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And it's actually we see British Grandmaster Raymond Keane playing against Anatoly Karpov in the 1972
Hastings tournament Round seven.
So we see 90 48c5, 46d4, C takes d49634 and Karpov plays 9690 3a6g free.
So Raymond Keane is playing kind of positionally aligned to try and suppress karpov's counterplay.
We see Knight G seven Knight be free and now interestingly Knight a five so not minding, exchanging
off knight's hair.
We have Bishop G2.
If Knight takes a five queen takes a five.
Bishop G to 96.
Yes.
One of the points would be it seems 96.
Black has a fairly solid looking position here.
Why only has a small edge.
So Bishop G.
Two was played.
We have no EC six.
White Castles D six.
And now Knight takes a five.
Hair Queen takes a five.
Knights E to Bishop E, 7b3 cup of castles.
Bishop b2 So a double fan Cato system.
So Roman King is interested in general in Finn Caso Systems and Alford's works on the modern and Pierce
openings.
But here, yeah, Double Finn cats are very hyper modern.
We have Bishop DD seven and now four.
So I kind of see behind.
It's interesting to see another facet of Karpov.
How does he play against Boyne Structures?
Well, let's see, we have Rook for 8a4, so there is a definite bind against D five and B five.
Karpov plays Rook, AC eight.
We see Bishop C three, Quincy seven, Queen dd two, B six.
Now Queen B2, Bishop F eight.
So protecting G seven.
And unfortunately for Raymond King, this wasn't an amazing test of how to play against a proxy bind
or binds in general.
Clearly comp offers under the bind four, D five and B five.
But what it has to watch out for these possibilities even when they seemingly unthinkable and maybe
can actually place our four.
This is actually a mistake.
But the thing is, let's say King H one Karpov could play Queen B seven and it doesn't seem such a big
deal.
The binds here, if 94, I mean, looks as though B five might be on the cards or something else.
But let's look concretely here.
At 94, Black could play 1964.
Bishop takes the form.
Bishop See six.
This is actually a better proposition, in fact, than playing B5.
All we're going to do with B5 is give White a dangerous pass -- potential so this will be better for
whites.
This kind of situation is just better for white.
So let's say Bishop see sex, though.
And the point here would be to play 4d5 and black should be fine here.
This should be an even position on D five.
Yeah, that's that's interesting.
But B5 again, it's not interesting here as much because of white having the option of getting a dangerous
pass pawn.
So this position would be in White's favor as example.
So in the game though, things are ruined slightly with four.
Can you see why for 100 points, what does black play?
Hare is a cup of actually in a binds given a four is played.
There's actually resources.
If the king is exposed, there are resources sometimes on what I call the diagonal of death.
But in a in a positional player's hand, it might not be leading to a king attack.
It might be leading to a positional gain, a small win.
And here there is a small win with B five.
Yeah, So eight takes eight, takes C takes B5.
The point is to use the check and it's a small win.
Black now is targeting a weakness.
Not only that half of the bind binder's gone so there might be D five coming up so B four and now D
five.
Black is on the way to really just equalizing or being even slightly better.
Yeah it's ruined for why the Biden strategy.
But let's see what happened.
Look B one if E takes D five, e takes d5f5 black could just take this pawn and there isn't much of
a punishment because of Rook C four and this position blacks just bella so rook ab1 was played and here
rook b8e takes D five, E takes the five and F five.
So white's trying to get some sort of attack.
Now Karpov plays Knight takes b4.
It turns out there are some variations which this might have been interesting for white it seems D4
giving back a pawn here is just for a four bishop takes five is great for black.
This is a great way of playing it.
And look, we're hitting the rook.
So you know this looks like a great position for black.
So that was very interesting to play.
D4 It does kind of a.
Look favorable for black and watched as the bishop takes out five.
Bishop takes the fall.
So but anyway Knight takes before was chosen.
We have Queen RD to rookie eight so looking at E 2.94 Queen C for Rook goes to D one BD one We have
rook bc ain't rook and now bishop a one Rook eight.
Now this actually might be a slight inaccuracy.
Queen A6 here looks good.
You know this position say a pair of rooks come off h six Black shouldn't have too many issues here.
But with Rook eight we have rook one and now Rook two again here, Queen A six is also.
