WEBVTT 00:01.290 --> 00:02.030 Hi there. 00:02.040 --> 00:05.790 In this lecture, we see Jim Plaskett against Michael Adams. 00:05.790 --> 00:10.740 So this is in 1989, the Plymouth British Championship. 00:10.740 --> 00:14.370 So Jim or James Plaskett is a good friend of mine. 00:14.370 --> 00:15.720 I consider him a good friend. 00:15.720 --> 00:20.490 He plays with the Kings Crusher team on Lee Chess regularly, so we enjoying the Kings Crusher team. 00:20.490 --> 00:25.590 You can play alongside him and Keef uncle to British grandmasters quite often. 00:25.590 --> 00:27.210 So nights free anyway. 00:27.210 --> 00:28.260 From James Plaskett. 00:28.260 --> 00:34.350 We have six from Adams RD, four E, six G free. 00:34.890 --> 00:37.200 So we have B six now. 00:37.710 --> 00:38.520 Bishop G two. 00:38.520 --> 00:40.950 Bishop B seven White councils. 00:40.950 --> 00:49.560 C five, c4c takes RD four Queen takes the four bishop e seven black set up in here is a hedgehog. 00:49.890 --> 00:57.600 So the idea of the hedgehog can actually be quite dangerous if black breaks out later from the kind 00:57.600 --> 01:03.000 of prickly skeleton of the pawn structure which resembles a hog. 01:03.000 --> 01:14.130 So a six hare we have E four knight BD seven Queen E free, Queen c7b Free Black Castles, Bishop B 01:14.130 --> 01:17.670 two Rook AC 894. 01:17.970 --> 01:27.330 We have Rook for eight AC one Bishop f8h Free Queen B I's. 01:27.960 --> 01:32.040 So yes, Black's Black's position is very, very solid here. 01:32.250 --> 01:37.290 And what looks to have a strong C bind on D five square. 01:37.290 --> 01:43.560 And if you consider that the breaks on the position would be B five and D five, but maybe later if 01:43.560 --> 01:45.600 the knight's not on f6 later F five. 01:45.600 --> 01:54.120 So those free breaks to bear in mind we see rookie 1g6, rook cd1 and then Bishop G seven. 01:54.120 --> 01:59.610 So Adams hasn't really been doing much, but he's provoking weaknesses now by not doing much. 01:59.610 --> 02:05.910 And this is a skill in itself because if you can provoke irreversible pawn moves so we have four things 02:05.910 --> 02:12.360 can go wrong quite often for the player that's grabbing space, but these are irreversible pawn moves 02:12.660 --> 02:17.640 instead of four knight C two not doing much, not creating weaknesses. 02:17.640 --> 02:25.050 At least this way of playing it looks kind of steady and logical against D six. 02:25.050 --> 02:31.380 If black players move like D five white can actually consider here e five and this kind of situation 02:31.380 --> 02:33.000 is going to be in White's favor. 02:34.080 --> 02:41.280 So yeah, White actually plays as though for an attack with F4 and now E five, F takes nine, takes 02:41.280 --> 02:41.970 E five. 02:41.970 --> 02:46.410 So it looks like like a theoretical weakness on D six has been created. 02:48.090 --> 02:48.970 So why is this? 02:48.990 --> 02:51.060 Well, it's isolated. 02:51.150 --> 02:54.390 This pawn, there's e-file counterplay, potentially. 02:55.110 --> 03:00.660 If DX takes E five of the place nine C to be five this situation. 03:02.410 --> 03:03.450 Is interesting as well. 03:03.460 --> 03:06.160 Black could actually be slightly better hair. 03:06.670 --> 03:07.720 It looks very interesting. 03:07.720 --> 03:13.810 After King h2h5 blacks got a small edge, but note takes E five was played. 03:14.170 --> 03:20.050 We have rook f one and now the curious waiting move bishops C six well, also offering the bishop on 03:20.050 --> 03:25.630 a plate, but it looks as though the intent is B five as well. 03:26.510 --> 03:31.450 Now it creates further weaknesses here with a four pawns. 03:31.450 --> 03:32.320 Don't go backwards. 03:32.350 --> 03:35.530 B4 is being weakened now even more. 03:35.560 --> 03:40.060 Just bear that in mind if nine take six, Rook take six. 03:40.060 --> 03:43.700 This position Rook eight. 03:43.720 --> 03:45.130 Let's take this as an example. 03:45.130 --> 03:51.910 Rookie six Bishop If eight Yeah, this position one should actually end up being slightly better. 03:51.910 --> 03:58.750 There is ad6 to probe here, so maybe that is a viable option in 1966. 