WEBVTT 00:00.840 --> 00:01.540 Hi there. 00:01.560 --> 00:05.400 In this lecture, we see a fascinating game of Michael Adams against David Coleman. 00:05.520 --> 00:07.280 So I've played David Coleman on occasion. 00:07.290 --> 00:09.390 He's a very strong player in Harte's League. 00:09.390 --> 00:11.550 So this is in 1999. 00:11.670 --> 00:13.500 British Championship, round two. 00:13.530 --> 00:16.020 So E four for Michael Adams. 00:16.020 --> 00:23.400 We have c56 in Defence, 93, 96 now 93 and here black plays E five. 00:23.580 --> 00:28.320 So this does weaken the light squares about these pawns on dark squares. 00:28.530 --> 00:34.230 And we have Bishop C, four, D, 6d3, Bishop E seven. 00:34.650 --> 00:38.340 And now this is a bit of a risky move, actually. 00:38.340 --> 00:43.080 Adams plays a move which doesn't seem entirely appropriate. 00:43.290 --> 00:46.040 95 It is a bit of a risk. 00:46.050 --> 00:48.150 Bishop e seven is designed against this. 00:48.150 --> 00:56.100 Really Another way which might be much sounder and good positioning is 92 just to try and tap into the 00:56.100 --> 01:03.530 light squares more so for example, might have 69f1 and we can reroute the knight after three. 01:03.540 --> 01:09.690 We play the knight to E three and this should be a nice advantage for white positioning. 01:09.690 --> 01:11.780 But here, yeah, it's a bit of a risk. 01:11.790 --> 01:18.000 95 we have black taking off the Queen H five Black just plays Bishop E seven. 01:18.810 --> 01:21.450 This is not checkmate or anything. 01:21.450 --> 01:22.680 Queen takes F seven. 01:23.100 --> 01:26.630 Now, if Black had taken on C one then sure, Queen takes F seven is checkmate. 01:26.640 --> 01:30.480 But here Adams is a little bit in trouble, it seems, in the opening. 01:31.650 --> 01:37.010 Because technically blacks should be able to be a piece up for not too many pawns. 01:37.020 --> 01:38.550 Queen X have seven check. 01:38.640 --> 01:40.800 King D seven Queen takes G seven. 01:41.130 --> 01:45.870 It is difficult to play with the king in the center, though in the practical sense. 01:46.590 --> 01:49.980 But is there actually enough compensation for white sacrifice? 01:49.980 --> 01:50.550 Peace. 01:50.550 --> 01:56.880 We see night of six now white castles h5a free and now Rook eight seven. 01:57.210 --> 01:58.530 Queen G five. 01:58.680 --> 02:02.610 Queen H eight Black is organizing quite well at the moment. 02:04.140 --> 02:08.100 If Black had tried Night takes E four by the way, hitting the queen. 02:08.100 --> 02:10.560 There's queen have five check and picking up the rook. 02:10.560 --> 02:15.870 So Queen H very good so far from David Coleman B four we have 94. 02:15.870 --> 02:18.000 Black is in the driving seat right now. 02:18.900 --> 02:20.160 If C takes b4. 02:20.190 --> 02:25.920 This is also a good move for Knight takes B four and here of the Queen D two let's say the knight goes 02:25.920 --> 02:27.930 back and four is tried. 02:28.350 --> 02:31.050 There's still not enough compensation here. 02:31.050 --> 02:40.290 It seems black should be technically fine here but after 94 Queen d2h4 we have four. 02:40.290 --> 02:46.050 So Adams is trying to undermine in a hyper modern fashioned black central construction with bonus points. 02:46.050 --> 02:49.890 The king is in the center as well, so it's not that easy for black. 02:49.890 --> 02:51.000 In this position. 02:52.170 --> 02:58.800 We have e tanks and for perhaps a better bet would be trying to go for White's king. 02:58.800 --> 03:03.180 So if g free Queen g seven there is pressure on White's king here. 03:03.180 --> 03:09.150 So as example B take C five 9 to 5 and it starts to look dangerous with the form pawn. 03:09.270 --> 03:16.710 So queen have to e takes her for bishop, takes her for nine, takes four, Queen takes her four queen 03:16.710 --> 03:24.210 G five black should be fine here with advantage but E takes her four is played Rook takes her for nine 03:24.210 --> 03:29.250 take five, rook f two and here it is a difficult to play position. 