Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Michael Adams again, just in turn.
This is in the 2016 British Championship round six.
So E four from Adams.
We have E, five, three nine, C six, Roy Lopez, Bishop b586, Bishop eight four.
So this is standard.
Roy Lopez so far so rookie one here B five.
Bishop Be free.
D six.
C free Black castles.
h89b8.
So this is a favorite variation of Magnus Carlsen, this Knight retreat, trying to improve that knight
So default knight bd7.
So a positional play in the opening there from Black Knight, BD seven.
Bishop B seven.
Bishop C to Rookie Eights.
Knight have won Bishop F eight so this seems pretty standard so far.
Knight G Free Knight.
So G six is played.
So that prevents Knight of five.
We have a four and now Knight B six, B three.
B takes a four, B takes a four.
A five.
Black has achieved actually in slightly softening the C four square.
Now we see Bishop D freeing Quincy St and this shows there might be interest in trying to exchange off
the line square.
Bishop Later we have Bishop G five for the moment, Bishop G seven, Queen C one, which shows interest
in exchanging off the Dart Square Bishop.
So we have actually in this position Bishop C six looking at a four.
This Bishop drops back to protect a 4.47 and now Bishop B three, D five.
So a lot of central tension we have Knight takes E 519, takes five, D takes Bishop takes E five,
and now four.
We have Bishop G seven, E five.
So is Adams pushing his pawns too far?
Here we have Rook B eight, Queen DD two.
On the bright side, it looks as though D falls a nice square.
This bishop's kind of locked in at the moment.
Queen dd seven.
Queen dd four.
And here, instead of improving the worst piece for black, Black plays a kind of anti positional threat,
I would call it C eight.
This actually worsens Black's position it's anti positional it seems the more dynamic treatment 9c4
has a lot going for it to hit the bishop like this.
So as example if one takes on C four it opens up that improves that piece.
And this is adequate for black more than adequate.
It's even or even a tiny bit worse for white because G five black's going to get the pawn back with
bishop takes e five.
So yeah, this is actually absolutely fine for black.
So C four would have been the positional approach to play basically a pawn sacrifice, a temporary one
pawn sacrifice, if not e four instead.
White can do this little trick 94 but nine takes E five and let's say nine of six check.
This position looks a little bit scary, but a free check and then queen takes h free.
So black's not been terminated on the dark squares.
Black actually can manage the draw this dynamically.
This is very dynamic now Bishop text is absolutely important.
So say Queen E free.
So tying down the rook to e eight Queen G free check Black has a perpetual check bailout here if one
ever.
Puts the king towards the centre.
Then Bishop RD seven Frightening rookie eight.
So yeah, this is actually entirely a plausible variation for Black.
This is the disaster for white.
So it's completely plausible to play like this on 94, 94, to play nine times e five.
It may be, you know, this kind of thing is actually rather deep, though.
This is actually a rather deep, you know, tactic here.
So maybe this explains why, you know, 94 wasn't really entertained that much.
Because of 94.
That's a more critical move.
Trying to you know, Fretilin might have six and use the undermine which looks unpleasant of C4 but
98 blacks on a back foot here, especially after Bishop de one because it's almost as if the queen is
being threatened to be checkmated with Bishop G.
And, you know, black tends to be like rookie six.
An F six is now a disaster move.
Total disaster move if rugby to just to show the threat first Bishop G4 What is black actually do with
the Queen?
Black has the place of Ignite rookie six White can just simply take on E six with a big advantage or
even more accurate can actually just play here five and yeah blacks in a really bad way.
Now you know this position on H six check bishop takes and then finally take on E six after doing damage
the blacks King there was in this position there is Bishop B seven to vacate C six so this position
is more favorable for white.
It looks really good here.
F five is also very nice for white.
Bishop three This looks really nice for white as well.
This situation is very pleasant indeed for white, so but f six is a disaster move because Bishop takes
F six.
Yeah, not e takes f six.
If we play E takes, we're just going to drop the rook.
That's not very clever.
So f6 we have the idea is Bishop takes F six and the tactic in between Bishop G four which protects
this rook on E one and hits the Queen Blacks in big trouble.
Now we have Queen E seven.
If Bishop takes E five, then here Rook takes E five.
And this situation Rook e one is super powerful immediate authority from the E four immediately threatening
Bishop E six.
This is extremely nasty.
This situation.
White's just clearly better winning the exchange there.
So Queen E seven is tried, but now this leaves a nasty pawn in F six, which can help make the king
so black does get two rooks for the Queen.
But this is the wrong kind of position for this kind of thing.
After King have two with tempo on the rook as well.
So the rook goes.
And now, yeah.
The thing is, I mean, what does black do?
C eight would be hanging if the other goes to B one to protect this rook.
So the rook goes back.
But now Queen C five is end of game.
Black has to resign.
If Rook be six, the point would be Bishop takes C eight to lure the rook away from E seven and then
we go into E seven threatening a nasty queen G seven checkmate.
Which there's nothing really black can do, only delay things with one.
Does black defend the mate?
So yeah, this actually ends the game.
If Bishop eights queen take C seven and again what is black doing about Queen G seven?
These rooks are just too slow to do anything to counter things here.
It doesn't matter this x ray defense.
Can you see what white plays?
Five points?
Yeah.
Point place F seven check here and just queens.
So it's all pretty crushing of the Queen C five.
Yeah, absolutely crushing.
Wow.
So yeah, it seems as though black by playing Knight, she started to get in trouble actually, instead
of nine four because of this Bishop D one, the super powerful Bishop D one and F six makes things even
worse.
So leaving this super dangerous pawn, this tactical pin doesn't work.
It leaves work with this fantastic pawn on F six.
Yeah, it's tactics and positional play Coming together is absolutely devastating.
So the final possession Queen five.
Yeah.
Very, very interesting game.
I hope you got some points from this.
Sometimes we've got to make sure we don't damage our pieces.
So anti positional threats to be aware of like 98 anti positional frightened away when the dynamic temporary
pawn sacrifice was the much better option okay and so much.