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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Andrey Keratin off.
This is in 1988, the 55th US Championship round 1c4 from Karpov we see e69c3d5d4 knights have six,
C takes D five, E takes D five.
So this leads to the so called cold mad structure.
Quite often so Black is playing C6.
The Carlsbad structure allows the classic minority attack.
So if we think of the minority attack as a minority of pawns attacking a majority of pawns, you might
think usually don't you need the majority of pieces for the attack to be successful?
It's a structural attack.
So basically it's good to have a minority.
In a way, we've got the semi-open C file, which which makes the danger great.
If White can play A three, B four and as example, say why it was able to take on C six, why don't
we succeed in creating a backward pawn on that semi-open C file and also isolating the a pawn?
So it's about isolating and weakening pawns in general.
So even though it's a minority, it's a dangerous structural proposition.
If White can do this, we see Bishop D free Black castles, Queen two rookie, eight white castles,
nice F eight.
So H seven is securely defended by both knights here.
So even if Bishop takes the other knights holding h seven, we have h three Bishop e6 Rook fc196 to
d seven.
So offering the exchange of bishops comp off rejects that it is possible it seems to take on e seven
for advantage.
White can actually play b four here, believe it or not, and get on with the minority attack.
If Queen takes b for this situation.
Job done.
It's kind of fragmented.
Black's pawns and white's getting a certain advantage here.
Even if all the rooks came off, White's getting a nice blockade square in front of that backward pawn
and this should be a small edge for white.
So this is possible and the advantage could transform into a nice knight on D four or this situation.
So potentially Bishop takes C eight here and this situation where White's getting a much better end
game a pawn up there.
So yeah, there are interesting possibilities.
And also if Knight 57 we still got Bishop takes H seven there, so that was possible.
Bishop 6e7 we have Bishop four though, might be six, Rook A, B one and Bishop D six.
So here actually plays nicely to being able to recapture on that four nicely.
So Knight G six and now yeah, Bishop takes D six is played here, Queen takes these six and you might
think given what we've said will be four.
The thing is in this situation Black does have it's not that easy here black does have 9c4 potentially
let me put that arrow correct and C four and that will blunts White's activities there.
So actually Karpov starts with a four rook eight, Quincy five And here, yeah, this is tactically
justifiable.
It's not losing a pawn or anything.
If Queen takes one, it's going to get ad4 for the knight, but also more significantly B free winning
material, winning that knight.
So the queen goes back.
Another queen parks on a free if a five.
We can see 90 C four is a nuisance.
Be free.
If the knight gets the D six, it's holding things up against the minority attack.
It makes black more solid.
So this situation why only has a small edge.
So queen a free.
We have a six again here Knight C four could be useful for black so a six say.
And then if the knight's on D six black could consider B five here as example.
And it limits White's advantage.
This is a good defensive strategy actually.
So but A-6 was played.
We have Rook C free queen C seven rook BC one rook eight if 90 C four It does seem as though Black could
put up stubborn resistance like this.
So yeah, I mean, there are no guarantees.
This is not a losing pawn structure anything.
It is a game and it would be technically about even here.
And you can see that black's making it difficult to play B four.
So Rook eight though, was played 90 to a five here.
If Knight's F Eights, then B four.
And Queen B free does leave dangers for why four black here after B five and actually all.
So tactics flying say this position a 5.8.
Can you see what one can play here?
The tactics do flow from this as well with that backward C pawn that pressure on the C file and the
pawn is pinned, we can exploit that.
Five points.
What would you play?
Queen 65.
Yeah, that would be a tactical fruit from the positional play.
So anyway, 85 is played rook P 198 and here.
Yeah.
It's not quite a conventional minority attack.
It's one that is trying to be stopped and seeing what can we do from here.
So still it seems as though it has other advantages after might be free bishops.
If Bishop f five then White could take on F5 and this position is going to be a small edge.
So Bishop C eight we have a 590 7g3g6, Rooks goes back H five and now Rook one.
So there is a kind of still a structural attack of sorts with a six trying to weaken.
C six undermine this pawn chain.
Basically we're standard undermining in a way h4f1 bishop and five bishop E two We have 94 and now Knight
C five and here really black could have put up more resistance than what they did.
It seems.
Knights C five helps White Rook A seven was possible and for example here with 92 this position would
be a stubborn position for black to play for.
And you know, it's only about even actually.
But in the game with Knight 65 this helps Karpov significantly after queen take C five this is nice
and also D takes as nice as well because here we could go for a situation as well as hitting the h pawn.
We could ignore that for the moment.
We can actually play like this.
Just positionally forget trying to win material and just perch the knight on D four and play from this
position.
This is really nice.
So Queen takes C five though is nice as well.
Bishop E six like DD 295 Knights F eight, Queen D eight and now a six.
So trying to break down the structure B tanks undermining the structure.
If rugby eight we can see that we're going to undermine the structure and take out C six without any
fuss.
So B takes was played, rook takes a six and yeah.
And black starting to crumble here that pawn chain is crumbling under the weight of pressure.
So Queen eight if not E seven, we can actually take the time out here to take that h pawn, that cheeky
h pawn lying around.
And this is a big advantage.
Then carry on, bring them back to talk to your C six.
So Queen eight was played.
Black's getting dismantled now.
Queen C six Queen.
Thanks, Rook.
Thanks.
So yes, just to pawn down.
But White dominates the position of the Bishop de free.
Actually, Black generously resigns.
It looks as though he was under fire and threatening to basically win another pawn.
It's a very difficult position for black hair given that black is going to lose another pawn.
It's just misery that the bishop is not a great bishop.
So Black generously resigned here just to take it a bit further, you know, check.
So what?
And yeah, I mean, when it's going to be winning material for the night retreats, we can play Rook
See seven to gain a tempo.
And for example, here, just taking an H for two pawns up, there's no real counterplay for black,
so it's a very neat game.
I'll take it to that game and possession.
It's very neat game with a kind of other story of the minority.
If it's prevented, what could happen?
We still have structural goals to undermine the pawn chain, to weaken pawns.
That's the key consideration.
Weakening pawns don't get carried away by the classic concept of minority.
Take more.
The goal of it is to weaken pawns, weaken structure.
Okay, so this is quite a good illustration of the goal of minority attack and how it could be kind
of slowed down or the impact taken out in some of the variations we saw, especially with knights come
into D six.
That's a classic method to try and make the black position more solid.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed this one and so much.