WEBVTT 00:00.720 --> 00:01.420 Hi there. 00:01.440 --> 00:05.790 In this lecture, we see Michael Adams against Vatican Ravikumar. 00:05.820 --> 00:08.400 This is a 1989 always about monsters. 00:08.400 --> 00:10.310 13 position round three. 00:10.320 --> 00:11.760 So e four from Adams. 00:11.760 --> 00:12.120 See? 00:12.120 --> 00:16.300 Five 9396 default C takes default. 00:16.320 --> 00:21.930 Now, you might think this is not a very positional opening, but you can play positionally with 1e4. 00:21.930 --> 00:23.070 It's how you play it after. 00:23.070 --> 00:26.220 So here we have Bishop G five, Queen A five. 00:26.220 --> 00:33.960 So Black is offering double pawns in exchange for having the Dancewear Bishop accountable and to the 00:33.960 --> 00:38.070 bishop pair the two bishops and Adams accepts that offer. 00:38.070 --> 00:41.070 Bishop takes f6g takes and now might be free. 00:41.070 --> 00:42.750 The energetic Queen G five. 00:42.750 --> 00:49.590 So this is disrupting for white to castle queenside later if Queen C seven white can actually play hare 00:49.590 --> 00:55.170 Queen H five celebrating the lack of a knight on f six putting pressure on F seven. 00:55.290 --> 00:58.980 And for example, this position should be in White's favor overall. 00:59.490 --> 01:07.020 So we have Queen G five, we have 95 and this is awkward already for black. 01:07.020 --> 01:10.440 For 97 the king comes to defend c seven. 01:10.440 --> 01:18.720 It's a bit strange looking F for Queen H six, Queen dd two, E six and nine, c3a6 and white castles 01:18.720 --> 01:22.110 Queenside King c7g free. 01:22.110 --> 01:24.390 We have B eight King B one. 01:24.750 --> 01:25.920 Bishop E seven. 01:25.920 --> 01:26.640 Bishop G two. 01:26.640 --> 01:30.030 So why has completed development? 01:30.030 --> 01:31.290 The rooks are connected. 01:31.290 --> 01:34.050 It looks pleasant enough at the moment. 01:34.050 --> 01:41.610 Rook D eight We have Rook H one Bishop F eight so blank is now putting the rooks together and now actually 01:41.610 --> 01:42.510 a rook left. 01:43.050 --> 01:47.430 So this gives the idea that rook d three or later rook C free might be useful. 01:48.180 --> 01:50.910 We have B six and Queen F two. 01:50.910 --> 01:54.570 So this kind of probes this side of the board. 01:55.170 --> 01:57.270 We have Bishop D seven, rook ed3. 01:57.270 --> 02:02.860 So White's pieces look harmonious, organized black has the bishop hair. 02:02.880 --> 02:04.680 How to crack Black's position. 02:04.680 --> 02:13.200 Now we have Knight E two, King B seven, Knight RD two giving the idea that maybe 94 is on the cards, 02:13.200 --> 02:15.570 which hits B six and DD six. 02:15.780 --> 02:18.420 So trying to hit these weaknesses hard. 02:18.720 --> 02:24.750 Queen H five And now an interesting little tactic and the service of positional play to try and put 02:24.750 --> 02:27.240 the black queen away from the action. 02:27.240 --> 02:28.620 Can you see what Adams plays? 02:28.920 --> 02:31.290 This is a very neat touch, this move. 02:34.420 --> 02:34.990 Okay. 02:35.040 --> 02:36.070 G4. 02:36.850 --> 02:38.710 So now Queen takes G4 is played. 02:38.710 --> 02:44.350 If it's ignored with Queen a5y could harass the Queen would not be free. 02:44.530 --> 02:45.640 Knights C Free. 02:45.670 --> 02:46.970 Bishop F one. 02:46.990 --> 02:49.060 So first thing Rook takes DD six. 02:49.060 --> 02:52.180 So this position is highly unpleasant for the Queen. 02:52.180 --> 02:57.580 The Queen is kind of trapped, so black would have to lose lose material for the queen to escape. 02:58.210 --> 02:59.830 Very unpleasant indeed. 02:59.830 --> 03:02.770 So the queen actually took on G4. 03:02.770 --> 03:03.790 We have the bishop free. 03:03.790 --> 03:07.720 And the point is the Queen's put in the corner over there. 03:08.080 --> 03:09.460 So maybe f five. 03:09.460 --> 03:13.180 The Queen can have some influence, but it doesn't look great. 03:13.180 --> 03:14.710 We have Rook be free. 03:15.340 --> 03:21.850 King C seven defending b6c for pressurizing B six again, B five. 03:21.850 --> 03:30.670 And now 93 rook designs and here G3 is played rugby 7c4. 03:32.530 --> 03:36.310 This is an interesting position, an interesting moment. 03:36.310 --> 03:40.960 Perhaps Black could have just played b4. 03:40.960 --> 03:45.940 It seems very logical and it's difficult for wanting to improve the position. 03:45.940 --> 03:48.280 It's only a slight edge overall for whites. 03:48.490 --> 03:52.810 So fortunately I mean for Adams that B4 wasn't played. 03:52.810 --> 03:59.590 If we have a look at this C4, it turns out here tactically Knight G five is a stunner. 03:59.590 --> 04:02.710 So E takes a 595 check. 04:03.670 --> 04:05.800 And the dynamics here are very interesting. 04:05.800 --> 04:10.300 The Queen shut out of the game with these pawns. 04:11.350 --> 04:13.600 So it looks like a very interesting pawn formation. 04:13.600 --> 04:16.960 And the point is white can make progress with 9b6. 04:16.960 --> 04:18.100 Take out the light squared. 