Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Alexei Shirov in 1992, the Build tournament
to round 13 D4 from Karpov we have d5 C4 C6 9c396e free e6939 87.
So pretty standard stuff so far.
Queen C2 we have Bishop dd six, Bishop E2, Black Castles White Castles dd ten C4.
Bishop take c4 b5 Bishop E2 Rookie eight So usually black is playing 4e5 cop of weights for this rook
dd one We have Queen seven and now be free.
Black does commit to E5.
There is a certain element of weakening light squares with pawn on E five we have H three so here this
safeguards h two against the battery.
Here we have Bishop B seven if e four This doesn't do anything, it just loses a pawn 92 and just take
in a pawn like this with the C Knight.
Well either is okay so that's not doing anything.
So Bishop B seven we have Bishop B to a six now D takes E, five, 96 five and now a four.
So here we have Rook 88 and now Knight G five.
There are some interesting ideas here of playing 94 to try and remove the defender.
The Queen is looking at age seven.
We have queenly seven and now C for Knight takes E four.
Knight takes E four.
So if the queen took him, there's Queen text G five.
So it takes E four.
But looking at the bishop, Bishop B four and G three, Black's like squares are looking a little bit
vulnerable here.
This already looks like a very interesting position.
An F6 weakens the line squares even further.
Better would have been g six it seems, and this looks a bit silly because of the bishop on B two,
but maybe it is the best course of action to limit White's advantage.
So say taking on a four and and C five white does have an advantage, but it's actually better than
the game after F six.
There's a very interesting move here which reflects a common tool that you'll see used even by the top
neural network sometimes.
It's good to amplify Lion Square bishops by giving up a bishop of the other color.
So sometimes when you give up your dance choir, Bishop, you're removing and removing a knight.
You're mathematically securing sometimes an advantage on Knight Squares.
This piece won't be able to be participating in the lite square activities around the board.
So Bishop takes EY five, creates a mathematical superiority in effect on the light squares.
We have Queen Tang's E five.
If we look at F takes E five for the moment, that looks bad for isolating the pawn.
If Bishop de Frame what is black do here?
If h six we have a commanding position after Bishop E four let's say rook f eight we could simplify
a bit and get a very commanding position here with a clear advantage of the Queen.
E two We've got a lot of interesting prospects for attack as well.
If g six we can actually play h four trying to lure the queen away a bit more, otherwise we're going
to undermine the pawn chain with h five.
But let's say queen size h four here we got a very we have a very strong attack.
So this position, for example, plank starts to lose material pretty soon after 95 and let's say rook
gains queen 65 check King of fake rook takes DD eight and it's starting to look really dangerous for
Black's king.
So there are options here of playing after Queen Tense day.
We can play queen.
A full check picking up.
Pardon me.
Picking up the bishop.
So this cheque picks out the bishop and so on.
So that be a pretty strong indeed.
So anyway, Queen takes five was played and we have Bishop DD three anyway and like square weaknesses
are increased after H six here G six does fall victim again to a bishop sacked would be justified this
position with Queen H six and here note H five looking at F six is exceptionally dangerous for blank.
So st f five Queen g six check here nice f six and say Bishop C free trying to strengthen the diagonal
Queen G eight Checking is something we could take on E eight And the thing is about this kind of position
is we've accumulated so many pawns that actually we can consider this a success with Rook against two
bishops, but so many pawns.
It's just a winning position.
Basically, the pawns are going to be too much, and this bishop's not very good on B7, to say the
least.
So H six was tried, but now Bishop is making very comfortable looking bishop on the nine squares.
We have rook f five and now the knights online squares.
So most of white's pieces are on white squares apart from rook on a one we have c five.
If a five we can play knight H for this.
I just wanted to demonstrate what we can do with Knight H four with a five.
It's not a particularly good idea, but let's say this position we have Bishop H seven check.
And you can see here that if King H eight we have 96 check and then pick up the Queen will check.
And the thing is, if King of seven, Queen G six, check this position.
Queen Thanks.
G seven We have now bishop at five on the cards and if f five we can play queen takes B seven with a
big advantage.
So yeah, very dangerous scenarios are emerging.
