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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Roberto de Bono in 1977.
The Las Palmas tournament ran free, so E four from Karpov we see E six, the French defence d4 D five
and now the tariff variation, which is also a favorite of Michael Adams.
So it's interesting, the positional players, they like playing this variation because quite often
after C five they can saddle the opponent with an isolated Queen's pawn.
At the moment there is no isolated Queen's pawn until Bishop B five de six we have D take C five, Bishop
take C five.
Now the interest in the aesthetic Queen's pawn.
Sometimes you do need to convert it to backward pawns and maybe convert that into past pawns.
The conversion process is something which is very important.
We can't sometimes just win because the opponent has an isolated Queen's pawn.
We need to convert it as appropriate to more exploitable advantages.
So we see that theme in this game, so watch out for it.
White Castles at the moment, like G seven, Knight Be Free, Bishop D six Rook E one Black Castles.
Bishop G five.
Bishop G four.
So at the moment, Black has active pieces.
But if White can nullify counterplay and the positional players are great at nullifying counterplay,
the opponent will just be left with weaknesses which will strain the pieces.
Eventually we see Bishop e to Quincy seven So here H three Yeah, Black was targeting the H two pawn
there with Bishop takes as a France bishop takes her free.
So now Bishop D seven we have FD four.
So one pair of knights comes off H six, Bishop E three.
Bishop H two check is played King H one.
Bishop F four.
We have Bishop f3f8c framework 88.
So K here it's pretty that Och white has got this nice blockade, but how to increase the advantage?
Queen B free is played pair of bishops come off Queen B six and here Karpov actually isn't tempted to
double the opponent's pawns.
That might not be too much in that.
Instead, he allows his pawns to be potentially doubled to activate the rook on the file.
Bishop C six We have Rook 81 and now black takes the Queen's off A takes King f8b for a now knight G
six.
And here at this moment there is a kind of weakness of the last move.
And this can be leveraged in a positional sense sometimes.
Can you guess what Karpov played here, which is very interesting decision based on the notion of more
exploitable weaknesses.
So D five It is an isolated pawn, but it's like we want to give the pawn sometimes company.
If in doing so we're more easily, it's more easy for us to exploit the other weaknesses we've just
created.
So we see here for 100 points.
What would you play?
It worked out well in this game, 1966.
It's an interesting decision.
If we do try and keep the isolated Queen's pawn, we've got a lot of work ahead of us actually, to
demonstrate any advantage against the Queen's pawn.
We can try and get our king to be aggressive, and that is a dangerous adventure sometimes.
But here, if black plays G five Czech, as example, blacks should be fine.
If black doesn't, then the thing is, we can set up the dart square Rhodes with nine, take C six and
then infiltrate with King E five with great safety in doing so.
So this position would be huge strain on the black pieces and we're going to be forcibly winning material
and the game that's crushing.
And if the Rock refuses, we've got things like Beef B five under the right circumstances, let's factor
in C five check.
But you get the idea of blacks getting dismantled.
But if black played G five, check here.
This is an example with more stubborn resistance.
This position is only about even we haven't really achieved anything as example.
So it's interesting this decision to turn the isolated Queen's pawn into these pawns which are fixed
and there isn't isolated a pawn in any case.
So there's new targets.
And yeah, if Black had played Night Takes five, we can take on DA here, Night takes three, we can
take on E eight and we end up taking on B seven.
And this is to White's advantage.
So B six, B to C six is played.
Pair of ropes come off.
K one rookie 7g3 95 Bishop E two We have Rook C seven now.
Yeah.
C seven is interesting.
If C four just trying to sacrifice structure for an active rook, this is not going to be good.
The rooks not really that active at all.
And the king is just going to march the center and pick up C4.
So that's out of the question.
So Rook C seven is played.
King G to King E, seven and f49 37 Rook D one might be six King three, C five.
So Black is wanting to get some peace activity.
The thing is, if King f6, this possession plan is strained and maybe Black didn't want this situation
occurring, but the advantage is only small here.
Still, even this position, it's only small.
The knight is fending off the king, but with C five things change.
Again, Black is back to having an isolated queen's pawn.
We have King e free rook, five rook D four.
So rook A one rook B for King d6h for rook G one King three Rook one So how can I actually win this?
We have Bishop RD Free Rook dd one Bishop B five Safeguarding Bishop for a moment.
Rugby free.
We have Rook, a one and King G four.
And here.
We have.
