Hi there in this life, shall we say, in my view, a really interesting, instructive game is played
in the British ship of 1999.
Jim Clancy, very dangerous, dynamic tactical player in general against Michael Adams.
So let's see what happened in this game.
For me, it illustrates you've got to be important.
You've got to be very, very careful of your pawns, pawns to not go backwards.
And as such, unlike other pieces, they reflect irreversible decisions in other domains like information
technology, the wrong kind of recommendations to leave the so-called irreversible decisions, the loss,
responsible moments, because you don't want to regret something you can't really reverse without incurring
huge costs.
In fact, in software, you know, architects try and factor those early on to try and get that risk
under control, those ones which are most costly to kind of change.
Later, they try and make the right decisions that it's very, very difficult sometimes to make the
right decisions when there's an irreversibility about it.
One of the big innovations in computers is the undo button.
Where would we be quite often in software without an undo button on the chessboard?
When we move a pawn forward, there's no undo button like the other pieces.
So just bear that in mind.
It's like one of the big lessons that, you know, many, many positional grandmasters like David Noad
is well aware of.
He once went and did a lecture and they're expecting some opening, very dazzling combinations.
And he just emphasized, you know, --'s do not go backwards.
Just bear that in mind in your games, because here, let's have a look at this game now.
Plaskett against animes.
Knight a free of we see these 46 jeoffrey from Plaskett B6 from ASMs determinately some White Castles
C5 C4 Seatmates Queen 64.
So far so good good besame seven Seefried d6.
So Adams is using the kind of hedgehog pwn structure a prickly hedgehog structure.
Roody one a6 we see a fall so it's a kind of boyens structure.
Moxey bind here from white knight beedi seven queeny free queen c7.
Be Frank Adams Castles special be two AC eight right before here.
It seems as though you know Plaskett wants to do something aggressive and dynamic after rook.
He ain't AC1.
It seems his pieces are well placed and would suggest, you know, maybe to start considering some sort
of battering ram against blacks.
Kingside wants to try and win this in a brilliant way.
So Atrius played we see Queen Bee eight.
So Adams just sitting back in this hedgehog's structure, sitting back, waiting a little bit.
We see Rocky one.
And in fact, with this very rookie one has played, Desex is not that vulnerable.
It seems not that exploitable right now at all.
Seems, though, why it's a long way away from exploiting that pawn, which seems to be a potential
theoretical target.
But nothing's like even on defoliate we see.
In fact, now rook see the one?
OK, Bishop Eighty.
But Plaskett is not interested in probing this pawn he's actually interested in affords him some sort
of kingside attack is planned here now.
Otherwise if I were actually giving himself for one moment a backward pawn.
So it's up to pieces to defend these things.
We see offtakes.
If I buy a perk of the back of pawn, it does support the five points further.
Once Pawlenty force now being kind of isolated, there's no follow pawns.
So what's not without structural issues here either?
Look at one.
So does the activity compensate for plainness for her?
On the other hand, you know why it has also weakened some key Diggles.
If the king staying there, this diagonal could potentially be a downside of one's position.
Later, we see Bishop C6 saying basically in terms of peace, harmony, that if this note is given up,
this bishop isn't particularly harmonious, stuck behind its own pawn.
So maybe, you know, blacks bishop isn't really doing much.
And here it kind of threatens B5.
Now, Nîmes, which has an expression, acronyms, which the frat is often stronger than the execution
if you can actually provoke the opponent to play irreversible decisions.
Like -- moves, the opponent may regret those decisions later.
There's weak points which are being created and in fact, with those weak points, as pieces get exchanged
off, those weak points tend to be amplified more and more.
It's like with space, the space opposition.
If you have more space, there's a responsibility to look after the space.
And to become a weakness.
It's like if you had a big, spacious garden, you need to maintain it regularly, otherwise, you know,
it becomes a sort of liability.
The same on the chessboard where space becomes comes responsibility.
There's a comfortable kind of ratio between the number of pieces you have in the amount of space justified.
