, he was nearly whitewashed by Karpoff. 13:55.790 --> 13:56.960 This is the truth of the matter. 13:57.620 --> 14:00.920 I and it was nearly whitewashed and it's ironic. 14:01.020 --> 14:05.390 He says it would have been devastating for Kasparov if he had lost six nil. 14:05.420 --> 14:06.410 He was on the precipice. 14:06.650 --> 14:08.580 He was five nil down against Karpov. 14:08.810 --> 14:13.910 You see games like this and you see why Campath doesn't like even the tiniest risks. 14:15.560 --> 14:18.300 He doesn't like giving the dynamic players their toys to play with. 14:19.100 --> 14:22.280 So we see here seven now. 14:22.280 --> 14:23.120 Ruggie six. 14:24.570 --> 14:26.060 This is just crushing now. 14:27.200 --> 14:31.460 Queen of eight, Evolutis takes five is playing. 14:31.670 --> 14:33.200 Guess what won't plays her. 14:35.630 --> 14:38.300 This didn't happen, but why as a crushing combination here? 14:42.050 --> 14:43.200 Five seconds for the video. 14:43.220 --> 14:44.180 What does one player. 14:47.180 --> 14:48.950 OK, queen size 86, Jack. 14:51.020 --> 14:52.090 And this would be amazing. 14:56.850 --> 15:05.070 So, yeah, it's it's tricky, so Queen Efate was played and now a move which intensifies the pressure 15:05.070 --> 15:10.350 even more unbearable, like Heintz, believe it or not, this this next move unbearable. 15:10.350 --> 15:10.860 Heintz. 15:14.610 --> 15:14.870 John. 15:23.130 --> 15:29.430 And that move is queen you, it affords new opportunities like taking in and using sticks with the queen's 15:29.430 --> 15:30.150 crash through. 15:30.570 --> 15:34.520 You know, you can imagine like this we see Queen takes a fighting played. 15:34.890 --> 15:35.490 So if. 15:37.290 --> 15:46.650 For example, this then rock G takes a six queen G sex using that G six finally is just absolutely, 15:46.650 --> 15:47.570 you know, it's checkmate. 15:49.260 --> 15:51.480 So we see the desperate queen takes a five. 15:51.480 --> 15:54.950 Jack Queen takes routine's. 15:54.960 --> 15:56.700 But now, yeah, there's a snag. 15:56.730 --> 15:57.600 What does not play? 15:57.600 --> 16:02.750 Rook takes a lion King takes white in Jack's Route 67 Jack winning material. 16:03.000 --> 16:04.290 Bishop, thanks very much. 16:04.620 --> 16:05.340 And of game. 16:06.480 --> 16:10.470 So yeah, this isn't such a famous Anatoly Karpov game, by the way. 16:10.470 --> 16:13.710 It's just one of my kind of iconic style picks. 16:14.040 --> 16:20.280 Representative of style for someone, an opponent I know is a very dynamic, aggressive grandmaster 16:20.880 --> 16:24.030 that likes the combinations and tactics and lots of counterplay. 16:24.510 --> 16:31.230 But sometimes, you know, to to do that, you use a dynamic pull structure which does have Achilles 16:31.230 --> 16:36.270 heels in terms of the defender can try and neutralize your counterplay. 16:39.050 --> 16:48.440 Like this game shows, so taking a life out blacks position so we can, you know, out of pick, if 16:48.440 --> 16:54.230 you were sequencing your study, world champions, you can either go in the natural sequence of how 16:54.230 --> 17:01.880 they could see the evolution of chess style, or I would recommend actually perhaps considering, you 17:01.880 --> 17:08.210 know, choosing, as I say, a static world champion, static in inverted commas, more about pawn structure 17:08.960 --> 17:14.180 like camp, then going to more dynamic like Alako and then carrying on in that sequence. 17:14.300 --> 17:16.020 Static dynamic, static dynamic. 17:16.160 --> 17:21.770 So it was putting yourself in check stylistically that you don't want to be overexcited with one particular 17:21.770 --> 17:22.190 bias. 17:22.340 --> 17:24.350 Ideally, you want to iron out your biases. 17:24.620 --> 17:30.650 So you like Bruce Lee, you like water, you have a universal style without any biases, you know, 17:30.820 --> 17:31.190 mechanisms. 17:31.310 --> 17:36.560 So they could put on different hats of style depending on the situation, the opponents time control 17:36.920 --> 17:38.520 to maximize his win probabilities. 17:38.960 --> 17:45.050 So anyway, I hope you found some inspiration from this game that you can actually use chess to play 17:45.050 --> 17:45.770 professionally. 17:45.770 --> 17:50.780 And if you don't like losing, especially, you know, Karpoff style is like Petrosian, but just being 17:50.780 --> 17:52.670 used to win, not to draw. 17:52.940 --> 17:59.060 That's the hidden secret that I myself found out about not too long ago from this amazing interview 17:59.060 --> 18:02.870 in Gibraltar, which is actually on YouTube, if you want to see Karpoff interviewed. 18:03.290 --> 18:05.570 OK, that's very much.