WEBVTT 00:01.110 --> 00:01.840 Hi there. 00:01.860 --> 00:04.980 In this lecture, we see Michael Adams again, just in turn. 00:04.980 --> 00:08.010 This is in the 2016 British Championship round six. 00:08.310 --> 00:09.900 So E four from Adams. 00:09.900 --> 00:15.450 We have E, five, three nine, C six, Roy Lopez, Bishop b586, Bishop eight four. 00:15.450 --> 00:16.230 So this is standard. 00:16.230 --> 00:19.890 Roy Lopez so far so rookie one here B five. 00:19.920 --> 00:20.850 Bishop Be free. 00:20.880 --> 00:22.050 D six. 00:22.470 --> 00:24.930 C free Black castles. 00:24.930 --> 00:26.030 h89b8. 00:26.030 --> 00:33.840 So this is a favorite variation of Magnus Carlsen, this Knight retreat, trying to improve that knight 00:33.840 --> 00:35.280 So default knight bd7. 00:35.280 --> 00:39.960 So a positional play in the opening there from Black Knight, BD seven. 00:39.960 --> 00:40.920 Bishop B seven. 00:41.820 --> 00:43.620 Bishop C to Rookie Eights. 00:43.650 --> 00:47.400 Knight have won Bishop F eight so this seems pretty standard so far. 00:47.400 --> 00:48.450 Knight G Free Knight. 00:48.900 --> 00:50.370 So G six is played. 00:50.370 --> 00:52.170 So that prevents Knight of five. 00:52.890 --> 00:58.080 We have a four and now Knight B six, B three. 00:58.710 --> 01:01.650 B takes a four, B takes a four. 01:02.430 --> 01:03.260 A five. 01:03.270 --> 01:07.680 Black has achieved actually in slightly softening the C four square. 01:07.680 --> 01:17.700 Now we see Bishop D freeing Quincy St and this shows there might be interest in trying to exchange off 01:17.700 --> 01:18.150 the line square. 01:18.150 --> 01:25.020 Bishop Later we have Bishop G five for the moment, Bishop G seven, Queen C one, which shows interest 01:25.020 --> 01:27.210 in exchanging off the Dart Square Bishop. 01:27.930 --> 01:34.110 So we have actually in this position Bishop C six looking at a four. 01:34.320 --> 01:43.260 This Bishop drops back to protect a 4.47 and now Bishop B three, D five. 01:44.070 --> 01:52.920 So a lot of central tension we have Knight takes E 519, takes five, D takes Bishop takes E five, 01:53.760 --> 01:55.440 and now four. 01:56.370 --> 01:58.830 We have Bishop G seven, E five. 02:00.150 --> 02:03.090 So is Adams pushing his pawns too far? 02:03.090 --> 02:07.140 Here we have Rook B eight, Queen DD two. 02:07.410 --> 02:10.740 On the bright side, it looks as though D falls a nice square. 02:10.890 --> 02:13.440 This bishop's kind of locked in at the moment. 02:13.980 --> 02:15.420 Queen dd seven. 02:15.660 --> 02:16.830 Queen dd four. 02:17.940 --> 02:24.870 And here, instead of improving the worst piece for black, Black plays a kind of anti positional threat, 02:24.900 --> 02:26.820 I would call it C eight. 02:26.880 --> 02:33.270 This actually worsens Black's position it's anti positional it seems the more dynamic treatment 9c4 02:33.270 --> 02:36.870 has a lot going for it to hit the bishop like this. 02:37.800 --> 02:44.940 So as example if one takes on C four it opens up that improves that piece. 02:44.940 --> 02:47.370 And this is adequate for black more than adequate. 02:47.370 --> 02:54.750 It's even or even a tiny bit worse for white because G five black's going to get the pawn back with 02:54.750 --> 02:56.280 bishop takes e five. 02:57.300 --> 03:00.840 So yeah, this is actually absolutely fine for black. 03:00.840 --> 03:07.890 So C four would have been the positional approach to play basically a pawn sacrifice, a temporary one 03:07.890 --> 03:10.800 pawn sacrifice, if not e four instead. 03:10.800 --> 03:19.380 White can do this little trick 94 but nine takes E five and let's say nine of six check. 03:19.380 --> 03:25.830 This position looks a little bit scary, but a free check and then queen takes h free. 03:25.830 --> 03:28.470 So black's not been terminated on the dark squares. 03:28.470 --> 03:32.010 Black actually can manage the draw this dynamically. 03:32.010 --> 03:35.910 This is very dynamic now Bishop text is absolutely important. 03:36.480 --> 03:38.730 So say Queen E free. 03:39.090 --> 03:46.380 So tying down the rook to e eight Queen G free check Black has a perpetual check bailout here if one 03:46.380 --> 03:47.040 ever. 03:47.990 --> 03:49.750 Puts the king towards the centre. 03:49.760 --> 03:52.070 Then Bishop RD seven Frightening rookie eight. 03:52.550 --> 03:56.030 So yeah, this is actually entirely a plausible variation for Black. 03:56.030 --> 03:57.470 This is the disaster for white. 03:58.070 --> 04:04.760 So it's completely plausible to play like this on 94, 94, to play nine times e five. 04:05.150 --> 04:08.950 It may be, you know, this kind of thing is actually rather deep, though. 04:08.960 --> 04:13.340 This is actually a rather deep, you know, tactic here. 04:13.790 --> 04:20.210 So maybe this explains why, you know, 94 wasn't really entertained that much. 04:21.020 --> 04:21.980 Because of 94. 