WEBVTT 00:01.120 --> 00:02.080 Hi there. 00:02.320 --> 00:09.550 In this lecture, we see a very interesting rapid game, so the potential for accuracy is much less 00:09.550 --> 00:11.560 than a classic one day game. 00:11.560 --> 00:16.090 But nevertheless, it's an interesting encounter between a British grandmaster, Glenn Flair and Anatoly 00:16.090 --> 00:16.840 Karpov. 00:16.960 --> 00:24.160 So this is the 2004 Grand Prix Day, Shaq's Tillman's Round 1d4 from Glen Flair. 00:25.120 --> 00:37.000 Karpov plays nine of 6c4e69c free Bishop b4 so the engine we have Queen C two Karpov castles e4d6a free 00:37.000 --> 00:38.980 and Karpov takes on C three. 00:39.280 --> 00:42.750 B takes A now knight C six Bishop D free. 00:42.760 --> 00:46.990 And you might wonder here about this position. 00:46.990 --> 00:48.100 What would you plan this position? 00:48.100 --> 00:49.450 This is very interesting. 00:49.840 --> 01:00.460 Already we see h6e5 seems logical, but it does offer a target on E five. 01:00.460 --> 01:07.840 So for example, this position, if we play like this and encourage the closing of the center, White 01:07.840 --> 01:11.020 can get quite a dangerous position soon. 01:11.230 --> 01:14.290 Perhaps playing for f four that is a target for F4. 01:14.290 --> 01:17.950 So karpov's treatment doesn't give such a target. 01:17.950 --> 01:26.620 On E five we have 92, b64 and again now without touching center just 95. 01:27.100 --> 01:35.470 Karpov is aiming to play kind of nimzowitsch style to attack this pawn on C four and weak squares can 01:35.470 --> 01:37.420 lead to mighty outposts. 01:37.420 --> 01:41.290 If you look at a lot of nimzowitsch games, he does get magnificent outposts. 01:41.290 --> 01:46.890 Once he can get control of a square, even if double pawns removed. 01:46.900 --> 01:51.850 So e five we have 98 and thanks to h six there's no bishop takes h seven. 01:51.850 --> 01:54.850 There's no winning of a pawn g free. 01:55.030 --> 02:01.000 Now if white castles here C five, Bishop E three black could play F five and this should be only a 02:01.000 --> 02:14.890 small edge for white knight G three We have Bishop a six, queen E two if queen a2d5 and this should 02:14.890 --> 02:16.060 be about even. 02:16.060 --> 02:17.710 Yeah, it's a tricky position still. 02:17.710 --> 02:21.580 So Queen E two and Karpov actually plays D five. 02:22.000 --> 02:26.320 Now this was a moment of opportunity, it seems, for Glenn. 02:26.560 --> 02:30.190 In this rapid game, Koppel's moves seems to be inaccurate. 02:30.190 --> 02:36.340 F five might actually be important for King setting safety dynamic factors and important to sacrifice 02:36.340 --> 02:37.090 a pawn. 02:37.720 --> 02:45.250 This would break up White's attacking potential to sack a pawn and leave perhaps a small edge objectively 02:45.250 --> 02:45.880 for black. 02:45.880 --> 02:49.180 So this is objectively, this is only a rapid game though. 02:49.180 --> 02:55.210 But objectively Black's going to be better for black with such a pawn sac so five is handy to know about 02:56.110 --> 03:01.090 from a theoretical perspective, what with D5, Glenn Flair misses his shot. 03:01.090 --> 03:02.140 He really. 03:02.380 --> 03:04.570 It's a kind of tragedy, actually. 03:04.990 --> 03:06.390 He could have played here. 03:06.430 --> 03:10.690 Well, he played C takes the E5, but F5 seems ever so dangerous. 03:11.320 --> 03:19.900 As example, we've got three ways to take on C4, but if we look at D takes Bishop E for this position, 03:19.900 --> 03:23.800 Queen G four and Black's king looks a bit precarious. 