04:00.780 --> 04:04.140 But we see a form and now the bishop drops back. 04:04.320 --> 04:08.370 So kind of job done, Rook two and now 57. 04:08.370 --> 04:14.070 This is a really nifty maneuver to get to see five Rook df1 95. 04:14.670 --> 04:19.110 And here Black's position is really, really solid. 04:19.650 --> 04:25.290 D six isn't really an exploitable weakness, but it's looked at kind of with this move through x ray 04:25.560 --> 04:29.270 at D six, but it's not that exploitable. 04:29.280 --> 04:31.230 And in fact, this is a big mistake. 04:31.230 --> 04:34.080 Why it should have played bishop a one. 04:34.650 --> 04:43.170 So for example, Rook C seven wrote d one black could try awaiting move and let's say rook D seven So 04:43.170 --> 04:44.460 this protects D six. 04:44.460 --> 04:47.430 There's a point here in this position. 04:47.430 --> 04:51.720 If you had this position, what would you play with Black? 04:54.670 --> 04:55.390 It's interesting. 04:55.390 --> 05:01.450 We've got the rook, X-raying the Queen, and it looks as though all our strategic breaks are impossible, 05:01.450 --> 05:02.050 right? 05:02.740 --> 05:13.790 In fact, we can start off here with B five, because if eight size eight X and let's say here Knight 05:13.900 --> 05:20.080 C takes B5, then there's a weakness of the last move, which means actually in relation to this pawn 05:20.080 --> 05:23.410 break F five is interesting for black. 05:24.460 --> 05:27.850 There's a lot of pressure being put on E for here. 05:29.140 --> 05:33.040 So as example E takes, there's nine G for winning the exchange. 05:35.600 --> 05:36.980 With 93 point F seven. 05:36.980 --> 05:39.290 There's a lot of pressure on E for here. 05:40.130 --> 05:51.380 And actually here there's an option of playing night takes be for as well as example and yeah if D takes 05:51.380 --> 05:53.630 B five there's nothing takes be free. 05:53.630 --> 05:59.660 So yeah there's there's an interesting opportunity in theory for playing for B five believe it or not 06:00.050 --> 06:04.550 that's where bishop a one and that would be a solid, relatively solid move. 06:04.550 --> 06:08.000 This move suffers tactically D one. 06:08.180 --> 06:09.860 Can you see why? 06:09.860 --> 06:11.960 It's rather amazing, actually. 06:14.480 --> 06:15.650 So what does Adams play here? 06:15.650 --> 06:21.290 A magnificent move which kind of destroys the white position, basically. 06:22.640 --> 06:24.500 Great tactical positional move. 06:25.040 --> 06:26.630 It's like takes be free. 06:26.780 --> 06:31.090 So it's completely taking out the protection of the pieces. 06:31.140 --> 06:32.690 964. 06:34.130 --> 06:38.330 And now we can see that the night in the night is full king, queen and bishop. 06:38.600 --> 06:43.610 And the thing is, if the queen moved to say E two, we will take on B two to take on C free. 06:44.630 --> 06:48.770 So Queen Frey has tried and we have night takes B two. 06:48.770 --> 06:53.540 So we're going to take on C free of rook takes B to Queen takes F seven check is played. 06:53.540 --> 06:55.460 And this is pretty harmless, actually. 06:55.850 --> 07:05.750 So rock takes B two and now, yeah, Black could just take on C free here with advantage. 07:05.750 --> 07:09.530 So this possession is looking at B four and G free. 07:09.560 --> 07:10.340 Look at this. 07:10.730 --> 07:13.790 Rook takes G free or even bishop. 07:13.790 --> 07:14.560 Take C free. 07:14.570 --> 07:16.220 This is an advantage for black. 07:16.760 --> 07:22.760 But rook C seven was played queen of two and now rook takes C free. 07:23.480 --> 07:26.250 And yeah, White's position is a bit of a wreck here. 07:26.270 --> 07:27.560 Let's count pawns. 07:27.560 --> 07:30.080 Four pawns against five pawns. 07:30.080 --> 07:33.710 But black has these magnificent bishops and that isolated pawn in the center. 07:34.040 --> 07:35.720 So much for the proxy binds. 07:35.720 --> 07:37.460 It's like being torn through. 07:37.580 --> 07:40.130 And Black's pieces are absolutely active Here. 07:40.130 --> 07:41.090 Look at the rooks. 07:41.090 --> 07:46.160 So, Rook fight, Queen one trying to hold on to G free Bishop D for check. 07:46.160 --> 07:54.110 And this gives a common square now to play with rookie free with tempo hitting the bishop hitting rather 07:54.590 --> 07:57.320 the rook with the bishop as well as the queen. 