WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:01.780 Hi there. 00:01.800 --> 00:04.250 In this lecture, we see Michael Adams playing against the hands. 00:04.260 --> 00:08.640 Johnson In 1993, the 17 Floyds Masters open round one. 00:08.790 --> 00:10.230 So E four from Adams. 00:10.230 --> 00:14.340 We have a Sicilian defense notes F three, D, six, D four. 00:14.370 --> 00:16.770 C takes the fall Knight takes three, four. 00:17.340 --> 00:20.730 It's F six, 93, 96. 00:20.730 --> 00:25.890 And now we enter the Rector L's variation Bishop g5e6. 00:25.890 --> 00:28.520 Queen RD to a six. 00:29.190 --> 00:32.160 White Castle's queenside h six. 00:32.310 --> 00:35.730 Bishop drops back Bishop e7f4. 00:35.730 --> 00:38.820 Knight takes the fall, Bishop takes the fall and NB five. 00:39.390 --> 00:40.110 Bishop D three. 00:40.120 --> 00:48.090 So it looks like a fairly standard sequence of moves here B4 and now 92 is played now here. 00:48.090 --> 00:48.330 Yeah. 00:48.330 --> 00:54.540 The pawn is being hit and black makes it a kind of pawn sacrifice gambit with E five. 00:54.540 --> 00:59.820 Well, very shortly after E5 first, E5 is played first. 01:00.480 --> 01:04.050 And yeah, so this is kind of interesting. 01:04.050 --> 01:12.730 Now here if f six, e5d takes you might ask about Bishop takes E five and you might think initially 01:12.730 --> 01:18.450 the Queen 85 is quite dangerous for white because you know it's hitting a two and E five. 01:18.990 --> 01:20.220 The thing is. 01:21.520 --> 01:26.760 This isn't quite right for black to do this with that idea with green takes, say, two. 01:26.770 --> 01:28.420 So Bishop takes f6. 01:28.420 --> 01:31.090 What do you think Black's best move is here? 01:34.690 --> 01:37.550 You know plants best move would actually be. 01:38.690 --> 01:40.100 Bishop takes up stakes. 01:42.520 --> 01:50.950 Yeah, it's a treat it as a dynamic pawn sacrifice and not not try and take on a two track mate. 01:50.950 --> 01:56.380 So this position, for example, Black has to tread carefully with Bishop G. 01:56.410 --> 01:57.130 Five. 01:57.400 --> 01:58.570 It's again the tempo. 01:58.600 --> 02:00.520 If black cancels, then Rook takes off. 02:00.520 --> 02:04.000 Six is nasty for black a free for example here. 02:04.000 --> 02:06.430 And White's got a strong attack on the kingside soon. 02:08.080 --> 02:14.680 So the thing is, the point is if we go back if Queen takes a two was played in this position, can 02:14.680 --> 02:19.240 you see the resource that White has which refutes this whole idea of threatening checkmate? 02:19.630 --> 02:21.070 The king's in the center. 02:21.700 --> 02:25.420 So this kind of backfires, actually, because White has a resource here. 02:27.860 --> 02:28.220 Yeah. 02:29.510 --> 02:30.290 Bishop Be fine. 02:30.290 --> 02:30.830 Check. 02:31.760 --> 02:35.240 So eight X, there's queen de check and mating. 02:35.240 --> 02:41.840 And that works with also King F eight, which is play Queen D and that's mate. 02:41.870 --> 02:45.380 So yeah, there's interesting variations here stemming from. 02:47.670 --> 02:48.600 At this point. 02:48.630 --> 02:50.430 90 2e5. 02:51.420 --> 02:52.680 Won't take the pawn. 02:53.490 --> 03:00.540 So yes the the bigger point is sure, this Queen 85, but this has to be calculated. 03:00.540 --> 03:02.070 The weight of the bishop takes F six. 03:02.070 --> 03:05.460 So Queen five looking at e five and ato. 03:06.090 --> 03:07.290 Interesting tactics here. 03:07.290 --> 03:16.590 So Black's best course is to just take on have sex if one also considers Bishop RD for her here this 03:16.590 --> 03:17.010 position. 03:17.010 --> 03:25.110 Yeah it is a bit scary black overall rather is is going to be with a small edge at least. 03:27.000 --> 03:28.950 But yeah it's very very interesting stuff. 03:28.950 --> 03:33.960 So e five though it's kind of all bypassed for Bishop E free by Adams. 03:33.960 --> 03:35.460 So game on from here. 03:35.790 --> 03:42.300 Bishop E free and black actually lets the B four go now with castling. 