WEBVTT 00:01.440 --> 00:02.100 Hi there. 00:02.130 --> 00:06.090 In this lecture, we see Michael Adams playing against Kelly Allen. 00:06.240 --> 00:09.050 This is in 2016 British Championship round two. 00:09.090 --> 00:10.290 So we have E four. 00:10.300 --> 00:14.160 We have a sin in defense from and Adams plays 93. 00:14.280 --> 00:15.270 E six. 00:15.630 --> 00:24.450 We have d4c text e49 times 349c69, C three, Quincy, seven and F four. 00:25.080 --> 00:26.220 We have a six. 00:26.220 --> 00:30.000 And now note take C, six, B take C six. 00:30.330 --> 00:31.440 Bishop D three. 00:31.860 --> 00:32.940 D five. 00:32.970 --> 00:34.530 Now it's interesting. 00:34.530 --> 00:39.240 Already a positional decision of what not to play is important. 00:39.240 --> 00:42.070 So what would you play here and what wouldn't you play here? 00:42.090 --> 00:44.160 This is an interesting positional test. 00:46.250 --> 00:47.420 For 100 points. 00:49.550 --> 00:54.170 Adams Castles is important not to give Blackley five square. 00:54.200 --> 01:03.620 If we played E five Black, I'd start with C five with the idea of reinforcing the D five pawn in order 01:03.620 --> 01:05.540 to facilitate 986 to F five. 01:05.540 --> 01:15.140 So as example, be free Bishop B seven reinforces D five and Black now is in a position to play 96 and 01:15.140 --> 01:16.550 often light F five. 01:17.990 --> 01:25.370 Yeah, there's no problem if white takes you know there's no D five problem and this gives H five for 01:25.370 --> 01:27.020 black and blacks should be fine here. 01:27.020 --> 01:27.530 Absolutely. 01:27.530 --> 01:33.230 Even so, the way Adams is playing is not giving in to playing the temptation of E five. 01:33.230 --> 01:38.390 We have native six Queen E to Bishop e seven. 01:38.390 --> 01:45.440 So now that nine is committed, it's even more tempting to play e five with tempo, but it's not played 01:45.440 --> 01:46.100 yet. 01:46.340 --> 01:53.360 If Black had tried D takes E for disposition, well Bishop e seven white can play be free here and this 01:53.360 --> 01:54.650 is a nice advantage. 01:55.160 --> 01:59.660 So Bishop e seven, Bishop D two Black castles. 01:59.780 --> 02:03.200 Look 81, Rook e eight. 02:04.340 --> 02:07.730 Now, you might wonder, what about this tactical check? 02:08.600 --> 02:09.020 Yeah. 02:09.020 --> 02:10.820 This is not afforded by the position. 02:10.820 --> 02:13.220 If black wins that pawn rook be one. 02:13.220 --> 02:13.760 There's tempo. 02:13.760 --> 02:14.330 Gain is here. 02:14.330 --> 02:19.550 Rook, be free This position now E five and look at the soft spot H seven. 02:20.690 --> 02:26.540 We can actually exploit this with nightfall, with tempo, getting the rook ready to use the h file. 02:26.810 --> 02:31.100 And for example here c four is really good. 02:33.780 --> 02:39.120 So we're threatening, potentially to trap the Queen with Bishop Efrain. 02:41.680 --> 02:41.820 Yeah. 02:41.950 --> 02:44.470 C4 shields, the Knights from the Queen. 02:45.520 --> 02:47.590 And now we're ready for Bishop Ephraim. 02:47.620 --> 02:51.160 If Bishop see five, we can play this and actually win. 02:51.160 --> 02:54.400 The Queen with Bishop takes age seven, check and rotates free. 02:54.430 --> 02:55.810 It's a world of pain. 02:55.810 --> 03:02.230 Basically, if we go back here instead of Queen four, If Queen a seven, then White can just take on 03:02.230 --> 03:07.450 H seven and get a vicious attack after F five, especially F six. 03:07.450 --> 03:09.190 This really amplifies the attack. 03:09.670 --> 03:11.950 And you can see how dangerous it is for blacks. 03:11.950 --> 03:13.000 KING Safety. 03:14.950 --> 03:17.080 So there are some attacking implications here. 03:17.080 --> 03:19.300 Bishops hg7 is winning in this position. 03:21.100 --> 03:24.910 If Rook takes g seven, this is an absolutely winning attack. 03:25.060 --> 03:28.740 Queen G eight here rotates F seven starting to win material. 03:28.750 --> 03:32.580 So yes, it's too dangerous, basically in a nutshell to play Queen Bee six shank. 03:32.950 --> 03:35.350 But that kind of stuff needs to be factored in. 03:35.650 --> 03:38.620 We have rookie eights and now actually King H won. 03:38.620 --> 03:46.120 So sidestepping any problems with Queen Bee six, g6b free Bishop F eight. 