Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Michael Adams playing against Kelly Allen.
This is in 2016 British Championship round two.
So we have E four.
We have a sin in defense from and Adams plays 93.
E six.
We have d4c text e49 times 349c69, C three, Quincy, seven and F four.
We have a six.
And now note take C, six, B take C six.
Bishop D three.
D five.
Now it's interesting.
Already a positional decision of what not to play is important.
So what would you play here and what wouldn't you play here?
This is an interesting positional test.
For 100 points.
Adams Castles is important not to give Blackley five square.
If we played E five Black, I'd start with C five with the idea of reinforcing the D five pawn in order
to facilitate 986 to F five.
So as example, be free Bishop B seven reinforces D five and Black now is in a position to play 96 and
often light F five.
Yeah, there's no problem if white takes you know there's no D five problem and this gives H five for
black and blacks should be fine here.
Absolutely.
Even so, the way Adams is playing is not giving in to playing the temptation of E five.
We have native six Queen E to Bishop e seven.
So now that nine is committed, it's even more tempting to play e five with tempo, but it's not played
yet.
If Black had tried D takes E for disposition, well Bishop e seven white can play be free here and this
is a nice advantage.
So Bishop e seven, Bishop D two Black castles.
Look 81, Rook e eight.
Now, you might wonder, what about this tactical check?
Yeah.
This is not afforded by the position.
If black wins that pawn rook be one.
There's tempo.
Gain is here.
Rook, be free This position now E five and look at the soft spot H seven.
We can actually exploit this with nightfall, with tempo, getting the rook ready to use the h file.
And for example here c four is really good.
So we're threatening, potentially to trap the Queen with Bishop Efrain.
Yeah.
C4 shields, the Knights from the Queen.
And now we're ready for Bishop Ephraim.
If Bishop see five, we can play this and actually win.
The Queen with Bishop takes age seven, check and rotates free.
It's a world of pain.
Basically, if we go back here instead of Queen four, If Queen a seven, then White can just take on
H seven and get a vicious attack after F five, especially F six.
This really amplifies the attack.
And you can see how dangerous it is for blacks.
KING Safety.
So there are some attacking implications here.
Bishops hg7 is winning in this position.
If Rook takes g seven, this is an absolutely winning attack.
Queen G eight here rotates F seven starting to win material.
So yes, it's too dangerous, basically in a nutshell to play Queen Bee six shank.
But that kind of stuff needs to be factored in.
We have rookie eights and now actually King H won.
So sidestepping any problems with Queen Bee six, g6b free Bishop F eight.
And now actually rook our free.
This does look like attacking chess but there's a positional spin on this.
So e 597 we have H 495.
And here we get h five.
So this is really interesting.
It's going to use potentially.
Now the C foam, this is an interesting decision.
C takes D free to try and use the C file.
And we do have a backward pawn on this C file.
So if we can get control of C five, that would be really good in this position, despite the looks
of things that we wanted to go for the attack, we can play on both sides of the board here.
So.
C five Rook H three.
This is a favorite of Alexander Alekhine's play on both sides of the board.
We have Bishop B seven and now 94.
So setting problems on both side of the board, pressure points on both sides.
So we have Rook, AC eight, perhaps black.
Should have played C-4 to try and liberate the bishop.
And if one ignores it, this position H takes F thanks D takes.
There's some structural damage there.
And here White still is better, though.
Even if this happened, White still is a bit better.
So anyway, rook ain't rook c 127 so black is strained on that.
C five points and we have bishop E free putting more strain on and provoking default which fixes black
structure now.
So this seems to be like a cozy square in front of that pawn.
We have Roxy seven Bishop H for putting strain on C five again pushing the Queen's f eight Queen G4
Now strain on this side of the board we have five.
This is a bit of a mistake, but it's getting difficult here for black.
If C four this would be a strange move to play but so black does play like this.
Bishop E4 is a benefit.
And yeah, here white does have an edge, but it might be better than the game continuation.
Black has some activity, but white is better, but F5 is a bit passive.
Now we have Queen G five.
So yeah, very interesting.
Queen G fiber.
We have G takes H five if Bishop eight, then we're just going to take on G six.
And this is going to be better if Queen F seven we're going to take on C five.
Yeah.
Blacks under pressure on both sides of the board.
You know, winning a pawn over here is quite nice.
For example, here it's going to be nice for white.
So G tanks is played rook g free king Queen takes h five, queen F seven.
And yeah, this is kind of admitting defeat, but there is a huge amount of pressure here with Queen
H five looking at e a there's a continual concern about night 65 and one of the queen leaves.
We're going to take on the E.
So blacks under real pressure here.
And there's also king side concerns and there's also concerns of rook takes g74 for Bishop f6.
So this looks like a desperate looking.
It's a desperate looking move.
Queen F seven it drops.
A pawn won't just takes on F seven.
It doesn't mind taking out C five.
And there's still pressure on both sides of the board.
Here we have Rooks eight and just takes that.
Bishop takes A now knight B six, Bishop b79c4, Bishop C six.
So it's a pawn up, but it's not over yet.
So Rook C seven.
King H two.
King G eight.
Bishop D eight.
Ruini seven.
Bishop B six.
King H eight Rook Free King Rook G Freaking H eight.
And then Bishop D eight.
So this is really kind of tactically annoying.
Now, there are various ways to go here.
The path of maximum resistance does seem to be the move.
H six In this position, however, Black seemed to play a kind of resigning move, in effect giving
up the exchange with rook tanks d eight allowing Knight of seven check.
And before we get into that, that is losing the exchange.
Let's have a look around here for a moment.
If Bishop D five Bishop h4, let's take this position with H five as a plan.
This isn't too hot.
There's now a knight B six to take on D five.
And you can see that the bishop is controlling D eight.
So this is really quite painful.
If 96 hare, Bishop D eight Rook G six and E six is on the big trouble.
So this position is absolutely winning now, but H six offers a bit of resistance.
Funnily enough, if for example here kh7 and this pawn is immune, if we take this pawn there's rook
takes D six and we're only ending up unless we want to lose two pieces, which is not good.
We play this and we end up in a position which is going to be very difficult to win with opposite kind
of bishops.
However, for in this position a sort of bishop takes the E4.
If B four although white is technically better, there's quite a significant amount of work to do in
this position.
It's not so clear how to proceed from here.
So this by far and away was the best way for Black's player.
Black has the Bishop Hare to fight to keep the fight going, and this tactical reliance on Rook takes
these six so D4 isn't so easy to take out.
So that would have been the best resistance.
But yeah, Black actually just gave up the exchange and after this it's not particularly convincing
how Black's staying on the board.
So be for care.
Fight cage free King E eight Rook takes age seven.
Yeah.
This isn't particularly good looking position for black.
So Rook eight Bishop takes a two.
Might be some king of 7c5.
So that shows the B four pawn A five.
And now, yeah, this looks as though, well, it's black.
And to get another dangerous pawn.
What do we play here To crush all the counterplay for ten points move 50.
Yeah, we just take out that bishop because we're getting now an outside passport and this is absolutely
a winning position.
So a six, seven, eight, seven, eight, eight, eight free end of game.
If bishops see sex, then as simple as I will be, just like be free.
Now he can just go and take the RD for -- and we're absolutely going to be winning.
This is going to be a one way road to victory from here.
So an interesting game, some positionally, interesting decisions, interesting playing on both sides
of the board, a bit of a positional game and attacking game.
If you think about it, it's playing on both sides of the board.
But yeah, Black was under pressure, severe pressure and starts to make concessions to go into even
worse possessions.
So I hope you got some points from this game so much.