Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against larger supporters in the 1982 fillets and Drew
Tillman's around 12.
So e four from Karpov.
We have a Sicilian defense.
Nice.
F eight.
D six.
D four.
C tanks.
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The night off with a six bishop e two and e five might be free.
Bishop e seven.
Both sides Castle Bishop e three.
Bishop e six.
Queen dd two.
Knight BD seven.
So here.
Yeah, it's an interesting move.
Might bd seven if be five.
You might wonder what would be a good recipe here.
I would not recommend the passive a free.
In fact, we can play a lot more dynamically.
I know it looks scary.
This be 4496e4 here, but we can play a four.
So if be four we just play 95 and we're going to take out before we're free to one pawn majority as
a simple example.
So say nine takes e four we can take on E seven first to safeguard tonight, just take off E seven check
and then Queen takes B for this position.
Should be a nice edge for white.
White can actually just play c four here with a proxy bind.
Well half of proxy bind and it's a free to one pawn jointly on the queenside.
It's a nice looking position.
So that's one simple way of playing things in the event of B five, just playing a four.
Yeah.
Tap the pawn forward.
So Knight BD seven we have a four here preventing B five now.
Rooks eight If Bishop takes B free, C takes nine, C five, we can actually play Bishop taking C five
here and we end up with a nice bishop on C four.
This would be a nice advantage.
So it doesn't really matter about the double pawns.
It's there are pluses to this position which outweigh the double pawns.
So Rooks eight We have a five.
So I'm fixing strategy, trying to restrain queenside Quincy seven Here we could investigate.
Bishop takes B four again, but it's not that bad for white.
White can play here.
A tricky move, actually.
In the form of, well, guess what?
White can play.
It looks as though we've been double attacked.
So how would you handle this?
What we acute way of handling this.
There is a way just Queen DD one.
So if Black tries to win a pawn, it kind of backfires.
Positioning of the Queen DD five Because we're going to win B seven and an ace X we're going to undermine
the pawn chain over here.
So yeah, we're just taking on B seven, if not C five, trying to protect B seven, we just nudge the
knight.
And once we take on B seven, then a six is weak and it has kind of backfired on black.
We have a nice advantage here with that nice outside pass pawn.
So Queen C seven is played.
We have Rook fc1, Queen C six.
Again, Bishop thinks be free.
We can just play, be here.
There's no real problem with advantage.
So.
Quincy six, Bishop three We have Bishop C for.
And yes, just one small bishop takes me, for instance.
This disposition we can play Queen D one and one can't really take because of this rook eyeing the queen.
So say Queen dd seven.
We can play g free hair and we have a nice comfortable position.
We can actually play Rook C two to DD two to target the DD six pawn on backward, the backward pawn
and Z file with a very comfortable position indeed.
We have everything secured.
It doesn't really matter again about the double pawns.
It's the pluses, overall pluses of our position, which counts overall positive rather than the structural
deficit of the double pawns.
So bishops C four is played rook four, rook D eight and now rook B four.
This is an interesting queen.
C 7.5 Knight takes D five, eight, eight.
So there is a facility for Bishop B six because the rook there now five is played Bishop E2 And now
maybe.
Yeah, this is a really interesting position.
It seems there is a tactical option available.
G four which can be it looks a bit crazy in some lines if F for Bishop B six this position nine takes
eight, takes Queen D seven.
We can actually play a five here.
And it turns out, you know, we've got pressure on C four, it turns out here we're winning.
So Black has to improve on that.
Black has to really improve on that.
So F four, yes.
Bishop B six is kind of very, very tricky for this C for Bishop to be stuck.
It's like a forcing sequence here that we get to play.
95 When does the bishop go?
A two is not much good.
It's going to be trapped there.
And yeah, the bishop's kind of stuck here.
Bishop a four there's be free coming.
So given that the case let's look at E four instead.
If G four being played Rook take C four is actually interesting for Bishop E2 temporary exchange sack
Knight D4 looks at 96 and the black pawns are being undermined.
There's enough compensation here for white Knight.
Doesn't even need to rush for anything to take out f five and it ends up being a nice position for white.
I ask though one is this nonsense.
Hasn't black got Knight be free?
If we look because we've got an entrenched knight, we can actually be technically material down here,
but we're dominating the position.
We have authority over the position.
So say Quincy two and we knock out a sense pawn this position, okay, we lose B2.
But if we look at it, yeah, it's a fascinating position where White's pieces are dominating.
Knight G five is extremely dangerous for six and seven Checkmate as example.
