WEBVTT 00:00.870 --> 00:01.670 Hi there. 00:01.680 --> 00:04.690 In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov against the answer Yusupov. 00:04.710 --> 00:08.280 In 1986, Pagano tournament, round two. 00:08.280 --> 00:10.200 So E four from Karpov. 00:10.200 --> 00:14.970 We have E five from east of 9396 Bishop C4. 00:14.970 --> 00:18.570 So the Italian game Killer piano Junkyard piano. 00:18.600 --> 00:23.730 Pardon me C3 we have knights have 6d3d6. 00:23.880 --> 00:34.320 Both sides Castle Rookie 1a6, Bishop B three Bishop a7h3h6 Knight BD two and now Knight H five. 00:34.530 --> 00:37.770 So Black is trying to use the F four square. 00:37.770 --> 00:43.710 It's often difficult to repel such a knight will carp or find a way. 00:43.710 --> 00:45.810 We see knight f one queen f six. 00:45.810 --> 00:51.600 So it seems out of the opening Black has what looks to be a comfortable position with a nice aggressive 00:51.600 --> 00:52.140 set up. 00:52.140 --> 00:58.470 We have Bishop e three so this challenge is one of Black's better pieces, so trading here would be 00:58.470 --> 00:59.190 nice for white. 00:59.190 --> 01:01.590 We have Knight, a four, bishop takes a seven. 01:01.590 --> 01:08.880 So that is one operation of trying to reduce the opponent's activity through exchanging off the opponent's 01:08.880 --> 01:14.040 better pieces and improving our worst piece by simplification by taking off there. 01:14.040 --> 01:16.800 That's in White's favor potentially. 01:16.800 --> 01:20.820 So here the issue is this Knight is kind of strong and active. 01:20.940 --> 01:24.990 Now, if we play G Fray black just takes on h free track. 01:24.990 --> 01:28.350 And after King G two, for example, Knight G five Black Chess banner. 01:28.350 --> 01:33.720 So we have King H two instead, which actually vacates G one. 01:33.720 --> 01:39.480 So this is actually kind of a tactical move in a way vacating square vacation tactic, you could say, 01:39.480 --> 01:42.870 to vacate for Knight G one, which would support G three. 01:42.870 --> 01:48.840 This is a really interesting kind of standard positional maneuver nowadays to get rid of such a knight 01:48.840 --> 01:49.860 on F4. 01:49.860 --> 01:52.320 So very, very instructive 97. 01:52.860 --> 02:00.030 But first here after 97, 93 is played, there's no rush to play 91 just yet. 02:00.300 --> 02:07.080 Rook eight A for a preventive move here to preventing B five So prevention, prevention, prevention. 02:07.080 --> 02:15.420 Bishop E six so black is now offering exchange won't oblige is that if Bishop C two this is a viable 02:15.420 --> 02:19.770 alternative it seems this position we can actually play it in the center. 02:19.770 --> 02:23.220 And for example Knight G one here, this position isn't so terrible. 02:23.220 --> 02:23.490 Why? 02:23.490 --> 02:25.860 It should have a small edge in this scenario. 02:26.100 --> 02:33.030 But Bishop takes e six and at first sight it seems, isn't this really dangerous, this file pressure, 02:33.040 --> 02:34.440 this F file pressure? 02:34.440 --> 02:35.070 Well, let's see. 02:35.070 --> 02:42.750 Knight G one We have Rook 88 and now the eviction notice is given in safe circumstance to that knight. 02:42.750 --> 02:47.610 So pushing the activity, reducing the activity of Black's position. 02:48.150 --> 02:50.340 Rook f one defending F two. 02:51.510 --> 02:55.290 We have D five and now Queen E two, we have 96. 02:55.290 --> 03:03.600 And now here this is another great move which shows Karpov isn't afraid to do retreating moves if they 03:03.600 --> 03:10.410 help overall to reduce the activity of the opponent's pieces and the opponent's active tactical threats 03:10.410 --> 03:11.730 and possibilities. 03:11.730 --> 03:17.430 So we have a great preventative move again if we want to do an active operation. 03:18.420 --> 03:24.720 For me, it's becoming very it's very apparent now, becoming very apparent that we need to know the 03:24.720 --> 03:28.320 potential threats for our potentially active operations. 03:28.320 --> 03:34.830 Now, if we had an active operation like H four here, if we go with H four immediately, can you see 03:34.830 --> 03:37.380 what black could do here, which is kind of resourceful? 