04:22.010 --> 04:24.290 That's a more critical move. 04:24.500 --> 04:31.190 Trying to you know, Fretilin might have six and use the undermine which looks unpleasant of C4 but 04:31.190 --> 04:36.800 98 blacks on a back foot here, especially after Bishop de one because it's almost as if the queen is 04:36.800 --> 04:39.950 being threatened to be checkmated with Bishop G. 04:40.190 --> 04:42.800 And, you know, black tends to be like rookie six. 04:43.220 --> 04:45.410 An F six is now a disaster move. 04:45.440 --> 04:51.740 Total disaster move if rugby to just to show the threat first Bishop G4 What is black actually do with 04:51.740 --> 04:52.460 the Queen? 04:53.180 --> 04:58.850 Black has the place of Ignite rookie six White can just simply take on E six with a big advantage or 04:58.850 --> 05:07.310 even more accurate can actually just play here five and yeah blacks in a really bad way. 05:07.310 --> 05:13.700 Now you know this position on H six check bishop takes and then finally take on E six after doing damage 05:13.700 --> 05:22.970 the blacks King there was in this position there is Bishop B seven to vacate C six so this position 05:22.970 --> 05:24.770 is more favorable for white. 05:24.860 --> 05:26.390 It looks really good here. 05:27.020 --> 05:29.300 F five is also very nice for white. 05:29.300 --> 05:32.150 Bishop three This looks really nice for white as well. 05:32.150 --> 05:40.310 This situation is very pleasant indeed for white, so but f six is a disaster move because Bishop takes 05:40.310 --> 05:40.970 F six. 05:40.970 --> 05:43.580 Yeah, not e takes f six. 05:45.110 --> 05:47.720 If we play E takes, we're just going to drop the rook. 05:47.720 --> 05:49.370 That's not very clever. 05:49.460 --> 05:59.030 So f6 we have the idea is Bishop takes F six and the tactic in between Bishop G four which protects 05:59.030 --> 06:02.900 this rook on E one and hits the Queen Blacks in big trouble. 06:02.900 --> 06:04.640 Now we have Queen E seven. 06:04.670 --> 06:09.470 If Bishop takes E five, then here Rook takes E five. 06:09.470 --> 06:17.000 And this situation Rook e one is super powerful immediate authority from the E four immediately threatening 06:17.000 --> 06:18.140 Bishop E six. 06:18.140 --> 06:19.670 This is extremely nasty. 06:19.670 --> 06:20.690 This situation. 06:20.690 --> 06:23.900 White's just clearly better winning the exchange there. 06:24.110 --> 06:31.280 So Queen E seven is tried, but now this leaves a nasty pawn in F six, which can help make the king 06:31.280 --> 06:33.560 so black does get two rooks for the Queen. 06:33.560 --> 06:38.210 But this is the wrong kind of position for this kind of thing. 06:38.420 --> 06:41.360 After King have two with tempo on the rook as well. 06:42.440 --> 06:44.420 So the rook goes. 06:44.420 --> 06:46.270 And now, yeah. 06:46.310 --> 06:48.450 The thing is, I mean, what does black do? 06:48.500 --> 06:52.400 C eight would be hanging if the other goes to B one to protect this rook. 06:52.400 --> 06:53.480 So the rook goes back. 06:53.480 --> 06:55.790 But now Queen C five is end of game. 06:56.360 --> 06:57.470 Black has to resign. 06:57.470 --> 07:03.740 If Rook be six, the point would be Bishop takes C eight to lure the rook away from E seven and then 07:03.740 --> 07:07.640 we go into E seven threatening a nasty queen G seven checkmate. 07:07.730 --> 07:12.320 Which there's nothing really black can do, only delay things with one. 07:12.720 --> 07:14.120 Does black defend the mate? 07:15.080 --> 07:17.180 So yeah, this actually ends the game. 07:17.180 --> 07:22.940 If Bishop eights queen take C seven and again what is black doing about Queen G seven? 07:22.940 --> 07:28.160 These rooks are just too slow to do anything to counter things here. 07:28.520 --> 07:31.400 It doesn't matter this x ray defense. 07:31.400 --> 07:32.720 Can you see what white plays? 07:32.720 --> 07:33.530 Five points? 07:34.520 --> 07:34.910 Yeah. 07:36.100 --> 07:38.620 Point place F seven check here and just queens. 07:38.620 --> 07:41.620 So it's all pretty crushing of the Queen C five. 07:42.100 --> 07:43.630 Yeah, absolutely crushing. 07:45.100 --> 07:45.940 Wow. 07:47.230 --> 07:55.060 So yeah, it seems as though black by playing Knight, she started to get in trouble actually, instead 07:55.060 --> 08:03.400 of nine four because of this Bishop D one, the super powerful Bishop D one and F six makes things even 08:03.400 --> 08:04.090 worse. 08:04.090 --> 08:08.350 So leaving this super dangerous pawn, this tactical pin doesn't work. 08:08.560 --> 08:12.200 It leaves work with this fantastic pawn on F six. 08:13.510 --> 08:20.560 Yeah, it's tactics and positional play Coming together is absolutely devastating. 08:20.560 --> 08:23.200 So the final possession Queen five. 08:23.230 --> 08:23.550 Yeah. 08:23.560 --> 08:25.000 Very, very interesting game. 08:25.900 --> 08:27.850 I hope you got some points from this. 08:28.780 --> 08:32.230 Sometimes we've got to make sure we don't damage our pieces. 08:32.230 --> 08:38.710 So anti positional threats to be aware of like 98 anti positional frightened away when the dynamic temporary 08:38.710 --> 08:43.930 pawn sacrifice was the much better option okay and so much.