Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Gwen Jones against Michael Adams in the 2016 British Championship round nine.
We see C4 from Gwen Jones.
So an English opening E six G3 D five Bishop G2 might have six, might have three, Bishop E seven.
Both sides Castle B free now C five, E three and now 96.
Bishop B2 and Adams dares to play D four and it starts to look like a reverse bononi structure where
White has a potentially vulnerable backward pawn.
It's not on the same file, sure, but this pawn on D three, if white plays diva, which white will
be doing now?
It is a bit like the benoni d fre d six pawn equivalent equivalent of D six and the benoni.
So okay.
How can this be tortured?
Let's see what happens.
Bishop C five We have Knight E five here.
If a3a5 Sure.
White has a perk of the only when it has a poor majority on this side of the board.
But yeah, A five stops.
B four.
And let's see, this is an inspiration.
95 let's say the lions get exchanged Queenly sex Queen E one Bishop rd seven is possible for Bishop
C six so there's this pawn as well on B free, slightly vulnerable.
So this would be in Black's favor already.
So.
Okay, so Avery doesn't seem that promising.
We have night e five night takes e, five, rook takes e, five, Bishop dd six, rookie one and now
E five.
So this opens up the Bishop Quincy to Quincy seven.
So that prevents c5a bit more.
92 And now Adams is looking at that D free pawn we have rook E two rookie seven rook 81 rook 80 8a3a5
queen B one Bishop C five.
So this is interesting tactically and position me this position why it does have that nice e four square.
And in this case, if it was against Benoni, a move like 97 to C5 would be very tempting.
But in this particular case, because White's grip on E four is quite good, Adams approach is very
interesting.
He plays Bishop C5 and the idea of playing for E4 is coming up here, so hh6, especially after this
next move.
We have Knight F3 being played.
It does seem as though with the Bishop on C5, perhaps if White plays 94, Black could consider just
exchanging off things.
And then later maybe preparing E4 to open up this bishop.
Maybe so free was played.
We have Bishop aged seven
here.
If Bishop takes defray this, this is a tactical way of playing it with E for the free.
This is interesting.
Bishop takes up six G tanks.
Rook tanks.
Queen tanks.
D Frank, Already Black's better here as well, actually.
But Bishop H seven is is nice.
Queen RD one.
Queen DD six.
Bishop C one here.
If a four that kind of loses control of B for the bishop can go to B for this Doesn't look very clever
for Bishop C free.
This is just better for black.
Also 97 is possible as well for 95 here, looking at De Frey and say Bishop de five, Bishop takes e
one and black could knock out de fray here.
So, yeah, there are great alternatives.
So Bishop C one.
But here, yeah, the light's not on C five here and the E four break perhaps seems counterintuitive
because isn't that the weakness?
Why would we dissolve the backward pawn weakness?
But Adams does that he plays E4 is thinking about is pieces.
This night can be menacing if it gets to the C free square.
The bishop has just abandoned like weakness of the last move.
Just abandoned C as well.
So in terms of technicalities, the technicalities basically favor black to try and get a really nice
night on C free.
So yeah, not the absolute classic recipe you might think of, but look at the position of the pieces
here.
Black's pieces are absolutely beautiful with this knight menacingly coming to C free.
We have Bishop F4 with Tempo Queen.
The eight now 92 is played.
If B for eight takes eight Bishop takes four queen takes black had just take take on E one.
Thanks very much.
And black is much better hear the exchange up and could even play 9/10.
Jeffrey Yeah there's vulnerabilities in the white position if Bishop C won.
Yeah, this is still better for black.
So OC 92 is is tried but now 90 C free and this is just that move 27 it seems to have gone completely
terrible for white this whole opening we have rook takes E seven and now Adams just plays rook take
C seven.
Well, that's absolutely necessary.
If the queen is taken there's rook tanks, E eight check and that's actually that's terrible.
So yeah, the idea is to leave this position with the knight attacking the queen, the rook staring
at each other and white plays.
Rook takes e seven now.
So the thing is, if Queen C one, can you see the tactic for black hair, which would be crushing for
ten points?
You know, the queen is overloaded.
Her overworked bishop takes a fray to try and get the queen away from E one.
And if Queen A-1, then 92, check and hear this.
This is really terrible.
If rook takes E to Rook takes two.
This is clearly better for black.
And if instead King h2d free opens up this push against F two and this is fairly menacing, this position
is why it's falling apart.
G Freeze In our week you might think, what is what is this?
What about f196f4 Queen D Sex with the Queen over there.
The King side has been abandoned and this looks absolutely brutal as well.
So rook tanks e seven is try giving up the queen Rock takes B seven.
So there is a frat here of rock the eight.
Is this enough compensation?
Bishop dd six addresses that front blacks.
Just better here Bishop Thanks Queen tanks see five now Queen five keeping an eye on B eight.
If we take on C five, then Rugby eight and White's winning the end game or right went rather is Yeah
White does have a clear advantage here with the two that would be a disaster.
Basically we don't need to have that.
So the queen just stops rugby eight we have C six if F for Queen one check this position blank has a
big advantage.
Give some air for the king here.
Big advantage.
So C six is tried.
Queen one check King H two and here Bishop at five giving air for the king.
Nine four.
Is tried.
Bishop takes E4 rook check king H7 Bishop takes e4 Queen take 4c7.
But now Knight takes F two and this flattens checkmate.
This trumps the queen in her friend.
Checkmate.
So let's put that on the board.
C eight Queen.
Queen H One is checkmate.
So King G one knight takes h three check to F King F one.
Then there's D free threatening again.
Checkmate.
Let's put that on the board if I.
Then we just couldn't play queen to Chap Main.
So King H2.
But now in this position.
Quincy, too, picks up that dangerous pawn.
And White resigns.
Yes.
Very, very interesting play against the backward pawn.
So it became like a reverse but only structure.
So, yes, once the king moves, we're just taking.
And that's that's easy.
But yeah, let's look at the opening.
So it came tragically for white kind of bad reverse bononi with that backward pawn being a target.
So usually we think of attacking the pawn with a knight maneuver.
But Adams chose this other approach just building up for the E4 break to dissolve the pawn to make much
better pieces.
That is also another great way of tackling the backward pawn.
It has the perk of supporting the E4 square.
So it's interesting the positional decision here.
Bishop's five as opposed to 97.
So I thought this was a very interesting decision just to go for the E4 break.
Yeah, because White does seem to have adequate play here on 94.
What has options just to take off the C5 Knight for example, as an option and play Bishop E4 just to
stop the whole E4 break in its tracks.
So yes, very, very interesting play Bishop C5 and then White kind of made it a little bit easier to
work for the E4 break with a three.
So perhaps some inaccuracies on White's part here, which just made it look like a really convincing
one way game example.
Yeah, interesting game.
I hope you enjoyed this one so much.