WEBVTT 00:01.110 --> 00:01.850 Hi there. 00:01.860 --> 00:07.500 In this lecture, we see International Master Peter launch playing against Michael Adams in the 1989 00:07.500 --> 00:12.120 13 Floyds back Martha's open round six, so e four from Pete at large. 00:12.600 --> 00:19.680 Adams plays the French defense on this occasion we have d4d59c free bishop before and now I kind of 00:19.680 --> 00:21.690 delayed exchange variation of the French. 00:21.690 --> 00:25.050 So e takes D five Adams plays, E takes D five. 00:25.050 --> 00:33.030 We have Bishop D 390 6a3 bishop thank c3b tanks might have six knights. 00:33.030 --> 00:35.820 E two So this is a very, very interesting play from white. 00:35.820 --> 00:39.060 The f pawn is still made available for attacking purposes. 00:39.060 --> 00:40.470 And why has the bishop power? 00:40.890 --> 00:42.390 It's an interesting variation. 00:43.380 --> 00:45.120 Adams counsels on the kingside. 00:45.720 --> 00:51.780 White Castles on the Kingside 97, Knight, G3 96 and now F4. 00:52.950 --> 00:58.830 Objectively, White is actually significantly better here and should have strong attacking potential. 00:59.070 --> 01:01.110 So how does Adams actually defend this position? 01:01.110 --> 01:07.590 We have Rook E, eight, F five, knights F eight and now Bishop G5 an underpinning move. 01:07.590 --> 01:09.240 Queen RD six seems logical. 01:09.930 --> 01:11.210 Bishop takes F six. 01:11.220 --> 01:17.460 Now here, if Black can succeed in making use of the dark squares, then black will be okay. 01:17.490 --> 01:23.580 However, if white can play accurately from this position and unleash f six at some points, this could 01:23.580 --> 01:25.980 be extremely dangerous for Black's king. 01:26.370 --> 01:30.330 We have Queen takes F six and already now a slight inaccuracy. 01:30.330 --> 01:37.260 Queen D two It seems her Queen G four is very interesting for white. 01:37.260 --> 01:50.220 So for example, Queen h69259d7 81 And although it's not f6 ready this position, White has other perks 01:50.220 --> 01:57.750 here in this position for example f four to put pressure on d five and then the move c four to resolve 01:57.750 --> 02:02.070 the double pawns should lead white to a very promising position indeed. 02:02.070 --> 02:05.490 So this position black's really quite passive. 02:05.820 --> 02:08.460 So this would have been an interesting way of playing things. 02:08.460 --> 02:10.080 But Queen rd two was played. 02:10.080 --> 02:11.250 We have Bishop DD seven. 02:13.890 --> 02:21.150 Queen H four is actually technically a bit better, but still, you know, white is is better overall 02:21.150 --> 02:21.930 at this point. 02:21.930 --> 02:30.720 So Bishop D7 Rook F3 now H six Now this does give the idea this is an interesting move to give the Knights 02:30.720 --> 02:41.760 potentially G five later it's H five Queen G five Knights have four and here C six is played, so stabilizing 02:41.760 --> 02:44.460 D five if Bishop takes F five. 02:44.490 --> 02:50.280 In fact, Rook G three is strong and the Queen is trying to cling on to five. 02:50.280 --> 02:53.730 It's it's a bit of a nightmare in this position. 02:53.730 --> 02:58.080 So for example, Queen f6 nine nine, five and looking at G seven, that's a nightmare. 03:00.210 --> 03:08.100 So we have you know that would require Bishop G four but H three Windsor Peace so that pawn really can't 03:08.100 --> 03:09.330 be taken on F5. 03:09.330 --> 03:14.970 So we have C six and now Rook G three is played. 03:16.380 --> 03:19.920 So here there are many promising ideas. 03:19.920 --> 03:23.400 In fact, four White Queen F2 is one of them. 03:23.550 --> 03:29.130 So in King hh4 Queen the 8f6 is dangerous for black. 