WEBVTT 00:01.020 --> 00:01.920 Hi there. 00:01.950 --> 00:07.440 In this lecture, we see Chino, a taco playing against Michael Adams. 00:07.440 --> 00:11.280 Will Chino a taco get an attack in this game? 00:11.280 --> 00:13.530 Sorry, the jokes are free in my courses. 00:13.530 --> 00:13.980 Yes. 00:13.980 --> 00:16.830 So this is the 2011 British Championship. 00:16.830 --> 00:17.760 Round four. 00:18.300 --> 00:21.180 We have E four from a taco. 00:21.180 --> 00:21.660 See? 00:21.660 --> 00:23.030 Five from Michael Adams. 00:23.100 --> 00:27.750 Sicilian defense, nine C free the close Sicilian, 96 g4g6. 00:27.750 --> 00:32.190 So we have Bishop G two, Bishop G seven, d3d6. 00:32.190 --> 00:37.710 So Black is employing a dance by a grip strategy, getting a grip on these nice dark squares, especially 00:37.710 --> 00:43.890 the four here knights F3 and now actually E five not minding the D five hole. 00:43.890 --> 00:45.960 Is this hole exploitable? 00:45.960 --> 00:48.270 It's not particularly exploitable right now. 00:49.230 --> 00:52.560 White consoles we see 9g7 and now 92. 00:52.560 --> 00:55.830 Now Black hasn't committed to castling. 00:56.430 --> 00:58.980 And in fact, guess what Adams plays here. 00:59.130 --> 01:01.140 I'll give you 5 seconds to pause the video. 01:04.510 --> 01:06.520 And a lot of math games, by the way. 01:07.120 --> 01:11.080 Generally, we see, you know, both sides. 01:11.080 --> 01:14.340 They seem to cancel after each other quite routinely. 01:14.350 --> 01:14.880 Here. 01:14.890 --> 01:16.540 Adams is not obliged to Castle. 01:16.540 --> 01:18.180 He plays actually H five. 01:18.190 --> 01:21.970 The knight has neglected control of H four, making h four more lucrative. 01:21.970 --> 01:31.580 Here we see C four if h four now gfg4 is weakens and Bishop g4 could provoke weaknesses, so say for 01:31.610 --> 01:35.020 free then we're weakening more the dark squares here. 01:35.020 --> 01:37.570 So this is going to be positionally quite good. 01:37.570 --> 01:44.890 For example, this situation we can take on F four and play D five to give us a semi-open default play 01:44.890 --> 01:47.410 with and this activates our pieces. 01:47.410 --> 01:51.970 This is a very nice structure to have because it has a lot of weaknesses in their camp. 01:51.970 --> 01:54.580 Out black has a small edge if we look at this again. 01:54.580 --> 01:54.700 Yeah. 01:54.760 --> 01:56.320 Bishop four is the way to go. 01:56.320 --> 01:57.820 Not g five. 01:58.600 --> 02:02.930 This is it's actually going to be okay for white after nine. 02:02.950 --> 02:08.500 C for good for white, but yeah, positionally Bishop G for provoke weaknesses as a priority. 02:08.500 --> 02:18.790 So 9c4 though is played allowing the possibility of H four we have 94 first nine E to Bishop G four 02:18.790 --> 02:24.250 so weakening the dark squares now three we have Bishop e696 default. 02:24.280 --> 02:30.220 This is really helping black as well because it's creating a semi-open CFO which could be used to switch 02:30.220 --> 02:33.070 resources to the kingside later as well. 02:33.090 --> 02:38.020 F We have Roxy eight At the moment it looks as though the knight should move. 02:38.020 --> 02:39.580 F five is played. 02:39.910 --> 02:46.630 Intriguingly, there are some tactics here hidden beneath with a four you might think, Hang on, why 02:46.630 --> 02:48.340 wouldn't Black just win a pawn? 02:48.850 --> 02:50.380 This is a fascinating line. 02:50.380 --> 02:50.740 Bishop. 02:50.740 --> 02:55.720 Take C4 rd, take C4 If we take on C4, are King's in the center? 02:55.720 --> 03:00.550 And even if we're a fantastic positional player, things can backfire for us. 03:00.550 --> 03:06.610 After four takes takes Rook takes F seven with the idea of the Nifty Queen F one check and white has 03:06.610 --> 03:07.420 a small edge. 03:07.420 --> 03:15.970 So things to bear in mind here about bishop take C4 if a for best is e takes e4 it seems you know and 03:15.970 --> 03:23.020 then D five and then we're getting a great position here in any case but in the game afore wasn't played 03:23.020 --> 03:30.730 we have f five here from white G takes our five e takes and oc b seven is on the fire but it doesn't 03:30.730 --> 03:31.450 really matter. 03:31.450 --> 03:32.950 It seems like it takes our five. 03:32.950 --> 03:36.400 We have Bishop E for first nudging the knight. 03:37.120 --> 03:39.670 Knight goes back and now Bishop takes B seven. 03:39.670 --> 03:41.200 The thing is rook c seven. 03:41.200 --> 03:47.110 This is just a great position for black overall because D five now pushes this knight back. 03:47.260 --> 03:54.490 Once got passive pieces and H4 promises either to open up the king or install a dreaded form pawn. 03:54.490 --> 03:54.800 Yeah. 03:54.850 --> 03:56.890 T h or n form pawn. 03:56.980 --> 03:59.620 So we have g four if king G2. 