03:39.070 --> 03:45.580 You know, that can kind of undermine tactically the pawn chain 94 with with tempo. 03:46.180 --> 03:52.540 So if we took here, E takes F four and you can see that actually F3 is painful and that's just going 03:52.540 --> 03:54.100 to have a big advantage there. 03:54.700 --> 04:02.590 And if we don't take, you know, if we play Queen C to Queen G6 and Black's got a lot of pressure here 04:03.130 --> 04:04.540 with a strong attack. 04:04.780 --> 04:10.640 So G takes looks out of the question nearly because, you know, being mated like with a lawnmower might 04:10.660 --> 04:12.550 attack and the other rook could come in. 04:12.580 --> 04:14.260 It's not really what we want. 04:14.890 --> 04:19.720 So here for free, let's say a free knight, 85, 94. 04:19.750 --> 04:20.950 It's only about even. 04:20.950 --> 04:27.400 So, given all of this, this potential for Knight and for it's extinguished with Knight G two in advance 04:27.400 --> 04:32.230 of h four making h four much more solid as a proposition. 04:32.230 --> 04:35.470 So rook have seven without all these threats and combinations. 04:35.470 --> 04:36.820 So h four now. 04:36.820 --> 04:40.140 So potentially we're going to be driving this knight back. 04:40.150 --> 04:44.230 So Rook have eight and we have Rook had 197. 04:44.470 --> 04:47.470 The Knight volunteers itself, but H five anyway. 04:48.400 --> 04:54.370 G six And you can see actually we've got a grip on one square controlling to a Capablanca rule of restraints 04:54.370 --> 04:59.830 and black kind of compromises potentially with G six creating an isolated pawn if white took. 04:59.830 --> 05:02.140 But white didn't even take our knight h free. 05:03.310 --> 05:10.600 And here queen free Queen takes her free rook takes a free and now a better pawn structure by far with 05:10.600 --> 05:12.490 this isolated pawn on h six. 05:12.790 --> 05:18.240 So and the knight now holds comfortably f two as well as the rook. 05:18.250 --> 05:20.130 There's no problem on this file. 05:20.140 --> 05:22.660 The dynamics of this file aren't that impressive. 05:22.670 --> 05:25.930 Knight e three putting pressure on D five now. 05:26.950 --> 05:29.230 So we have D for knight C two. 05:30.540 --> 05:33.180 Rook free to have seven. 05:33.180 --> 05:34.110 And now? 05:34.110 --> 05:36.690 Yeah, sometimes we need to. 05:37.170 --> 05:40.740 It seems, you know, do the opponent a favor, but we've actually got something else in mind. 05:40.740 --> 05:42.630 Other problems to set later. 05:42.630 --> 05:46.980 So it's almost as if we're doing the opponent a favor and doubling their pawns here. 05:47.190 --> 05:51.210 But now there's a more exploitable weakness. 05:51.210 --> 05:51.780 That's the thing. 05:51.780 --> 05:55.350 If you can get even more exploitable weaknesses so that C files strong. 05:55.350 --> 06:05.010 But first, there's an issue of square vacation for 95 suppressing that activity for we have C five 06:05.040 --> 06:13.710 here now and a 51. fixing to very nice. 06:13.890 --> 06:21.780 Now you might have question hold on what about if black had played a five let's say rook c1b6 rook six 06:21.780 --> 06:25.530 Black does have a resource 95 based on the file pin. 06:25.710 --> 06:30.750 We can just ignore that here with Rook takes E six and this position, we're still going to end up being 06:30.750 --> 06:31.490 better. 06:31.500 --> 06:35.850 There's pawns to pick off and overall we're going to be with a big advantage here. 06:35.850 --> 06:41.070 Two connected pass pawns basically on the King's side, as well as an extra pawn. 06:41.070 --> 06:51.930 So we have c5a5b, six 8/8 b6b7 rook C one rook 2b6 Rook takes C five. 06:51.930 --> 06:53.700 Not minding rook takes B to checkers. 06:53.700 --> 06:55.590 There's rook have to supported by the knight. 06:55.590 --> 07:00.750 So you can see White's pieces are actually at the end of the day, that expression at the end of the 07:00.750 --> 07:06.420 day why is actually just better here, better pawn structure and more active pieces. 07:07.050 --> 07:13.770 So we have rook a eight rook, a five nice blockade, and the career prospects of this knight is actually 07:13.770 --> 07:16.380 better than this knight in many respects. 