03:42.600 --> 03:45.720 And from a positional perspective, what is happening if we take this pawn. 03:45.720 --> 03:52.620 Well we do enhance the long term pawn majority on the queenside if we can take out this pawn. 03:52.620 --> 03:59.190 This was mentioned by some of my correspondence players at Chess World where you know I'm the webmaster 03:59.190 --> 04:00.000 of chessboard dot net. 04:00.000 --> 04:05.430 But some correspondence players have basically said it's not really about the attack, it becomes about 04:05.430 --> 04:07.050 the queenside pull majority. 04:07.050 --> 04:13.470 So this move now Adams place looks like a move for correspondence player would play actually quite materialistic 04:13.470 --> 04:19.110 greedy but if white can actually survive to the endgame, there will be a nice pawn majority on the 04:19.110 --> 04:19.980 queenside. 04:20.100 --> 04:22.410 So does black have ferocious counterplay? 04:22.410 --> 04:24.450 Here we see Bishop E6. 04:26.040 --> 04:27.540 So that's interesting. 04:27.540 --> 04:30.540 Bishop e6 it looks active and logical. 04:30.540 --> 04:34.290 Black's play looks kind of straightforward here with a semi open B file. 04:35.700 --> 04:37.200 We have F5. 04:37.350 --> 04:39.420 If King B won. 04:39.420 --> 04:46.440 Yeah, Black's going to get a bit of play here for sure and it should be about even so F5 was played 04:46.440 --> 04:49.290 Bishop D seven, Queen B six now. 04:49.290 --> 04:51.420 So one thing the exchange of coins Black Rejects. 04:51.420 --> 04:54.060 That's 90 C free now. 04:54.060 --> 05:00.180 Bishop C six, Bishop d2a5, King B one and now Rook B eight. 05:00.180 --> 05:04.920 So this is setting another kind of trap, offering that pawn. 05:04.920 --> 05:06.090 We have Queen E free. 05:06.090 --> 05:14.880 If Queen takes a five, Queen B seven is really strong, hitting B two and hitting E four, so be free. 05:14.880 --> 05:16.950 But there's another point to it as well. 05:16.950 --> 05:23.460 There's a there's a bigger point about trampling the Queen Rook eight So that would be a naughty, naughty, 05:23.460 --> 05:25.260 materialistic queen being trapped. 05:25.440 --> 05:36.480 So the queen retreats to E for a good square, queen b7b free a four rook he18 times b3c text B free. 05:36.480 --> 05:39.120 Now, black kind of liberates. 05:39.120 --> 05:47.520 It seems like a logical liberation e takes, but the follow up has to be played precisely here and Black 05:47.520 --> 05:50.910 didn't follow up precisely Black played Bishop takes the five. 05:51.210 --> 05:54.850 This seems this is a major issue to give up the light square. 05:54.870 --> 06:06.360 Bishop Knight takes the five was essential here it seems so the raw idea is sometimes a bishop f six. 06:06.360 --> 06:08.910 If queen takes their that's very dangerous looking. 06:09.390 --> 06:17.820 So we have Knight takes D five in this variation and this would actually be okay for black. 06:17.820 --> 06:23.520 If we take this a bit further, this should be okay for black Black hood. 06:23.520 --> 06:25.620 Take out the f five pawn. 06:25.620 --> 06:31.470 Yeah, because there's a lot of pressure building up on the defile for example, here revoked ain't 06:31.470 --> 06:32.140 coming. 06:32.160 --> 06:38.880 So G four is not really that possible here because of this build up on the default. 06:38.880 --> 06:41.310 So let's say a pawn is given back. 06:41.370 --> 06:46.470 It ends up being about even this possession. 06:46.470 --> 06:54.150 But in the game we have Bishop takes the five and it sets very difficult problems now for black after 06:54.150 --> 07:04.920 nine takes the five we have Knight 65 Queen F3 and this is kind of a nasty pin and the light squared 07:04.920 --> 07:12.330 bishop is quite good actually here rook for eight So if Knight before Queen takes P seven, rook takes 07:12.330 --> 07:13.050 Bishop C four. 07:13.050 --> 07:14.780 This is a big advantage point. 07:14.790 --> 07:22.500 So Rook for eight, Bishop E for Queen B five and white can actually play. 07:22.500 --> 07:23.490 There's a very strong move. 07:23.490 --> 07:25.440 I mean, Adams plays one of the very strong moves. 07:25.440 --> 07:26.850 Can you guess what is played? 07:27.270 --> 07:30.750 But there's actually a very simple and strong move here as well. 07:33.190 --> 07:33.390 Plays. 07:33.460 --> 07:40.330 Bishop takes H six, which is taking out a pawn because there's cover on B five, but also just Queen 07:40.330 --> 07:42.670 D Free hair is problematic for black. 