03:29.250 --> 03:31.260 These pieces are not in the game. 03:31.260 --> 03:33.540 You know Black isn't a supercomputer. 03:33.540 --> 03:37.410 The king is still in the center and the pawn chains been undermined. 03:38.310 --> 03:40.320 And White's got that authority on the floor. 03:40.320 --> 03:47.550 So White has certain aspects of authority in this position, and it is curious how Black's position 03:47.550 --> 03:49.680 can disintegrate so easily from here. 03:51.000 --> 03:54.450 It looks as though Black's at least got a good night on D4 right now. 03:54.570 --> 03:59.430 And yeah, the attacking prospects are limited without these guys. 03:59.430 --> 04:03.270 The rook and bishop we see Bishop F six and actually this is a mistake. 04:04.340 --> 04:08.160 It's actually getting back into the game with advantage after this. 04:08.820 --> 04:10.200 H three seems the best bet. 04:10.200 --> 04:21.060 So G Frey might have six and here blacks should be able to improve things from this position with Bishop 04:21.070 --> 04:21.540 f6. 04:21.540 --> 04:22.980 What has happened? 04:23.460 --> 04:33.920 Black has weakened D six and also provided a target now on F6 and maybe this next move was totally unexpected. 04:33.930 --> 04:37.770 There's actually two good moves here, but 95 was played. 04:37.770 --> 04:48.180 It turns out here that Bishop B two is pretty strong as well as example C tanks, eight tanks, B six 04:48.180 --> 04:50.010 white now has 95. 04:50.520 --> 04:54.300 And let's say this position white really gets authority on their file. 04:54.300 --> 04:56.160 And this is actually to White's advantage. 04:56.160 --> 05:00.810 Now, it's very dangerous for the black King, it seems now. 05:00.810 --> 05:03.000 But 95 is also interesting. 05:03.420 --> 05:11.820 Bishop e5 If knights have free check to try and win the rook, it backfires. 05:11.820 --> 05:14.940 So Rook takes a free so Bishop takes a one. 05:14.940 --> 05:15.930 There's Bishop B five check. 05:15.960 --> 05:19.290 The King and center is not helping these variations. 05:19.290 --> 05:22.320 So say King D eight now Queen G five, check. 05:22.800 --> 05:28.520 And you can see that White's got a lot of firepower on F6 and can actually just take out F six here 05:28.860 --> 05:30.360 with a big advantage. 05:31.230 --> 05:35.880 Yeah, it seems to have gone completely wrong just with Bishop six. 05:36.060 --> 05:42.150 So now we have C three and the center has been taken over in a kind of hyper modern fashion. 05:42.600 --> 05:48.150 B Take C five, we have Queen G seven, if D take C five. 05:49.320 --> 05:59.460 The funny thing here is that White has a really incredibly powerful resource. 05:59.460 --> 06:03.000 Can you see what it is for 100 points? 06:04.990 --> 06:08.110 Yeah, one can actually play D four. 06:09.310 --> 06:12.460 So c c takes let's take Bishop takes the E4. 06:12.460 --> 06:13.870 There's Bishop B to. 06:16.410 --> 06:19.830 And the thing is, because the king the king is on the defile. 06:20.400 --> 06:22.620 What is black actually doing here? 06:22.650 --> 06:25.470 These these lines are all super dangerous for black. 06:25.500 --> 06:29.280 If Bishop takes me to sinks is double check. 06:30.510 --> 06:38.790 So the king has to move and then actually queen before check King of seven, Queen takes be two and 06:38.790 --> 06:47.580 white dominates the position of the knight takes f6 rook af16e5 white is back to dominating and getting 06:47.580 --> 06:50.220 back material crushing stuff. 