WEBVTT 00:00.940 --> 00:01.750 Hi there. 00:01.780 --> 00:08.320 In this lecture, we see George Botterill, a British international master, playing against Anatoly 00:08.320 --> 00:12.340 Karpov in the 1971 Hastings tournament. 00:12.370 --> 00:16.360 Round three, we see DD four from bottom. 00:16.600 --> 00:27.580 We have 956c4, E, six, nine, ten 3d59, C three, Bishop E seven, Bishop G five and comp of castles 00:27.760 --> 00:31.990 E three, H, 6h4 and B six. 00:31.990 --> 00:33.460 The task of variation. 00:33.880 --> 00:35.480 We have Bishop takes F six. 00:35.500 --> 00:37.340 I won't giving up the dance quo. 00:37.360 --> 00:42.820 Bishop We have C takes d5e Thanks, Bishop e2. 00:43.930 --> 00:46.500 And here Karpov doesn't go well. 00:46.510 --> 00:49.030 He can't really go for ac5 in this situation. 00:49.270 --> 00:51.130 He plays Bishop B seven. 00:52.120 --> 00:59.620 He's kind of over protecting the central squares, his moves next few moves try and intensify the pressure 00:59.620 --> 01:00.550 on the center. 01:00.880 --> 01:01.780 And we see why. 01:01.780 --> 01:06.280 Castling Rookie eight So this move is looking at the center. 01:06.610 --> 01:10.870 So this naturally supports an outpost later this kind of move. 01:10.870 --> 01:17.380 If more pressure and security around the e four square we have be4 being played. 01:17.380 --> 01:24.100 So it was actually an interesting decision that Karpov doesn't actually go for the hanging pawns, which 01:24.100 --> 01:30.850 is often a use of the task duration to get a more dynamic kind of pawn structure sometimes. 01:30.850 --> 01:39.040 So it's interesting, this decision here is letting White actually clamped down now against C five. 01:39.040 --> 01:48.970 We have a six, Queen B frame Queen DD 692 and now Knight C six. 01:49.750 --> 01:58.330 This actually has quite interesting prospects this night for kind of using the E for Outpost later. 01:58.330 --> 02:04.810 It's kind of a nifty idea, a free 97 it might if. 02:07.370 --> 02:12.020 Knight takes the five then here. 02:12.470 --> 02:15.380 Want to play nine times D for the tactics? 02:15.380 --> 02:19.790 The tactics are in Black's favor, whatever happens because that pen against the bishop. 02:20.300 --> 02:22.490 So what does White do? 02:22.520 --> 02:24.440 White doesn't really want this position. 02:26.810 --> 02:28.880 He takes f sex queen sex f sex. 02:28.880 --> 02:29.390 He sex. 02:29.390 --> 02:31.310 That's that's good for black as well. 02:32.060 --> 02:34.370 So that -- really shouldn't be taken. 02:34.370 --> 02:42.340 So we have a free 97 bishop free and 88 G for an L 95. 02:42.350 --> 02:50.750 So the knight is heading for that outpost square e for Quincy to g six night be free rookie seven Rook 02:50.750 --> 02:53.120 81 and now Queen E six. 02:55.320 --> 03:02.880 So this vacates these six for the night to reroute and head for an outpost square 9196 And you could 03:02.880 --> 03:09.120 say at this moment there's an element of it looks like everything's coordinated kind of over protecting 03:09.120 --> 03:10.200 this central square. 03:10.230 --> 03:14.250 Quite a lot of things apart from the bishop, which can't it's on a dark square, dark square bishop. 03:14.250 --> 03:17.610 But most of the black pieces are centrally coordinated. 03:18.240 --> 03:22.800 So we see 93 Queen F five pinning the knight and hitting the bishop. 03:23.040 --> 03:25.890 Bishop drops back, but now, gee, five, this is very interesting. 03:25.890 --> 03:31.080 So it looks as though with this kind of over protection cop was actually playing some attacking moves. 03:31.080 --> 03:33.060 Now, believe it or not. 03:33.060 --> 03:39.050 So Queen be free 94 and a four and h5h3. 03:39.060 --> 03:40.290 Bishop G seven. 03:40.980 --> 03:45.660 And this unlocks the potential of the f pawn A five, Queen e six. 03:46.440 --> 03:49.380 So the f pawn is now able to go to f five. 03:49.380 --> 03:50.760 We have a four. 03:51.810 --> 03:56.400 Queen D six is played here. 03:56.400 --> 04:01.170 So the scrutiny on G three which could be dangerous for blank. 04:02.550 --> 04:06.180 And we have rook f one if rook c one this is a bit tricky. 04:06.180 --> 04:07.020 Then there's 92. 04:07.020 --> 04:11.730 That knight outpost is not just pretty, it's also functional for King, Queen and Rook there. 04:12.540 --> 04:19.980 And if B five, this is also a kind of another fork coming up here after Bishop takes a four queen takes 04:19.980 --> 04:21.090 a 490 C free. 04:21.090 --> 04:24.980 So the Outpost Knight has various tactical implications. 04:24.990 --> 04:31.350 The tactics are flowing from an element of positional play here that the Knight outpost so Rook f one 04:31.350 --> 04:32.220 is played. 