We see a four so tempting, an irreversible decision and we see that B, free is fundamentally a kind
of backward pawn in one's position.
Now it can only be supported by pieces, so both sides have to circle back the pawns.
In fact,
we see now the bishop dropping back.
So that is not an offer anymore to take out that bishop would have to.
In fact, 1957, although white, it does seem tempting to use this phone.
How effective is this with a big boy sitting on a phone protecting f7 this stumbling drugs?
How effective is that in this situation?
In the meantime, there's a plot for bee free her to be proud royalty AF1 and we see 95.
In fact, there's a specific tactical nuance here of the rook, the one which shows, you know, if
you're not a brilliant tactician as well as a brilliant positional player, then you might not be able
to do anything with the opportunities as they arise.
Now, here there is a golden opportunity to kind of dismantle the entire white position.
I wonder if you can spot it if I give you five cents for the video and it shows actually these kind
of decisions.
You know, the CIFOR and the A4 have given them back support, which is only supported by piece.
So that piece dependancy is a characteristic of a weakness.
If you have candidate weaknesses in the opponents pawn structure, you want to look for where you know
there's greater dependencies.
Sometimes you can knock out those dependencies and really expose underlying those underlying weaknesses.
So here there's a tactical move which really causes why it collapsed in a spectacular manner.
So if I give you five seconds, what would you play in this position?
OK, it's nice to be free.
It's only protected by a piece, but now with that undermine, you know, see for an eye for a weekend.
And the problem with this now of the night after, for it leads to another undermine and undermine leading
to one another on the point that, in fact, hold on a sec.
FBI, too, has taken out its unwitting Sifry.
And wait a second, isn't Sifry a kind of killer common square of the bishop and the rook here?
This is what I mean.
This is like a total collapse of White's position based on one or two extra -- moves, which maybe
shouldn't being played.
All of a sudden, White's position is collapsing, you might think.
Hold on.
Wasn't the FBI holding up F7?
Isn't that an issue?
That's the issue that.
This next wave kind of looked at, but lightning speed, so it's fundamentally, you know, it's going
to win the every night next.
So losing F7 here is not a checkmate or anything.
It's just the queen unsupported.
Now, Siegfried's vulnerable.
So if we take stock here now of the rotates Brooks C7, this played evicting the queen first, not even
rogue taxi for a rogue taxi was actually fine as well.
If we look at this position, three, four, five, one, two, three, four, pawn up lovely bishops,
especially the Dallas Cowboys.
This is just a very, very pleasant possession with Jeoffrey on the fire.
You know what?
What would we be doing here and if there is on the.
So anyway, but this is nifty kicking the queen out first.
We see Queen after an ROTC free her, so it seems how long is it is this really so significant, this
position?
Well, the prettiness of one's position has gone away.
Black is technically a PornHub.
Black does have that Beshir power.
They seem to be so classically placed.
This symbol or rather modernly place these these bishops crisscrossing like this.
But is there a specific issue here causing White to be in big trouble?
Yes, there is that why is under severe pressure in this situation, I think also there's liberation
or opportunities here behind the scenes.
Why plays the tuba as an example?
You know, say.
King to the dance choir, bishop without our counterpoint is a bit of a menace.
You know, what about moves like Bishop E5?
How does then how does Y address Jeoffrey as an issue?
It's very, very tricky.
Yeah, that is one of the big assets here.
In fact, it's not just the act of just having a bishop.
Sometimes it is literally a more specific role that a bishop without a counterpart giving you superiority
on that whole set of colors and dark squares around the board like Jeoffrey are particularly vulnerable
now of this kind of move.
You know, it's very difficult to fans, let alone, you know, opportunities like the five, which
would further battery on Jeoffrey.
Very, very painful stuff.
So we see this move 92 and why it really collapses just in a few moves from here of the work have eight.
Because night before is kind of taken control of the four, in fact, and now Bishop DeFore check.
And all of a sudden, the hold on Bishop DeFore has now got access to a new square.