07:16.410 --> 07:22.910 97, 90 G four With tempo, these weak pawns give tempo gainers 90 C six attacking the rook, rook C 07:22.920 --> 07:30.390 597 and now actually rook C seven Even better than Knight takes H six in many ways. 07:30.390 --> 07:38.520 So we have King of eight Knight E5 and Black really is getting paralyzed here a five. 07:38.520 --> 07:40.440 So it looks as though Hold on, hold on. 07:40.440 --> 07:41.940 Isn't this pawn dangerous? 07:42.030 --> 07:46.770 G four Let's see a4f5. 07:48.150 --> 07:52.860 Yeah, it's king safety, which is becoming a huge issue here. 07:52.860 --> 07:55.500 It's too slow to try and get a queen. 07:55.500 --> 08:06.150 E tanks is played as example if a free let's have a look at an example here we can play f6a2 and we 08:06.150 --> 08:13.890 can even let them queen because we're going to be chat mating knight G six check and rook G seven Ouch. 08:13.890 --> 08:19.440 So chat mating opportunities are key in endgames and the games are not so dry as you might think. 08:19.440 --> 08:22.020 So E tanks played G tanks. 08:22.020 --> 08:29.730 And given that F6 is still a major issue black sacrifices the knight e takes and now rook a five is 08:29.730 --> 08:30.360 played. 08:30.750 --> 08:35.280 So still there's an idea of F six and 9g6 with mating ideas. 08:35.280 --> 08:40.590 So rook five But now a beautiful tactic in this position for five points. 08:40.590 --> 08:41.550 What would you play? 08:43.260 --> 08:44.570 Oak Brook. 08:44.610 --> 08:45.510 See five. 08:45.900 --> 08:51.330 So relying on this check and the night is in time to catch this pawn. 08:51.570 --> 08:55.800 A free king, Jeffrey King dissects the night goes back. 08:56.250 --> 08:59.580 King E five, King G for H five check. 09:00.150 --> 09:02.940 And now what would you play in this position? 09:05.150 --> 09:06.170 The fine points. 09:07.070 --> 09:07.640 Yeah. 09:07.820 --> 09:08.480 King G five. 09:08.480 --> 09:08.750 Yeah. 09:08.870 --> 09:11.160 We have to have faith in our own passport here. 09:11.190 --> 09:15.080 hf6 are pawns kind of closer than the opponents. 09:15.110 --> 09:16.900 King E six and F King G six. 09:16.910 --> 09:21.580 Keeping idea of our form without any blockade or any issue. 09:21.590 --> 09:23.900 So h3f7. 09:24.410 --> 09:28.190 So we can herd our pawn our pawns coming first, which is good news. 09:28.670 --> 09:35.610 So here now, a nice move which spells out Black's demise. 09:35.630 --> 09:36.680 What would you play here? 09:38.640 --> 09:38.990 Yeah. 09:39.000 --> 09:39.970 95 check. 09:39.990 --> 09:45.900 Now, if the king goes on a night square, we're going to play a move like Quinn, a hack to pick up 09:45.900 --> 09:46.530 the queen. 09:46.530 --> 09:51.570 So the king plays 2e5, but now nudging the King Rook. 09:51.570 --> 09:52.950 Sorry, Queen B h. 09:53.070 --> 09:55.710 So nudging the king on a on a fatal like square. 09:55.710 --> 09:58.230 And here Black resigned. 09:59.040 --> 10:01.050 So a very nice game overall. 10:01.050 --> 10:08.100 But the focal point for me of this game one showing you at is that this is classic handling of what 10:08.100 --> 10:12.110 seems to be a very dangerous tactical active night. 10:12.120 --> 10:19.110 So it's interesting how this night is pushed back in a systematic way and we want to try and appreciate 10:19.110 --> 10:26.580 and understands the opponents forcing moves, sacrifices and just extinguish them in advance. 10:26.580 --> 10:32.160 So when we talk about prevention, it's not just any immediate position, but we have to factor in, 10:32.160 --> 10:39.750 okay, what active operations do we want to play and what kind of risk factors do they incur and take 10:39.750 --> 10:42.120 that out beforehand. 10:42.120 --> 10:49.110 So even more remarkable than 91, which is the equipment of a lot of positional players to evict tonight 10:49.310 --> 10:51.420 for is this other retreat coming up. 10:51.420 --> 10:57.000 But even so first patients patients and then 92. 10:57.000 --> 11:03.600 So this is really amazing stuff in advance, factoring in what could be issues for active operations 11:03.600 --> 11:04.560 in the future. 