WEBVTT 00:00.980 --> 00:01.720 Hi there. 00:01.730 --> 00:06.740 In this lecture, Michael Adams is playing against the Ginger GM Simon Williams. 00:06.740 --> 00:12.320 So this is in the 2010 British Championship, round ten E four from Michael Adams. 00:12.320 --> 00:15.080 We have a Sicilian defense nine, we have 3d6. 00:15.080 --> 00:18.120 Another fun killer move, Bishop B five checks. 00:18.140 --> 00:21.620 This is a more positional choice in many respects than D four. 00:22.550 --> 00:27.650 So instead of an open Sicilian, Adams is going for a moxie binds pawn structure. 00:27.650 --> 00:32.810 He first gets rid of a piece which might not be compatible with pawns on line squares. 00:32.810 --> 00:36.200 So the rest of the pieces are in harmony with the structure. 00:36.440 --> 00:40.400 You can imagine this bishop is not going to be blocked in by light square pawns, but this one would 00:40.400 --> 00:40.880 be. 00:40.970 --> 00:43.340 So it's a logical opening for a miracle. 00:43.340 --> 00:46.550 He binds without a bad bishop, basically. 00:46.670 --> 00:53.450 So the miracle he binds is designed against D five break or B five break. 00:53.450 --> 00:57.560 So these two pawns are guardians of D, five and B five. 00:57.890 --> 01:04.310 And the idea is to try and minimize the counterplay from the opponent, which we have to deal with, 01:04.310 --> 01:05.600 which is a lot of hassle sometimes. 01:05.600 --> 01:12.500 So we get a position here where y it's very solid and there shouldn't be too many worries. 01:12.500 --> 01:16.520 We see rook c8b free, so we see E six here. 01:16.520 --> 01:18.410 Very interesting, rook. 01:18.410 --> 01:26.540 C one And now Simon Williams tries to break out the bind with D five depending on how white plays. 01:26.540 --> 01:31.130 Yeah, this is interesting this D five but white played very accurately here. 01:31.250 --> 01:34.250 What be your positional choice in this possession? 01:38.910 --> 01:40.680 Okay, 400 points. 01:40.800 --> 01:41.430 E five. 01:41.700 --> 01:44.580 This does seem to be the top engine move as well. 01:44.580 --> 01:46.260 If we play C takes. 01:46.950 --> 01:47.970 This is slightly different. 01:47.970 --> 01:56.070 We're kind of liberating blacks position because we've given them some an e file pressure and that makes 01:56.070 --> 01:56.700 a difference here. 01:56.700 --> 02:01.710 For example E five rookie eight and this is more hassle than it should be. 02:01.710 --> 02:04.590 Blacks getting an even position by playing E five. 02:04.590 --> 02:11.760 We're keeping that e fo shots for black and now 98 we have c takes d5e times. 02:12.090 --> 02:15.630 If bishop takes e five, then D takes e six. 02:15.870 --> 02:19.230 And this position after F takes white castles. 02:19.410 --> 02:23.010 F for this position, Queen and free white is a big advantage. 02:23.190 --> 02:25.260 So E takes D five. 02:30.040 --> 02:31.330 And now we have four. 02:31.330 --> 02:35.090 So the bishops locked out as a weak pawn on day five. 02:35.110 --> 02:40.990 But the funny thing is, after 90, 86 white Castles, there's a funny thing. 02:40.990 --> 02:45.190 Now, after 97, what would be your choice here? 02:45.280 --> 02:50.980 Great positional move here, which seems completely paradoxical in some respects. 02:51.970 --> 02:53.350 So what would you play here? 02:56.760 --> 02:58.040 1936. 02:58.050 --> 03:00.390 Seemingly it's changing the structure. 03:00.390 --> 03:01.740 It's giving black a backward pawn. 03:01.740 --> 03:04.290 Basically B takes is played if Queen St. 03:04.320 --> 03:05.280 C six. 03:05.640 --> 03:07.740 We have 94 here. 03:08.550 --> 03:14.580 So attacking the Queen and then we get in 96 and this is a great position. 03:15.390 --> 03:22.080 So, okay, so B tanks, we have 94 anyway here making use of the pen and the C five squared. 