It's interesting.
This position is also without too many issues.
So the thing is, there's pressure on a one.
So I really can't win material that easily because if if Hard Rock takes before this situation, there's
Queen saying it's a one and it's winning a great amount of material.
You know, this will be interesting for black as example.
But so let's say here, you know H six it's overall it's an advantage for black this situation.
So Rook a two was played though, and we have Queen G five.
This was a moment where White could have limited Black's advantage with Rook take C4.
So as example, Rook takes the two rook C seven Bishop C free.
And here Rook won a six.
And yeah there's back row issues if if taking those RD one so say Bishop F one Knight 67.
This situation blacks advantage should be limited a little bit.
I know blacks are pawn up, but white has some compensation in the game.
Things take a really bad turn here so Quincy five Queen six we have white trying.
When King tries the roll of the dice with 96.
So the thing is, if F six, g six and the bishop looks after the king quite well here with advantage
for black.
So 96 is tried and then we have h6a very important move to put the Queen on a light square, the same
side of the road as this queen.
If f takes, then that's asking for trouble with F six.
So for example, G six, there's F seven.
Ouch mate.
And here if King H eight, F takes g seven, Bishop takes G seven as Queen takes G seven mate.
Or if Queen eight, Queen H five looks at F seven, it's kind of dangerous.
So this position with F seven check.
And the thing is rook takes C five is possible because if Queen takes H five of this rook f eight mating.
If rook takes a one trying to play tactically, it ends up in a situation where White's got the advantage.
So it's quite tense this idea, but of sidesteps the whole thing.
With H six we have Queen G four and now actually there's a way of removing White's attacking potential
rather neatly.
Bishop takes e six, pinning the f pawn to the Queen.
Yeah, if Queen E two This is not so good here.
So say queen takes rook takes nine, takes rook takes a bishop free rookie free rugby 1c2 as example.
This situation black only has a small edge, so Bishop takes E six.
This is precision engineering, Bishop takes G seven is tried because if F takes then queen size E six
simply and.
WHEREAS, White's attack big advantage to black two connected past pawn potential to connected past
pawns in the center so Bishop takes g seven was tried, but guess what is the cold shower move that
cop off delivers here for ten points Cold chance White's attack Queen E two If Bishop takes G seven,
then the idea is not F six because we take the Queen.
The idea here would be actually F takes e six because the bishop's actually weakened b four.
So White would be threatening this and this, and it limits Black's advantage.
It's actually even here, basically.
So Queenie, too, though by contrast, is great.
The night is held by the Bishop.
Still, the Queen is Francis.
Then the Queen and the queen takes G to mate.
And this forcefully symbolised brutal simplification.
Like Capablanca simple simplification to a position where White's attack has just failed here.
So this situation of two F takes e six rook f one comp off simplifies further.
This horrible decision has has to swap a pair of rooks off and white actually resigns here.
It's pretty hopeless if Bishop free rook C two rook f one king G seven and black has a big advantage
here to work with two connected pass pawn potential in center.
So an interesting game.
It shows another facet of Karpov.
It's like we can show Karpov in different situations and try and think like Karpov.
We need the versatility ourselves to think like a positional player.
And actually, yeah, under the bind Karpov has to generate counterplay and simplify it to try and prove
there are weaknesses in White's camp.
So this simplification of an important pair of knights actually frees up Black's game anyway.
So the miracle he finds here is not under totally ideal circumstances.
It seems as though just with that one pair of knights being exchanged earlier, the balloons doesn't
have that much grip over the situation.
If black plays very carefully here, you know, even if White hadn't played there for it seems this
is a fascinating situation where King H one, we can actually approach this very carefully, as mentioned.
So here.
It's kind of hedgehog territory and we can approach it carefully with bishops.
C6 Forget before going for D5 so it doesn't seem as though the bind is that much of a bind basically.
But F4 certainly led to B5 being on the cards here because of that diagonal death.
So fascinating stuff.
So come up off under the binds.
It's nice to see example sometimes.
How does he handle these strains situations?
Okay, you have to be tactically alert to the opportunities.
Yeah, it's playing to the needs of the position.
Karpov is just equalizing basically with B5 at this critical moment.
I hope you enjoyed this game example.
Thanks very much.