07:43.090 --> 07:45.790 If Queen Bee seven then this position. 07:45.790 --> 07:46.200 Ouch. 07:46.210 --> 07:48.850 Look at the pen pressure on D five. 07:49.210 --> 07:50.490 That's horrendous. 07:50.500 --> 07:52.120 It's just winning material. 07:52.120 --> 07:58.600 And if 97 here, then White would welcome the exchange of queens and just be simply better here. 07:58.960 --> 08:00.400 So yes. 08:00.820 --> 08:05.200 So Bishop takes his nice as well we have of sinks. 08:06.640 --> 08:13.630 So if G takes Bishop or rather Brook takes the five is the most accurate, but Bishop takes the five 08:13.630 --> 08:16.510 is also possible, but Rook takes the five with advantage. 08:16.840 --> 08:19.420 So 90 of six though is tried. 08:19.420 --> 08:21.580 We have Bishop going back to C one. 08:23.890 --> 08:30.900 Bishop b4 Rook f1 wrote d4 per Rooks come off Bishop dh free. 08:30.910 --> 08:36.850 It seems as though it doesn't have too many major concrete king safety issues here. 08:37.330 --> 08:46.350 Bishop C for Bishop DD two So that's pretty sad if Black's asking with simplification, but if White 08:46.360 --> 08:51.100 gets a few moves, it does look as though G for G five is going to come Black's way. 08:51.310 --> 08:58.750 So this exchange of bishops doesn't seem to be great, especially off the Queen F4, which kind of encourages 08:58.750 --> 09:00.880 the Queen's go back to B4. 09:01.150 --> 09:02.230 We have Queen b4. 09:02.230 --> 09:04.370 So if Queen C free now we're just taking out B. 09:04.390 --> 09:05.470 There's one other square. 09:05.470 --> 09:07.090 So Queen B for fun. 09:07.120 --> 09:12.820 Meet Queen b4 and now Queen takes D for taking out a centre pawn. 09:12.820 --> 09:18.130 So things look quite convincing for white hair now. 09:18.130 --> 09:19.150 Absolutely convincing. 09:19.150 --> 09:31.090 So Queen a five rook d one just offering a five g4 is possible and say this position plant's going to 09:31.090 --> 09:34.600 get a bit of play though, which might have been annoying to consider. 09:34.600 --> 09:42.670 So with this move instead, by giving up five, Black's counterplay is significantly reduced hair of 09:42.700 --> 09:48.370 King b2 any 94 this Bishop dd free for example. 09:48.370 --> 09:54.520 So what does black play rookie angst Well there's now A4 is played Queen H five and now after H three 09:54.520 --> 09:56.350 Black actually became convinced. 09:56.350 --> 09:59.620 This is after the time trial that her position is hopeless. 09:59.620 --> 10:02.200 This past a pawn is very significant now. 10:02.710 --> 10:05.680 So she kind of resigned generously. 10:05.680 --> 10:08.730 Maybe, but Rookie four Queen D free. 10:08.800 --> 10:12.070 Let's have a look at this position with Queen C frame. 10:12.340 --> 10:17.140 White dominates the possession and that outside passport is going to get very painful after a five. 10:17.620 --> 10:24.610 So yeah, an interesting case of materialism letting black have a bit of fun and then trying to consolidate 10:25.090 --> 10:32.200 the material after it was really helped by one of Black's inaccuracies, Though it has to be said that 10:32.200 --> 10:34.090 Black did have significant counterplay. 10:34.090 --> 10:39.490 It was well, there was temporary compensation, but the follow up here, giving up the loyal Squire 10:39.490 --> 10:45.880 Bishop, was a very bad decision in retrospect, giving up the bishop here Knight takes D five absolutely 10:45.880 --> 10:48.820 had to be played here for black to stay in the game. 10:48.820 --> 10:54.550 So interesting kind of use of an opening which you think you're going for the attack. 10:54.550 --> 10:59.020 But the positional play here, Adams is looking at the long term like a correspondence player. 10:59.230 --> 11:04.540 At the long term, how a queenside pawn majority can simply be winning after if you can withstand the 11:04.540 --> 11:05.380 counterplay. 11:05.380 --> 11:06.700 So interesting game. 11:06.700 --> 11:08.800 I hope you enjoyed it this game. 11:08.860 --> 11:10.810 So yeah, this was the big turning point. 11:10.810 --> 11:17.710 Bishop 65, where White was taking control of the position on the line squares and so much.