WEBVTT 00:00.930 --> 00:01.690 Hi there. 00:01.710 --> 00:05.160 In this lecture, we see micro atoms playing against Peter Wells. 00:05.940 --> 00:08.580 So they're both grandmasters now. 00:08.790 --> 00:15.090 And we see in 1990 the 14th Masters open round for E four from Adams. 00:15.090 --> 00:20.910 P Wells plays E, 593 from Adams, 96 from Wells. 00:20.910 --> 00:24.480 We have Bishop B five, A six bishop a four knight F six. 00:25.470 --> 00:27.600 My castles are now B five. 00:29.310 --> 00:32.520 So this early B five instead of Bishop E seven is interesting. 00:32.520 --> 00:37.950 We have Bishop B seven facilitated immediately D three. 00:39.330 --> 00:40.500 Bishop D six. 00:41.610 --> 00:47.820 So that supports the E five pawn and kind of threatens now by supporting E five threatens 985. 00:48.540 --> 00:51.570 So 95 here I can just take on E five. 00:51.600 --> 00:53.430 There isn't much of a penalty. 00:53.730 --> 00:57.540 Sure there's D five, but this position is unsound. 00:57.540 --> 01:01.350 Four black if d take d takes in Queens come off black. 01:01.350 --> 01:07.950 Can't possibly take on e four here Knight takes Bishop takes rookie one and it's a disaster. 01:07.950 --> 01:12.090 Bishop moves this like G six check if F five, F three. 01:12.090 --> 01:14.210 And this position F takes E four. 01:14.220 --> 01:15.630 It's just winning material. 01:15.690 --> 01:18.840 The bishops can end up being pinned after this. 01:18.840 --> 01:21.960 This is just winning material or this is winning material. 01:22.110 --> 01:22.530 So. 01:22.530 --> 01:22.770 Okay. 01:22.800 --> 01:30.060 Bishop D six And now a prevention move, Bishop D to preventing 9 to 5. 01:30.690 --> 01:31.650 Interesting. 01:31.830 --> 01:35.910 So the bishop lives for another day on this diagonal. 01:37.170 --> 01:42.570 So yes, the casual H three would let black kind of equalize, it seems, with a five. 01:42.690 --> 01:48.240 If black has the option of night takes be free white might want to play a for about nine takes be free 01:48.240 --> 01:54.600 this is going to be equal so Bishop detour very interesting move H six and now another very interesting 01:54.600 --> 02:01.260 move C four as if it's potentially threatening to weaken the structure here. 02:01.260 --> 02:10.260 Black castles if B for like work around that pawn with Bishop E three So sometimes C five will be useful. 02:10.260 --> 02:18.090 So say Queen E seven to prevent to prevent C five might be to this position might could play bishop 02:18.090 --> 02:18.480 A four. 02:18.510 --> 02:20.430 This might be the most accurate way of playing it. 02:21.360 --> 02:22.620 Just allow double pawns. 02:22.620 --> 02:26.490 I know positional players don't like double pawns, but let's just imagine this situation. 02:26.490 --> 02:29.580 There are perks for this position with 9h4. 02:30.390 --> 02:32.730 Now if Bishop takes e free, there's 95. 02:32.760 --> 02:33.870 So just put that on the board. 02:33.870 --> 02:34.770 Bishop takes e free. 02:34.770 --> 02:39.990 There's of five forking queen and bishop and that's check. 02:39.990 --> 02:41.880 So it doesn't matter about Bishop takes D two. 02:42.030 --> 02:49.200 So queenly eight we just take so let's imagine here G six this is okay for one this is more than okay 02:49.230 --> 02:55.500 White's getting an advantage so I just wanted to show really that in lines with B for Bishop E free, 02:55.500 --> 02:58.770 this does seem to be favorable for white on bishop form. 02:58.770 --> 03:01.890 This seems to be a very accurate way of playing it. 03:05.050 --> 03:07.830 So anyway, black salt. 03:07.990 --> 03:11.440 We have a frame and I'll be take see for. 03:13.250 --> 03:21.170 So the thing is, if that ignores the C4 move, let's say rookie et y can play C3 putting more pressure 03:21.170 --> 03:27.680 on B5 and this starts to look unpleasant. 