04:32.580 --> 04:38.310 Rook d You can see that Black's setup is geared towards the e four square. 04:38.310 --> 04:44.040 It's a natural way of organizing pieces just overtakes a key central square. 04:44.430 --> 04:49.680 We have Knight C three, king h H this vacates g eight which could be useful later. 04:50.220 --> 04:58.560 B five If Knight takes e four here D takes this position, this Bishop D five black should be fine. 04:58.560 --> 05:10.320 For example, H for Bishop takes E four, H takes g h takes g B tanks and it's simplifies, but actually 05:10.320 --> 05:12.900 black should be absolutely fine. 05:13.200 --> 05:26.550 So B five he thinks nine takes B five and we have Queen H six, 9c3 that's taken Queen six, which spins 05:26.550 --> 05:27.780 the B pawn. 05:28.800 --> 05:33.060 And so now B takes to the old things on the queenside queen takes a five. 05:34.620 --> 05:36.990 Interesting situation with Queen takes a five. 05:36.990 --> 05:43.290 This might actually be a little mistake if rook a one instead it gets very exciting. 05:43.290 --> 05:45.120 Here's a flavor of things. 05:45.120 --> 05:50.850 You know, Black could play aggressively on the kingside and so it doesn't really look like a Karpov 05:50.850 --> 05:53.220 game in the classic positional play sense. 05:53.490 --> 06:00.030 But yeah, black is justified to try and attack here and it can get really, really hairy. 06:00.030 --> 06:09.450 This is just a fictional situation which can end up being just about okay for White. 06:09.450 --> 06:19.530 Because of Black's kind of exposed weaknesses in Black's camp, and White would actually be up to 97 06:19.530 --> 06:19.770 years. 06:21.060 --> 06:30.150 It's it's chaos, but White is actually better here just to take this fictional scenario a bit more 06:31.200 --> 06:31.880 to take it. 06:31.950 --> 06:36.450 The investigation of this this line a bit more if king of fate, that would be the best move. 06:36.450 --> 06:41.760 If Rook takes e seven, we can see that white can exploit the vacuum of wing says this is just crushing. 06:43.080 --> 06:50.050 Or if bishop takes e seven again Queen G six check and here actually rookie five for a lawnmower mate 06:50.070 --> 06:50.430 pattern. 06:50.430 --> 06:56.400 You can see that Black's king is exposed in this variation and this is just winning lots of material 06:56.400 --> 06:57.150 for white. 06:57.270 --> 07:02.580 So if we have this hairy situation, King Fe is the best and white ends up with a small edge. 07:02.580 --> 07:03.000 At least. 07:03.000 --> 07:10.020 For example, Rook takes eight, Queen takes nine times H for Bishop, takes D for King G to see five 07:10.020 --> 07:11.160 queen bee free Check. 07:11.160 --> 07:12.390 White has a small edge. 07:13.290 --> 07:19.740 So I just wanted to demonstrate basically in a nutshell, that Rook one has something going for it. 07:19.740 --> 07:25.320 It does seem there's a potential vacuum of weaknesses in Black's camp, which sometimes could could 07:25.320 --> 07:29.790 be in another another day, perhaps exploited. 07:30.480 --> 07:32.280 So let's get back to the game, though. 07:32.280 --> 07:38.550 So in the game, Queen takes a five was played C six, rook B one. 07:39.240 --> 07:43.110 And now Karpov is going for the attacker, bh4g4. 07:43.110 --> 07:44.190 And guess what he plays here. 07:44.190 --> 07:47.700 So you might find this game kind of strange. 07:47.700 --> 07:54.030 You know, Karpov is having to attack is he has got the backward pawn, he has got a kind of bad pawn 07:54.030 --> 07:54.390 structure in. 07:54.500 --> 07:55.610 Way on the queen side. 07:55.610 --> 07:58.970 So he's got to get the balance back against Wayne's King. 07:58.970 --> 08:00.740 So what would you play here for? 08:00.740 --> 08:01.700 100 points. 08:05.640 --> 08:06.180 Yeah. 08:06.390 --> 08:07.130 F5. 08:07.140 --> 08:08.550 Yeah, this is great move. 08:08.580 --> 08:11.310 We have G tanks, F five if F three. 08:12.360 --> 08:12.860 Let's see. 08:12.930 --> 08:13.420 F tanks. 08:13.440 --> 08:14.160 G four. 08:14.190 --> 08:14.970 fg4. 08:14.970 --> 08:16.110 Queenly six. 08:16.740 --> 08:20.610 And we can look forward to something here. 08:21.030 --> 08:22.860 For example, this situation. 08:23.930 --> 08:27.150 We've got pressure on the backward acorn. 08:27.920 --> 08:31.700 And overall, black has a small edge. 08:31.700 --> 08:33.920 So, yes, it could end up like that. 08:33.920 --> 08:44.300 So G tanks is planed and we have bishops eight rook baits and our bishop takes out five queen, eight 08:45.170 --> 08:47.840 Queen G six might be fun. 08:49.070 --> 08:57.890 Bishop D seven we have rook takes eight rook times eight Queen bee seven rookie seven rook C one. 08:57.890 --> 09:00.890 So it looks as though this is a minority attack story, right? 