WEBVTT 00:01.000 --> 00:01.810 Hi there. 00:01.810 --> 00:05.740 In this section, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Henrik making. 00:05.950 --> 00:12.340 So this is in 1972, the Hastings tournament, round six, E four from Karpov we see C five, nine, 00:12.340 --> 00:19.900 ten 3d6d4c ten 3496349569c3a6. 00:19.900 --> 00:22.750 The Sicilian Najdorf Bishop e two and e five. 00:22.750 --> 00:30.070 So with E five there is this polski hole on D five and sometimes that can be a great outpost square. 00:30.430 --> 00:32.440 The importance of an outpost in the square. 00:32.440 --> 00:36.610 It's frontally shielded by Black's pawn on D six. 00:36.610 --> 00:41.140 So such outposts are very, very useful to have. 00:41.350 --> 00:45.550 And often attacks are more successful if you have an outpost. 00:45.580 --> 00:47.080 So let's see what happened in this game. 00:47.080 --> 00:48.060 Might be free. 00:48.070 --> 00:50.620 Bishop E six and F four. 00:50.620 --> 00:56.190 Karpov is keen to push away the key defender of D five. 00:56.200 --> 01:00.840 We have Queen c7849, C six and now F five. 01:00.850 --> 01:06.490 And in fact here Bishop takes B3 is played so this weakens a little bit more. 01:06.490 --> 01:07.780 The D five square. 01:08.500 --> 01:09.670 Okay, there's a point. 01:09.670 --> 01:16.090 A kind of price paid for that D five square the double pawns but are they of great significance here 01:16.090 --> 01:17.110 you could argue. 01:17.110 --> 01:19.750 Well blacks got an outpost haven't they. 01:19.930 --> 01:20.860 True. 01:21.460 --> 01:23.320 Let's see how this hands out. 01:23.320 --> 01:27.340 Now we have Queen B six, Bishop G five. 01:28.300 --> 01:33.850 And now to make the outpost even secure, we have comp of playing Bishop takes F six. 01:33.850 --> 01:37.990 So Bishop takes five, 695, queen a five check. 01:37.990 --> 01:42.420 And Karpov doesn't fear here the Queen's coming off So Queen ditto. 01:42.460 --> 01:43.450 And it isn't fair. 01:43.450 --> 01:48.490 The opposite kind of bishops so it's obviously colored bishops does white outpost on D five really give 01:48.490 --> 01:52.360 white an advantage Here we have Bishop G five check. 01:52.390 --> 01:54.940 You might ask what about 94? 01:55.360 --> 01:57.700 Yeah, it's be free. 01:57.700 --> 02:05.140 We can protect it usefully with Bishop C for and then we can seal the queenside to make sure that this 02:05.140 --> 02:10.060 is a very nice position established here where white is better. 02:11.380 --> 02:16.900 And even if, if black indulges in tactics, it doesn't really matter here, by the way. 02:17.560 --> 02:18.370 It doesn't matter. 02:18.370 --> 02:26.500 That's just straightening out the pawns and we're left with a great, magnificent knight on D five and 02:26.680 --> 02:27.400 great prospects. 02:27.400 --> 02:30.040 We even even come to play Rook free to be free later. 02:30.040 --> 02:31.360 Perhaps so. 02:31.360 --> 02:31.560 Okay. 02:31.630 --> 02:33.190 Bishop G five check is played. 02:33.190 --> 02:34.360 We have King D free. 02:36.170 --> 02:40.320 And now blank cancelled if Rugby eight. 02:40.340 --> 02:49.460 This is an interesting try for a little bit of play and let's say before 97 the idea to play for 97. 02:50.890 --> 02:54.400 To try and challenge the Outpost and Bishop be six. 02:54.670 --> 03:00.820 This is interesting, but what you still ends up with a nagging edge here after B5 if Black plays with 03:00.820 --> 03:01.670 D5. 03:01.690 --> 03:06.670 Sure, the outpost square is not so dominant here at all. 03:06.670 --> 03:11.200 It's but it's been converted into another advantage in this position. 03:11.200 --> 03:14.380 Just a better bishop and better active pieces. 03:14.980 --> 03:20.620 And Black is actually having to shed a pawn here with no advantage for whites. 03:21.790 --> 03:24.100 The thing is about this position. 03:24.100 --> 03:27.040 So why is Black shedding a pawn? 03:28.380 --> 03:33.960 If b six we play bishops, C six check invading seven Frank winning material with King of Fate. 03:33.960 --> 03:41.460 We still invade the seven Frank Then when material So so King E seven in this line in Bishop takes seven. 