Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a gritty game Murray Chandler playing against Michael Adams in 1988, the 12
Floyds Masters, Round ten.
So Chandler Strong Grandmaster Ey four is played C6.
So the Kraken is a great choice for positional players like Adams and Karpov.
We have d4d5 92 D takes E for nine, takes E four now 97.
So this is a very solid variation to exchange off without any structural damage.
We have Knight G five, Knight d72, B six.
We have nine 1 to 3 and now G six.
Bishop D three.
Bishop G seven.
White Castles are now 96.
So this has a view sometimes that a five might be useful to prompt c free.
And in this structure, with a structure like this, there are undermining operations available.
The most obvious would be at the base of the pawn chain with C five later, but less obvious would be
somehow to get in b5b4 try and hit the pawn chain hard.
We see rookie one black castles and now the pawn chain is set up C free.
So at the moment it looks like it's a rock to the bishop.
We have Queen C seven knights, E five if F six.
In fact, there is a way for white to get a very strong attack.
Nine takes h seven.
This is a very strong attacking move.
So if taking then the black king is exposed here, the cost of a knight for two pawns and for example
here White's getting more material and it can end up with a brutal checkmate if instead of King takes
h seven, if F takes e five again, there seems to be enough compensation for white here.
The attack is very, very dangerous.
After Rook takes e five, queen takes the G five if knight g four, rook h five.
And it's a very dangerous scenario where the king's really kind of exposed.
White does have an advantage here.
So yes, that's the most dangerous response I've actually after f six to play knights hh7 if Queen bee
free check 95.
This is also dangerous for black, but to a lesser extent there still Knight takes H seven.
So for example here Knight's FE Bishop takes G six.
Again, White ends up being overall better if for example Knight take C four Bishop takes and then Black's
game mated very dangerous scenario so we have 95 just letting the knights be like that 95 queen free
and now Knight's five Queen Atria now H five Queen F3 Queen RD eight So this is really interesting.
This this queen traits so black is defensively postured here H three and now a very interesting move
indeed which reinforces and strengthens the position.
So what do you think that is for ten points.
Yeah.
Well, previously this square had been weakened, and actually, strength is added to G six with Queen
E eight.
Not only strengthening the position somewhat, but also there's potentially holding C six is useful
sometimes if Bishop D seven again won't can play quite forcefully here with nine G takes F seven as
example, this position with g four ends up being better for Y.
The attacking prospects are pretty strong here.
So this is kind of nasty.
So Queenie eight trying to stabilize strengthen the position, the g six weakness which had been weakened
earlier from playing h five and we have now 9c4 and here things get really interesting.
B five we have nines A five.
So it looks as though, well, there's no undermining at the head of the pawn chain because of the d58
for example.
If needs e five here, then F six is possible because of that strengthening of G six.
So this position is on sound for white.
Black is adequately defended here.
So 95 and we have for trying to undermine this rock against the bishop.
If that bishop can come out to play, that would be good.
So before we have Bishop DD two.
If C four in fact nine takes the four of tempo is nice.
Again, though, the position is kind of complex.
White overall still has a nagging edge overall, even in that possibility.
But Bishop DD two was played.
We have Rook, the 8c4 might be six.
And yes, this is a structure undermining offering C six.
Here we have Bishop takes F five.
Bishop takes five.
So, yes, this is it looks a bit dodgy to give black the bishop hair, but winning the pawn here seems
lucrative.
Rokeby seven.
And there's also another pawn potentially week before hand.
We have be free.
And now Rook see seven.
And now Knight takes B four.
So yeah, technically white is better here.
This is a really gritty game.
If D five then taking out the exchange and playing F6, this should be containing White's advantage
if a counter exchange act to get rid of that knight.
This would be only a small edge for white.
So Knight takes b4.
So at the moment Black does have the bishop parents compensation.
We have Knight defray if Knight d5 this is possible and this position, it should be better here overall.