06:50.760 --> 06:56.700 So yeah, there are a lot of danger points in Black's possession which make it very hard to play. 06:57.450 --> 06:58.680 So anyway. 07:00.350 --> 07:05.970 So in fact, Queen G seven was played, but now Bishop B five Chunk King D ain't divorced. 07:05.970 --> 07:07.970 So why it's really taken over the center. 07:08.280 --> 07:09.440 9f6. 07:11.070 --> 07:11.520 Okay. 07:11.520 --> 07:13.380 So interesting situation. 07:13.830 --> 07:15.510 Choice of pieces to take. 07:18.580 --> 07:19.390 Now. 07:20.050 --> 07:22.150 Yeah, 1964 is an issue. 07:22.150 --> 07:28.540 Perhaps an Adams actually takes on F six allowing Bishop takes f64, C takes D six. 07:29.320 --> 07:30.850 Look at white Center. 07:32.580 --> 07:34.950 Its mammoth, a six Bishop RD free. 07:35.580 --> 07:42.960 So black is getting pushed back all the time now and lashes out with nine takes RD for this doesn't 07:42.960 --> 07:51.180 help C takes beef deform Bishop takes RD for and now Bishop B two we have Bishop takes F to Queen takes 07:51.180 --> 07:56.910 F to white actually dominates the position here and is two pawns up one to total disaster. 07:57.180 --> 08:02.460 Bishop F six check King E five So that hits the rook. 08:02.670 --> 08:07.020 So yes, black center has been decimated and it's taken complete control. 08:07.020 --> 08:16.020 Queen RD to H five, Queen C two And now there is a fat of Bishop G six, maybe black, and time pressure 08:16.560 --> 08:17.130 just blundered. 08:17.130 --> 08:19.710 Bishop E six allowing Bishop G six end of game. 08:19.830 --> 08:21.990 The thing is about this position. 08:22.920 --> 08:27.330 Yeah, if Rook H six there's Bishop G five in any case. 08:27.510 --> 08:29.250 How is that holding up here? 08:30.450 --> 08:36.690 If Queen F eight, Rook f one and yeah, these pieces are just out of the game position. 08:36.690 --> 08:40.650 The black was kind of stuffed with the king and center and these pieces out of the game, even though 08:40.650 --> 08:46.350 engines might at some point technically like black it's it's such a difficult position earlier but this 08:46.350 --> 08:56.650 is just absolutely crushing blacks going to get checkmated here for example like this and if rook five 08:56.670 --> 08:57.540 would make it to Bishop G. 08:57.540 --> 08:59.820 Six So it's hopeless in the end. 08:59.820 --> 09:01.650 So anyway, Bishop e six. 09:02.640 --> 09:04.770 Bishop G six Black resign here. 09:04.770 --> 09:07.230 A fascinating game now. 09:07.230 --> 09:07.500 Yeah. 09:07.500 --> 09:14.310 From a human point of view, this whole sacrifice of a knight for two pawns is about how like, so a 09:14.310 --> 09:18.930 whole knight's getting one pawn, two pawns. 09:19.140 --> 09:27.960 But yes, it seems as though this structure is under mineable with both B4 and F four and manages to 09:27.960 --> 09:30.090 undermine with both of those soon. 09:30.090 --> 09:39.180 So a phrase starting the undermining process on that side of the board and extending it soon with F4 09:39.180 --> 09:40.650 on that side of the board. 09:41.520 --> 09:50.250 And yes, one mistake from black coming up really paints a very, very bad picture of the black position. 09:50.250 --> 09:51.840 Absolutely fascinating stuff. 09:51.840 --> 09:54.480 It does require precision for Black's play. 09:54.480 --> 10:00.330 This is absolutely fascinating how the center is taken over here from this position. 10:00.330 --> 10:03.750 So, yeah, a really interesting dynamic game. 10:04.350 --> 10:09.090 So one key facts, positioning the king in the center and these guys not very active. 10:09.090 --> 10:14.070 It makes it difficult to play for black fun stuff. 10:14.070 --> 10:16.710 I hope you enjoyed this one and so much.