07:57.530 --> 08:02.660 We have now Queen G one trying to at least get the bishop or rather the rook. 08:02.660 --> 08:05.240 If bishop takes queen tanks e free. 08:07.460 --> 08:10.940 But here there's a crushing tactical blow played in this position. 08:10.940 --> 08:11.690 Crushing blow? 08:11.690 --> 08:13.220 What is that, do you think? 08:13.220 --> 08:14.360 For ten points. 08:19.650 --> 08:20.070 Yeah. 08:20.130 --> 08:21.180 Root de fray. 08:23.910 --> 08:24.490 Ouch. 08:24.510 --> 08:27.840 So hitting the queen, hitting the rook. 08:27.840 --> 08:30.420 There's no queen EF one because the rook takes F one. 08:30.630 --> 08:31.050 It's. 08:31.050 --> 08:32.070 It's brutal. 08:33.480 --> 08:36.410 I mean, Bishop takes B to queen takes. 08:36.880 --> 08:38.700 Isn't so bad for white. 08:39.270 --> 08:41.310 White can live on that for another day. 08:41.310 --> 08:43.680 But yeah, this is just winning material route D free. 08:43.920 --> 08:46.890 So now Queen one bishop takes be2. 08:47.190 --> 08:47.820 Yeah. 08:49.080 --> 08:49.980 Rook up. 08:51.940 --> 08:52.900 White resigns here. 08:52.930 --> 08:55.050 This made a big impression on me. 08:55.060 --> 08:58.630 This game, this hedgehog game for weakness, provocation at the time. 08:59.680 --> 09:08.380 It does seem as though, you know, sometimes just waiting, doing nothing really well, as I am, Ali 09:08.380 --> 09:13.690 Mortazavi would say, if you do nothing really well and the opponent can sometimes just self destruct, 09:13.690 --> 09:19.360 you can wait for the opponent to self destruct through pawn moves which look lucrative at the time, 09:19.510 --> 09:21.790 but they can cause regret. 09:22.330 --> 09:28.930 Yeah, these poor moves are a bit like yes, something you'd regret later because they're irreversible 09:28.930 --> 09:31.090 decisions of the chess board. 09:31.150 --> 09:39.490 But it was absolutely amazing how Adams is playing this game, this waiting game, creating these weaknesses, 09:39.490 --> 09:42.730 provoking literally a42 week and be free here. 09:43.180 --> 09:50.950 And then the bishop just retract so you know job done And just by moving them like 2c5 we start to see 09:50.980 --> 09:53.050 how White's position can crumble. 09:53.050 --> 09:57.400 This is essentially, you know, tactical undermining of a pawn chain here. 09:57.400 --> 10:03.340 This pawn chain here, this part of the pawn chain is in fact, if we looked at white structure, it's 10:03.340 --> 10:09.190 the only part of the pawn chains undermine basically to undermine this structure over here. 10:09.190 --> 10:10.690 We can't really undermine the structure over there. 10:10.690 --> 10:13.510 There's not really much of a structure to undermine by getting a knight. 10:13.570 --> 10:17.440 C five seems absolutely logical for this tactical undermining. 10:17.530 --> 10:22.270 So destroying C four means that this knight folks very juicy. 10:22.750 --> 10:23.080 Yeah. 10:23.080 --> 10:28.210 And if Queen E too, you know, we're just taking on B two and then taking on C fritz. 10:28.210 --> 10:29.710 It's brutal stuff. 10:30.940 --> 10:34.470 This undermines, it leads to the pieces being exposed. 10:34.480 --> 10:36.880 So Ock F seven was taken by. 10:36.880 --> 10:41.980 It's just such a gigantic position here now for black Yeah. 10:41.980 --> 10:44.440 So a really, a really intriguing game. 10:44.440 --> 10:47.710 I thought this was one of the more mysterious games of Michael Adams. 10:47.710 --> 10:49.090 Absolutely mysterious game. 10:49.420 --> 10:53.650 How he just demolished Plaskett from St Paul moves. 10:53.650 --> 11:00.100 But yeah, sometimes if we do nothing, well, we're provoking weaknesses in the opponent's camp. 11:00.140 --> 11:03.760 If we look structurally, what are the pawn chains to undermine? 11:03.880 --> 11:06.880 Maybe that can kind of influence our night moves. 11:07.030 --> 11:09.040 So go for a tactical undermine. 11:09.070 --> 11:12.190 There's a lot of lessons in my view from this one game. 11:12.790 --> 11:16.120 It's a remarkable demonstration of the power of the hedgehog as well. 11:16.840 --> 11:17.590 Okay. 11:17.590 --> 11:18.580 I hope you enjoyed it. 11:19.140 --> 11:19.990 Thanks so much.