03:46.270 --> 03:48.060 And now actually rook our free. 03:48.070 --> 03:54.360 This does look like attacking chess but there's a positional spin on this. 03:54.370 --> 03:58.450 So e 597 we have H 495. 04:00.790 --> 04:02.890 And here we get h five. 04:02.890 --> 04:04.090 So this is really interesting. 04:04.350 --> 04:05.800 It's going to use potentially. 04:05.800 --> 04:08.290 Now the C foam, this is an interesting decision. 04:08.290 --> 04:10.900 C takes D free to try and use the C file. 04:11.230 --> 04:14.530 And we do have a backward pawn on this C file. 04:14.530 --> 04:20.950 So if we can get control of C five, that would be really good in this position, despite the looks 04:20.950 --> 04:24.460 of things that we wanted to go for the attack, we can play on both sides of the board here. 04:24.790 --> 04:25.210 So. 04:25.210 --> 04:26.170 C five Rook H three. 04:26.170 --> 04:30.040 This is a favorite of Alexander Alekhine's play on both sides of the board. 04:30.190 --> 04:32.680 We have Bishop B seven and now 94. 04:33.850 --> 04:38.380 So setting problems on both side of the board, pressure points on both sides. 04:38.380 --> 04:41.440 So we have Rook, AC eight, perhaps black. 04:42.460 --> 04:45.880 Should have played C-4 to try and liberate the bishop. 04:46.390 --> 04:52.230 And if one ignores it, this position H takes F thanks D takes. 04:52.240 --> 04:53.980 There's some structural damage there. 04:54.220 --> 04:57.490 And here White still is better, though. 04:57.520 --> 04:59.870 Even if this happened, White still is a bit better. 04:59.890 --> 05:06.040 So anyway, rook ain't rook c 127 so black is strained on that. 05:06.040 --> 05:13.150 C five points and we have bishop E free putting more strain on and provoking default which fixes black 05:13.150 --> 05:14.560 structure now. 05:14.740 --> 05:19.810 So this seems to be like a cozy square in front of that pawn. 05:20.170 --> 05:28.240 We have Roxy seven Bishop H for putting strain on C five again pushing the Queen's f eight Queen G4 05:28.240 --> 05:31.600 Now strain on this side of the board we have five. 05:31.600 --> 05:34.690 This is a bit of a mistake, but it's getting difficult here for black. 05:35.620 --> 05:40.660 If C four this would be a strange move to play but so black does play like this. 05:41.230 --> 05:43.570 Bishop E4 is a benefit. 05:44.080 --> 05:49.990 And yeah, here white does have an edge, but it might be better than the game continuation. 05:49.990 --> 05:55.240 Black has some activity, but white is better, but F5 is a bit passive. 05:55.240 --> 05:56.770 Now we have Queen G five. 05:58.420 --> 05:59.470 So yeah, very interesting. 05:59.470 --> 06:00.220 Queen G fiber. 06:00.250 --> 06:07.420 We have G takes H five if Bishop eight, then we're just going to take on G six. 06:07.600 --> 06:11.590 And this is going to be better if Queen F seven we're going to take on C five. 06:11.590 --> 06:11.800 Yeah. 06:11.800 --> 06:13.900 Blacks under pressure on both sides of the board. 06:13.930 --> 06:16.420 You know, winning a pawn over here is quite nice. 06:16.900 --> 06:19.990 For example, here it's going to be nice for white. 06:20.170 --> 06:28.150 So G tanks is played rook g free king Queen takes h five, queen F seven. 06:29.080 --> 06:37.600 And yeah, this is kind of admitting defeat, but there is a huge amount of pressure here with Queen 06:37.600 --> 06:44.140 H five looking at e a there's a continual concern about night 65 and one of the queen leaves. 06:44.140 --> 06:45.340 We're going to take on the E. 06:45.880 --> 06:49.480 So blacks under real pressure here. 06:50.050 --> 06:57.940 And there's also king side concerns and there's also concerns of rook takes g74 for Bishop f6. 06:57.940 --> 06:59.950 So this looks like a desperate looking. 06:59.950 --> 07:01.030 It's a desperate looking move. 07:01.030 --> 07:02.710 Queen F seven it drops. 07:02.710 --> 07:04.870 A pawn won't just takes on F seven. 07:04.900 --> 07:06.850 It doesn't mind taking out C five. 07:07.240 --> 07:09.520 And there's still pressure on both sides of the board. 07:09.520 --> 07:13.780 Here we have Rooks eight and just takes that. 07:14.200 --> 07:20.410 Bishop takes A now knight B six, Bishop b79c4, Bishop C six. 07:21.880 --> 07:26.520 So it's a pawn up, but it's not over yet. 07:26.530 --> 07:27.490 So Rook C seven. 07:27.640 --> 07:28.450 King H two. 07:28.480 --> 07:29.170 King G eight. 