Hi there.
In this lecture, we see micro atoms playing against Peter Wells.
So they're both grandmasters now.
And we see in 1990 the 14th Masters open round for E four from Adams.
P Wells plays E, 593 from Adams, 96 from Wells.
We have Bishop B five, A six bishop a four knight F six.
My castles are now B five.
So this early B five instead of Bishop E seven is interesting.
We have Bishop B seven facilitated immediately D three.
Bishop D six.
So that supports the E five pawn and kind of threatens now by supporting E five threatens 985.
So 95 here I can just take on E five.
There isn't much of a penalty.
Sure there's D five, but this position is unsound.
Four black if d take d takes in Queens come off black.
Can't possibly take on e four here Knight takes Bishop takes rookie one and it's a disaster.
Bishop moves this like G six check if F five, F three.
And this position F takes E four.
It's just winning material.
The bishops can end up being pinned after this.
This is just winning material or this is winning material.
So.
Okay.
Bishop D six And now a prevention move, Bishop D to preventing 9 to 5.
Interesting.
So the bishop lives for another day on this diagonal.
So yes, the casual H three would let black kind of equalize, it seems, with a five.
If black has the option of night takes be free white might want to play a for about nine takes be free
this is going to be equal so Bishop detour very interesting move H six and now another very interesting
move C four as if it's potentially threatening to weaken the structure here.
Black castles if B for like work around that pawn with Bishop E three So sometimes C five will be useful.
So say Queen E seven to prevent to prevent C five might be to this position might could play bishop
A four.
This might be the most accurate way of playing it.
Just allow double pawns.
I know positional players don't like double pawns, but let's just imagine this situation.
There are perks for this position with 9h4.
Now if Bishop takes e free, there's 95.
So just put that on the board.
Bishop takes e free.
There's of five forking queen and bishop and that's check.
So it doesn't matter about Bishop takes D two.
So queenly eight we just take so let's imagine here G six this is okay for one this is more than okay
White's getting an advantage so I just wanted to show really that in lines with B for Bishop E free,
this does seem to be favorable for white on bishop form.
This seems to be a very accurate way of playing it.
So anyway, black salt.
We have a frame and I'll be take see for.
So the thing is, if that ignores the C4 move, let's say rookie et y can play C3 putting more pressure
on B5 and this starts to look unpleasant.
What does White do here?
It starts to look as though there are very attractive possibilities for white.
If b for including a four where c five is going to be useful.
This B file could be useful for white later.
So oc B takes C4 is played, Bishop takes C4.
I mean, sorry.
In this variation B take C4 is probably preferable and has a small edge.
So in the game after a free B take C4 is played immediately.
We have Bishop take C4, Bishop C five.
So White still has this kind of nice bishop and this bishop's kind of blunted position.
If we think positionally here.
So once bishops are interesting and white now has this semi-open fold as well, which could be useful
like c3d6 rook C 190 4a5 might be more solid, not presenting any potential target structurally.
So h3d for this position should be stable enough for blacks should be equal.
With 94 we have Bishop E three.
And then Bishop 87 is played on Knight Takes three.
Queen takes her frame, Bishop takes E free.
Queen takes E free.
Why has the small edge hair.
Okay, so we have Bishop a seven.
Bishop a28.
And now Bishop takes the four and leaves black with a weak pawn on D four.
And you might think, Well, hold on, hold on.
C five.
Why is that bone weak?
The thing is, it's potentially weak.
We have B four and black takes on B4.
And now you might think, why dismantle the structure?
If rook c eight is one of the reasons is basically this Bishop, this position.
This bishop is better than this one.
Not only that, y can consider an advance.
Now that C four is on the lock and key, one could push the majority of pawns on this side of the board.
If we look at this side of the board, you know, there's there's a majority of pawns for white Ford
to Frey here and let's say King seven, Queen D to G three.
We can start pushing forward.
This is a nice advantage where.
Yeah, the pawns harmonious with the bishop.
Yeah.
White's got a certain attack here potential going on the king side so C takes before seems a bit dismantling
eight times before Queen B six, Queen RD 2c8h3.
Bishop c6b1.
Yeah.
This point is just lying in wait for white to amplify that weakness.
Yeah, the double pawns don't bode well.
It seems a lot of the time the opponents of Michael Adams have structural weaknesses and this situation,
there isn't too much activity compensation for this structure.
85 is hopeless.
Just B takes a five because the Queen is on D two and there's no gambit here.
This is not a gambit position that's just better for white.