03:41.460 --> 03:42.960 So that was an interesting challenge. 03:42.960 --> 03:48.120 That whole outpost, that whole variation represents a challenge to the D five outpost. 03:48.120 --> 03:55.890 But Black just Castled And then we have H for Bishop, the eight Rook, AC one, a five, King D two 03:56.250 --> 03:57.630 and now Rook be eight. 03:58.710 --> 04:03.780 And you can see that there's also a padlock on B five that really hasn't got too many sources of counterplay 04:03.780 --> 04:06.870 here we have G four, might be four. 04:09.100 --> 04:10.770 Bishop C4 OC. 04:10.810 --> 04:15.610 The outpost is replaced by Bishop outpost and you might think, well, isn't that less painful for black? 04:15.970 --> 04:20.070 Is white really in a convincingly winning position? 04:20.080 --> 04:22.120 We have five being played. 04:22.540 --> 04:30.580 If King H eight we can play G five and we get a kind of squish situation here emerging where we can 04:30.580 --> 04:33.910 play rook C free and maybe take out C five. 04:33.910 --> 04:39.610 And this position, we should have much better prospects in the long run with the King kind of being 04:39.610 --> 04:40.060 in prison. 04:40.060 --> 04:40.840 We have a bad king. 04:40.840 --> 04:43.460 It's a good advantage for White to work with. 04:43.480 --> 04:47.860 So G five was tried and then we have f tanks, G six. 04:47.860 --> 04:54.790 In fact, there's another fascinating move here worth mentioning, I feel, which is F six. 04:54.790 --> 04:59.710 This is really fascinating on Bishop takes some six to play H five. 04:59.710 --> 05:03.580 It is making use of the outpost and also a potential form pawn. 05:03.940 --> 05:10.300 So say b5h6 form pawn and if we get this scenario, it really is interesting. 05:10.300 --> 05:16.930 Four white black can get an active rook, but it doesn't really constitute counterplay after rook takes 05:16.930 --> 05:17.850 F seven. 05:17.860 --> 05:25.690 So for example, this situation we get an infiltration into the position supported by the outpost and 05:25.690 --> 05:28.510 this is going to be very dangerous for black losing material. 05:29.110 --> 05:30.520 This is just so dangerous. 05:31.210 --> 05:34.570 So that's a really interesting situation. 05:34.570 --> 05:36.160 Let's have a look at that again. 05:36.160 --> 05:38.800 So F6 Bishop takes H five. 05:38.800 --> 05:41.920 This is the key move here if this is played. 05:43.480 --> 05:44.950 So we looked at B five. 05:44.950 --> 05:48.730 If King G seven, we can play H six check and here rooks seven. 05:49.000 --> 05:53.740 And because the bishop takes F seven, black really can't do this because the bishop takes F seven. 05:53.740 --> 05:56.380 And if taking we're going to take on C eight. 05:56.890 --> 06:02.740 So it's really interesting stuff and let's say B six rook D seven. 06:03.370 --> 06:13.270 So D six is falling or something else is falling basically because this situation black is kind of in 06:13.270 --> 06:14.110 a bind. 06:15.250 --> 06:19.060 We can either torture with that or just go straight for the B pawn. 06:19.840 --> 06:22.000 Maybe that's a little bit more to the point. 06:22.000 --> 06:28.960 And the thing is here, once we play this position, we have Bishop takes F seven, so that's not able 06:28.960 --> 06:29.770 to be played. 06:30.700 --> 06:34.090 So yeah, this is a really dominating position that's showing actually why. 06:34.360 --> 06:36.640 Rook seven But then we play Rook. 06:38.110 --> 06:39.600 Let's say Rook eight. 06:41.200 --> 06:45.010 We're just going to play Rook be seven here now. 06:45.010 --> 06:48.940 And and you can see that actually this position we have, Bishop takes F seven check. 06:49.090 --> 06:50.890 So if rook takes rook takes B eight. 06:50.890 --> 06:54.250 So basically, yes, we infiltrate and it's kind of irresistible. 06:54.280 --> 07:00.490 F6 does seem like a delicious concept as well, but the way Karpov played it is very convincing as well. 07:00.520 --> 07:00.970 F Tanks. 