Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Gansu Kamsky against Anatoly Karpov.
In their fide World championship match of 1996.
A very high profile game.
This is in round four E4 from Gazza Kamsky.
Anatoly Karpov plays the Kraken defense, which really suits his style.
D4 d5 We have a tasty five.
See text five.
c49569c free.
E six.
So this looks to block in the bishop, but it's necessary to hold the center in a solid manner if the
bishop is used.
There are great tactical resources for Wight like hitting B seven.
It's a bit too early to make use of the bishop, so this is one of the safest moves.
Nice referee.
We have Bishop B four, C takes D five, Mike takes D five.
So why has the isolated Queen's pawn?
But at the moment that's not the whole story.
Why?
It has a lead involvement.
Things are pretty dangerous for both sides.
9c6 we have Bishop DD three comp of castles, white Castles, Bishop E seven, Queen two and now Knight
F six.
So this looks as though black is threatening Knight 64 It's kind of ignored by Kamsky with Knight E
for a dynamic continuation.
Indeed, we have though compo playing Queen B six.
If he takes on D four, we can see that White gets a dangerous initiative.
Lots of threats in a row, lots of forcing moves, lots of peace activity.
That's what I mean by that.
So say, Queenie, a knight takes five, six Jack Bishop takes off six, rook for one.
And yet there's another threat to deal with.
Bishop takes h seven to win the Queen.
And what is black actually do?
This is getting to be, like, really dangerous and say Bishop D seven, Queen E four, G six, Bishop
B five is winning material.
This is just one example where it's going to be winning material for four white.
So Queen B six is a good safety move.
And who would imagine this bishop has any career prospects right now?
It looks as though it's a kind of bad bishop to try and improve positionally.
So a free we have Bishop RD seven again, greed doesn't really do much here.
Queen takes B two.
There's just neat takes a six check Bishop takes and then rook for B one embarrasses the queen Knight
takes the forshaw, hits the queen and return Queen E four looks at H seven and return.
And after nine takes her free check, G takes.
It's clear that white is faster then queen size H seven might as well as the Queen.
So this is bad news.
So okay.
Bishop rd seven that Bishop is one step towards improving itself.
On D seven we have rook for one, Rook 88 we have nine takes have six check here.
B four seems to be a better try for white.
If Knight takes E4, bishop takes e4 and five white can play, Bishop takes C six and white can claim
a small edge.
Overall there is a nice grip on E five here as example.
So anyway, Knight takes F six check though was played, Bishop takes up six, Queen E four.
So this matrix is parried with G six, bishop e free.
And now a brave looking move going into discovery 97.
It's brave looking because of this D five but is that a big deal?
So a very interesting position.
And also the bishop now could actually really improve itself potentially if given a few moves.
We have 95 if D five Queen takes beta is actually possible here.
This position Queen takes a free rook, takes b7a5.
That's fine for black.
Black's got the edge and the other rook is used than Queen C free Bishop takes a seven, E five is good
for black and there are threats like Bishop F five here, so this is better for black.
So anyway, 95 is chosen.
We have 9f5.
And now 94.
If it takes 37, Rook takes the 75.
This is harmless.
That's just going to take on E three, Bishop D four and then take on D five.
No problem.
So 9c4 Queen asks, not worried about this discovery against the Queen.
Any discoveries we have a four.
If 95 of a discovered attack on the Queen, then Bishop B five, and that would sort out the problem.
Bishop Anyway, so this position is fine for black.
This is just great.
Even if this forcing sequence is used by white, black stands better there.
So a four is played and now Bishop C six we have Queen F4.
Bishop RD five.
So the bishop, which was a bad bishop not so long ago, is now a great blockading bishop.
On day five we have 95 hitting the Queen.
So the queen goes to the B six and our bishop takes F five.
What else if Rook AC one?
Let's put this on the board.
Bishop takes e five.
And here.
Of the Queen's Knights E5 Knight Takes EA free Queen takes ea free Black has Bishop be free.
And this simplification to this end game is really miserable for white.
Black's going to end up winning material.
And you know, if white plays a move like Rook two, there's things like E five potentially as well
coming up soon later.
So it would be a really miserable position.
And there's other things like queen aa6 as well for E five.
Yeah it's just the miserable position.
If h free rook takes the E4, black has the advantage of fgg4 here by the way.
Move 23 there's g five trapping the queen.
Wow.
So Bishop takes his used E6 and it looks as though visually Karpov is getting control of the position
and looks like super solid as those.
There's no like weaknesses either.
So we have rookie to Bishop G seven.
An aspect of positional control is this blockade of course just blockading that pawn that is real control
over that pawn, just stopping it and just trying to improve the position around the blockading piece
on D five we have H four rook for eight Queen G Free rook C eight.
So comp of improving the position with that magnificent bishop on D five really.
And it's got a lot of tactical implications potentially.
97 the Queen moves C five the bishop sorry.
B six nudging the knight 93, Queen RD 7a5 and now concrete threat rookie four with the idea of Rook
G four and conspiring against G two so 9 to 4 addresses that and now B five not minding at all if it
takes D five the bishop has served its purpose, but Rook d won.
The bishop lives.
If Knight takes D five, we can get a position of supreme comfort here.