03:28.250 --> 03:29.960 What does White do here? 03:31.580 --> 03:37.120 It starts to look as though there are very attractive possibilities for white. 03:37.130 --> 03:44.000 If b for including a four where c five is going to be useful. 03:44.000 --> 03:46.010 This B file could be useful for white later. 03:46.100 --> 03:50.080 So oc B takes C4 is played, Bishop takes C4. 03:50.090 --> 03:50.900 I mean, sorry. 03:50.900 --> 03:56.230 In this variation B take C4 is probably preferable and has a small edge. 03:56.240 --> 04:00.920 So in the game after a free B take C4 is played immediately. 04:01.190 --> 04:05.390 We have Bishop take C4, Bishop C five. 04:05.390 --> 04:10.040 So White still has this kind of nice bishop and this bishop's kind of blunted position. 04:10.130 --> 04:13.010 If we think positionally here. 04:13.010 --> 04:20.470 So once bishops are interesting and white now has this semi-open fold as well, which could be useful 04:20.480 --> 04:31.250 like c3d6 rook C 190 4a5 might be more solid, not presenting any potential target structurally. 04:31.700 --> 04:38.300 So h3d for this position should be stable enough for blacks should be equal. 04:38.300 --> 04:41.180 With 94 we have Bishop E three. 04:41.690 --> 04:46.100 And then Bishop 87 is played on Knight Takes three. 04:46.100 --> 04:48.560 Queen takes her frame, Bishop takes E free. 04:48.560 --> 04:49.850 Queen takes E free. 04:49.970 --> 04:51.980 Why has the small edge hair. 04:54.230 --> 04:57.290 Okay, so we have Bishop a seven. 04:57.530 --> 04:59.490 Bishop a28. 04:59.510 --> 05:05.000 And now Bishop takes the four and leaves black with a weak pawn on D four. 05:05.000 --> 05:06.800 And you might think, Well, hold on, hold on. 05:06.920 --> 05:07.760 C five. 05:07.760 --> 05:08.930 Why is that bone weak? 05:09.350 --> 05:11.450 The thing is, it's potentially weak. 05:11.450 --> 05:15.630 We have B four and black takes on B4. 05:15.630 --> 05:18.170 And now you might think, why dismantle the structure? 05:18.230 --> 05:25.040 If rook c eight is one of the reasons is basically this Bishop, this position. 05:25.370 --> 05:27.290 This bishop is better than this one. 05:27.920 --> 05:33.980 Not only that, y can consider an advance. 05:33.980 --> 05:40.280 Now that C four is on the lock and key, one could push the majority of pawns on this side of the board. 05:40.280 --> 05:45.200 If we look at this side of the board, you know, there's there's a majority of pawns for white Ford 05:45.200 --> 05:52.160 to Frey here and let's say King seven, Queen D to G three. 05:52.160 --> 05:54.460 We can start pushing forward. 05:54.470 --> 05:57.680 This is a nice advantage where. 05:58.130 --> 06:01.190 Yeah, the pawns harmonious with the bishop. 06:01.190 --> 06:01.520 Yeah. 06:01.520 --> 06:10.490 White's got a certain attack here potential going on the king side so C takes before seems a bit dismantling 06:10.790 --> 06:16.640 eight times before Queen B six, Queen RD 2c8h3. 06:16.640 --> 06:19.700 Bishop c6b1. 06:19.880 --> 06:20.330 Yeah. 06:20.330 --> 06:24.140 This point is just lying in wait for white to amplify that weakness. 06:24.860 --> 06:26.480 Yeah, the double pawns don't bode well. 06:26.480 --> 06:34.760 It seems a lot of the time the opponents of Michael Adams have structural weaknesses and this situation, 06:34.760 --> 06:39.680 there isn't too much activity compensation for this structure. 06:41.300 --> 06:42.710 85 is hopeless. 06:42.710 --> 06:46.700 Just B takes a five because the Queen is on D two and there's no gambit here. 06:46.700 --> 06:49.490 This is not a gambit position that's just better for white. 06:49.490 --> 06:51.650 So Bishop D seven, Rook fc1. 