Hi there.
In this lecture, we see International Master Peter launch playing against Michael Adams in the 1989
13 Floyds back Martha's open round six, so e four from Pete at large.
Adams plays the French defense on this occasion we have d4d59c free bishop before and now I kind of
delayed exchange variation of the French.
So e takes D five Adams plays, E takes D five.
We have Bishop D 390 6a3 bishop thank c3b tanks might have six knights.
E two So this is a very, very interesting play from white.
The f pawn is still made available for attacking purposes.
And why has the bishop power?
It's an interesting variation.
Adams counsels on the kingside.
White Castles on the Kingside 97, Knight, G3 96 and now F4.
Objectively, White is actually significantly better here and should have strong attacking potential.
So how does Adams actually defend this position?
We have Rook E, eight, F five, knights F eight and now Bishop G5 an underpinning move.
Queen RD six seems logical.
Bishop takes F six.
Now here, if Black can succeed in making use of the dark squares, then black will be okay.
However, if white can play accurately from this position and unleash f six at some points, this could
be extremely dangerous for Black's king.
We have Queen takes F six and already now a slight inaccuracy.
Queen D two It seems her Queen G four is very interesting for white.
So for example, Queen h69259d7 81 And although it's not f6 ready this position, White has other perks
here in this position for example f four to put pressure on d five and then the move c four to resolve
the double pawns should lead white to a very promising position indeed.
So this position black's really quite passive.
So this would have been an interesting way of playing things.
But Queen rd two was played.
We have Bishop DD seven.
Queen H four is actually technically a bit better, but still, you know, white is is better overall
at this point.
So Bishop D7 Rook F3 now H six Now this does give the idea this is an interesting move to give the Knights
potentially G five later it's H five Queen G five Knights have four and here C six is played, so stabilizing
D five if Bishop takes F five.
In fact, Rook G three is strong and the Queen is trying to cling on to five.
It's it's a bit of a nightmare in this position.
So for example, Queen f6 nine nine, five and looking at G seven, that's a nightmare.
So we have you know that would require Bishop G four but H three Windsor Peace so that pawn really can't
be taken on F5.
So we have C six and now Rook G three is played.
So here there are many promising ideas.
In fact, four White Queen F2 is one of them.
So in King hh4 Queen the 8f6 is dangerous for black.
So for example, Queen takes f6h5, Queen six Rook takes F, seven.
White's making progress.
It's very dangerous.
So, yes, this isn't you know, this isn't a very pleasant scenario.
And if G six you might want the queen to king eight, seven, eight five White's got a strong attack,
so there is a bit of luck involved here and White not playing the most accurate moves.
So Rook G three was played Queen H four and our definite inaccuracy with Queen F two.
It does set up it's lucrative because it sets up a little trap.
You know Rook takes G seven check to win the queen.
But the thing is about in this position and of course, this is very easy to say in retrospect why has
f six hair?
The thing is, if Queen takes F6, there's no H5.
And this is just crushing, absolutely crushing.
So what would happen after F six, G five?
This is this is looking very awkward.
Rock F one King can't shake nine, two three.
If we take this as a pawn sacrifice, why it does have that form pawn on f six and one should be significantly
better here.
For example, nine of two.
Is vicious and black has to tread extremely carefully.
It's not over yet.
Completely.
But.
It's just a very, very dangerous position building up here.
And so that seems very unpleasant and one that will slip up, say, rookie sixth.
Then there's rook free and this is game over with rookie take six.
So it be very difficult to play that position but with Queen af two Adams kind of bounces back here
with King eight so yes he sidesteps trap rookies and rook takes G seven Queen H four.
So King H eight Queen free.
And now things are looking much better after seven.
So possessing that central file is interesting, but 95 is very interesting.
We have rook G for a mistake.
It seems this lets black use the e one square if rook f one instead it should still be okay or better
here after 9h5 and here it's looking dangerous for black.
Indeed after f six, even if the exchange is given up this is a super dangerous position and white ends
up on top here.
So, yeah, absolutely.
Fascinating stuff.
So there is an element of luck here off the rook G4 and you might be wondering, well, why am I showing
you this game?
I want to show you some nitty gritty games from Adams.
I mean, he still did very well in this Masters.
And sometimes a chess player does need luck.
We're not supercomputers.
Even the greatest of us.
And games are full of errors.
You know, it's humanity.
So.
But this little slip up now allows rookie one check rotates queen size E one check.
Bishop f one if Queen F one blacks just much better here positionally now and Bishop F one points now
crumbling Anyway, Bishop takes five Rook g free Bishop takes C to Queen G four that's defended that
made France on G seven, Queen RD seven and now 9g5.
And now Black starts improving the position, being aware of tactics, improving the worst piece or
whatever, but being aware of tactics.
Queen takes B seven is played.
It has to be aware that rook tanks g five doesn't work because H takes this is not mating as a bishop.
H seven So improving the worst piece, but with a tactical sense or 100% tactically.
So Queen takes B seven, but now 94.
So with the vicious Queen F two now being threatened for mating so rook free and now Bishop D one and
Y actually resigned here move 29 if Knight D free to hit the Queen as example, Queen takes C free and
now the bishop's threatening bishop takes the queen is threatening the pawn this position there's actually
96 and this is just hopeless.
White's losing or material in the end here.
If Rook f4 Queen size d4 check Bishop H five.
That's also very nice for black.
Now taking over the possession authority in the possession.
So it was a fascinating game.
And I believe, you know, when I covered this game on YouTube years back, I wasn't being objective
about White's attacking opportunities.
We have very strong engines now as well to see the opportunities even more clearly.
So sometimes the positional player can come on the strong attacks and can potentially just be wiped
out.
It's important to be very strong defensively, but even so, sometimes the opponent's dynamic compensation
can just be too much.
With best play, you could just be wiped out.
So this is a slight issue with this game that out of the opening, black was in a difficult situation.
This does seem like a very, very strong attacking plan from why objectively even giving up the bishop,
which it backfired later, but only because less accurate moves than available were played.
So it's an interesting, instructive game for an attacking player versus a positional player, but with
a bit of luck thrown in.
So be aware that chess quite a lot of time isn't just a one way street.
I could just show you pretty positional one way games, but that won't reflect the nature of our chess.
So a bit of a gritty game here in this example.
Och.
So lessons to be learned here?
Well, improving the worst piece was one of the themes.
Tapping into the dance square weaknesses.
So looking out for what bishop the opponents given up sacrificed, try and make the most of the squares
of that particular bishop.
Try and take authority in the position as much as possible.
Like the central file that was very, very useful later for simplification.
So there are certain key positional themes that this game shows.
OC has very much.