Hi there.
In this election, we see Serguei carry action against one of Britain's leading grandmasters for many,
many years, Michael Adams, who, by the way, around the same age as Ms.
I saw him first hand dominates like British chess, British junior chess at the time.
And his amazing positional style is absolutely an inspiration.
There was one particular grandmaster game where he completely crushed, in my view, the opponent positionally.
And this is that game.
It's in the London system.
So Soga come out and play defo 96 from at 45 every six nights at C five, Seefried 96.
So so far so good.
Both sides have harmony between their pieces and --'s might be to bishop desex the bishop drops pank
Adams councils bishop defraying these things and now one plays 95 Bishop Bee seven and now efore.
So generally this is for to be an interesting idea to kind of go from one system into a kind of stone
wall with the bishop on Jeoffrey rather than see one.
Fundamentally, though, there is an Achilles heel in White's position.
In doing this, there is a potential for a complete lack of harmony between especially the Donetsk membership
and the rest of them.
-- It's a dangerous strategic danger to have a very, very bad bishop.
And this game occurs to me as one of the more vivid examples in the back of my mind about bad bishops.
And we see ASMs pursuing quite a classic strategy, which, OK, he didn't invent.
There's evidence of this in earlier games of Tameem Chozen back in the 60s.
It's very difficult to invent anything absolutely new.
But against this kind of setup, blackmail plays 97, reinforcing a full control, making sure that
if don't you know, happening any time soon, Queensferry now might have five.
Putting pressure on White Center.
We see Bishop after Bishop S7.
On the point of this, Bishop A7 is to really get a boyens on the position and leave this bishop as
a prisoner within its own pawn chain.
We see G4, Ninety-Six, G5 and now at night Effy for any hopes of a white attack are getting reduced
here.
The harmony is not so good in White's position, especially in this Bishop and Closed-End like this.
Bad bishops are also, it seems to be a major points.
When neural networks arose and started beating the strong, strongest chess of the world.
Quite often they understand that a bad bishop is a great example of a lack of harmony between power
and structure and pieces and what kind of dynamically exposed that even against the strongest engines
the world here.
This by Bishop.
Yeah, it's a major issue.
And why is a adventurists and casting queen aside, however?
Because then Kingside is impossible right now because of 962 and it would be a lot of further hassle
to do anything about that.
Giving up the only good bishop.
The position is out of the question of bishop takes evil.
I mean, black would have great options and this bishop could be dangerous on this diagonal, on the
A6 to EF1 diagonal, but black would be dominant in this position.
So White Castles Queen side.
And then we seek for Bishop Caesar and now be five Queen Aintree and now pressure on White's pawn chain
with before we see Knight takes for details e form if 1984.
This is less precise it seems Bishop Yone and here Rook Jiwon Y actually might get something a reasonable
position at least.
Yeah.
So this is the most accurate play details easeful.
We see Bishop Iwon.
And the point here now is Bishop DFI.
This facilitates a major front of the frame.
So there is great harmony in Black's possession much more than once.
And you know this threat of before Express's great options.
We see I mean, for me, this is also reminiscent of a classic game where Adams actually being spun
off in a similar game, especially five similar kind of positional moves that this bishop.
Well, it seems bad.
It's got and she got that lovely the five square that Adams has given to her.
So the harmony really, really impresses me.
Here we see Ruchi won't be free, takes seats, should be won, and now F5 is played.
So Black's position, I would say, has very nice harmony compared to White's position.
And why is a major like grandmaster about championship, you know, playing in one of the world championships?
So we have details.
Bishop Thanks, Rotifer.
But now this other square is used at 5:00.
We see here kindie, too.
This is a very miserable position for white, tied up in knots.
And now Queen 85, there's actually a square which is really kind of weak for white hair that Adams
identifies because White's pieces are so locked up here.
The bishop and this bishop, they're kind of locked up.
Adams kind of gets a free hands even, you know, just just try this kind of thing with A1 and B2.
We see King Itou, but now first taking white, basically one of White's better pieces, Bishop 65.
So White really hasn't got too much counterplay.
And if you have a kind of situation like this where the opponent minimize the counterplay, then you
could look out for squares which they really can't handle very, very well, kind of, you know, unattended
to squares or squares you can infiltrate, infiltrate via without worrying so much about giving them
time to, like, do something nasty to your Kingside.
So Adams has such a position.
Rook ADHD is played.
We see kafta if rook G one here then in fact Bishop C for check and Rook takes the one out.
So King AFTA but now yeah this lunging move trying to break up spoon's have been to commit to that.
Now there's also King's safety issues.
White's position has really unharmonious and disconnected.
We see Bishop D to Bishop CIFOR.
With that bishop pinned to the rope.
Now this is getting really nasty, Queen H5 and now, yeah, Beita is just there for the taking about
any real problem and why he's just humiliated her with this tactic now, which is game ending.
I wonder if you can spot it if I give you five cents for the.
OK, it's real tasty, too.
Yeah, the game ends here because if Rook takes the two, there's Quincy one Jack.
And what does went to?
If the one queen, 73 is chummy, if King F2, then Queen EF1 is actually checkmate the night controls
Jeoffrey.
So it's a positionally crushing game.
It is one of the nightmare game examples, which is featured actually in my in my London system, because
it's how not to play the London system of light, because you're you're getting a kind of stone wall
where one of your bishops is kind of imprisoned.
So, yeah, the concept of harmony for me is demonstrated in this game, peace, harmony quite vividly.
But there are also several other games.
Michael Adams, which are worthy of study, although we have a section on learning from the world champions,
but you can also learn from your local country champions, their country, they are champions for a
reason, I am pretty sure.
You know, Michael Adams is renowned for his positional strategic understanding.
In fact, I you know, I think a lot of the time he's using you know, he seems to be like a human version
of the Lillah, you know, network in terms of human embrace, peace, harmony, positional play generally.
And he's been a superb grandmaster for so many years.
You know, you know, record number of years, over twenty, 700 consistently.
To get that level of consistency, you need to be a very, very good player fundamentally.
And if you look at his games, you will see lots of examples, positional examples where he's really
minimized the counterplay of opponents dramatically.
So, OK, this is a great example for me.
I hope you enjoyed this example and get an idea that you shouldn't in this particular example, at least
you should think carefully about how many of pieces and pawns, especially not having terrible bishops,
because it just it just damages your counterplay.
It means the opponent kind of gets a free hand to start attacking squares, which are very awkward to
defend in your position.
And you can't really do anything to counterattack.
You've just destroyed your own counterplay.
So harmony is a key ingredient to keep going to some extent in your position because otherwise you will
just end up letting the opponent do whatever they want.
OK, that's too much.