06:52.190 --> 06:53.390 Bishop e six. 06:54.200 --> 07:03.200 If Rook takes C, one Queen takes rookie Knights four is happening is coming reinforcing D five control. 07:03.680 --> 07:05.990 So yes, this this is just slightly better for white. 07:05.990 --> 07:14.180 So Bishop e six has tried pair of rooks come off and now Queen B two So white is now threatening just 07:14.180 --> 07:17.180 taking on D four and taking out this center pawn. 07:17.840 --> 07:19.970 So forget about going for the king. 07:20.840 --> 07:25.550 There's interesting fish to fry around the pawn structure here, the positional players looking at pawn 07:25.550 --> 07:28.040 structure and weaknesses. 07:28.340 --> 07:31.850 So Bishop takes a two torture rack for positional play. 07:33.050 --> 07:36.710 If King H eight, then let's just look at this for a moment. 07:36.710 --> 07:37.430 Bishop takes. 07:37.430 --> 07:39.860 There's no compensation here Queen takes D for. 07:42.450 --> 07:43.470 Once this clearly bellow. 07:43.470 --> 07:50.160 So Bishop takes a to queen, takes A to Queen B five, so Queen D to defending D three. 07:50.160 --> 07:52.530 And again, what is black doing? 07:52.530 --> 07:58.680 But black does have the A five option to dissolve at least the the a pawn. 07:59.670 --> 08:04.680 If Queen Bee six then we're back to Queen Bee two hair and we're just going to take out the four in 08:04.680 --> 08:05.550 broad daylight. 08:05.790 --> 08:11.040 So a five is tried but now Knight takes the four Queen E five. 08:12.990 --> 08:18.720 If Queen bee six, there's a five with tempo because there's a threat of 97 check. 08:19.230 --> 08:20.610 Black would have to address that. 08:20.820 --> 08:22.950 It doesn't want to lose the rook. 08:23.970 --> 08:28.410 So given that's the case, if Rook eight, then there's be five points clearly under that. 08:29.460 --> 08:35.700 So Queen E five is tried, but now not e28b4. 08:35.880 --> 08:39.270 If a four, you might think, well, black's got a past pawn here, but so is white. 08:39.270 --> 08:42.800 So b five, a free queen, a two and white. 08:42.810 --> 08:43.680 It's going to be better here. 08:43.710 --> 08:51.270 White could pick up that pawn, and this situation ends up significantly better after nine G free. 08:54.040 --> 08:57.100 There's no real problem here. 08:58.390 --> 09:00.550 This is an extra -- rd. 09:00.550 --> 09:02.700 Sex is being targeted. 09:02.710 --> 09:05.290 It's very unpleasant indeed. 09:06.130 --> 09:10.240 So nine G is possible with with advantage. 09:10.240 --> 09:13.250 We don't even need to take out the DD six --. 09:13.270 --> 09:16.270 This is just clearly better for white. 09:16.450 --> 09:19.570 So eight times B4 is played though in the game. 09:19.570 --> 09:20.920 It's sort of a four queen size. 09:20.950 --> 09:29.890 B4 97 if d five here there's f four and actually we can push the knight back potentially. 09:29.890 --> 09:31.900 So 97 Queen a five. 09:32.050 --> 09:40.060 The funny thing here is that the D pawn is the next victim, Rook b five and rook takes the five. 09:40.570 --> 09:45.310 So 97 is played Queen D to Queen f6 six. 09:45.310 --> 09:47.230 So you might think it's only a pawn up. 09:47.350 --> 09:49.410 Is this really fatal, this position? 09:49.420 --> 09:50.620 It kind of is. 09:50.950 --> 09:57.990 D4 one is accumulating advantages move by move rook b76 and F 3.85 is trying. 09:58.000 --> 09:59.200 This is a bad sign. 09:59.530 --> 10:04.450 King H two white can actually play a little bit more accurately accurately, it seems, with G four 10:04.900 --> 10:05.680 What does black do? 10:05.690 --> 10:16.480 969g3 Big advantage for White Queen is kind of put in prison here and if D five king F two I'm pinning 10:16.480 --> 10:23.740 so we can just that knight has to move really and then this position with e five black's getting pushed 10:23.740 --> 10:24.370 back. 10:24.910 --> 10:30.460 King G three as H four on the way and maintains d five big advice. 