Hi there.
In this lecture, we see vastly immature playing against Anatoly Karpov in the 1994, the enormous tournament
round five.
So this was one of Karpov's greatest ever tournaments.
So it's fascinating to see his wins there.
The fall from nine times six from Karpov.
C four.
E six, nine two and 3b6.
So Queen's Indian Territory, G3 Bishop A six.
This teases whites to protect the pawn and disrupt the four, so default could be a more meaningful
target.
We have Bishop just dropping back to B seven now.
Bishop G2 are now exploiting the D pawn slightly looser than before.
C five.
We have E4, so Karpov is going into the hedgehog structure.
If D five.
Instead this is viable for to play like this with stage four pinning the d5 pawn.
So this position should be about equal.
E4 though is played, which is actually more kind of critical for black.
C takes the four white consoles DD 69634.
So Karpov playing with a hedgehog here.
So Queen DD seven if Bishop e seven might be able to get an advantage of E five.
So this looks at the B seven bishop.
If Bishop takes G to E, takes F six, Bishop takes have six, Y can play nine, takes E six here after
F takes six, King takes G to one has a small edge.
So Queen D seven safeguards the bishop on B seven We have rookie one, Bishop E seven, knights B one.
So this is a nice positional maneuver in which to reposition the knight.
9c69c Free Knight takes DD four Queen takes the four Black castles.
B Free Rook 58.
So here it looks as though it's about equal at the moment.
Rook AB eight We have H Free Bishop eight.
G four.
Now there are some dark square weaknesses creeping into White's possession.
Pawns though going backwards.
We have h6a4a6 bishop a free.
So why is looking at D six We have Quincy eight, Bishop B two, Queen C five, Queen DD two.
So she wants to keep the Queen's on.
And also of course B takes will look at a backward pawn on B free one won't want to do that.
We have 97 rook, 81, 95, 92 and here Bishop G5 is played.
So the f pawn is Penns.
There's no f four.
So this is a nuisance.
Isn't that Queen C free?
We have Bishop of six and with this move it looks as though nine takes g four might be frightened.
Looking at the Queen, we have Bishop a free looking at Black's queen.
So here this is no longer working.
Nine g for white would just take the Queen.
And here what ends up being a piece up.
So that's a bad idea.
So basically the queen moves.
So Black still has this 9/10 g for France looking at the queen.
So the queen moves to d d2.
Before we get into that, actually, instead of Queen C seven, we've looked at Knight's text G four,
but what about nine?
G six?
This is actually a plausible move.
Funny enough, if Queen takes off six, this position is going to be in Black's favor.
So we have if Bishop take C five, this is also going to be quite nice for black if Queen C one.
Quincy seven.
Yeah.
Black actually, overall has a small edge here.
This is a very favorable hedgehog situation.
So anyway, Quincy seven is played Queen DD two and we have nine.
G six.
So we're looking at the rook on a one.
We have Rook AC one.
If Bishop takes DD six, then Black just plays for five points.
What would you play?
Yeah, just play.
Rook takes these six here and then we're winning the rook on a one after.
So the rook has to move.
We have Bishop e seven here.
It's worth pointing out that Bishop g5i think it's worth pointing out.
Bishop, do you find there's F4?
And if Knight takes her four, this trick doesn't work here.
E five.
You might think he's winning a pawn, but actually 95 hits the Queen on C seven.
So this ends up being favorable.
To white.
If Bishop takes the five Queen 65.
And if Bishop takes the white has just one or two bishops for it's big advantage actually at this level
for white.
So that's winning for white, basically.
So that's not actually working here.
D five might be better, but even so, E takes this position is still going to be about even so, it's
funny to be on the lookout for this.
So we see Bishop e seven and now Queen friend.
You might think, well, it's not much different, right?
Is it?
That Bishop shouldn't be working?
Or is it working out for ten points?
Is Bishop G five more effective and why?
That's the important thing.
Why would Bishop defy be more effective here?
So one should have stayed away from the E three square because that is actually aligns to the king.
Queen D phrase example for would be just a waiting game.
It's even.
But with Queen E three this changes things quite differently, quite massively with Bishop G five working
after F for nine takes F four.
Now it takes F four.
And you can see a key difference now that actually 95 is completely impossible here.
Because Bishop Saint free is Czech simply.
So Karpov has just won a pawn.
And.
It's actually then the game.
We've kind of been shortchanged in a way.
This potentially epic game between Evans and Karpov in round five ended here.
Yeah, it was just annoyed about this pawn loss.
I mean, it is a significant pawn loss If Queen f2 e takes F4 seems to be the very best way to play
this.
So with the E five score in mind for later for using the E five square as example, like this blank
wraps around the E five square and should be able to make progress eventually.
It's actually harder to make progress with Bishop takes F4.
It seems in my in this simulation theoretical game that even though blacks are pawn up the binds is
quite good for white and may actually offer a huge amount of resistance.
This situation is a huge amount of resistance.
How is Black actually exploit the extra pawn?
It's going to be very tricky indeed.
In this position there is a bind, so the way it's played would have been, it seems e takes out for
that seems a little bit more accurate to give Black some real winning chances, but in which it was
so annoyed that yeah, he just resigned here after if I'm not really testing what White would play after
what black would play after rather.
So yes.
Karpov on the lookout comp of not minding playing the hedgehog and you know Britain's Michael Adams
has played the hedgehog with great success as well, it seems.
You might think there's a long time to wait for a mistake, but no, it was like a major like mistake.
Queenie, free this, you know, the aspects of the position here tactically, even if we just without
even calculating our own moves, it seems we can by instinct say there are downsides without calculating
our own moves, that the Queen is on a skewer line with the rook.
The Queen is also on a skewer line with the king.
I know we can't skewer on this diagonal, but it's still in the same road as the king, So it makes
this Bishop G5 all the more powerful here.
So it's something to look out for this instinct, for just looking at the downsides of the opponent's
position, even without calculating our own moves.
That's a great instinct.
But the zone of weakness, provocation.
One could argue when the hedgehog's structures the hedgehog is is seen as a great structure.
It does seem to offer an interesting game which can stretch out and eventually the opponent can blunder.
And Michael Adams has emphasized that is often look out for such games where there's a wide scope for
the opponent blundering if the game can go on and on and on.
So hedgehogs a very solid structure and can invite mistakes like this.
So in one sense, why am I showing in this game?
I think it's an important aspect that we can play a waiting game.
Sometimes with solid moves and wait for the opponent to self destruct.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed this your much.