Hi there.
In this lecture, we see George Botterill, a British international master, playing against Anatoly
Karpov in the 1971 Hastings tournament.
Round three, we see DD four from bottom.
We have 956c4, E, six, nine, ten 3d59, C three, Bishop E seven, Bishop G five and comp of castles
E three, H, 6h4 and B six.
The task of variation.
We have Bishop takes F six.
I won't giving up the dance quo.
Bishop We have C takes d5e Thanks, Bishop e2.
And here Karpov doesn't go well.
He can't really go for ac5 in this situation.
He plays Bishop B seven.
He's kind of over protecting the central squares, his moves next few moves try and intensify the pressure
on the center.
And we see why.
Castling Rookie eight So this move is looking at the center.
So this naturally supports an outpost later this kind of move.
If more pressure and security around the e four square we have be4 being played.
So it was actually an interesting decision that Karpov doesn't actually go for the hanging pawns, which
is often a use of the task duration to get a more dynamic kind of pawn structure sometimes.
So it's interesting, this decision here is letting White actually clamped down now against C five.
We have a six, Queen B frame Queen DD 692 and now Knight C six.
This actually has quite interesting prospects this night for kind of using the E for Outpost later.
It's kind of a nifty idea, a free 97 it might if.
Knight takes the five then here.
Want to play nine times D for the tactics?
The tactics are in Black's favor, whatever happens because that pen against the bishop.
So what does White do?
White doesn't really want this position.
He takes f sex queen sex f sex.
He sex.
That's that's good for black as well.
So that -- really shouldn't be taken.
So we have a free 97 bishop free and 88 G for an L 95.
So the knight is heading for that outpost square e for Quincy to g six night be free rookie seven Rook
81 and now Queen E six.
So this vacates these six for the night to reroute and head for an outpost square 9196 And you could
say at this moment there's an element of it looks like everything's coordinated kind of over protecting
this central square.
Quite a lot of things apart from the bishop, which can't it's on a dark square, dark square bishop.
But most of the black pieces are centrally coordinated.
So we see 93 Queen F five pinning the knight and hitting the bishop.
Bishop drops back, but now, gee, five, this is very interesting.
So it looks as though with this kind of over protection cop was actually playing some attacking moves.
Now, believe it or not.
So Queen be free 94 and a four and h5h3.
Bishop G seven.
And this unlocks the potential of the f pawn A five, Queen e six.
So the f pawn is now able to go to f five.
We have a four.
Queen D six is played here.
So the scrutiny on G three which could be dangerous for blank.
And we have rook f one if rook c one this is a bit tricky.
Then there's 92.
That knight outpost is not just pretty, it's also functional for King, Queen and Rook there.
And if B five, this is also a kind of another fork coming up here after Bishop takes a four queen takes
a 490 C free.
So the Outpost Knight has various tactical implications.
The tactics are flowing from an element of positional play here that the Knight outpost so Rook f one
is played.
Rook d You can see that Black's setup is geared towards the e four square.
It's a natural way of organizing pieces just overtakes a key central square.
We have Knight C three, king h H this vacates g eight which could be useful later.
B five If Knight takes e four here D takes this position, this Bishop D five black should be fine.
For example, H for Bishop takes E four, H takes g h takes g B tanks and it's simplifies, but actually
black should be absolutely fine.
So B five he thinks nine takes B five and we have Queen H six, 9c3 that's taken Queen six, which spins
the B pawn.
And so now B takes to the old things on the queenside queen takes a five.
Interesting situation with Queen takes a five.
This might actually be a little mistake if rook a one instead it gets very exciting.
Here's a flavor of things.
You know, Black could play aggressively on the kingside and so it doesn't really look like a Karpov
game in the classic positional play sense.
But yeah, black is justified to try and attack here and it can get really, really hairy.
This is just a fictional situation which can end up being just about okay for White.
Because of Black's kind of exposed weaknesses in Black's camp, and White would actually be up to 97
years.
It's it's chaos, but White is actually better here just to take this fictional scenario a bit more
to take it.
The investigation of this this line a bit more if king of fate, that would be the best move.
If Rook takes e seven, we can see that white can exploit the vacuum of wing says this is just crushing.