10:30.460 --> 10:37.360 So King H two though is good D five Black tries to desperately get something going on the C two square 10:37.360 --> 10:46.150 but now g four Adams takes the risk of this putting faith in calculations so D takes e four is played 10:46.150 --> 10:52.260 if queen a six hitting the rook rook b two and then we could just take the knight. 10:52.270 --> 10:58.330 This should be absolutely fine for white peace up. 10:58.330 --> 10:59.500 So D takes here. 10:59.500 --> 11:01.150 It's still a piece up scenario. 11:01.150 --> 11:02.950 G takes Queen a six. 11:02.950 --> 11:08.380 We have Rook be free on this occasion just to collect the pawn on e takes. 11:08.830 --> 11:14.530 So E takes Rook takes her free end of game Black resigns. 11:14.530 --> 11:17.440 Black's just a piece down here with no compensation. 11:18.130 --> 11:23.440 So funny positional game So it was wasn't attacked. 11:23.440 --> 11:24.430 His king wasn't attacked. 11:24.430 --> 11:29.890 It's just a positional game against the weaknesses essentially pawn structure weaknesses. 11:30.400 --> 11:37.240 And it can be absolutely Winning this quiet approach to winning is beautiful in its own right. 11:37.240 --> 11:43.660 It has to be said, we don't overstretch, we don't commit our weaknesses going for the opponent's game. 11:43.660 --> 11:44.710 We don't have to sacrifice. 11:44.710 --> 11:51.340 We just have to play position the positional torture act for certain pawns which emerge out of the opening. 11:51.880 --> 11:53.050 So fascinating stuff. 11:53.050 --> 11:58.510 The d pawn vulnerable and potentially losing liability. 11:59.050 --> 12:06.880 So just patiently patient for the moment, but the trend, the upward trends against this pawn is emerging 12:06.880 --> 12:07.360 here. 12:08.110 --> 12:14.800 A pair of rooks come off and we can see, well, it doesn't even matter about the delays that D pawn 12:14.800 --> 12:16.030 is not going anywhere. 12:16.030 --> 12:16.840 That's the key thing. 12:16.840 --> 12:20.350 It's difficult to take these advantages away from the positional player. 12:20.350 --> 12:21.670 It's not going anywhere. 12:23.170 --> 12:30.460 And yeah, so even here just defending, but still that D pawn is under fire now and is given up and 12:30.460 --> 12:32.080 there is the start of the end. 12:33.880 --> 12:35.020 Wonderful stuff. 12:35.020 --> 12:38.350 And on roads of course, by taking out that pawn there's access to F5. 12:38.350 --> 12:43.090 So it's en route to getting to a juicy square potentially with the knight in any case. 12:43.090 --> 12:45.010 But the knight goes back here. 12:47.230 --> 12:50.830 Is a five that might give counterplay chances with D5. 12:50.830 --> 12:55.120 So the knight goes back defensively, not minding this position. 12:55.540 --> 12:59.590 So absolutely fascinating game from a positional perspective. 13:01.600 --> 13:02.720 I hope you enjoyed this. 13:02.740 --> 13:07.540 There's certain downsides which are difficult to take away from the opponent. 13:07.540 --> 13:10.840 Can't really remove certain downsides if they're structural defects. 13:11.920 --> 13:18.670 So playing on those downsides, it's you can get an upward trend going for those weaknesses, sometimes 13:18.670 --> 13:24.910 getting weaker and weaker and the opponent trying to reduce their counterplay after they're a pawn down, 13:24.910 --> 13:26.680 just squish their counterplay. 13:27.130 --> 13:34.120 And the game could could end like that without any attack on their king. 13:34.390 --> 13:36.580 I hope you enjoyed it so much.