It's like Chess's a lot about winning access to squares.
Why it's been really hacked in terms of giving up squares.
Why shouldn't have given up squares like, you know, in the field of information security?
That one's given up key squares like every.
Now, where is this queen going?
The queen hasn't got that many squares.
It's really spectacularly gone bad, this position.
The Queen's only got like Jiwon and now the game ends on this next move.
Can you see if I give you five cents for every black player?
Because hang on, you know what?
Isn't the rook hanging as well?
When did this happen?
When when was the rook hanging?
It seems, you know, even I've played through this game several times, but things seem to happen so
quickly in this game after that initial, you know, undermine then draw the line.
The square bishop is just like a monster piece all round the board and all of that.
Why is this rook hanging?
The thing is, you know, if Bishop takes fine, OK, there's queen free.
But when did this happen?
Let's rewind.
When when on earth did this happen?
The rook was x raying, was being x rayed by the bishop here.
So so happens around here that actually this is a double tag unleashing that attack on the rogue and
the queen.
It was a double attack.
And this is a desperate defense.
But now Adams just plays Rook Differe shutting down.
You know, Queen takes a look at the end.
So we're just leaving this double attack.
Devastating.
This is why for me, you know, if you want to study -- structures in human chess, you look at atoms
and, you know, certain grandmasters, you know, like Eric Hanson have also expressed, you know,
that they've studied Michael Adams.
He's a fantastic structuralist.
We can study the world champions in the unofficial world champions.
But if we want to learn about Paul structure, you go to a specialist, maybe a specialist in the U.K.
Is Michael Adams a specialist as a structuralist in the US is yassa.
So when they just love Puhn structures.
They literally called structuralists Bahir, you know, it's like such a rapid tactical disaster, it's
difficult to take this all in in one go.
What on earth has been happening here after night takes be free.
We really need to, like, take this in slow motion.
Some irreversible decisions lead to, you know, a set of undermines which take how essentially a dance
choir bishop, which in itself so there's one undermine after another on the way, which leads to a
kind of further undermine of of why on the dark squares, it's complete obliteration.
It's like free controlled explosions, one after the other.
So quickly this happens.
You don't know what on earth hit white.
So taking out CIFOR, taking out B to all of a sudden all the squares around the board and the rock
is a liability in this in this position.
It's not just, Jeoffrey, it's very difficult to estimate the damage potential of this position in
terms of the stance Squarepusher.
And certainly I've looked at this game several times and there's always a new insight.
This is the funny thing about chess.
As you improve, you can revisit old games and find new finesses that you didn't it didn't really occur
to you.
But, you know, these games are played on the one day time control.
So why not?
They had you know, they spent hours on their moves that we just spectators, tourists, casual tourists.
So maybe that's to be expected.
You revisit these games, you get these new you insights.
But here, it's like essentially free undermines wins in a row have been played.
And why is fatally weak on the dark squares here, even after rooked seefried?
Because the dark square bishop has been taken out.
So yeah, Wykes position has totally been uprooted and exposed on the dark squares in particular.
This bishop isn't so lethal as this one.
I would say that this is the more lethal bishop in the short term here.
But it's so lethal, you know, the this I mean, it looks like a very problematic position here, just
with things like Bishop E5 on the cards, let alone other things.
But, yeah, this exposure of, you know, the unprotected piece on B to the dark sky, it's all coming
together here with the forcing moves, underlining all of these dance great liabilities now, especially
the rock on BE2, just hanging on to a truly crushing game and mysterious to this day.
I have to say, you can look at this game over and over again and pick up more and more finesses.
But this kind of game does echo this idea, the small central idea.
You've got to be careful of your pawn moves.
They are the irreversible decisions on the chessboard.
And that's why, as an annotator certain annotators, I like you know, when I'm looking at games,
when a pawn movies might say, well, why was Paul needed?
Was it really, really justified?
Because they are the irreversible decisions on chess board.
And so when you're playing a game, you should be careful with your moves.
OK.
There's so much.