Yeah, it's getting to be an interesting position.
We have G six being played and now we have F five.
It does seem as though Black has offered an opportunity to weaken the kingside and give way an important
asset which might be used later.
An outpost grant as we'll see later.
So why is actually G six even played here if it encourages F5?
This is an interesting thing because it looks as though free pawns are more solid than two.
So why on earth is G6 actually played here at MOVE 44?
That's a good question.
Okay.
It turns out if Black holds still with Rook A to just keep the pawns intact, it seems as though what
is white doing?
King H five What's the point?
King six King.
G for King.
D six It should be about equal.
Actually, Black did do well to get this kind of possession and should be holding it isat Queen's pawn
or not.
If white tries.
Bishop eight there's King E six.
If white tries F five, then white risk getting a slight disadvantage after King E five and 94.
So yes, G six seemed to be unnecessary, but it's still about even if black plays correctly, without
any major, major mistake.
So we have two pawns instead of three.
It's not such a big deal yet.
Rook before rookie one Bishop dd free, there is now a bit of a target.
So the king goes back check and the king looks after the G6 pawn.
We have King F3 rookie five rook before some high level shuffling B five rook C seven.
But this is actually funny enough, a very bad mistake.
It seems this is the more significant mistake that Black makes in this game.
At Move 52 Playing Rook C seven.
If Black had played King of six, then how does one actually make progress?
Again, this is a situation which it's difficult to see how White makes progress.
But with this mistake, yeah, this becomes instructive.
The king can now get to a blockade square key blockade square D four.
And there is strain now on the black pieces of the King of sex.
King D four Black is under strain.
The king on default.
It's not so much going to win the D five pawn.
There is a possibility now of playing be free the King hold c free and C4 to turn this into a pass pawn
scenario and we have g five which kind of weakens black on the light squares.
But maybe black wanted to relieve the king of duty there looking after g six.
So we have takes hikes rook a five and we can fill the strain now emerging off to be free.
White wants to create a passport.
But not only that, how can we make the past pawns Route 68 more effective if it's guided there with
a bishop?
How do we get a bishop at five?
We need to secure an outpost and actually be aware that the five outpost square could be useful for
a bishop.
We have Rook 197 Rook A five, 9b6.
And now Karpov commits the G for giving the bishop an outpost square.
So he's going to make this pos pawn more viable here now.
So c four with the bishop being able to go to F five, that's a great perk introduced into the position
to assist the pos pawn rook D seven check C free rook g seven and our bishop at five check looking at
the pawn destination square king of six, King D for rookie seven and now C five.
And all of a sudden, yeah, Black's position is getting absolutely well more vividly critical.
We have rookie five and this next move is really quite crushing.
Can you see what Commonwealth plays here?
Okay.
Bishop ey for.
So the night?
Yeah.
Temporarily leaving the glare of the sea.
But this is necessary.
Why can't play a tactic like sea tanks?
This is not runaway -- of the rugby five.
That's just winning for black.
So, Bishop, for bit of patience, her night moves back.
But now, Rook six check.
Yeah.
The knight had to protect the rook.
Well, we have rookie six.
We have a simplification procedure now.
After rookie sex, if King F seven.
The thing is, Bishop D five check, and then C six will win material.
So, rookie six And guess what white plays here, which is crushing.
Yeah.
Rook takes E-6 check and thinks the outpost square.
We have Bishop at five.
Check.
And now see six and the pawns going to be taken home.
Black resigned here.
That Bishop is crushing her if might be sex C seven.
The king can't get to help against the past --.
It's winning material.
Yeah.
Very, very interesting game.
So a bit of a grind.
And then game grinds helped with Black's inaccuracies actually on this occasion.
So yeah, the isolated queen's -- is something to play with, to experiment with, to transform into
other possibilities as we see in this game.
And it transitioned into a pass -- scenario just being used as a reason to get a pass -- with the
undermining C for.
So a very interesting aspect of the estate queen's -- is how you transition that.
And we see that quite vividly in a lot of amazing games of Anatoly Karpov.
There isn't just restrained blockade destroying the estate Queen's pawn.
There's a kind of restraint blockade, as Nimzowitsch might say.
But then think about converting the advantage into more exploitable advantages, things which are more
easy to exploit.
So yeah, that was shown in this game.
And creating a pass pawn out of it was a great transition, especially with the Outpost Square five
set up for the bishop to guide that pass pawn home.
Och, I hope you enjoyed this one and so much.