But Knight rd free we have Bishop Tang's default so it's only a pawn down now.
Black having the bishop and rook 81 and now Queen eight so not minding the Queen's coming off.
So sensing the opponent might not like the Queen's coming off perhaps because they're an attacking player
and they may have used a lot of time earlier.
We have the move.
Bishop F4, if Queen takes a this is a way to go, this position, for example, and then Bishop F4
should be in White's favour.
But Bishop F4 is played and we have Rook de seven and now see five.
This weakens the D5 five square.
So this is a bit of a theme.
Sometimes they get these central squares in Adams games going on, so weakening d5 if Queen E to A for
G for Bishop takes D free, this situation should be okay for white.
Why it needs to be concerned about Bishop takes f two tactics, but it should be solid enough and one
should be with advantage.
But c five was played and now we have 95 and now 94.
This is a bit of an inaccuracy.
Throwing away any advantage really?
Nearly if Bishop e5 Bishop takes Knight takes, this situation is still kind of interesting.
Why has Knight takes F seven Hare Knight He takes F seven for this g for tactic.
And again overall this should be this is the exchange up for why it should be better for white.
But with 94 blacks in with a shot now and plays 90 C free and there's a lot of pressure on these pieces
now that the centre has been kind of taken out.
We have Knight take C free Queen takes free doubling White's pawns.
Bishop take C free.
And now this really makes things a lot worse now.
C six so black from struggling is now with advantage of this.
If knight e5 rook takes DD one rook takes the one, rooks should be even, but this just blunders the
position away C six we have now Rook takes DD free.
Yeah, the passport is not good enough here so we have Bishop takes E one.
In fact, Bishop takes DD four is good as well because Bishop five is strong here and black speller
but Bishop takes E one is also good.
So black Bishop up four Not too many pawns, just one pawn C seven We have Roxy eight Rook c1f6.
So it's just the bishop up now.
Bishop takes H three.
Yeah.
It seems as though White is pretty distraught here and losing material, not even protecting h free,
but yeah, they are a bishop down.
So Bishop takes h three.
This should be six.
King of seven, Rook C four Bishop e six rook c2h for some nice pass pawn there.
White's just giving up material for not much.
Trying to get two connected pass ones, but they're a bit slow.
Bishop d6b for rook eight and white here resigned.
It is a hopeless situation if rook c1h3 this possession black can make progress on the diagonal for
example like this making progress for example.
This will be crushing now.
So it's a fighting nitty gre nitty game here in the corner Con But if you play the Kraken, yeah, you're
going to get attacking players going for you with Knight G five.
So interesting moves for me in this game from a positional perspective, strengthening the possession
at key points, which one has kind of been provoked to weaken.
So White's manoeuvres with the queen kind of soon.
Provoked JI six to be weakened.
And it's fascinating that sense of weakness in the position to add the prophylaxis to where one has
been weakened.
So Queen to Queen E is a fascinating possession, but also tactically, of course, it threatens F six.
So it's not just about in a theoretical sense.
There's a there's a concrete fact here as well.
F six potentially.
So in the moving encouraged basically the undermining of the pawn chain, even if it cost a pawn, it
seems in a from a practical perspective, White's position is loosened, the grip is loosened off,
the pawn is won and with default coming off.
Here, from a practical perspective, even if engines like white in some way it's become more difficult
for white to manage this position.
Black has solved a lot of the key issues in the position from a practical kind of human perspective
and won't go severely wrong soon.
So.
Nancy Frey.
Yeah, this is this is a terrible mistake.
Coming up, this C six move.
So White had to play 95 here.
So fascinating game.
Key mistake there.
So Adams with the black pieces beating Grandmaster Murray Chandler in 1988 in round ten.
So I hope you got some key points from it.
Prophylaxis of key points undermining the structure, trying to you know, the bishop was kind of put
against granite a rock, but the pawn structure was undermined.
So good stuff from a few positional perspectives in my view.
I hope you enjoyed it so much.