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In this lecture, we see Grandmaster Gennadiy Tymoshenko against Adams.
In 1991, the 15 Floyds Black Monsters Open round seven, so D four Timoshenko Adams plays a night of
6c4, C five, D five, and now the Benko game.
Quite a fun choice, but it has positional undertones.
We have C tanks, B five.
One slight positional undertone is that D five could become weaker later.
We see a69c38 times B five, and now E four is played.
It seems here 9/10 B five might be more accurate.
For example, Queen eight five check 9c3 Sure, there's 94 by here.
Queen d35.
Let's take this further.
F 396.
Bishop f4g6 White can play Bishop E five here as example Bishop A six queenly two one can double the
pawns and it's a rich, complex position, but overall white should have a small edge here.
It's an interesting position indeed, but re4 was played and we have Queen A five.
In fact here there was an opportunity.
This might actually be an inaccuracy as well.
B four is worth considering.
So not from the point of view of taking on E four here that can lead into huge trouble.
You know, just as an example here, if F 1696 is checkmate, no, just with the idea of playing D six
here and if Queen C to g six, this should be a pleasant enough position.
So black hair in this scenario should be fine.
So just take it a bit further.
Hitting B five targeting B five simplification could result.
And here instead of getting positioning thumped on with 94, we can consider c four here with black
in this position.
So queen takes queen takes B takes.
There's a nice dangerous B pawn compensation.
And these two pawns are split and black has enough hair.
For example, this situation could end up being in Black's favor.
So for example here could end up being in Black's favor at that junction point instead of B, take C
four might take four.
That's going to be fine for black with 96, E four.
So as long as white doesn't have a dominating position, this is not going to happen.
So it seems.
B four even though it kind of seems to lose control of C four, it seems black might have sufficient
counterplay there to play B here.
Anyway, Queen A five was played, so we have now.
E five.
Yeah.
Black is threatening things like nine times E four if bishop takes B five.
So this seems logical.
Nine E for Bishop D2, nine takes D two, queen takes D two, and now B four here, which is actually
again, it seems that there might be a more accurate way of playing this with C four.
So A four for example E six, D six.
This seems very, very silly, right?
But Bishop A six, let's follow it through a bit.
So even Adams in his podcast talks about people being a bit too sticky to principals and stuff when
they should calculate a bit more this position.
It seems as though blacks should be actually fine here.
Black can end up playing f six to give the king some air and this should be even.
You know, these six could be taken off soon or under pressure.
So that's interesting.
C four is possible, but b4 is played might be 5d6 Now here won't go severely wrong.
This is a pawn which could become quite weak.
He takes his plate and actually leaves D five pretty weak.
If Bishop C four instead.
Very dynamic.
Bishop c44e6 very, very dynamic.
And that would justify really why it's play very well if D takes this starts to look creaky after 3f6.
White's does seem to have a very dominating position here.
Yeah.
Look at this development.
It looks absolutely terrible.
So yeah, it does seem Bishop c four is absolutely the way to go here and play for E six That would
cast doubt on Black's play in St Bishop C four but anyway, E6 is a bit of a let off here after he takes
this pawn is potentially vulnerable Bishop C four and black doesn't have to play Finn Catto The bishop
holds d6g6 is just asking for trouble.
Check.
And if Bishop he's seven, there's 966 check.
You know that's not going to be pleasant.
And this is not going to be.
The king in the center.
So whites can be much better there.
But Bishop 87, is solid and black, is looking forward to Target's pawn structure.
Target's Queenie to the queen drops back.
And now black and Castle H free bit unnecessary to play H free because black needs every tempo they
can get for 97 to be sex for bishop, a sex every single tempo is important here, which makes h free
a bit of a mistake if White Castle.
Instead this position White gets a chance for a free and a bit of peace activity activation.
So this position should be even if we look at this again also H free here.
G For for a free again, a bit of peace play activation and this should be even in the game.
It's quite horrible what happens because of h free.
This extra tempo is critical.
97 it's better than Bishop f6.
We don't need to waste time with Bishop of Sex.
If Bishop f six then we're not even getting 97 without dropping DD six.
So a six.
This is different, very different.