09:00.890 --> 09:01.640 Well, yeah. 09:01.640 --> 09:03.530 Karpov is having to balance against the king. 09:03.530 --> 09:06.620 He plays in our G four and it is really dangerous for white. 09:06.620 --> 09:08.720 We have Rook S.C six being tried. 09:09.770 --> 09:11.540 We have Queen Bee one check. 09:12.900 --> 09:15.950 Yeah, this is a pin against the Queen Bee. 09:15.950 --> 09:16.970 One is really interesting. 09:16.970 --> 09:20.900 Bishop F one and now G takes H three, it turns out here. 09:21.770 --> 09:24.350 That actually Jeffrey has something going on for it. 09:24.800 --> 09:32.710 As example, if F takes, then there's seven and what to do about F one Queen Bee five. 09:32.720 --> 09:39.110 Then we can say on C six and this position, then we can look at E freight plants got a raging attack 09:39.110 --> 09:40.730 winning material in some lines. 09:40.880 --> 09:42.380 So this is hopeless for white. 09:42.740 --> 09:45.590 So it seems G three was actually rather dangerous. 09:45.590 --> 09:51.320 If Queen Bee eight check rookie eight Queen at four G takes F to check. 09:51.320 --> 09:56.990 And now if King takes F two, there's rook and of after rook have six takes, We're winning the queen. 09:57.260 --> 10:02.750 And the thing is, if queen takes F to rook her fate this position just bishop take C six is winning 10:02.750 --> 10:03.500 material. 10:03.650 --> 10:09.260 We've got up to 966 Queen G six coming up to win material. 10:09.470 --> 10:10.400 It's crushing. 10:10.400 --> 10:10.970 So yeah. 10:10.970 --> 10:14.660 G Free does seem quite crushing, but G Text is also very dangerous. 10:15.230 --> 10:20.150 We have Queen Bee five if Queen Bee eight check Rocky eight. 10:20.150 --> 10:22.040 This position. 10:22.040 --> 10:23.420 Bishop take C six. 10:25.150 --> 10:28.780 And we're just winning material here because of this bouncy queen. 10:28.780 --> 10:29.050 Queen. 10:29.230 --> 10:30.420 Sex check to win. 10:30.430 --> 10:30.660 See? 10:30.670 --> 10:31.300 Sex. 10:32.590 --> 10:33.430 So. 10:36.040 --> 10:39.400 Yeah, it's it's interesting. 10:39.400 --> 10:47.290 So Queen Bee five was played but now rookie six which gives the option of a very dangerous option sometimes 10:47.650 --> 10:49.630 well taking in ag6 check. 10:51.100 --> 10:51.850 We have Queen Bee. 10:52.120 --> 11:01.600 Check if it takes D five, then Queen G six check picks up that rook. 11:02.290 --> 11:06.340 So Queen bee eight check Rookie eight, Queen DD six. 11:06.760 --> 11:09.340 And now guess what ends the game. 11:11.930 --> 11:12.220 Yeah. 11:12.360 --> 11:13.310 At ten points. 11:14.510 --> 11:23.960 So attacking G eight and in the game if Queen takes D five as an example, Bishop E five check cuts 11:23.960 --> 11:25.550 the king from H two. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.620 So there's a tech check. 11:28.140 --> 11:31.340 And if King H one, we're just taking on f one. 11:32.090 --> 11:39.050 And if queen takes G check, that doesn't help because this position, the queen is much better than 11:39.050 --> 11:39.590 two pieces. 11:39.590 --> 11:41.870 But also we're winning one of the pieces like this. 11:42.470 --> 11:44.780 King takes queen takes F one. 11:44.930 --> 11:51.410 So, yeah, an interesting game where it seems to George Powell's credit, he did create something on 11:51.410 --> 11:57.590 the queenside and he forced Karpov to attack his king to maintain the balance and chances. 11:58.010 --> 12:04.550 Yeah, the king was kind of subject to attack and there was a kind of over protection strategy. 12:04.550 --> 12:11.630 You could see that black was over protecting a key central square, which led to good things after. 12:11.630 --> 12:13.130 So an interesting example. 12:13.160 --> 12:17.450 It reminds me of early nimzowitsch games with over protection then going for the attack. 12:18.110 --> 12:25.030 So Nimzowitsch was also a kind of attacker quite often after establishing positional advantages. 12:25.040 --> 12:26.270 So that's the key thing. 12:26.270 --> 12:32.230 The positional attacking player has a lot more emphasis on doing the groundwork before getting the attacks. 12:32.240 --> 12:40.940 But yeah, here it's like it's absolutely great for Black, this final position after which he is crushing 12:40.940 --> 12:41.630 stuff. 12:41.940 --> 12:43.310 Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this one. 12:43.310 --> 12:45.770 This is another side of Karpov. 12:46.760 --> 12:52.160 He can go for over protecting key central squares, followed by attacking chess. 12:52.760 --> 12:53.390 Okay. 12:53.960 --> 12:54.710 Thanks so much.