We have C five being played eight times.
B five here again, 984 is strong.
That's a strong idea as well.
This position, Bishop H seven Shank and G three for moments.
So there's no issue with G two.
We can have some delay gratification here before the attack and now with 96 check, we're just going
to be winning material without being mated on G two in any case, you know, so that's good.
King G 896 No problem.
So anyway, eight takes B five, though as good as well for Rook seven it's such a strong position we
can echo H four hair Queen g5g3 Again, this is going to be a super strong possession.
For example, queen sized one hair C four, queen DD seven and here Queen D five check, 9g6 check.
And we're just winning tons of material.
Ouch.
So anyway, Rook seven is also good.
Queen C seven Knight H four Now pair of rooks come off.
Queen takes the one Rook eight But now an absolutely brilliant move in this position so Karpov aware
tactically he's got a big positional advantages and there's a beautiful crowning of the tactics crowning
with tactics in combination now so in this position what would you play for 100 points.
Beautiful stuff.
Yeah.
Lovely Queen G for bypassing the bishop's control on diagonal looking at e sex and to make the king
basically queen.
Sex is played just to show if Rook takes a seven Queenie six check and if King of eight we have Queenie
eight mating mate if king again, the back row is weak were mating.
So Queen C six is tried.
But now guess what is played Hare.
No one is confident in the LightSquared strategy.
Paying off how tactically Rook tanks B seven Getting rid of Black's nine Square defender Queen takes
B seven.
Getting access to E six.
So King eight is played.
If King F eight, there's actually Bishop H five vacating G six for G six mating.
And here, for example, Queen takes F six, Jack, Queen and seven.
We can play nine, takes G six check.
And here there's Queen Checkmate.
And if King E eight, then we can play check, for example, and just pick up the rook and carry on.
So that'll be great as well.
So King H eight is tried, but now Bishop E four with tempo and Black resigned.
Let's have a look at this final possession.
So first of all, the work really doesn't want to leave the back row, otherwise there'll be introducing
Queenie.
So let's say Quincy seven we can play 9g6 check.
And here just take on a simple and here, although it seems to be.
Hold on.
We've just lost our material advantage.
We're mating, basically.
Bishop E four check.
King G five.
Queen G for is checkmate.
So that's a beautiful line, but there's some others as well.
So Queen a seven, We have 9g6 tracking H seven.
And we can play the quiet king H to preventative move for any naughty business with Queen A one with
check and then Queen E five when our knight's not looking at E five.
This is such a strong move here and.
Let me show you why King is such strong.
Say 97, Shaq and Queen are five looking to make on age seven, but Black has the two.
Check the fence, which is annoying.
We're still winning, but it's annoying.
So actually we can even do better with King H two and say Check.
We can play our four ruling out Black's use of the E five square and now we play 97 check without any
sort of counterplay at all.
Queen at five looking at H seven Queen J We just contain the Queen.
So yes, that's beautiful.
Queen A sex is another option, but we have G six checking H 795 Check this double check.
King H ain't fg6.
We just may ensure order with Queen F seven checking age 90 6g6 is mine.
So here on page eight we have seven check King G and now nine states H six double check.
So the king has to move.
And now?
Yes, guess what?
For ten points.
What would you play here?
Yeah.
Queen g h So if the rook takes G, eight of seven is checkmate.
Wow.
A beautiful variations in the end, but we don't see them visually for sure.
He understands quite clearly his position is busted.
Yeah.
So it's amazing how the accumulation of a few light square weaknesses leads to such devastations.
But how many players would consider Bishop takes E five.
For me, this is instrumental.
If you look at neural network games sometimes to amplify a light square color complex weakness.
So a set of light squares, sometimes we need to give up the bishop opposite to the color complex we
want to have an advantage on and we see that this bishop, you know, is really not that relevant after.
So this Square campaign is really great with this bishop as a bystander on the other side of the road,
so to speak.
We speak of a road as light squares and dark squares on the other side of the road, and a lot of White's
moves converge for the beautiful final light square attack, taking out B seven.
It's beautiful stuff, really.
It's poetry.
I really hope you enjoyed this game as much as me.
Karpov at his best and so much.