But black might have a small edge there, but 97 is great because now might be six and we can see that
actually tactically we're going to get a relative pin soon, potentially.
We have a friend on night 64 and the point is Bishop a six is a real pain here.
White has to close up the queenside.
If A takes queen B six is painful, one would have to give up the exchange.
How else to defend B five?
So this situation black's getting a big advantage now.
A4 This is a strategic success here for black.
We have Bishop F six, Queen C two.
So this is essentially a kind of unsound pawn sacrifice because yeah.
B five is a liability if rook ab1 queen 85 black can gang up on B five.
Yeah, and take out B five with advantage.
Look at the bishop controlling A one.
Wonderful stuff.
So Queen C two essentially giving up a pawn because the knight's not going anywhere.
So now taking out a pawn.
So does does, does white have enough for this pawn.
Not really in this pawns week.
Not really.
We're going to see that 94 Rook six defends these things, keeping the bishop on the nice diagonal.
If instead of rook six also be free is possible for rook two that's another way of playing it.
This position is also kind of comfortable because B two counteracts D six.
So rook six Rook takes a six, queen takes a six rookie 1g6g Free rook d8h4h5b Free King G seven Queen
four Queen A two rookie free.
And now Bishop DD four kind of forces rook free.
So once going into attacking contortions if rook e two the thing is Queen takes be free and here say
with rook eight to a two This should be very nice for black two connected past pawns are on the way.
So rook free is tried Queen seven and now g four.
This further weakens white with targets more targets after G four.
So structurally it's isolating, pawns, etc. But if King G two white does nothing, Queen B seven And
here what does white doing?
Say Rook D three, Queen DD seven.
If black has this position, then F five.
Queen F seven if Queen friendly.
C Now that D five is really being attacked and difficult to defend.
So this position concession pin bishop takes e free.
And the funny thing about this pawn chain, it means that there's no checks on dot squares, right?
And black can actually come out with the king here, King of six.
And this is very entertaining, this stuff where the king can actually come out and munch d five without
penalty.
This pawn chain does actually support these king activities.
That's just one way of playing it.
So anyway, it's fun stuff.
So g four though was played which weakens won't considerably H takes Queen Thanks Queenie seven takes
that file authority for a moment.
Queen for Bishop E five Now Queen four is played.
If Knight takes E five, then D takes hits the deep and keeps F seven protected.
Yeah.
If Queen takes those, queen takes F seven check.
So D takes though essentially this position is very bad for white because this looks as though D five
is held.
Right.
But what about H four now?
E four and here, Brooke H eight and H four is dropping out.
So anyway, Queen G4 is played Rook eight, rook free, very passive.
And now Rook five And you know, these, these are targets.
These are all targets.
This one, This one, This one.
And I should know, I've been playing with the white pieces against Michael Adams in a bank game.
I should know the pain of this And here Bishop d4 setting sights on another target F two.
And White walked straight into an f two tempo gainer.
Queen for the thing is, if King G two rook f five is going to happen.
And the thing is there's so many weaknesses in White's can't Brook takes D five here with advantage
so OC queen for rook f five and white actually resigned her F two is dropping next so Queen G free Bishop
takes F two and we can even play the sadistic Queen F six here.
We don't have to take the Queen immediately.
And then the queen overwhelms the two pieces here, taking up D five blacks on the way to victory there.
So yes, a fun game in the Bank of Gambit.
So it seems Michael Adams repertoire is a lot of fun as well as being a positional player, he's playing
kind of positionally, motivated gambits.
So this is another great gambit system like the Marshall Game.
And these are really respectable kind of positional gambits that even, you know, there's long term
compensation generated from these garments.
But yeah, there are very concrete situations in this game to to analyze very, very concrete.
But he takes DD six was one of White's only mistakes.
So a fascinating game where a lot of targets emerged later in White's camp, but in particular he was
also a bit of a waste of time because critically B5 is a bit of a liability piece.
So if Black gets to play like this with 97 to B six and taking out and then Bishop asks, you know,
that led to a pawn being won essentially.
And after that it starts to be really difficult for white.
So, yeah, a fascinating game indeed.
I hope you enjoyed it as much as me and so much.