Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Michael Adams again as the grandmaster, Daniel Khomeini.
So this is in the 2016 British Championship round ten C4 from Adams, the English opening e5g3956 Bishop
G2.
So my strategy is clear just amplify control of D five here.
That key central square we have Bishop C five Knight C three, Black Castle Knight f3d6 default E Text
four nine takes the evil.
We have rookie eight white consoles bd7b free a six.
So very hyper modern double thing Cato here.
It looks like a really pleasant position for white.
This really does seem like Adams cup of tea, even though he's been mainly an E4 player.
This looks like a very positional position where White can build up and accumulate advantages in a smooth
manner without too much controversy.
We have 95 Queen D two rugby 8d5c6 Black doesn't really want to take on D five on C tanks.
White will have opportunities later on the C file, which could be interesting to try and torture the
backward C seven pawn.
So generally Black doesn't want that kind of thing.
So we have C six instead.
Knight takes F six, check, Queen takes F six, AC one, Queen g6b4.
Bishop 87, Rook F one.
So very interesting play Here we have Bishop e69, 6e6, Queen takes e six, and now it's changing off
Black's active bishop.
The act of peace is perhaps slightly better than this B two Bishop So it's just kind of strategically
important.
Bishop exchange and it's tactically supported.
We have Bishop takes RD for if Knight takes C four, what would White play here for ten points?
So this would hit on Queen.
What do we want to do here?
Yeah, we just take on C four and then we take on a seven winning material.
So Bishop takes D for job done there and Black has a backward pawn right now on the semi-open file,
which is interesting.
Rook BD eight Rook 81 and 6a4 Queen c8h3.
So restricting that knight on a five, Queen 7e3.
Making things more solid on the e-file.
So kind of reducing potential opportunities on E finance, making white a little bit more solid here.
So slightly improving the position a little bit.
We have Rook D seven and now immediately B five.
So going for B five, Rook eight.
Queen B two rook dd eight.
Queen DD to Queen b6b take c6b to C six Queen D for wanting the exchange of Queen's Quincy seven Quincy
Frame A five.
And here, without further ado, see five.
Very interesting play.
So.
We have five.
So what is the point of this structure for weight?
That C five point.
Can be a hook for D six.
We have a move which tries to emphasize that advantage of the C five point E for trying to open up this
file.
D takes e for bishop takes E four and now rookie eight, which seems to just relinquish the default.
But there is pressure, tactical pressure here.
You know, if black played rook takes D one, there's no rook the eight because we just take it and
tack on E five So black gives up control of that default.
Is it that important?
Well, the hook of the C 5.0 D six wrote the eight and now authority on that d file rook before has
black got sufficient counterplay here we have rook one to d four not minding one pair of rooks coming
off Queen B eight King G2 avoiding any knight tricks, potentially getting the king slightly safer.
9c4 So this is an interesting tactic for sure.
Hitting the rook.
So if rook takes that, there are tactics here.
Which needs to be considered.
But the point actually goes in, it seems, with one of Black's tactics If Rook DD seven, then there's
95.
And unless Adams finds the better move, this will be a repetition.
But Rook here, for example, Rook takes this position.
White does have an advantage as well, if that happened.
But no, there's a different way of playing this after Knight.
See full here.
Adams just welcomes a further exchange.
We have Rook take C4.
So this welcomes Rook takes E four.
You might think.
Hang on.
Isn't black getting this pressure on a four?
So rook takes E for Rook takes E four.
And this is a really interesting moment actually.
Move for 89.
Adams actually plays an inaccuracy, which works out super well.
Queen F3 is played.
It turns out here that Queen takes a five looks simple and strong and it is after King H seven, for
example, Queen Bee six.
These are very, very dangerous positions for black.
White has a huge advantage here.
This is a winning endgame story of the Queen's come off.
So this is a great way of playing it.
But we have queen free instead, which is technically inaccuracy, but it provokes a huge mistake.
Rook takes a form.
Better would have been rook e five just letting C six go and sure, white's still better, but there's
a bit of work to do here.
This position.
There's a bit of work to do.
From here, for example, why it might be better, but it's going to be difficult.
But with Rook takes a for everything is made easy.
Now, maybe this is a total miscalculation based on the rook being a tempo gainer, an attractive,
unprotected piece as a tempo gainer.
But Adam plays a really precise move here.
So for 200 points, what would you play here?
It kind of is a knockout blow here at move 40.
So what do you think that is?
And yeah, we've got potential authority on that default to make use of.
But if we can amplify that default authority with something else.
So what do you think that move is?
Yeah, we can we can amplify it.
We've actually made in France.
So Queen de frizz the knockout blow.
It threatens the eight.
So if the queen flees is actually makes.
We've also covered an escape square.
So it ends the game just ends the game, you know Queen before there is checkmate.
Perhaps the expectation was the prediction was of Queen RD one In the case of Queen RD one.
You know, the dual threats here of Rook DD eight and Queen takes a four can be adequately met.
Can you see how black and adequately meet these queen before as possible and if Rook S.C six then Queen
E four Check this position with Brooks C four is going to be about even actually.
But yeah this is a knockout blow queenly for based on that possession of default.
So yeah, tactics flow from superior positions, as Bobby Fischer said, and this is kind of a lethal
tactic using that superior default control.
Wow.
So move 40.
Yeah some missed opportunities there.
So Rook takes a four was a big mistake.
Yeah.
Rookie five would have been a big improvement, it seems.
But also, you know, Adams could have just taken on a five here with a big advantage, it seems so.
Yeah.
Very interesting stuff.
Very interesting that Adams is using the English opening.
So usually being an E four player, the English opening for us lesser mortals does seem to be a lot
less opening theory to have to manage.
And if we get good looking double think at our positions like this, why not these?
These look like great looking positions to increase positional advantages and based more play on just
simple things, like more simple things like pawn structure and fouls and better pieces.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed this one and so much.