03:23.800 --> 03:29.890 So here for example, F takes E, six, Bishop B seven, and a magnificent knight coming to F five. 03:29.890 --> 03:33.520 This is starting to be a very dangerous looking, attacking position. 03:33.790 --> 03:42.160 And White could even offer a rook here because the e seven France e seven is incoming here. 03:43.360 --> 03:47.740 So yeah, this is just going to be a very vicious position. 03:47.740 --> 03:53.560 For example, like this with best attacking chess, it should crash through basically this simply crashes 03:53.560 --> 03:54.130 through. 03:54.730 --> 03:58.720 That does seem like a terrible thing to potentially happen. 03:59.170 --> 04:06.430 So that was on de takes C four but other moves they don't help either. 04:06.430 --> 04:13.600 Bishop takes C4, Bishop take C4 nine takes white castles and it is a magnificent attacking position. 04:14.020 --> 04:18.130 This this position will play here is overcooked at the expense of king safety. 04:18.400 --> 04:20.530 Yeah, the kingside is perilously weak. 04:20.530 --> 04:22.180 White's just got an advantage. 04:22.180 --> 04:26.860 But the way it's played, all of this becomes nullified. 04:26.860 --> 04:32.650 All the attacking opportunities become nullified after C takes maybe one to just level the pawns. 04:32.650 --> 04:35.440 But yeah, there's magnificent outposts to be won. 04:35.440 --> 04:41.740 Now Bishop takes the free weakens white on those light squares Queen takes DD five adds pressure to 04:41.740 --> 04:49.270 C4 and a knight on C4 is very dominant over such a bishop locked in in the pawn chain. 04:49.270 --> 04:54.400 So this is potential light squared domination alla nimzowitsch in the same style as nimzowitsch. 04:54.400 --> 04:58.760 If f five here there is queen takes g to pedantic li. 04:59.310 --> 05:02.010 F6 this should be even this position. 05:02.010 --> 05:05.520 If we take it a bit further, it's going to be about even. 05:07.650 --> 05:16.740 But won't Castled and now F5 here from Karpov we have E takes F six, nine, six, F six. 05:16.740 --> 05:20.550 So this generally helps King safety in a way. 05:20.550 --> 05:27.870 We have Bishop DD 29c4 so a mighty knight on C four rook 81c5 and white center is being undermined. 05:27.870 --> 05:31.770 Bishop C one That bishop is a kind of prisoner in its own pawn chain. 05:31.770 --> 05:36.390 So lack of harmony and Karpov has a light squared domination here. 05:36.420 --> 05:45.600 C takes D four, C takes D four and a 2 to 1 pawn majority now, which can also be amplified. 05:45.600 --> 05:50.040 So B five, Queen G six, Queen D seven and F five. 05:50.310 --> 05:51.870 Too little, too late. 05:51.900 --> 05:53.160 Queen eight. 05:53.400 --> 06:00.120 The Queen's come off rendering, rendering White's attacking opportunities mostly harmless, especially 06:00.120 --> 06:02.700 if you're a fan of the game of late, you remember mostly harmless. 06:02.700 --> 06:05.640 So anyway, Rook takes E, six, nine and five. 06:05.850 --> 06:11.130 Now 95, you can see that this is a picture of light squared domination with these knights. 06:11.130 --> 06:16.080 Rook have three king 87 and functional as well functionality as well as aesthetics. 06:16.080 --> 06:22.980 Blockading the rd pawn means that black virtually has an extra pass pawn potential whereby it hasn't 06:23.130 --> 06:24.510 because it's been blockaded. 06:24.510 --> 06:30.750 So H three wrote d7g4 This is not really that effective. 06:30.750 --> 06:36.510 This attack a five king of two b4 so the passport is created. 06:36.510 --> 06:41.190 Bishop RD two Rook have seven Bishop C one rook a seven. 06:41.910 --> 06:43.860 So it seems to be changing the mind, the rook. 06:43.860 --> 06:45.450 But these are dangerous possibilities. 