WEBVTT 00:00.830 --> 00:01.640 Hi there. 00:01.760 --> 00:06.650 In this lecture, we see Michael Adams against Roof Sheldon in 1997, the British championship round 00:06.650 --> 00:07.280 one. 00:07.460 --> 00:08.220 Let's have a look. 00:08.240 --> 00:09.970 E4, a Sicilian defense. 00:10.010 --> 00:17.630 Nine two, three, E, six D, 4cd, four 964, 96 nine, C three, Quincy seven. 00:17.630 --> 00:20.850 We have Bishop E three, a six, Queen RD two. 00:20.870 --> 00:23.090 So is this a positional game? 00:23.090 --> 00:29.930 It looks like a hack attack game, yes, but Adams does play 1e4 in a positional style quite a lot of 00:29.930 --> 00:30.680 the time. 00:30.980 --> 00:37.520 On this occasion, after nine of six free, there is a kind of prophylaxis here to this construction. 00:38.210 --> 00:40.850 Free does stop moves like 9g4. 00:41.120 --> 00:46.370 It does also mean that there's a battery here as well, which could be useful in the future. 00:46.730 --> 00:52.940 We have Bishop E seven and our space scanning G four, so it's positional and attacking D six white 00:52.940 --> 00:57.110 castles, Queenside black castles on the kingside. 00:57.140 --> 01:05.420 G 590 7h4 It does look positionally as though white is better here. 01:05.510 --> 01:05.930 Why? 01:05.930 --> 01:09.110 It's going to be quicker to connect the rooks to get everything working. 01:09.290 --> 01:15.320 And maybe the positional play is slightly simplified now with this accelerating move, just opening 01:15.320 --> 01:17.420 up things. 01:17.420 --> 01:21.500 So what move would you play here of the B five for 100 points? 01:23.070 --> 01:23.600 Okay. 01:23.700 --> 01:26.970 G6 trying to accelerate opening up lines to the King. 01:26.970 --> 01:28.230 If now No. 01:28.320 --> 01:32.010 F six was played, if F takes G six, then we can just win the exchange. 01:32.250 --> 01:33.270 Thanks very much. 01:33.660 --> 01:40.170 If H takes G six, h five, and then if Knight takes RD for Bishop takes the four. 01:40.530 --> 01:43.260 This situation is going to favor White. 01:43.260 --> 01:43.620 Slightly. 01:43.620 --> 01:45.480 Went a bit faster for the attack. 01:45.630 --> 01:51.450 Even if Black's resourceful like this, holding that pawn with the Queen White's attack here is pretty 01:51.450 --> 01:51.840 strong. 01:51.840 --> 01:53.880 It is about the attack in this position. 01:53.880 --> 01:57.060 So, for example, Bishop takes up six, nine, six, five, six. 01:57.060 --> 02:00.050 We've got a key tempo gainer against the Queen. 02:00.060 --> 02:05.610 Speed is important here again, a key tempo gainer and black can be absolutely annihilated. 02:05.610 --> 02:10.320 Rook takes G seven, check, Queen G five, check all of tempo and taking the Queen. 02:10.320 --> 02:16.350 It's just one example of the destruction that's possible if H takes G six. 02:16.350 --> 02:22.200 So black kind of ignored it might have six, G takes h seven check King takes h seven. 02:22.200 --> 02:25.800 And now with tempo nine, take six, Queen take six. 02:25.800 --> 02:33.150 Bishop D three kind of with tempo is practicing E five King H is played, Rook g1b4. 02:33.150 --> 02:36.540 And now again another major tempo gainer move. 02:36.540 --> 02:42.250 Really powerful stuff from Adams here showing that although he's a positional player, he's really working 02:42.250 --> 02:43.650 in the tempos in this game. 02:44.670 --> 02:50.400 So I think it's nice to see the picture in context sometimes a little bit. 02:50.400 --> 02:53.490 So here White's play, what would you play in this position? 02:55.590 --> 02:56.070 Yeah. 02:56.100 --> 03:00.150 Bishop six So looking at G seven, we have Rook G eight. 03:01.320 --> 03:05.910 If G takes 86, Queen takes H six, tech minus H seven. 03:05.910 --> 03:07.590 Queen G seven is checkmate. 03:08.130 --> 03:11.010 If B takes C, free Bishop takes G seven. 03:11.010 --> 03:16.920 Check King James We're peeling open the king Bishop takes up six check E five check. 03:16.920 --> 03:17.310 Yeah. 03:17.310 --> 03:21.330 This isn't entirely positional, but it is absolutely winning stuff. 03:21.330 --> 03:28.200 So we have Rook G eight being played, but now again E five not wasting any tempo moving the knight. 03:29.100 --> 03:32.850 So we see g six if B takes C free. 03:33.120 --> 03:37.260 The thing is the bishop's now looking at h seven which makes this more effective. 03:37.260 --> 03:41.190 Bishop takes G seven, Rook takes G seven, Queen H six. 03:41.190 --> 03:45.660 Check Rook eight seven, Bishop takes H seven and we're back to mating. 03:45.660 --> 03:47.160 So it's quite brutal. 03:47.160 --> 03:52.260 We have G six, but now E takes F six, B, take C free. 03:52.260 --> 03:55.710 And here I move, which ends the game. 03:55.710 --> 03:56.880 Can you see what that is? 03:59.420 --> 04:03.050 It doesn't allow a shred of counterplay, basically. 04:06.190 --> 04:07.450 Edmonds plays Queen five. 04:07.450 --> 04:13.560 This looks a lot stronger than maybe the tempting Bishop G seven, but that allow Rook takes G seven 04:13.560 --> 04:15.310 and Black lives on a bit there. 04:15.460 --> 04:23.500 But the way it's played Queen G five so tempo on on the bishop and we've got form pawn which is a really 04:23.500 --> 04:29.860 dangerous attacking pawn and that resigned if Bishop fi we're just going to take on our fate and Queen 04:29.860 --> 04:35.100 H six Jack and Queen G seven so there's a lot of tempo gainers in this game. 04:35.110 --> 04:41.380 If we want to be a fully rounded positional player playing 1e4, which a lot of us do one play 1e4. 04:41.380 --> 04:48.640 We haven't committed to one D4 necessarily, but there are going to be cases when playing against the 04:48.640 --> 04:54.910 Sicilian defense that the positional player will be transforming into what seems to be an attacking 04:54.910 --> 04:55.480 player. 04:55.690 --> 05:02.200 It's about playing the position we actually want to win, whether we play positionally, attacking chess 05:02.200 --> 05:04.360 or trying to play tactically all the time. 05:04.360 --> 05:08.920 It's about winning and about generally to win against stronger and stronger opponents. 05:08.920 --> 05:10.210 It's about playing the position. 05:10.210 --> 05:15.010 So this is just a reminder, maybe a bit of a contrast to other games that we're trying to play the 05:15.010 --> 05:16.150 possession in chess. 05:16.150 --> 05:22.690 And even if we've got a stereotypical leaning in terms of our style, sometimes we've just got to play 05:22.690 --> 05:23.260 the position. 05:23.260 --> 05:30.520 And here Adams is just brutally playing the possession with a lot of tempo, gaining tactics and logical 05:30.520 --> 05:33.190 opening up moves to open up to the king. 05:33.190 --> 05:38.290 So in a sense you could say, Well, it is kind of positional in that Black's position was destroyed. 05:38.290 --> 05:45.550 But yeah, so this was the 1997 tournament where Adams actually won this British championship edition. 05:45.550 --> 05:49.450 So it's interesting to check the games here and including this one. 05:49.590 --> 05:51.670 Okay, So much.