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In this lecture, we see a classic minority attack example.
So minority attack is basically a plan to amplify weaknesses, making use of a semi-open file.
So we see Karpov against Leibovich in 1999, the Norris Tournament, Round six.
We have D four Nice f6c4e69c3d5.
C takes D five.
So why is getting out of the opening a semi-open C file?
And we have Bishop G five, C six, you might argue.
Well, Black's got also a segment file.
That's true.
But because the king is on the kingside, it's more difficult for black to make use of that.
Or it has to be with great caution because White's attack on the queenside comes in quite quickly.
Sometimes we see IDH, Free Knight, BD seven, Bishop D Free Bishop E, seven, Queen, C2, Black
Castles Knight, Our Free Rookie eight.
And our White Castle's kingside knights have eight Rook AB one.
So the classic minority attack aims to cause structural damage like this where there's a backward pawn
on the C for and isolate pawn.
Here we see 94 and Karpov welcomes simplification.
So it's a bit like Capablanca not minding simplification.
So Queen size e7b4 we see a six, a45 and now 95 we see Rook add eight and C one and here 9g6.
Black has careful not to create weaknesses were pawns.
So once to address this pesky knight of 96 we have Bishop takes e for Bishop takes e four, knight takes
e four and now D takes e four.
If Knight takes E five, white can play Knight RD two and in this situation can go along with B five
to cause structural issues for black.
So this position B takes, let's assume B takes as a way of minimizing the damage.
But rook be seven.
We get access to the seven Frank and we can start using that seven Frank and use the C five square.
So that's a nice big positional advantage emerging.
So D tanks is tried, but now Knight takes not afraid of simplification for B five hair.
So it looks like quite a clear example actually of minority attack in action.
We have C takes a takes rook D six if eight times b five we can play Rook takes B5 with pressure on
the poor B seven pawn so we can double here treble on B seven.
And let's say this situation emerges.
We can even have the exchange of queens and we just have a nice advantage here.
After h four are King can later make use of the dark squares in this scenario, as well as keeping the
rooks tied down to B seven.
And later we will have ample opportunities, for example, to undermine the pawn chain with the pressure
also on F five here as well as B seven.
So Rook d6 is played, we have B takes and this leaves an isolated a pawn.
If rook takes a six queen C five.
This situation is nice.
For example, we get a situation with G four and black's tied up and then we start moving on.
King Taking care of that Black doesn't enter our second rank.
This situation makes sure that there's no G five for sure, and we can just start making progress like
this and undermine even the E four pawn with rookie five.
So this would be a great way of celebrating things.
So yes, there's more than one weakness actually in the black position.
That variation shows that E four is sometimes weak.
So B sex is played.
We have Queen A four now Queen D seven.
You might think, what is going on here?
One is black, one exchange off if Rook Iida, how would we proceed?
Well, we can actually use the C five square and for example, H three just make for the king for the
moment and then look at E four.
We're threatening things like rookie five.
If Queen E eight, we don't need to go for rookie five this rookie six we can play rugby seven though
and here E four will drop off and if black plays rook D seven and sorry instead of rook d seven.
If black just ignores the seven Frank, we build up on seven Frank and here rookie seven to try and
trying to drag the Queen away from F seven And this situation if we break through like this black doesn't
have enough time with.
The pawn of the queen takes E for Queen E seven, as example, Black could get mated well before the
a pawn has a chance.
So very interesting situation.
So Queen dd seven obliges.
So here, rook five Rook seven rookie, five King of eight, Rugby six.
So black is passive H for preparing potentially a king walk on the dark squares.
We have King seven.
King H two.
King D seven.
King G Free.
King C seven Rook goes back.
Rook B seven Check King rook a two rook E seven.
And now King A four strain has been put on E four as well.
King B seven.
We have rugby to check.
King A seven, C six, eight.
ROOK two.
And this is winning material, basically.
This is quite brutal now.
Yeah, Black was under extreme pressure in any case.
So after Rook two, we have a five routines.
H four check.
We just play King G free.
And this is quite vicious for the E seven Rook is a liability here.
And the thing is we can play rook D six check and drag the king down the board until the king is mated
as an example.
So, okay, a five is tried dropping a five.
This is bad news.
Rogue ca6.
So black gets the pawn back.
You might think, yeah, it is bad because look e seven is an unprotected piece.
We have rook h five rook seven check king C six look 5286 King B five.
Trying to hold tactically on for a bit longer, but Karpov obliges.
Rook takes E seven We have rook G five check Kings two.
King takes a six and off the rook takes F seven.
Black just resigned.
This game was smooth without too much play counterplay from the opponents.
If King B five, we're going to take another pawn and then we're going to play King G one as example
for G three to activate our king, we're two pawns up and as example here, as soon as the rook moves,
we can play G for King G free check and win another pawn.
It's all crumbling for black.
So this was a really quite clear example of some of the dangers of minority tack, especially with simplification.
There's enough to be winning in endgames in Rockhampton and endgames.
It's a very, very dangerous strategy.
So resulting from the Queen's Gambit declined exchange variation.
So this might actually boost our interest in playing the Queen's Gambit generally because we we can
rethink what we're doing here.
This is quite a clear variation with an idea of a clear structure called the Coles Band structure.
So we're getting this Coles band structure, which sometimes can be pretty bad, you know, So we're
going to undermine and use the semi file and or classic rugby one.
This structural undermining plan has great benefits to it, which we see in many examples in this course.
To reinforce this theme, it's a great theme in the minority attack for actually going out of your way
to create weaknesses, not wait for weaknesses to emerge from the opponent's bad play.
But just from the opening, it seems, you know, this has the seeds of destruction, if you play it
correctly, this minority attack for the black possession.
So, yes, a wonderful, clear minority attack game example.
I hope you enjoyed this one.
Hence your much.