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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Boris Spassky.
In 1975, the first team Soviet team championship.
Let's have a look at this.
So D four from Karpov we have night of six, C four, E six.
And now Karpov sidesteps the Nims engine.
So this is Queen's engine territory 9f3.
So 9c3 would have allowed the nimbler engine.
So the engine players need to know this move.
Knight F3 So B six here, G3, Bishop B seven.
Bishop G two.
Bishop e79c3.
Black Castles, Queen c2d5c takes DD five, Knight takes the five.
And now Karpov castles we have 97, Knight takes the five, E takes D five.
If Bishop takes D five, you might ask.
Well, the tempo is important here and it has a very nice classic center.
This is a very comfortable position for one here with a positional vantage.
So E takes DD five.
We have rook d1956 my E five, c five.
Now this might actually be an inaccuracy.
Rookie eight Keeping the pawns fluid for the moment and this position black could encourage white to
give up the bishop.
So we have this position, for example, where for all night b4 in fact is also another idea.
So for example Bishop takes d4e free and here might be four could be used to hit the five.
So that's very interesting.
But Black has rookie six.
And should be okay if C six.
Yeah, that's a bit dodgy.
1966 is possible and that would be dodgy.
Might would have a big advantage there.
But yeah, there is a way for black to avoid this structural commitments.
So C five was played though.
We have D take C five, Bishop take C five.
So this is an isolated Queen's pawn situation, which is quite interesting.
If B takes that's a hanging pawns situation because the adjacent files here.
Which most the blacks should be able to use because black has a missing pawn.
So the rooks should be good in hanging pawn situations.
Here, for example, Bishop G five Rook one.
Overall, it should be in White's favor here.
So Bishop takes C five.
We have Knight different.
Bishop D six.
Now a logical plan to get rid of the dark square and bishops rookie ain't e 394 We have Bishop takes
the six, Queen 66 and now Knight four.
White's position is super comfortable.
There is also a concrete frats here.
So Rook eight was played.
If Rook, can you see what the problem is?
There's a big problem here.
Yeah.
This pawn is kind of pens.
We can actually play queen size E four.
So.
And if knights have six, if the knight went back, we can actually blockade her on D four.
This would be a nice blockading move positionally.
So this position with Queen DD two we can intensify the pressure on D five and in fact, a little tactic
would work here.
Can you see what that is?
So this would be a great position for a tactic like takes D five actually works here.
So the point would be basically that E four is coming.
So for example, this position E four is coming whatever way black takes, E fours coming.
So, yes, interesting situation.
So anyway, rook associate was played by here.
There is actually a weakness for the last move tapped into.
So it's not just this pin that rook holds e for, but can you see what white plays here which.
Seems very, very accurate indeed, actually.
So what would you play?
Yeah.
Based on the weakness of the last move and we move the Queen to a four.
So a seven is looked at.
And also Bishop takes four, Queen takes e four.
The tactics are important to realize when playing positioning.
Otherwise, we just won't be able to emulate Karpov.
We've got to see the tactical variations that in the position we have Queen E seven if H six.
Yeah, just to put that on the board, Bishop takes E four and Queen takes E four.
So Queen E seven.
We have now very interesting situation in this position.
There's a choice of pawns or we can actually consider taking out the knight.
It's interesting options here.
Karpov chose Queen takes a seven.
If we look at Knight, takes the five, Bishop takes Rook, takes the five.
Black has the vicious looking knight takes f2y can survive this If white if white takes, then sure
Queen takes E free check.
There's a crushing attacking point to notice here that although Black hasn't got rook c two, which
would be really dangerous, Black can actually facilitate that with just one check.
And this is a super dangerous position where positional play has gone wrong and black's actually going
to Checkmate White.
So that's got to be factored in.
And here, if Queen takes AI, it's not helping.
Black is still better here.
The other option though, which does exist is Bishop takes E for just getting rid of that pesky knight.
And if Queen takes E for rook dd four and this position Queen takes a seven queen thanks be to Rook
81 White does seem fairly comfortable here.
This this would be a comfortable way of proceeding as well.
In the game though Karpov chose Queen takes a seven so game on from here and acknowledging nine times
F two is a very dangerous tactic.
So it takes F to here.
And the thing is 9/10 D five is played.
So hitting the queen, protecting EA free.
So yeah, tactical awareness super important in this game.
If King takes F two in this position, Queen takes EA free check and Rook two.
And this is very bad news for white why it's going to get mated.
So Knight takes the five important move.
So Bishop takes D five, Queen takes E seven.
And now Knight takes D one is played.
And yeah, there's a very accurate tactical move played here.
Can you see what that is?
It's like the strongest move in the position.
And Rook one.
Yeah.
So the queen can't be taken here because of the back row mating possibility.
So if Queen de seven, you might ask, this is still actually good for whites, but it's a better version
of events.
For black, it's an improvement.
So this is actually more to the point.
C one we have Rook B eight.
If Bishop G takes G to just rook, take the eight and King takes G to bigger fine.
So rugby ain't we have Queen before and our bishop takes G to King G two.
So this situation now should be favorable for white.
White has a 2 to 1 pawn majority to play with.
So rookie six Queen F for D ain't queen D for playing with the back row frets taking Rook eight So playing
with the back row Queen d79g4 Rook C eights.
So one pair of rooks coming off Queen B seven, Rookie six And now check 90 8a4.
So yes, with this 2 to 1 pawn majority, the rook and Knight are being overwhelmed.
The Queen is actually rather good here against the rook and there's no fortress here.
So each free king of six king G2 Rook thinks a five so that outside pass pawn rookie 6a6 97 the pieces
are being strained so rookie seven hoping for some sort of fortress position perhaps by Queen C six
of the King E five.
Guess what Karpov played here, which ended the game.
You know, king free.
I mean, it's a winning position.
Anyway.
We can just queen them.
We're going to break black down eventually here.
This isn't a solid fortress, but know King Free is very good.
F6, for example, check queen size g six.
Splitting the pawns could make things much easier, in fact.
So anyway, an interesting game with the isolated Queen's pawn.
So dynamic possibilities factored in.
Actually, you know, we can't just make a fairy tale out of positional chess.
When we look at comp of games, we've got to realize the tactics behind the scenes because he presumably
did so very interesting tactics and to control the counterplay or to acknowledge the counterplay that
exists.
Otherwise, there's no point like going for I Queen's pawns.
There is this hook advantage and and F2 can be sensitive and a lot of isolated queen pawn situations.
So this decision here about which pawn to win is was a very interesting decision point.
So queen size a seven it seems very well calculated so yes very, very interesting.
The dynamics being factored in here off the 965.
So, yes, I hope you like this one too much.