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In this lecture, we have a mega British encounter.
Matthew Sadler, a very strong British grandmaster against Michael Adams.
So this is a 1993 17 Floyds Masters Open Round ten.
So D four from Sadler.
And Adams actually repeats the Benko Gambit, which he had played against me in an earlier round of
this same tournament.
So interesting bit of trivia there.
Matthew Sadler, Natasha Ragan, have a fantastic book, by the way, called Game Changer about neural
networks.
And we had a great discussion video on YouTube about that one or two.
Actually, there's discussion of videos and yeah, great guy.
So we have knights free from Sadler b4a free g6a tanks b4c tanks b4g Free Adams plays Bishop G seven.
We have Bishop G two, both sides, Castle and now a five.
Interesting thing is this structure kind of weak, fragile, overextended.
That's for White's prove.
We have nine BD two, Bishop B seven.
It's that least that protects the rook puts pressure on white censor potentially that's useful Queen
a four and now here we can see already that might be free and it could be interesting.
For 1965 we have Queen C seven, D four and this also looks interesting to get in might be five as well.
And also we have to look out for D six here.
This looks a little bit scary sometimes.
So D six is played at least preventing D six from white and we have 9b5, queen C eight and now might
be free.
Wow.
So there is a weakness of the last two.
It doesn't neglect c four, but white.
It's trying to dismantle Black's pawn chain.
Adams takes on C four.
We have Knight takes a five, and now things get a bit crazy with in effect, a positional exchange
sacrifice from Adams.
He plays actually Queen Tangs E two if he didn't want an exchange sac Queen C eight So in exchange that
a rook for a knight or bishop.
When I talk about positional exchange, take this scenario for example.
Black could end up losing a pawn though however of the bishop, a six might be three Queen B seven.
There is a certain amount of compensation.
Black does have a lot of peace pressure here.
White has a small edge, but with queen size E to the forcing of 1987 is winning in exchange like BD
seven is played not bothering with Rook seven because the bishop e free black can play a tactic or bishop
see six here, but it's still amounts to a good position for for white.
White can either just take this and allow rook ten C seven.
This is a nice advantage for white or white can actually play queen.
Thanks b4 here and this is a nice advantage for white D ten c six.
So anyway like BD seven though is played so offering an exchange sacrifice 90 takes eight rooks ACA
and there's also that annoying pin we have Queen takes B four.
This is actually it's an intriguing inaccuracy.
The Queen was actually useful on a four looking at D seven, so it actually ties black down a bit.
There's no bishop takes the five because Bishop takes the 5.65, Queen takes D seven and we see after
Queen takes before that kind of pressure is released on D seven it's hitting the bishop.
But basically White could have played Bishop G five, which is funny enough an improvement in in a different
variation for my game against Bishop G.
Five here keeps black tied up.
So if Bishop takes the five, Bishop takes D five and then D seven drops.
Given that's the case we have, that's a knight C five, then Queen D one White will have technically
an advantage here.
This position is going into an advantage for white scenario.
Okay.
But the queen moved away from D7 and allows Bishop 65.
And there's another aspect of this which amplifies the loss of the square control around why King is
a useful tactical factor.
That weight is a bit weaker now without the fear.
Encanto Queen B 797 to be six.
So this holds things up for the moment.
Rook free the 896 Bishop He fights like a seven rook.
C seven Now.
Rook two should be about equal.
This position should be about even.
But Rook C seven was chosen.
Queen B ain't.
Queen.
A6 is also interesting for Queen.
For one, it should be slightly better overall, but Queen Bee.
Eight.
Nine RD.
Seven.
Queen RD.
Eight again.
Queen Bee.
Five.
Hair Just wanting the exchange of Queens and Queen 84 again.
One should have a small edge but queenly.
Eight And now an inaccuracy.
Queen H five.
It seems here that King G King G seven should be about even and the Queen, funnily enough, it's useful
to stop.
Might be five on this occasion.
It's an interesting game where the queens on what they do, you know, in terms of prevention the queen
is preventing might be five they're on E two.
So it does seem engines suggest that the king move should be even.
There's no nine be five and.
In the game though.
Yeah, this release is B5, but there is an intriguing idea now about trying to get a strong attack
against the king.
Potentially.
We have Knight B five Rook B seven, Quincy eight Rook takes B five, Queen takes 37.
The rook goes back to the back row.
Rook a five.
Now, here, if Queen a seven.
This is also interesting for white actually Rook before Queen 897.
Queen C 696.
This should be in White's favor.
This pendant it looks a bit annoying and that the rook is loose there right now.
There's no King G seven without penalty.
So, I mean, it looks interesting, but Rook, a five was played.
We have Knights of six.
And this hits the queen.