03:30.090 --> 03:37.620 So for example, Queen takes f6h5, Queen six Rook takes F, seven. 03:37.620 --> 03:38.940 White's making progress. 03:39.180 --> 03:40.350 It's very dangerous. 03:40.980 --> 03:45.570 So, yes, this isn't you know, this isn't a very pleasant scenario. 03:45.690 --> 03:52.260 And if G six you might want the queen to king eight, seven, eight five White's got a strong attack, 03:52.260 --> 03:57.150 so there is a bit of luck involved here and White not playing the most accurate moves. 03:57.150 --> 04:04.410 So Rook G three was played Queen H four and our definite inaccuracy with Queen F two. 04:04.440 --> 04:08.670 It does set up it's lucrative because it sets up a little trap. 04:09.300 --> 04:13.230 You know Rook takes G seven check to win the queen. 04:13.740 --> 04:23.310 But the thing is about in this position and of course, this is very easy to say in retrospect why has 04:23.310 --> 04:24.390 f six hair? 04:27.500 --> 04:31.760 The thing is, if Queen takes F6, there's no H5. 04:32.300 --> 04:36.200 And this is just crushing, absolutely crushing. 04:36.830 --> 04:40.550 So what would happen after F six, G five? 04:40.590 --> 04:42.650 This is this is looking very awkward. 04:42.650 --> 04:45.860 Rock F one King can't shake nine, two three. 04:45.860 --> 04:54.290 If we take this as a pawn sacrifice, why it does have that form pawn on f six and one should be significantly 04:54.290 --> 04:54.920 better here. 04:54.920 --> 04:56.450 For example, nine of two. 04:58.630 --> 05:03.870 Is vicious and black has to tread extremely carefully. 05:03.880 --> 05:05.560 It's not over yet. 05:06.500 --> 05:07.460 Completely. 05:07.580 --> 05:08.450 But. 05:09.730 --> 05:14.260 It's just a very, very dangerous position building up here. 05:16.170 --> 05:20.250 And so that seems very unpleasant and one that will slip up, say, rookie sixth. 05:20.280 --> 05:24.060 Then there's rook free and this is game over with rookie take six. 05:24.060 --> 05:30.660 So it be very difficult to play that position but with Queen af two Adams kind of bounces back here 05:30.660 --> 05:38.690 with King eight so yes he sidesteps trap rookies and rook takes G seven Queen H four. 05:38.700 --> 05:41.730 So King H eight Queen free. 05:42.030 --> 05:45.850 And now things are looking much better after seven. 05:46.440 --> 05:51.870 So possessing that central file is interesting, but 95 is very interesting. 05:51.870 --> 05:53.730 We have rook G for a mistake. 05:53.730 --> 06:04.920 It seems this lets black use the e one square if rook f one instead it should still be okay or better 06:04.920 --> 06:09.930 here after 9h5 and here it's looking dangerous for black. 06:09.930 --> 06:17.340 Indeed after f six, even if the exchange is given up this is a super dangerous position and white ends 06:17.340 --> 06:18.660 up on top here. 06:20.740 --> 06:21.760 So, yeah, absolutely. 06:21.760 --> 06:23.040 Fascinating stuff. 06:23.050 --> 06:30.790 So there is an element of luck here off the rook G4 and you might be wondering, well, why am I showing 06:30.790 --> 06:31.420 you this game? 06:32.110 --> 06:35.380 I want to show you some nitty gritty games from Adams. 06:35.380 --> 06:38.920 I mean, he still did very well in this Masters. 06:39.280 --> 06:41.860 And sometimes a chess player does need luck. 06:41.860 --> 06:43.060 We're not supercomputers. 06:43.060 --> 06:44.860 Even the greatest of us. 06:44.860 --> 06:47.590 And games are full of errors. 06:47.890 --> 06:49.540 You know, it's humanity. 06:49.780 --> 06:50.590 So. 06:50.590 --> 06:55.690 But this little slip up now allows rookie one check rotates queen size E one check. 