11:04.560 --> 11:11.160 And it kind of strengthens in the most relevant way our position when we're talking about talk about 11:11.160 --> 11:17.370 strengthening of our position, it's not in an academic way, it's with we're concrete view of the concrete 11:17.400 --> 11:19.670 tactics and possibilities like four. 11:19.680 --> 11:27.540 So this is a strengthening position move of the position, but very relevant to very relevant critical 11:27.540 --> 11:30.030 issues, what could be absolutely critical issues. 11:30.030 --> 11:32.610 And then we can play our active operations. 11:33.240 --> 11:39.510 So it's a bit like in the opening phase of chess, we want to castle and develop pieces before doing 11:39.510 --> 11:41.660 active operations because otherwise they backfire. 11:41.670 --> 11:45.210 So this strengthening kind of reduces any potential for backfire. 11:45.210 --> 11:47.130 And it's a middle game operation though. 11:47.130 --> 11:50.520 So there's still the whole principle applies. 11:50.520 --> 11:57.900 Prevention in advance is is easier than cure later so preventing any symptoms in advance so retreating 11:57.900 --> 12:02.280 the night and then getting a kind of Carpathian grip on things. 12:02.280 --> 12:07.320 So black kind of is starting to be on the back foot. 12:07.320 --> 12:13.320 The transition here of taking out the opponents double pawns for more exploitable weaknesses also key 12:13.320 --> 12:14.460 and classic. 12:14.460 --> 12:17.670 Yeah, that the weakness is not really a weakness if it's not exploitable. 12:17.670 --> 12:24.570 So these double pawns here by conflict playing like this, he's actually giving a more concrete target, 12:24.570 --> 12:26.460 much more exploited on the C file. 12:26.460 --> 12:29.700 So it's based on the details where the pieces are. 12:29.700 --> 12:31.650 Can we actually exploit weaknesses otherwise? 12:31.650 --> 12:33.540 Are they actually really weaknesses? 12:33.540 --> 12:35.010 That's a bit of philosophy there. 12:35.160 --> 12:39.840 A weakness is only weakness really if it's actually exploitable in our given position with our given 12:39.840 --> 12:40.620 pieces. 12:40.620 --> 12:48.420 So here, yeah, it's a very nice transition to a position where more active and we're creating actually 12:48.420 --> 12:54.570 mating possibilities here, even though Black's got that in theory, dangerous outside spawn, it's 12:54.570 --> 12:59.970 the concrete mating possibilities of the black king, which puts the whole black plan in check, so 12:59.970 --> 13:00.660 to speak. 13:00.810 --> 13:02.310 So, yeah, wonderful stuff. 13:02.310 --> 13:05.130 I hope you really enjoy this game as much as me. 13:05.130 --> 13:12.870 So, yeah, let's go to the end position of the game and care throughout with this passport. 13:12.870 --> 13:17.700 Absolute care for our so cleaning first will do will do the job. 13:17.940 --> 13:18.480 Okay. 13:18.480 --> 13:19.860 I hope you really enjoyed this. 13:19.860 --> 13:28.500 It's a masterclass in handling an activity war, trying to exchange off our worst pieces for the opponent's 13:28.500 --> 13:29.220 pieces. 13:29.340 --> 13:37.290 But also if there is a dangerous piece to be very careful about how we evict that piece to reduce its 13:37.290 --> 13:44.850 attacking potential and activity and see how our active operations might also backfire and in advance 13:44.850 --> 13:49.020 of them preparing them better to take out any key threats. 13:49.020 --> 13:57.690 So beautiful lessons in prevention, prophylaxis, keeping control, the activity war generally, our 13:57.690 --> 14:01.380 activity of our pieces, the opponent's pieces, and also the structural war. 14:01.380 --> 14:07.470 And also how cunning is this when we even unravel the opponents pawns to get more exportable? 14:07.470 --> 14:10.800 Wait and says that is a very, very powerful positional chess film? 14:10.800 --> 14:17.010 How we can transform our advantages or the opponent's disadvantages into ones which we have easier access 14:17.010 --> 14:17.390 to. 14:17.400 --> 14:22.590 So we're trading off double pawns for something we have easier access to like backward pawn and C file. 14:22.590 --> 14:24.570 So a lot of instructive lessons. 14:24.570 --> 14:30.150 But one of the key ones is about handling aggressive pieces of the opponent in a very careful, controlled 14:30.150 --> 14:30.840 manner. 14:30.960 --> 14:33.390 Okay, so much.