Hi there.
In this lecture, we're going to introduce Anatoly Karpov.
So just a very, very brief overview of Anatoly Karpov.
His style seems to be quite influenced by Capablanca.
It's a logical kind of risk free, elegant kind of style at times and in a couple of languages.
Also, a big influence on Bobby Fischer as well.
So still throwing away from complexity and unnecessary complications.
He even has a quotation that if he can even get just a microscopic advantage without basically a hint
of controversy, he'll choose that of something which is rather, you know, less clear.
So he doesn't mind, even if you want is tiny, as long as it's non-controversial and with the style
of play, you know, is very, very effective.
He also himself, when he's been interviewed, is a big fan of Trigram.
Chosen is like using to chosen style of play, but not to draw, but to win.
That was his little joke, that people think maybe he's just trying for a draw.
But as he's trying to win by this kind of risk free, non-controversial approach and, you know, it's
from these players that I particularly like to kind of dampen down my own risk taking.
So Bobby Fischer is a great role model, I think, for for chess.
And Anton Chekhov, another one, if you want to sort of dampen down your level of risk and become a
more universal player.
So Karpoff had to win the world title by default, unfortunately, because phishers conditions for that
match that should have taken place in 1975 didn't take place for you have a list of conditions and one
or two were not met.
So he was defaulted.
As world chess champion and because of that, he really tried to prove he was a true world chess champion.
He won kind of an unprecedented number of high level tómas, such huge domination, never actually been
seen before in a world chess champion.
So he really did prove he was champion of the world.
So basically, he was the official world chess champion from 1975 by default to 1985 when he was defeated
by Garry Kasparov.
He played five matches against Kasparov for the title from 1984 to 1990 without ever defeating Spieth
in a match, later becoming world champion once again after Kasparov broke away from Friday in 1993.
So he held the Feet, a world title from 1993 to 1999 when he resigned his title in protest against
Fidel's new world championship rules.
So it's Tómas successes include over 160 first place finishers, peak elo rating of 27, 80 and 100,
two months at world number one is the third longest of all time Behind's Magnus Carlson and Garry Kasparov
since the set in the inception of the Phedre ranking less than 1970.
So a really highly accomplished world champion who had something to prove to the whole world after he
kind of defaulted was defo to the title, were able to, you know, beat Fischer.
So there's huge speculation that remains would have been Fischer, would Fischer of crush them.
I'm not going to say.
I think Fischer was a little bit the favorite.
I would say I think Fischer was a little bit the favorite in 1975.
But OK, now here I have an iconic game.
Well, in my view, which is kind of representative of anatomical, perhaps kind of Python's style of
play, sucking the life out of the opponent's positions.
And it's against John Lennon who awarded me, by the way, he's a British grandmaster who describes
himself quite often as a coffeehouse player, so interested in tactics and combinations of dynamic play.
But all the dynamism is taken away from his position in this game.
No thanks due to the structure chosen, in my view, against Anatoly Karpov.
So John actually gave me my my award, Lloyd's National and 18 award that was was actually given to
me by a by John Lund.
So I have an interest in John.
And generally the King's Indian defense is a major exponent and very, very sharp dynamic player.
You know, I kind of like those kind of players.
So here we see Karpoff playing E4 and John Allen tries to create a sharp tactical game.
So let's see what happens.
So we see FDX, DFAC takes night, takes the form of six.
So Commonwealth now plays nicely.
Three, we see 96 and we head into after ninety five desex efore.
We're going into the caecilians fashion kick off.
And this is one of my favorite variations.
It was when as a junior we see here in this position Bishop ESX quite often nowadays, you know, before
B5 it is the major move to consider where White can play in and ninety five or bishop states have sex
usually.
But here we see Bishop Essex and structurally yeah there is a hole on DFI of the Ball's Lafsky holds
it sometimes called it can be used as a kind of way of restricting blacks can't play with Kampo, you
know, python style of play, these kind of pull structure holes.
They can be very, very bad news for your levels of counterplay.
John Allen is a great, you know, chess book offer.
And in The Secrets of Grandmaster Chess, he has talked about how grandmasters in general kind of avoid
situations without counterplay like her, like you'd avoid the plague in general.