And here if for example GD eight, then F6 is winning threatening mate and this possession we can force
a mate off tonight of seven shank queen e6e5 check and we're forcing a chat mate, so let's give Black
a sensible move as example to show though, this position is still dangerous for Black's king with the
queen stuck over there.
Yeah, so there's a lot of compensation going on.
If Queen G free and we take out D six.
This is just a fictional scenario, but we've got nothing really to worry about, even though we're
two exchanges down.
It's fascinating.
The pawns are really massive here.
So this is all kicked off.
All of this fascinating stuff.
Kicked off from G four.
Yeah, it is a fascinating move.
But yeah, very, very kind of dynamic.
It's understandable the more simple move.
Bishop E2 is played by Karpov and he just wants to get his queenside pawn majority going.
If we split the board into two here, we can see that White has a42 free 44 to 3 on this side of the
board and black has a majority on this side of the board.
So we have Bishop thanks be free if f for here we can play Bishop b6 low tempo tempo gain and take out
C4.
That C4 is a liability so Bishop takes be free.
Finally played here doesn't seem under great circumstances.
Now F4 lets the pawns actually be blockaded on light squares.
It is a mistake making things worse.
Rook f eight and this possession will rock C free as possible.
So you might ask why if Queen takes a five, we can take on C eight and we're getting our tempo gaining
material win with this.
So let's imagine instead more sensible.
Queen b a We can take on C A and play F3 and we've got a nice advantage so.
Anyway.
So that's the position is not great for Black Knight.
See?
Five Rook three Yeah.
Our bishop is really good putting us in a good, good way generally.
But F4 does actually make things worse for black.
We see Bishop sex knight tanks, rook tanks, B six.
Bishop G five.
Yeah.
Welcome to that.
No, if E we're just taking out our four.
So it does support the F four pawn.
It's like one point, maybe 4e4.
But we see Bishop G for the rook moves Rookie one, Queen C five and now a nice move.
What would you play here for?
Ten points.
Okay.
A nice preventative move.
Yeah, just locking the E five point and supporting moves like B four on C four.
So it's trying to get the majority to create a pass pawn here.
So.
And it's very difficult to see how black stopping this plan B for Quincy 7c4.
Yeah.
This looks like a plan which is quite vicious to plan for C five to generate a pass pawn king 8c5 just
straight off the bat, not preparing any more.
Just C five.
We have D takes one else F Rook bd eight Queen dd free as example.
And here.
Say Bishop H4 because Black doesn't really want to lose E5 potentially to DD six and Rook 25 say this
position we just get a big advantage with Rook C4.
So Black did play details here DD six and now E five is vulnerable.
But first just taking on C five, it's not going anywhere.
The E five pawn we have three.
This is rather desperate.
It's hitting the queen.
Queen moves the d5f times g two.
But you are losing the center pawn.
And we have Queen F six.
There's a threat of queen takes F two.
That's parity with Rook F five.
Check King G two.
So why is a pawn up here for not much compensation at all as compensation also has a massive past pawn
d seven so Queen takes a five equal again on pawns.
But now winning a pawn again Rook takes B seven to connected past pawns are being created.
Rook takes me seven, Queen takes P seven queen the 8c6.
This looks absolutely crushing.
We have a five and now.
Yeah.
Nice tactic to exploit the past pawn potential.
What would you play in this position for 100 points and why?
Can you can you see the follow up on Bishop?
This is a clue our bishop does x ray c eight.
Okay.
So a nice tactic to crown things here.
See seven two crown all the positional play with combinations C seven.
So Queen takes D seven.
So the point is not to play C eight here because Black could just take them with the queen.
The point is, Rook at four defends the bishop.
The bishops now activated 4c8 support and Black resigned.
If Queen D six we're just simply cleaning her well.
So that looked like a very controlled game using a pawn majority to create a pass pawn.
So 95 had an interesting role.
If we go earlier how this pawn majority was even created.
It was this kind of thematic 95 which split more the pawns.
The poor majority is made more emphatic after this, giving black some potential for a four to free.
But the kings over here so it's actually easier in some cases for wanting to try and get the past potential
gain like in this game.
So that's a great example of a poor majority and great control over the possession.
Of course, blockading the rook, coming to that central four square nice example for thematic C five
break to generate the dangerous passport.
Very interesting game.
Instructive.
I hope you enjoyed this as much as me.
Very controlled positional chess with preventative moves along the way just to increment those advantages
gradually without too much controversy and fuss.
Okay.
And so much.