03:59.650 --> 04:03.010 Well that's just asking for h takes and Bishop H free check. 04:03.160 --> 04:09.640 And if King F2 we're going to play Bishop H free and open up the H file and then we can use a nifty 04:09.640 --> 04:13.150 rook lift Rooks six to put pressure on F3 like this. 04:13.150 --> 04:17.020 Rook f six Bishop G four It's going to be end of game here. 04:17.830 --> 04:20.350 Okay, so yeah, we're winning with Terrell. 04:20.350 --> 04:23.980 So G4 was played H This is a very dangerous form. 04:23.980 --> 04:27.160 Pawn it also positionally and tactically it's working. 04:27.280 --> 04:31.180 It's an intersection actually of attacking chess and positional chess. 04:31.180 --> 04:35.170 In my view, this just takes a lot of boxes. 04:35.170 --> 04:42.070 H three We have Bishop dd two, Queen dd seven, Bishop E one and now Adams. 04:42.070 --> 04:43.180 Just castles. 04:43.180 --> 04:44.770 Yeah, he doesn't mind, just castling. 04:45.370 --> 04:48.310 We have Bishop before rugby. 04:48.310 --> 04:50.590 Ain't Bishop takes E seven. 04:50.710 --> 04:51.160 Yeah. 04:51.160 --> 04:56.050 One is perhaps concerned that now that this Knight's been on the pins Knight G six therefore looks very 04:56.050 --> 04:56.770 juicy. 04:56.770 --> 05:01.660 So this weakens though white on the dark squares, the dark square guardian is gone. 05:01.810 --> 05:06.580 Rook B one We have rook B six Queen C one and now Queen H four. 05:06.610 --> 05:06.970 Yeah. 05:06.970 --> 05:09.280 White's position is full of weaknesses. 05:09.280 --> 05:16.930 G five And now, yeah, this opens up the Queen across hair supporting E four and actually White resigned 05:16.930 --> 05:17.050 here. 05:17.050 --> 05:18.490 The position is pretty miserable. 05:18.490 --> 05:19.540 Look at White's pieces. 05:19.540 --> 05:21.070 They've been destroyed. 05:22.330 --> 05:23.080 To be fair. 05:23.080 --> 05:23.380 Yeah. 05:23.380 --> 05:26.620 The previous year, Adams was destroying even GM's in less than 50 moves. 05:26.620 --> 05:28.330 So this player is not a GM. 05:28.330 --> 05:34.240 When I'm just a 2100 player, it shows that the level of devastation that can occur when a positional 05:34.240 --> 05:38.770 player, Adams is just destroying all their pieces, counterplay and king safety. 05:39.610 --> 05:47.980 So here, if D takes E for D, takes E for Bishop H one, Queen G for checking after a great move would 05:47.980 --> 05:49.450 be Bishop E five here. 05:49.900 --> 05:52.060 And what would White be doing in this position? 05:52.060 --> 05:52.930 Say Queen D one. 05:52.930 --> 05:54.340 Queen H four check. 05:54.340 --> 05:55.480 Bishop G four check. 05:55.480 --> 05:56.800 This is out town. 05:57.550 --> 06:03.070 Now, if also we look at Bishop H one, Queen G four check. 06:03.070 --> 06:03.910 Bishop e five we. 06:04.240 --> 06:04.890 Is strong here. 06:05.080 --> 06:06.070 Free check. 06:06.160 --> 06:07.800 We can even play Bishop G free. 06:07.810 --> 06:10.660 The tactics just flow from this amazing position. 06:10.810 --> 06:15.850 So, for example, Bishop G for crack Queen G to check, the tactics are absolutely flowing. 06:15.850 --> 06:19.600 As Bobby Fischer says, tactics flow from superior positions. 06:19.600 --> 06:23.500 So here Queen takes. 06:23.500 --> 06:25.360 Sorry, it would be a blunder. 06:27.010 --> 06:29.740 No, it's Queen DD two is checkmate. 06:30.580 --> 06:31.990 So yes, that's that's over. 06:31.990 --> 06:33.610 Queen RD two is checkmate. 06:33.790 --> 06:35.740 And if we look at another variation. 06:35.860 --> 06:39.550 So instead of here, King one bishop takes. 06:39.550 --> 06:41.800 If rook takes, we're just going to queen. 06:41.800 --> 06:42.550 That form pawn. 06:42.550 --> 06:45.340 That form pawn is now a menacing past pawn here. 06:45.340 --> 06:47.200 So this is absolutely crushing. 06:47.200 --> 06:50.980 And here we can shortly checkmate with Queen two again. 06:50.980 --> 06:52.180 Queen need to attack me. 06:52.180 --> 06:59.560 So an absolutely brutal positional attacking game because White didn't seem to estimate black playing 06:59.560 --> 07:00.250 age five. 07:00.250 --> 07:05.350 This already gives black a promising position right out of the opening. 07:05.710 --> 07:09.400 And that's, you know, a trademark of Michael Adams in his wins. 07:09.400 --> 07:11.140 Quite often it's out of the opening. 07:11.140 --> 07:15.940 He's got a definite advantage against his victims in these British championships. 07:15.940 --> 07:17.530 So, yeah, a fascinating game. 07:17.530 --> 07:22.690 I hope you enjoyed this and showing the dangers of the form pawn installation and the dangers of casting 07:22.690 --> 07:25.480 too early going right into an h pawn attack. 07:25.990 --> 07:26.830 Okay. 07:27.610 --> 07:28.420 And so much.