H five would lock down anything for black.
And let's take this.
Sorry, this is just a fictional scenario.
Black could basically improve the position here.
If I mean, what else if King have one before and then Bishop da and then snapping off a five.
So, yes, this is just improving the position until, you know, blacks can eventually just take a
pawn.
Let's run through this again.
So we get this same kind of bishops, but one is essentially run out of counterplay.
And I'll just show you another tactical aspect of Bishop f6, by the way.
So if Rook E2 a six bishop F4, because if King EF one can just go back into this, we said Rook rd
free.
We showed Rook D free if King G won here.
There's actually a tactical shot here.
You might wonder about this KING If on this bishop takes H four, G takes rook G for check, and that
wins the Queen.
So there are tactical aspects of the positional play.
So Rook D won anyway.
Yeah, there's no benefit on taking on D five.
So Bishop C for AC 1h6 rook c3b for rookie two and now Rook C six.
So this puts the rook where it can be more easily protected.
Sometimes with Bishop B five we have rook DC one if D five Bishop E five is possible.
There is a pen against D one rook.
So in this position rook sex as well as another point of rook he seeks to target this week pawn over
here.
So rook dc one we have Bishop B five so that's a great use of the light squares and the bishop without
a counterpart that like square bishop without a counterpart.
It's been busy in this game.
King H two, King H seven Rook tanks.
C six Bishop C six Rook C four.
So you might wonder what about D five here?
Well, Bishop A four is nice.
And then for example, Bishop E five.
This is just going to be a great position for black.
So Rook C four we have Bishop effect holding b4, but also tactically D six could be used for this dangerous
diagonal.
93 Queen E six So that hits the rook on C four.
Queen five might actually be more accurate.
For example, Rook C one Bishop D 695 There's actually a brutal tactic here based on this battery.
Can you see what that is?
What would Black play here for ten points?
Yeah.
Rotates age four.
Check this Bishop's involved in a lot of tactics.
Queen takes G to his mate.
Yeah, It's horrible, horrible, horrible.
If 95 Rook takes E five and then taking the rook soon.
If rook takes six, then insert Rook takes EA free winning material.
So yes.
So we have queen e sex though being played, which is less accurate than Queen D five.
So that does set up some stunning tactical ideas on the battery.
But Queen six is time.
Time pressure at move 40 basically D five we have Bishop takes D five, rook takes E for bishop takes
E four.
And White's point is Bishop takes a seven and Bishop D six is played.
It looks tempting to fork to pieces right with Queen A six, but maybe Karpov considered this and looked
at Bishop C five.
It counterattacks the unprotected piece on F eight and black's only going to get a small edge here that
will be a bit of a waste after all that.
So Bishop rd sex don't try and win material.
Or rather just this horrible diagonal that White has here is used.
So we have four and now the Tempo Express train is used essentially win this position.
Can you see what Chernoff does with the Tempo Express train?
So gaining time in chess, We're gaining tempos through frets, which the opponent needs to address,
can actually improve the position.
Like so you're going on in Tempo Express Train Queen E five so threatening the Knight Knight H three
and now Queen E seven.
And this is overwhelming.
France hitting the queen, hitting the bishop and is absolutely winning.
Canter Kamsky resigned here if F4 we're just going to take the bishop if for of course we can just take
the bishop and also even G five is working on that diagonal.
So that's going to be working as well.
So yeah, a crushing position in the end.
And also you might think, hang on, what about Bishop E Frey.
Yeah, White's in a in a horrible pen here.
So this situation with Queen f6.
Is is absolutely winning.
Yeah, it's the pin is not going anywhere.
So.
Okay.
End of game with Queen E seven.
Nice tactics to finish to crown the positional play nicely.
Nice to crown the positional play with nice tactics.
So many people are really love this game for the handling of the Queen's pawn situation.
So Karpov actually didn't mind double pawns.
He just got authority of the position.
It's about gaining positional authority.
It's not what your pawn structure looks like.
And he really did gain authority and it's kind of magical how the C eight Bishop the journeys of the
bishop in this game leading to a big central square is a great transformation of the bad bishop.
In many openings, the bishop is often a problem.
Bishop Positionally.
So yeah, a fantastic positional demonstration against the isolated Queen's pawn.
And it's not like the classic recipe.
You know, often we think of the classic recipe against the isolated Queen's pawn as a blockading knight
on D five.
No, in in this game example, Karpov went for another treatment.
He didn't have a blockading knight on D five, but he just got to improve all his pieces, especially
this like square bishop.
So without, you know, visually blockading with a knight, he actually well he ended up blockading
with a bishop which in many ways is is really it's really, really interesting what happened here the
blockading bishop instead of a blockading knight and the double pawns but the double pawns assessed
in using the same file the same file assists in creating frats later it assists in amplifying the bishop.
So yeah, there were a lot of positional considerations in this one game.
And yeah, the harassment of the Queen is only temporary stuff cop can handle.
And the parking on C six was nice to exchange off potentially a pair of rooks.
Yeah, the whole game is just positionally controlled.
This defi really doesn't help weight when one has this dangerous scrabble kind of piece configuration.
That's the losing liability in the end.
So a really enjoyable game.
I hope you enjoy this game as much as me.
So much.