So here Knight CIFOR is played Rook's Yeats, Bishop takes off so of volunteers, the dance crowd bishop
to kind of get a very iron grip over that.
The Five Square and it's with tempo.
OK Queen DHC Free seven.
So can Black actually make use of this dance guayabera of our counterpart in this particular situation.
We see Bishop see for both sides.
Castle Bishop G five a four eight Queen E to G sex.
So Black is trying to drum up counterplay on the Kingside King.
Each one the bishop drops back before an hour five Commonwealth takes he takes five.
Jiyu takes an hour before we see Bishop takes the five.
So relinquishing the lights go choir bishop 1964 to actually make way for the dance choir bishop to
be more significant on this diagonal we see a five to seven foot AC 197 rook after one and now Knight
takes Bishop say so.
White's bishop is pretty dominant, looking in the center in front of that backward pawn.
There are certain I mean, there seems to be a chain, a kind of logical chain of the sequence of world
chess champion.
But if you do study them, it's almost as if the more static oriented world champions get replaced with
more dynamic static, as in terms of the power structure suppressing counterplay, you know, sniffing
out the company of opponents get replaced by dynamic, aggressive like players, more tactical in nature.
So Karpoff with Kasparov, you know, Capablanca with Alexander Alkene.
So when you choose well, champions try and reinforce.
Strengthen your.
Game, you know, maybe it's good to have that little pattern choose a more static world champion first
like Capablanca, then choose Al-Hakeem, let's just go in sequence, actually, if you just go in sequence,
because that's the sequence of seemingly the first in the first 13 more champions.
Hell, the battles were it's like the stars put themselves in check, so to speak.
But he can't have the kind of python as he's sometimes done.
Trying to get rid of the life and activity of the opponent's position is in a dominant way already.
So Roxxy, too, we have Queeny seven black is, you know, lacking a plan here when you have no plan.
Generally, a common advice is to improve your best piece by how you know Black's pieces seem.
It's very difficult to there's no bad piece to really improve.
We see Queene three Republicans, CIFOR, Roxxy seven Jeoffrey.
Yeah.
So kind of is like playing like two game shows in reducing the risk.
But he's actually playing to win, not to draw.
We see rookie eight, Ruchi two.
That's the difference.
It's this it's this interview in Gibralter which was very revealing to me that conf actually literally
said that that is a role model is actually taken, I'm chosen, but just to win and not to draw.
So just bear that in mind when you study both, you know, competent and later sorry, Petrosian and
later Karpoff.
So we see Queen of Things and now Karpov does actually show he is interested in winning is opening up
this GFR.
So this is going to create common squares on like squares, for example, huge pressure potentially
on Ja'far Quincy, Free Rook Jeoffrey and now B4 has been offered.
It's taken.
If Queen takes every have been played, this situation with one is actually just an advantage for White.
So Queen takes before we see Rock the Rocks, Dublin Queen Bee to and now Rook G5.
So is just you know, it doesn't that pawn loss.
It's still a bind over here.
This pawn is is singlehandedly locking down blacks Queensland anyway.
So basically why it's just been given in practice quite a bit of time to intensify the GFR pressure.
We see Queen of six rook 134, queen one checking due to queen bee to check cage free.
Believe it or not, King, actually the king comes around to stop all the checks we see Roxxy seven.
And yeah, I mean, this this is really interesting, you might think.
You know, there are interesting options here in the possession, OK, but seven, we see a five and
here is a critical mistake when he says it seems this makes things much worse, but it is a difficult
position.
I mean, look at this pressure.
It seems here there is a move, a one if you're a supercomputer, yet you'll find this queen a one G
one queen E five.
And apparently this is OK.
This is still black is imbalanced.
The point is, you know, physics has been is one kept in lock and key, that possibility of things.
So, yeah, if we look at Queen a one again, if Rook age five, her going for the right kind of attack
style, then there is actually queen EF1 Chac.
So the point of queeny one is to make sure that whites attack doesn't evolve too much and this apparently
isn't even positioned.
So queen of what a one might have been a missed opportunity technically.
But things go really downhill now of the Queen of sex with Seabrooke H5.
So and there's nothing to stop, it's evolving.