So Bishop D seven, Rook fc1.
Bishop e six.
If Rook takes C, one Queen takes rookie Knights four is happening is coming reinforcing D five control.
So yes, this this is just slightly better for white.
So Bishop e six has tried pair of rooks come off and now Queen B two So white is now threatening just
taking on D four and taking out this center pawn.
So forget about going for the king.
There's interesting fish to fry around the pawn structure here, the positional players looking at pawn
structure and weaknesses.
So Bishop takes a two torture rack for positional play.
If King H eight, then let's just look at this for a moment.
Bishop takes.
There's no compensation here Queen takes D for.
Once this clearly bellow.
So Bishop takes a to queen, takes A to Queen B five, so Queen D to defending D three.
And again, what is black doing?
But black does have the A five option to dissolve at least the the a pawn.
If Queen Bee six then we're back to Queen Bee two hair and we're just going to take out the four in
broad daylight.
So a five is tried but now Knight takes the four Queen E five.
If Queen bee six, there's a five with tempo because there's a threat of 97 check.
Black would have to address that.
It doesn't want to lose the rook.
So given that's the case, if Rook eight, then there's be five points clearly under that.
So Queen E five is tried, but now not e28b4.
If a four, you might think, well, black's got a past pawn here, but so is white.
So b five, a free queen, a two and white.
It's going to be better here.
White could pick up that pawn, and this situation ends up significantly better after nine G free.
There's no real problem here.
This is an extra -- rd.
Sex is being targeted.
It's very unpleasant indeed.
So nine G is possible with with advantage.
We don't even need to take out the DD six --.
This is just clearly better for white.
So eight times B4 is played though in the game.
It's sort of a four queen size.
B4 97 if d five here there's f four and actually we can push the knight back potentially.
So 97 Queen a five.
The funny thing here is that the D pawn is the next victim, Rook b five and rook takes the five.
So 97 is played Queen D to Queen f6 six.
So you might think it's only a pawn up.
Is this really fatal, this position?
It kind of is.
D4 one is accumulating advantages move by move rook b76 and F 3.85 is trying.
This is a bad sign.
King H two white can actually play a little bit more accurately accurately, it seems, with G four
What does black do?
969g3 Big advantage for White Queen is kind of put in prison here and if D five king F two I'm pinning
so we can just that knight has to move really and then this position with e five black's getting pushed
back.
King G three as H four on the way and maintains d five big advice.
So King H two though is good D five Black tries to desperately get something going on the C two square
but now g four Adams takes the risk of this putting faith in calculations so D takes e four is played
if queen a six hitting the rook rook b two and then we could just take the knight.
This should be absolutely fine for white peace up.
So D takes here.
It's still a piece up scenario.
G takes Queen a six.
We have Rook be free on this occasion just to collect the pawn on e takes.
So E takes Rook takes her free end of game Black resigns.
Black's just a piece down here with no compensation.
So funny positional game So it was wasn't attacked.
His king wasn't attacked.
It's just a positional game against the weaknesses essentially pawn structure weaknesses.
And it can be absolutely Winning this quiet approach to winning is beautiful in its own right.
It has to be said, we don't overstretch, we don't commit our weaknesses going for the opponent's game.
We don't have to sacrifice.
We just have to play position the positional torture act for certain pawns which emerge out of the opening.
So fascinating stuff.
The d pawn vulnerable and potentially losing liability.
So just patiently patient for the moment, but the trend, the upward trends against this pawn is emerging
here.
A pair of rooks come off and we can see, well, it doesn't even matter about the delays that D pawn
is not going anywhere.
That's the key thing.
It's difficult to take these advantages away from the positional player.
It's not going anywhere.
And yeah, so even here just defending, but still that D pawn is under fire now and is given up and
there is the start of the end.
Wonderful stuff.
And on roads of course, by taking out that pawn there's access to F5.
So it's en route to getting to a juicy square potentially with the knight in any case.
But the knight goes back here.
Is a five that might give counterplay chances with D5.
So the knight goes back defensively, not minding this position.
So absolutely fascinating game from a positional perspective.
I hope you enjoyed this.
There's certain downsides which are difficult to take away from the opponent.
Can't really remove certain downsides if they're structural defects.
So playing on those downsides, it's you can get an upward trend going for those weaknesses, sometimes
getting weaker and weaker and the opponent trying to reduce their counterplay after they're a pawn down,
just squish their counterplay.
And the game could could end like that without any attack on their king.
I hope you enjoyed it so much.