So rebelling against the relative pain.
Now Rook takes age five is played if Queen a seven.
Guess what?
Black can play here.
Which saves.
It's like, well, actually there might be one or two moves, actually might be fine.
But one of the more interesting is Queen H free in this possession.
So if Queen takes B eight, then there's 9g4 and White's getting in trouble.
There is a forcing move.
Queen takes F eight check, but it doesn't lead anywhere.
The king comes out here and black's going to be better.
So that's an intriguing variation.
And in fact, Rook for Rooks is about even so, anyway, the queens traded off for each other, so Black
is playing the exchange down for just one pawn.
But there is pressure on B two, so it's an intriguing position.
And now with F five, the King is actually getting a little bit better than the white king in a way.
So Rook D one king of seven coming out.
Bishop G seven Rook two.
Bishop F six.
So Black has a kind of fortress style position with White's extra pawn on this side of the ball kind
of being stopped.
So h four we have rook before rook a seven like e four and black is improving the pieces now.
And in fact potentially now F two is under pressure.
If Bishop takes B two, white can play Bishop four and here if rook four, rook takes E seven as example
should be a simplification to an even position looks fairly even so 94 we have rook a two bishop d4
looking at F two now B Freeze.
Yeah, concessions have two, but there's 90 free.
So 90 C free.
Bishop RD two But now two pawns with exchange with rook takes be free.
So sure if in any rook is taken then as a penalty here Bishop takes and then rook tanks or the other
way knight tanks and then Bishop takes.
But Adams just takes two pawns for the exchange.
Now Bishop takes Bishop's take free.
So Black's really got a stable position exchange down.
So, Ruby six safeguards against Rook takes DD six.
That's like tactical threats there.
Rook dd five, Bishop f6h5.
So this is intriguing.
Now.
King E six And here after wrote dd free first wrote B one check and now taking out H five.
So this stops it being potentially dangerous.
Is h pawn or just chipping out?
G six Yeah.
So taking out h five we have Rook a five, bishop E five and now F four bishop a one rookie free check,
king of six.
And now big mistake.
Probably in big time trouble here, Rook seven.
This looks like a time trouble mistake from move 50.
This loses the exchange back.
Yeah, it's a kind of forceable configuration if we look at this.
So if rook a four instead staying off the dark square road of Dart Square Bishop on the other side of
the road, so to speak.
This should be only a small edge for black at this point, or equal.
Equal or small edge.
But it's easy for waiting to go wrong here in this scenario, even though once exchange if for example,
Rook eight for let's just say fictionally like this check and an E five happens, then all of a sudden
Black's position is really springing into life.
You know, this could be afforded you know, this starts to get dangerous for white rook free as example.
And black's got small edge you know there's a target on G free a dark square target.
Yeah it's it's better for black slightly so but with rook seven this is bad news Bishop d4 so getting
the exchange back so rook e takes e seven if rook any takes e seven taking on e free and h four Black's
got a big advantage here with h four using that to undermine the structure here and the king can cozy
up coming g6852g4 potentially.
So so rook e takes e seven first the check, then another check, then taking out a seven.
So the rooks improved here.
So that was nifty.
If the king had gone to G one, then that's bad news because of Rook, a two check and then picking
up an entire rook after.
So the king is kind of taken out to an unfortunate square.
e1a little bit further from the pawns.
Bishop takes seven, Rook takes rook G two, Rook takes H7 Rook takes G free.
We have King F to Rook G4 six.
Jack King E seven.
King F three.
H four.
We have King E three, D five.
Yeah.
This end game is unpleasant for white and it's a bit of a grind.
So King G seven, five King G, six rook chains check dd four The pawns are making progress.
So Rook D eight.
Yes, the pawns are making progress here.
And there's also, you know, an idea that if rook takes Rook g four looks very good.
That's kind of overwhelming for the king here to have to catch both pawns.
It's too late for the king now.
So yeah, we have rook d instead d Free rook d five.
And now Capablanca like getting the king much more aggressive King h five rook takes F five king G four
King's very aggressive rook, a free check.
And this is actually the end of the game here.
So the Thunder resigned if King e1h free this position.
H two This is overwhelming that h pawn is very strong.
It's going to be herded through.
Yeah.
An intriguing game, a real fighting game between and they're still the one and two basic on the British
ranking list at the time of this recording.
So these are really great British grandmasters, banker gambit, very dramatic intense struggle of a
game.
But there are some positional considerations.
Positional exchange sacrifice helps Black get a very lively game for the rook and yeah, lots of rich
counterplay opportunities.
So an absolutely fascinating game, very complicated game.
But yeah, this was a transitioning into a more simplified scenario where there's a lot of compensation.
Black hats here.
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