04:18.100 --> 04:22.470 Bishop and White's making progress here with the Queen kind of in Siberia. 04:22.480 --> 04:26.770 This is just a fancy variation, but it shows this in particular. 04:26.770 --> 04:29.830 Black starts to crumble after this opening move. 04:30.040 --> 04:36.340 So Queen takes F4 would be impossible here because the bishop takes C six check winning the queen. 04:37.360 --> 04:45.370 And if King C eights rookie free, even though once he's done the king safety factor is massive here. 04:45.370 --> 04:51.520 This is a very very dynamic difficult to calculate situation where even here it's difficult to exactly 04:51.520 --> 04:54.010 see sometimes how to continue. 04:54.010 --> 04:57.940 But here actually rook tanks D5 is a crushing threat. 04:57.940 --> 05:06.640 So now it is it is fairly clear if the rook gets out of the way of King takes the attacks crashing through 05:06.670 --> 05:07.180 here. 05:07.600 --> 05:13.960 But yeah, this takes a towel like attacking intuition, this kind of thing where we can see outcomes 05:13.960 --> 05:16.300 much later on through the piece sacrifice. 05:16.300 --> 05:19.240 So that would be a very, very dynamic move. 05:19.360 --> 05:26.680 So instead C four was played understandably B4 was was very useful to black hair, but we have rook 05:26.680 --> 05:33.940 bibby eight rook C1 and yeah, it looks just like a terrible position for Black's king now. 05:33.940 --> 05:35.410 It looks absolutely terrible. 05:35.410 --> 05:38.080 The king over there, the queen over there, it looks absolutely terrible. 05:38.080 --> 05:41.050 Knight a5c takes B five check. 05:41.230 --> 05:43.120 King Now the Rooks double. 05:43.540 --> 05:44.770 And now here. 05:46.930 --> 05:54.400 He takes B five the the actual some of the official game scores for this game are a bit weird having 05:54.400 --> 05:57.880 rook tanks be five allowing rotating out which is just impossible. 05:57.880 --> 06:06.970 So let's assume a takes B 590 1f5 that this version of events happened E five opens up the Queen on 06:06.970 --> 06:15.880 this diagonal and we have D five and our knight H five, Queen H six and now Rook takes eight and here 06:16.690 --> 06:20.080 after Queen B six check, that's end of game. 06:20.680 --> 06:27.760 So in this position we're winning a piece and that Knight's supporting our four point line is just winning 06:27.760 --> 06:29.110 a piece here in the end. 06:30.670 --> 06:32.980 So you might say, well, this was an attacking game. 06:32.980 --> 06:34.540 It wasn't a positional game. 06:35.680 --> 06:38.830 The thing is the opening choice after it's what happens. 06:38.830 --> 06:44.740 After Adams went for structural damage, the positional player in general, like an Adams or cop off, 06:44.740 --> 06:47.800 they prefer to have nice pawn structures. 06:48.040 --> 06:53.350 They're more static players looking at the static benefits of pawn structures rather than dynamic. 06:53.350 --> 06:56.710 So the dynamic is opening up pieces, getting an attack. 06:56.710 --> 07:02.110 This is more like static and structural that the slower aspects of the position which we can build up 07:02.110 --> 07:04.300 slowly emphasized here. 07:04.300 --> 07:07.360 But it so happens that King Safety was a major factor. 07:07.360 --> 07:07.750 And. 07:07.750 --> 07:13.360 ADAMS Primarily he's playing the position, whatever your whatever you are, you're leaning. 07:13.360 --> 07:15.670 If your positional tactical, you're playing the position. 07:15.790 --> 07:20.410 And if this is the position and it's shown in this game that Adams is playing to the finesses of the 07:20.410 --> 07:26.080 position, for example, putting the Queen back in the box with this G4 move, it's a very accurate 07:26.080 --> 07:32.290 looking move to put the Queen in a bad place and then go concretely for the King later. 07:32.410 --> 07:38.020 Okay, there was an interesting piece sacrifice that was missed instead of C4, and this may have been 07:38.020 --> 07:38.830 a cause of regret. 07:38.830 --> 07:44.200 I remember at the time of the game Adams had some regret about this game and maybe it was it was this 07:44.200 --> 07:47.350 move rather than a more attacking move like Knight G5. 07:47.350 --> 07:52.210 But this requires a real attacking intuition, this kind of move to open up the king. 07:52.450 --> 07:57.280 So yes, it seems anyway, black really played a bad move there. 07:57.280 --> 08:03.340 Rugby eight just letting things be opened up and still not closing things up. 08:03.610 --> 08:05.890 So yes, strange play from black. 08:05.890 --> 08:06.460 Indeed. 08:06.460 --> 08:08.500 Very strange, provocative play. 08:08.500 --> 08:17.170 Just perhaps trying to open up lines against the white king and the diagonal, but I'm not sure we should 08:17.170 --> 08:21.160 talk about this game too much because the game score does not seem correct. 08:21.190 --> 08:25.650 But some interesting ideas nevertheless, to an extent. 08:25.660 --> 08:28.000 I hope you enjoyed it so much.