06:45.450 --> 06:53.430 We have G five if King G free rook B seven black can get on with the past pawn here. 06:53.430 --> 06:58.860 If white does nothing, this past pawn spells doom for the white position, especially with these pretty 06:58.860 --> 07:01.230 knights, and they're pretty functional as well. 07:01.230 --> 07:08.520 So this is crashing through the past pawn or bishop c1b2 crashing through the past pawn with Rook A-1. 07:08.790 --> 07:11.100 So there's possible nightmare scenarios. 07:11.310 --> 07:12.990 So g five is tried. 07:13.110 --> 07:14.040 H Thanks. 07:14.040 --> 07:15.180 Bishop takes G fine. 07:15.180 --> 07:20.610 Now this is an unprotected piece downside liability and we see a crushing move. 07:20.610 --> 07:25.050 Can you see what comp of plays which essentially ends the game? 07:25.050 --> 07:26.400 It's only a rapid game. 07:26.400 --> 07:31.650 So yeah, White's play has been proven to be kind of unsound. 07:33.240 --> 07:33.470 Yeah. 07:33.510 --> 07:38.460 Knight C three Just poking at the pieces here we see Rook C one and now 94. 07:38.460 --> 07:39.060 Check. 07:39.060 --> 07:45.720 This is picking up the Bishop King's you on Knight takes G five hitting the rook rook G free and now 07:45.720 --> 07:46.920 we're both knights attacked. 07:46.950 --> 07:54.930 Guess what Karpov plays here, which is simple and strong to in effect, safeguard both knights for 07:54.930 --> 07:55.770 ten points. 07:58.130 --> 07:58.640 Yeah. 08:00.770 --> 08:01.740 92. 08:01.760 --> 08:02.240 Yeah. 08:02.240 --> 08:04.110 So this night cannot be taken on G five. 08:04.130 --> 08:05.990 D five is played rook tanks, G five. 08:05.990 --> 08:08.570 There's not a free check at a nine tanks. 08:08.570 --> 08:09.410 G five. 08:09.410 --> 08:11.120 So define is played. 08:12.800 --> 08:19.340 And now rookie 590 39gf3 check winning more material. 08:19.370 --> 08:25.040 This is only a rapid game so yeah, a bit of a slaughter in the end so here Glenn Flair resigned. 08:25.520 --> 08:29.360 So interesting stuff if D six this is not going anywhere be free. 08:29.360 --> 08:30.860 Yeah it's nothing. 08:31.070 --> 08:37.370 So anyway, it's just a rapid game not to be taken too seriously, but it has been kind of taken out 08:37.370 --> 08:44.180 of context this game as though it was a masterpiece we must recognize as positional players the harsh 08:44.180 --> 08:45.230 reality of chess. 08:45.230 --> 08:49.060 We don't want to be attacked trying to do our positional play. 08:49.070 --> 08:54.110 If you look at a lot of classic Nimzowitsch games, Nimzowitsch is King is very, very safe. 08:54.110 --> 08:55.700 And we're talking about long games. 08:55.700 --> 08:58.070 Usually for Nimzowitsch, his king's very, very safe. 08:58.070 --> 09:00.200 This wasn't necessarily the case here. 09:00.200 --> 09:07.580 That's not a good success factor of positional chess to potentially allow strong looking, attacking 09:07.580 --> 09:08.600 opportunities. 09:08.780 --> 09:15.110 So yes, F5 needed to be played, but in the end, because of White's treatment here we do get this 09:15.110 --> 09:21.050 light squared domination effect, which looks great with the Knights in the past pawn potential and 09:21.050 --> 09:22.700 being able to blockade the opponent's pass. 09:22.700 --> 09:27.140 Pawn means we've basically a pawn up in this game on the queenside. 09:27.140 --> 09:33.680 So it was expertly exploited after despite the more quick time control of this rapid game. 09:33.680 --> 09:35.060 So very, very interesting. 09:35.150 --> 09:36.030 I hope you enjoyed it. 09:36.080 --> 09:39.290 Got some key points from it and so much.