07:29.530 --> 07:30.340 Bishop D eight. 07:30.350 --> 07:31.150 Ruini seven. 07:31.150 --> 07:31.900 Bishop B six. 07:31.900 --> 07:37.450 King H eight Rook Free King Rook G Freaking H eight. 07:37.960 --> 07:39.040 And then Bishop D eight. 07:39.040 --> 07:42.520 So this is really kind of tactically annoying. 07:42.850 --> 07:45.670 Now, there are various ways to go here. 07:46.420 --> 07:50.320 The path of maximum resistance does seem to be the move. 07:50.320 --> 07:59.890 H six In this position, however, Black seemed to play a kind of resigning move, in effect giving 07:59.890 --> 08:03.910 up the exchange with rook tanks d eight allowing Knight of seven check. 08:04.090 --> 08:08.020 And before we get into that, that is losing the exchange. 08:08.290 --> 08:10.450 Let's have a look around here for a moment. 08:10.930 --> 08:17.440 If Bishop D five Bishop h4, let's take this position with H five as a plan. 08:17.980 --> 08:19.600 This isn't too hot. 08:19.600 --> 08:22.210 There's now a knight B six to take on D five. 08:22.210 --> 08:25.360 And you can see that the bishop is controlling D eight. 08:25.360 --> 08:26.740 So this is really quite painful. 08:26.740 --> 08:33.250 If 96 hare, Bishop D eight Rook G six and E six is on the big trouble. 08:33.250 --> 08:38.050 So this position is absolutely winning now, but H six offers a bit of resistance. 08:38.050 --> 08:45.700 Funnily enough, if for example here kh7 and this pawn is immune, if we take this pawn there's rook 08:45.730 --> 08:51.010 takes D six and we're only ending up unless we want to lose two pieces, which is not good. 08:51.010 --> 08:56.260 We play this and we end up in a position which is going to be very difficult to win with opposite kind 08:56.260 --> 08:57.040 of bishops. 08:57.700 --> 09:01.720 However, for in this position a sort of bishop takes the E4. 09:01.720 --> 09:08.830 If B four although white is technically better, there's quite a significant amount of work to do in 09:08.830 --> 09:09.400 this position. 09:09.400 --> 09:12.430 It's not so clear how to proceed from here. 09:12.430 --> 09:16.330 So this by far and away was the best way for Black's player. 09:16.720 --> 09:22.870 Black has the Bishop Hare to fight to keep the fight going, and this tactical reliance on Rook takes 09:22.870 --> 09:26.170 these six so D4 isn't so easy to take out. 09:26.170 --> 09:28.030 So that would have been the best resistance. 09:28.030 --> 09:34.660 But yeah, Black actually just gave up the exchange and after this it's not particularly convincing 09:34.660 --> 09:37.030 how Black's staying on the board. 09:37.030 --> 09:39.160 So be for care. 09:39.160 --> 09:47.770 Fight cage free King E eight Rook takes age seven. 09:47.980 --> 09:48.400 Yeah. 09:48.400 --> 09:50.980 This isn't particularly good looking position for black. 09:50.980 --> 09:53.980 So Rook eight Bishop takes a two. 09:54.760 --> 09:57.760 Might be some king of 7c5. 09:57.760 --> 10:01.300 So that shows the B four pawn A five. 10:01.300 --> 10:04.080 And now, yeah, this looks as though, well, it's black. 10:04.090 --> 10:05.860 And to get another dangerous pawn. 10:05.920 --> 10:11.530 What do we play here To crush all the counterplay for ten points move 50. 10:15.290 --> 10:19.850 Yeah, we just take out that bishop because we're getting now an outside passport and this is absolutely 10:19.850 --> 10:20.600 a winning position. 10:20.600 --> 10:25.970 So a six, seven, eight, seven, eight, eight, eight free end of game. 10:25.970 --> 10:31.040 If bishops see sex, then as simple as I will be, just like be free. 10:31.040 --> 10:35.210 Now he can just go and take the RD for -- and we're absolutely going to be winning. 10:35.210 --> 10:37.910 This is going to be a one way road to victory from here. 10:39.200 --> 10:44.510 So an interesting game, some positionally, interesting decisions, interesting playing on both sides 10:44.510 --> 10:47.780 of the board, a bit of a positional game and attacking game. 10:47.780 --> 10:50.360 If you think about it, it's playing on both sides of the board. 10:50.510 --> 10:58.010 But yeah, Black was under pressure, severe pressure and starts to make concessions to go into even 10:58.010 --> 10:59.120 worse possessions. 10:59.630 --> 11:03.470 So I hope you got some points from this game so much.