06:55.690 --> 07:05.680 Bishop f one if Queen F one blacks just much better here positionally now and Bishop F one points now 07:05.680 --> 07:14.800 crumbling Anyway, Bishop takes five Rook g free Bishop takes C to Queen G four that's defended that 07:14.800 --> 07:19.150 made France on G seven, Queen RD seven and now 9g5. 07:19.150 --> 07:24.820 And now Black starts improving the position, being aware of tactics, improving the worst piece or 07:24.820 --> 07:27.250 whatever, but being aware of tactics. 07:27.250 --> 07:28.930 Queen takes B seven is played. 07:29.450 --> 07:34.780 It has to be aware that rook tanks g five doesn't work because H takes this is not mating as a bishop. 07:34.780 --> 07:42.130 H seven So improving the worst piece, but with a tactical sense or 100% tactically. 07:42.130 --> 07:46.000 So Queen takes B seven, but now 94. 07:46.630 --> 07:54.190 So with the vicious Queen F two now being threatened for mating so rook free and now Bishop D one and 07:54.190 --> 08:03.460 Y actually resigned here move 29 if Knight D free to hit the Queen as example, Queen takes C free and 08:03.460 --> 08:11.650 now the bishop's threatening bishop takes the queen is threatening the pawn this position there's actually 08:11.650 --> 08:15.880 96 and this is just hopeless. 08:16.000 --> 08:18.580 White's losing or material in the end here. 08:19.300 --> 08:23.650 If Rook f4 Queen size d4 check Bishop H five. 08:23.650 --> 08:26.260 That's also very nice for black. 08:26.260 --> 08:30.250 Now taking over the possession authority in the possession. 08:30.250 --> 08:33.010 So it was a fascinating game. 08:34.270 --> 08:40.570 And I believe, you know, when I covered this game on YouTube years back, I wasn't being objective 08:40.570 --> 08:43.150 about White's attacking opportunities. 08:43.150 --> 08:48.700 We have very strong engines now as well to see the opportunities even more clearly. 08:49.270 --> 08:54.400 So sometimes the positional player can come on the strong attacks and can potentially just be wiped 08:54.400 --> 08:54.550 out. 08:54.550 --> 09:02.530 It's important to be very strong defensively, but even so, sometimes the opponent's dynamic compensation 09:02.530 --> 09:04.060 can just be too much. 09:04.060 --> 09:06.550 With best play, you could just be wiped out. 09:06.580 --> 09:15.160 So this is a slight issue with this game that out of the opening, black was in a difficult situation. 09:15.160 --> 09:22.840 This does seem like a very, very strong attacking plan from why objectively even giving up the bishop, 09:23.380 --> 09:30.040 which it backfired later, but only because less accurate moves than available were played. 09:30.040 --> 09:37.030 So it's an interesting, instructive game for an attacking player versus a positional player, but with 09:37.030 --> 09:38.830 a bit of luck thrown in. 09:38.830 --> 09:43.900 So be aware that chess quite a lot of time isn't just a one way street. 09:44.440 --> 09:50.380 I could just show you pretty positional one way games, but that won't reflect the nature of our chess. 09:50.470 --> 09:54.160 So a bit of a gritty game here in this example. 09:54.190 --> 09:55.030 Och. 09:56.980 --> 09:58.750 So lessons to be learned here? 09:58.750 --> 10:02.230 Well, improving the worst piece was one of the themes. 10:02.710 --> 10:04.660 Tapping into the dance square weaknesses. 10:04.660 --> 10:10.180 So looking out for what bishop the opponents given up sacrificed, try and make the most of the squares 10:10.180 --> 10:11.530 of that particular bishop. 10:11.530 --> 10:15.320 Try and take authority in the position as much as possible. 10:15.320 --> 10:19.060 Like the central file that was very, very useful later for simplification. 10:19.060 --> 10:24.370 So there are certain key positional themes that this game shows. 10:24.670 --> 10:26.650 OC has very much.