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In this lecture, we see Michael Adams playing against Commonwealth's Ferran Garcia.
In 1993, the 17 back Masters open round nine.
We see four from Adams, five from Garcia, 93, 96, Bishop B five.
And now a very interesting test of a positional player like Adams F five the.
So this is one of the more aggressive variations of the Sicilian defense.
We see 9c3 being played by Adams F takes E for nine, takes E for D five, and now nine takes E five.
So this is a very interesting variation.
We have D takes E, four, nine, C six.
And here the critical move which most Sleiman players play is actually Queen G five.
And this hits the bishop and hits G two.
So this is like the critical variation of the Sleiman.
And if Queen e29569 takes a seven check Bishop dd seven let's say here Bishop takes these seven Knight
takes these 7f4 is a key move and black is best off it seems playing queen at five and often might be
five castle in queenside and it is an advantage for white technically, but this is a good way to go.
Relatively speaking, if Queen takes her four instead, then D four with tempo and here might be five.
This is an improved version for white.
This situation is much improved for white, and White's getting a more definite advantage here.
For example here committing the pawns on Knight Squares.
And there's a lot of targets around.
It's complex, but White has a big advantage overall.
But in the game, yes, we don't really get a full slimming test, unfortunately.
B, take C six.
Adams takes on C six, and he's getting a rather a lot of pawns now.
So in Queen H five, check King E seven brings the king out.
That's very unfortunate.
If G six Queen E five check is a train wreck for black because Queen takes h eight and to take on g
eight later.
So King E seven, unfortunate Queen E five, check Bishop e six.
And now Bishop takes eight.
Queen takes eight and another pawn drops.
So there's quite a lot of pawns at the moment.
So it's two pieces for a rook, but also several pawns.
It's not a great transaction for Black to have had in terms of material.
We see White Castling, Queen D five, D free.
So this activates the bishop not minding a pawn sac here to activate the position.
Bishop dd six Now this does let two pawns go essentially Bishop dd six but if e takes DD free as an
example, what is black doing here?
This is very, very dangerous position.
Basically with rookie one and Bishop Bishop F4 especially coming up to stop any poking at H two.
So what is black doing if black ends up playing bishop be six points, going to get these two pawns,
which is similar to the game.
So we have Bishop DD six now and Adams takes the two pawns on offer, one after the other with tempo.
So Bishop e five Queen takes a seven.
A large number of pawns indeed.
Five pawns.
Now extra for white E takes three four.
But now rookie one add penalty.
So we have now 97 if D two white can just take on D two for rook takes five.
So 97 we have Queen a full check, king of seven.
And now wanting simplification, let's go for the endgame.
ADAMS are saying no.
KING Safety issues for white or generally speaking, not many C text DD free rook.
The bishop f4 rook takes D frame so four pawns up.
There's no material.
White's doing very well.
Bishop e five getting trying to get rid of Black's bishop.
Han Bishop takes a two and now clearly not.
Rook takes a two because that's a black roommate and has managed to avoid that with Bishop takes F six
and now here off the king takes up 6h3, giving the king some air.
So really threatening Rook takes a two.
It's still free pawns up.
This is a lot of material Rook six check 96 Rook h for the rooks are kind of overwhelming here and there's
this pass B pawn and this is maintained now with rugby six for a moment check King H 297 Rook G four
check King of seven if King H eight Rook B eight check.
And this position Black's totally tied up with that pin and this incoming pawn.
So King F seven Rook H six Adams is after another pawn, but keeping the checks up with tempo Rook h
six check King f5 if king of.
Seven white can protect the f two pawn with tempo with rock f four track and Rook rd six.
This is very strong for white.
If King D seven rook have six protect f two and this is great for white as well.
So white's going to use the h pawn as well.
There's two past pawns for black to consider here.
So King F5 was tried, but now check with rook.
King E six Rook G 796 wrote G6 king of seven.
And now in this position, a nice tactic.
Can you see what white plays?
Which helps convert beautifully.
Yeah, for ten points.
What would you play?
Yeah.
Rook takes D five.
Yeah.
It's a tactic to get to pieces for the rock.
97 is played.
If King takes G six rook D six check and I'm picking up and it's easy peasy free pawns up.
So this is gone now for black 97 because rook dd six anyway, rook gd six.
And this is absolutely a winning endgame.
The game was ended here.
Black resigned here after Rook GD six.
So if Knight takes the five, Rook takes T five white has a big advantage indeed.
Och absolutely.
Winning with the pawns.
So yeah, taming a version, a bad version of the Sleeman.
Yes.
Players that are playing aggressive dynamic openings really need to play them accurately.
Otherwise it's it's not much of a it's not a good representation.
It wasn't the best representation of a Saleem in this game.
It's like semen gone wrong with B tanks but we see how that yeah the tactics of the Queen H five check
it's just a lot of pawns are taken for the material.
Why is material had from this position.
Och I'll take you on C seven.
I hope you enjoyed this one.
It shows counterplay crashing really of a very dangerous sounding opening, but it has to be played
very accurately the statement to actually get some compensation going.
Okay.
So much.