Now, look, I have eight G.H. for this pressure on each sub ASX creating a fatal weakness of G pawns.
Don't go backwards over this probing move, in effect, creating that fatal weakness on G six G four.
Once the perch on G six, though, we see Rapke five.
And here this is a real stunner.
In fact, it looks as though Roxxy six.
Well, that's what you're going to do, right?
No, actually, RUGGIE five is played.
Just saying, but, you know, what are you doing in this position, Ruchi six would actually be a welcoming,
kind of forceful move and in fact, black could actually take care and then play rotates H5 check,
G5 check.
And this position isn't that black at all.
So kind of avoids all this risk risk averse.
And he plays this.
He can improve the position before using that Jéssica Square slightly more to take out all risks associated
with rookie sex to make it a lot more effective without any counterplay.
So Rocsi ain't.
But guess the Karpoff move here.
It's crazy looking.
I give you five seconds pause video.
OK, it's Kingi for.
Yeah, there's no tricks here.
The king is actually supporting H5, there's no little tricks with sacking the queen and rotates, you
find all the fun has been taken away and that's one of the static plans due to the dynamic.
They take all their fun the way they take the toys away.
The toys bring peace activity.
You might think I'm going to have all these dynamic fun pools, structures to create my toys, my peace
activity, my counterplay, that's all going to be taken away when you play a static flower and even
Kasparov.
To be fair, he was nearly whitewashed by Karpoff.
This is the truth of the matter.
I and it was nearly whitewashed and it's ironic.
He says it would have been devastating for Kasparov if he had lost six nil.
He was on the precipice.
He was five nil down against Karpov.
You see games like this and you see why Campath doesn't like even the tiniest risks.
He doesn't like giving the dynamic players their toys to play with.
So we see here seven now.
Ruggie six.
This is just crushing now.
Queen of eight, Evolutis takes five is playing.
Guess what won't plays her.
This didn't happen, but why as a crushing combination here?
Five seconds for the video.
What does one player.
OK, queen size 86, Jack.
And this would be amazing.
So, yeah, it's it's tricky, so Queen Efate was played and now a move which intensifies the pressure
even more unbearable, like Heintz, believe it or not, this this next move unbearable.
Heintz.
John.
And that move is queen you, it affords new opportunities like taking in and using sticks with the queen's
crash through.
You know, you can imagine like this we see Queen takes a fighting played.
So if.
For example, this then rock G takes a six queen G sex using that G six finally is just absolutely,
you know, it's checkmate.
So we see the desperate queen takes a five.
Jack Queen takes routine's.
But now, yeah, there's a snag.
What does not play?
Rook takes a lion King takes white in Jack's Route 67 Jack winning material.
Bishop, thanks very much.
And of game.
So yeah, this isn't such a famous Anatoly Karpov game, by the way.
It's just one of my kind of iconic style picks.
Representative of style for someone, an opponent I know is a very dynamic, aggressive grandmaster
that likes the combinations and tactics and lots of counterplay.
But sometimes, you know, to to do that, you use a dynamic pull structure which does have Achilles
heels in terms of the defender can try and neutralize your counterplay.
Like this game shows, so taking a life out blacks position so we can, you know, out of pick, if
you were sequencing your study, world champions, you can either go in the natural sequence of how
they could see the evolution of chess style, or I would recommend actually perhaps considering, you
know, choosing, as I say, a static world champion, static in inverted commas, more about pawn structure
like camp, then going to more dynamic like Alako and then carrying on in that sequence.
Static dynamic, static dynamic.
So it was putting yourself in check stylistically that you don't want to be overexcited with one particular
bias.
Ideally, you want to iron out your biases.
So you like Bruce Lee, you like water, you have a universal style without any biases, you know,
mechanisms.
So they could put on different hats of style depending on the situation, the opponents time control
to maximize his win probabilities.
So anyway, I hope you found some inspiration from this game that you can actually use chess to play
professionally.
And if you don't like losing, especially, you know, Karpoff style is like Petrosian, but just being
used to win, not to draw.
That's the hidden secret that I myself found out about not too long ago from this amazing interview
in Gibraltar, which is actually on YouTube, if you want to see Karpoff interviewed.
OK, that's very much.