03:22.100 --> 03:25.730 So that pawn in front of the backward pawn nice blockade square. 03:25.740 --> 03:28.290 So 95 Queen E seven. 03:28.290 --> 03:29.640 But where is the teeth. 03:29.670 --> 03:29.930 Okay. 03:30.000 --> 03:35.190 The knight retracts actually, where can we get actually more teeth into Black's position to get a bigger 03:35.190 --> 03:36.060 advantage. 03:36.210 --> 03:39.960 Let's see Queen F3, This is really quite dynamic. 03:41.860 --> 03:46.060 There's a dynamic consideration already made here, which is phenomenal. 03:46.600 --> 03:52.750 So we consider that the blockade square in front of a backward pawn is great, but how do we actually 03:52.750 --> 03:54.370 increase the advantage from there? 03:54.430 --> 03:56.590 Well, we look at the perks. 03:56.590 --> 04:02.860 Well, with hindsight of this game, one of the perks, if we have a knight on C five, we've got a 04:02.860 --> 04:07.780 knight potentially looking at B seven and DH seven. 04:10.130 --> 04:11.690 So just bear that in mind. 04:11.690 --> 04:12.940 How could that be useful? 04:12.950 --> 04:20.260 Maybe we can amplify, for example, those squares as tactical squares to make use of. 04:20.270 --> 04:26.600 And we see here after a5c5 gets the queen off. 04:27.460 --> 04:29.180 The light squares here. 04:29.200 --> 04:31.760 The queen is actually evicted from the square. 04:31.780 --> 04:35.350 So there's a kind of weakness of the last move because the queens neglected. 04:35.350 --> 04:46.030 Now, this diagonal, if it did go to F five here, G four looks remarkably strong, trapping the queen. 04:46.030 --> 04:47.470 The queen hasn't got DD free. 04:47.740 --> 04:49.930 So yeah, that looks remarkably winning. 04:49.930 --> 05:01.690 So the queen is evicted off the light squares and now we have Bishop F two and it does seem white reserves 05:01.690 --> 05:07.300 the right to put the Queen on a light square, which could be handy in conjunction with the seven. 05:07.300 --> 05:11.080 We have rook a, b eight, and now we see Queen H three. 05:12.010 --> 05:18.220 And this is really funny stuff now because. 05:19.760 --> 05:21.860 One is potentially threatening 97. 05:21.860 --> 05:24.410 We have a five if h six. 05:24.410 --> 05:30.530 Let me just demonstrate this outpost is actually quite vicious 97 because 97 is important, whereas 05:30.530 --> 05:35.060 Black do rook eight there's might be six winning in exchange. 05:35.750 --> 05:37.640 So this is very funny stuff. 05:37.640 --> 05:39.890 If rook be 7.6 check. 05:40.100 --> 05:42.980 And then we're still taking out an exchange. 05:43.550 --> 05:45.890 So, yeah, very, very funny stuff. 05:49.280 --> 05:51.800 H 697 896. 05:51.800 --> 05:54.650 Just to recap, you know, we're winning exchange there. 05:54.830 --> 06:04.070 So yes, F five looks like a sad move to have to make, but it's it seems a necessary move and it basically 06:04.070 --> 06:07.790 gives this protected passport which needs to be now blockaded. 06:07.790 --> 06:11.630 But the issue is the queen swinging around now, hitting a five. 06:12.410 --> 06:14.840 There's also there was also another good move in the position. 06:14.840 --> 06:19.310 G4 It seems this way of playing it is also viable. 06:19.310 --> 06:23.000 It's a big advantage to white hair as well. 06:23.000 --> 06:31.730 But Quincey phrase nifty looking at a five and rook eight is actually an inaccuracy which worsens Black's 06:31.730 --> 06:32.150 position. 06:32.150 --> 06:36.680 If Queen rd eight Rook fd1 bishop at 96. 06:38.120 --> 06:41.270 And then this position we're taking out for Bishop C five. 06:41.270 --> 06:42.140 This is a huge position. 06:42.140 --> 06:43.520 We can take 85 there. 