07:00.970 --> 07:01.720 G six. 07:01.930 --> 07:02.500 H six. 07:02.500 --> 07:03.040 G six. 07:03.040 --> 07:06.730 We have King D Free, King G seven and now H five. 07:07.240 --> 07:08.980 We have Bishop B six. 07:09.940 --> 07:11.110 If B five. 07:11.110 --> 07:14.980 Hare eight takes Rook takes B five, rook C six. 07:15.670 --> 07:20.440 And White has a nice advantage in this situation, quite dominating. 07:21.220 --> 07:28.630 So Bishop B six we have Rook H free, Bishop C five and now, yeah, the attack is underway. 07:28.660 --> 07:31.840 Rook f one tying black down to f7f6. 07:31.840 --> 07:34.030 But now the H file is white's. 07:34.420 --> 07:39.160 So h takes we have King text g six which gives white control of the h file. 07:39.160 --> 07:44.110 But if Rook eight white can just go back for the f six pawn. 07:44.110 --> 07:48.220 And this situation is very unfortunate for black as example. 07:48.250 --> 07:55.210 Bishop f seven and King can enter into the position, for example, to even to e six and black's starting 07:55.210 --> 07:56.160 to crumble. 07:56.170 --> 08:00.220 So King takes g six was played giving comp off the H file. 08:00.220 --> 08:06.310 So he's really increasing his advantages systematically and he's going to easily crown it here with 08:06.310 --> 08:07.630 a strong attack. 08:07.990 --> 08:11.710 So we have this rook to the seven Frank and the king's being cut off. 08:11.710 --> 08:14.050 So that's a good sign of mating nets. 08:14.050 --> 08:17.020 And now here, guess what Karpov plays. 08:18.400 --> 08:20.260 Yeah, this is mating that time. 08:20.260 --> 08:23.200 King E to let G4 go. 08:23.440 --> 08:29.260 King Forrest played If King takes G for Rook G seven, check king for this rook H for mate. 08:29.620 --> 08:38.740 So King F4 But now rook 12h free securing a mating that basically starting to B of the bishop. 08:38.740 --> 08:42.370 D4 How do we secure the mate possibilities in this position? 08:42.370 --> 08:44.800 White's playing for ten points that move 34. 08:47.410 --> 08:47.980 Yeah. 08:49.030 --> 08:49.510 G seven. 08:49.510 --> 08:49.750 Yes. 08:49.750 --> 08:53.050 But the idea that we're just going to make black has to resign here. 08:53.860 --> 08:59.170 So, yes, this outpost square, which was substituted, you know, annoying got substituted by bishop 08:59.170 --> 09:01.180 was still very, very dangerous. 09:01.180 --> 09:09.010 So this is a beautiful way of guaranteeing kind of more irresistible attacks if we can get an outpost 09:09.010 --> 09:09.370 pace. 09:09.370 --> 09:16.210 This was a great example, in fact, of an outpost piece in a comp of game, which, you know from the 09:16.210 --> 09:18.640 opening, this is certainly a night off with the E five. 09:19.450 --> 09:26.530 There is an element of strategic risk and cop off even before castling is interested in trying to get 09:26.530 --> 09:28.510 black to give up that bishop for the night. 09:28.540 --> 09:31.930 He wants to seal the D5 outpost square. 09:31.930 --> 09:37.930 So this is a very, very interesting game and this stops any B5 counterplay. 09:38.140 --> 09:43.660 But yes, tempting black, otherwise black looks pretty passive here if the bishop retreated anyway. 09:44.740 --> 09:53.050 So Timothy Black for this situation, which really is nice and favorable for White's strategic, you 09:53.050 --> 09:56.920 know, strategically giving up the bishop for the knight to secure a nice outpost. 09:56.920 --> 09:58.120 So wonderful stuff. 09:58.120 --> 10:03.400 This is quite a clear example in my view of the power of an outpost on D five. 10:03.400 --> 10:08.320 And even if it's substituted like in this game and even if simplification occurs, the advantage is 10:08.320 --> 10:08.980 persisting. 10:08.980 --> 10:17.200 So yes, the the black made an idea here to get rid of the knight, but it just got substituted with 10:17.200 --> 10:20.110 a bishop and that was still very, very powerful as we saw. 10:20.110 --> 10:21.160 So great stuff. 10:21.160 --> 10:26.350 This is, in my view, a kind of inspirational game for Outpost Play. 10:26.380 --> 10:33.490 It's a great small win to get and if we get these small wins we're helping guarantee are attacking potential 10:33.490 --> 10:41.980 later and and the tactics to be more favorable to us in tactical situations generally okay and so much.