Or if bishop takes e seven again Queen G six check and here actually rookie five for a lawnmower mate
pattern.
You can see that Black's king is exposed in this variation and this is just winning lots of material
for white.
So if we have this hairy situation, King Fe is the best and white ends up with a small edge.
At least.
For example, Rook takes eight, Queen takes nine times H for Bishop, takes D for King G to see five
queen bee free Check.
White has a small edge.
So I just wanted to demonstrate basically in a nutshell, that Rook one has something going for it.
It does seem there's a potential vacuum of weaknesses in Black's camp, which sometimes could could
be in another another day, perhaps exploited.
So let's get back to the game, though.
So in the game, Queen takes a five was played C six, rook B one.
And now Karpov is going for the attacker, bh4g4.
And guess what he plays here.
So you might find this game kind of strange.
You know, Karpov is having to attack is he has got the backward pawn, he has got a kind of bad pawn
structure in.
Way on the queen side.
So he's got to get the balance back against Wayne's King.
So what would you play here for?
100 points.
Yeah.
F5.
Yeah, this is great move.
We have G tanks, F five if F three.
Let's see.
F tanks.
G four.
fg4.
Queenly six.
And we can look forward to something here.
For example, this situation.
We've got pressure on the backward acorn.
And overall, black has a small edge.
So, yes, it could end up like that.
So G tanks is planed and we have bishops eight rook baits and our bishop takes out five queen, eight
Queen G six might be fun.
Bishop D seven we have rook takes eight rook times eight Queen bee seven rookie seven rook C one.
So it looks as though this is a minority attack story, right?
Well, yeah.
Karpov is having to balance against the king.
He plays in our G four and it is really dangerous for white.
We have Rook S.C six being tried.
We have Queen Bee one check.
Yeah, this is a pin against the Queen Bee.
One is really interesting.
Bishop F one and now G takes H three, it turns out here.
That actually Jeffrey has something going on for it.
As example, if F takes, then there's seven and what to do about F one Queen Bee five.
Then we can say on C six and this position, then we can look at E freight plants got a raging attack
winning material in some lines.
So this is hopeless for white.
So it seems G three was actually rather dangerous.
If Queen Bee eight check rookie eight Queen at four G takes F to check.
And now if King takes F two, there's rook and of after rook have six takes, We're winning the queen.
And the thing is, if queen takes F to rook her fate this position just bishop take C six is winning
material.
We've got up to 966 Queen G six coming up to win material.
It's crushing.
So yeah.
G Free does seem quite crushing, but G Text is also very dangerous.
We have Queen Bee five if Queen Bee eight check Rocky eight.
This position.
Bishop take C six.
And we're just winning material here because of this bouncy queen.
Queen.
Sex check to win.
See?
Sex.
So.
Yeah, it's it's interesting.
So Queen Bee five was played but now rookie six which gives the option of a very dangerous option sometimes
well taking in ag6 check.
We have Queen Bee.
Check if it takes D five, then Queen G six check picks up that rook.
So Queen bee eight check Rookie eight, Queen DD six.
And now guess what ends the game.
Yeah.
At ten points.
So attacking G eight and in the game if Queen takes D five as an example, Bishop E five check cuts
the king from H two.
So there's a tech check.
And if King H one, we're just taking on f one.
And if queen takes G check, that doesn't help because this position, the queen is much better than
two pieces.
But also we're winning one of the pieces like this.
King takes queen takes F one.
So, yeah, an interesting game where it seems to George Powell's credit, he did create something on
the queenside and he forced Karpov to attack his king to maintain the balance and chances.
Yeah, the king was kind of subject to attack and there was a kind of over protection strategy.
You could see that black was over protecting a key central square, which led to good things after.
So an interesting example.
It reminds me of early nimzowitsch games with over protection then going for the attack.
So Nimzowitsch was also a kind of attacker quite often after establishing positional advantages.
So that's the key thing.
The positional attacking player has a lot more emphasis on doing the groundwork before getting the attacks.
But yeah, here it's like it's absolutely great for Black, this final position after which he is crushing
stuff.
Okay, so I hope you enjoyed this one.
This is another side of Karpov.
He can go for over protecting key central squares, followed by attacking chess.
Okay.
Thanks so much.