06:43.760 --> 06:50.540 So anyway, things can get bad anyway, but Rook eight we have a four, so the threat is knight B six. 06:50.540 --> 06:56.720 It's like these rooks are in trouble and this rooks holding that, that pawn, you know, the pieces 06:56.720 --> 06:58.310 are under strain basically already. 06:58.310 --> 06:59.330 They're not great. 06:59.330 --> 07:00.620 They're passive pieces. 07:00.620 --> 07:04.400 We have rook sex and now guess what ends the game here? 07:11.920 --> 07:12.910 Queen de Fray. 07:12.940 --> 07:13.270 Yeah. 07:13.270 --> 07:15.040 This is really awkward for black. 07:17.170 --> 07:18.390 Black resigned if Queen. 07:18.400 --> 07:18.880 B seven. 07:18.880 --> 07:20.060 We just -- with nine. 07:20.110 --> 07:23.230 C five and winning a rook there, actually. 07:23.230 --> 07:26.380 So we're going to be winning the you know, we've got that protected. 07:26.380 --> 07:27.820 So what is black doing here? 07:28.690 --> 07:29.470 So. 07:30.230 --> 07:35.240 If Rook, I ain't the knight be six, then we're winning. 07:35.240 --> 07:38.240 Exchange like that and we can further make progress. 07:38.240 --> 07:40.220 Building up pressure there beautifully. 07:40.340 --> 07:42.230 So yeah, Queenie Free ended the game. 07:42.230 --> 07:43.220 So it's funny. 07:43.610 --> 07:51.380 Another quick win for for Adams actually basically in this tournament so in this tournament he had actually 07:51.380 --> 07:57.920 six games against kind of near 2500 opposition winning in less than 30 moves and he's supposed to be 07:57.920 --> 08:00.500 a positional player and this is one of those games. 08:00.500 --> 08:09.020 It's like everyone's absolutely terrified of Adams and Adams has to win to maintain his like 2700 rating. 08:09.020 --> 08:12.710 And he did so spectacularly in this edition of the British championship. 08:12.710 --> 08:19.940 So this is one of those profound games where that really didn't seem to have any counterplay, any life 08:19.940 --> 08:20.630 to the possession. 08:20.630 --> 08:26.420 Basically, after the opening wanted to play in the spirit of Bobby Fischer, you know, the exciting 08:26.420 --> 08:30.230 dreams, you know, the night of games of of Bobby Fischer for the Open Sicilian. 08:30.230 --> 08:34.340 But the Fun Kill started with Bishop B5 Check and the proxy mind. 08:34.460 --> 08:39.860 It's very, very logical pawn structure play to restrain counterplay, to restrain pawn breaks. 08:39.860 --> 08:46.490 And we see very expert transitioning as well of pawn structure in this example where black tries to 08:46.490 --> 08:49.310 relieve against the proxy binds. 08:49.400 --> 08:55.040 White is very careful not to give black too many rhodes of counterplay like semi f4. 08:55.070 --> 09:01.490 So things are shut down here counterplay is really shut down quite well and this position with the backward 09:01.490 --> 09:06.510 pawn is putting strain on the black rooks and in fact the black rooks find themselves in big trouble. 09:06.510 --> 09:09.230 Like it really is a found game. 09:09.230 --> 09:14.870 So kicking the queen first off the light squared diagonal, not immediately using light squared diagonal 09:14.870 --> 09:21.680 parking the bishop on F2 first reserves some other ideas and gets rid of even any tempo gain a sniff 09:21.680 --> 09:22.910 of a tempo gainer. 09:23.420 --> 09:24.440 So here. 09:24.440 --> 09:24.710 Yeah. 09:24.710 --> 09:29.120 Now there's this big idea of 97. 09:29.120 --> 09:35.240 It is absolutely a remarkable game how this queens probing on both sides of the board and winning material 09:35.240 --> 09:36.080 just with Queen moves. 09:36.080 --> 09:40.010 Winning material really a profound positional game. 09:40.010 --> 09:44.930 It shows positional play can actually win games pretty quickly. 09:45.470 --> 09:47.120 Och, really amazing stuff. 09:47.120 --> 09:50.360 I hope you enjoyed this game as much as me and so much.