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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Vladimir Sogavare in 1970.
Let's have a look.
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BD 79ge2.
And it would be nice with this movie to be able to play later.
For example, G four and Bishop G two looks very comfortable.
And then there are ideas after that like H four and G four.
Maybe it comes to G free later to support G five.
There are all sorts of ideas.
Black tries to be disruptive here with B five.
So yes, if it takes nine times E for losing that center pawn doesn't seem great for white.
If a free C six this position black has e five, and if white goes for the exchange of queens, it's
not a big deal here.
For example, here it should be about even of adopts here.
A very interesting move uses a very interesting movie e five.
So we have details.
E five.
What else if nine, G four.
Then here very strong movies, nine.
G free hitting the knight.
And if nine.
Sage six.
Can you see what white can play, which is really crushing in this position.
Yeah.
Essex.
And if Black wants to go really badly wrong, Black would take her and off the bishop takes h6.
Black could end up being mated.
So it's very, very dangerous stuff anyway.
Takes was played.
We have D takes E five and cop off gets black to lose Casting Rights Exchange of Queen's Night takes
B five.
Also, the pawns are a little bit weak, but it's hard to exploit these.
One of the bigger features is the King.
Actually, it's combined with the weaknesses.
Here we have a six night BD for.
Bishop be seven.
Bishop four.
We have 96 White Castles now.
Queenside we have kingside eight.
Yes.
So if Knight takes F4 white plays for ten points, what would you play?
Yeah.
There's the crushing 96 check.
This is the most crushing.
It's mating by force.
If Kingsgate wrote the chap Mate f King, 667 is chap mate.
So yes, that would be the way to go.
96 check.
So that's the most accurate.
And yeah, you might be thinking, well, what about 96?
Check, That's not as good.
What if Kinky ain't here?
What you play?
There's no meat there.
So kinky.
Eight.
We have Bishop dropping back.
E sex might be free.
And this gives the idea that maybe white at some point can grab the light square.
Bishop Sorry, a five.
We just take that.
But the point I wanted to mention is on the A five square.
A five.
If we can grab this light square bishop and get this more kind of permanent advantage sometimes Depends
how much you take care of the bishop here.
If we can get the bishop pan, there's a glimmer actually, this week, and pawn structure does have
that slight issue of it.
It's not controlling a five and that could lead to another permanent, more permanent way.
We can accumulate advantages with the bishop hair.
So bear that in mind.
But black seems active at the moment.
Hasn't called for night G for well, we're not afraid to put our pieces on the back row.
So.
Bishop E one just protecting f two like that.
We have Bishop dd six and now H three.
It is important to note here, what if 9h2 because actually doesn't have nine takes F one, then Bishop
takes you to G two, which undermines the pawn chain, then Bishop takes H three.
Yes.
White does actually have a tactic here which reassures that this is this is okay for y guess what you
play here to get a winning advantage.
400 points.
Yeah, we play Route 66, so we're undermining Black's pieces.
So if takes, we're just going to take the knight.
Knight takes F one.
We leave the knight stranded in the best possible way.
Without this structural undermining, we play Rook RD free.
So the key point is protect free.
So if the bishop takes G two with H three protected, we play rook G won.
So what does Black do here?
Bishop e four We can scoop up two pieces here and we have a big positional advantage and material advantage.
Well, basically we're winning this position.
So Knight H two is out of the question.
So Knight Have six was played, but now 95 and White is going to turn all of this action into it's a
two way street that black can take on G two We can actually try and use that diagonal if we get that
line square Bishop Black played Rook D eight.
If Bishop D five, we can play C four here and Bishop e4 F three.
So black's going to play Bishop B seven.
And we've in this case, we've kind of put pawns in this diagonal and about the best way of playing
it might actually be here not to take the bishop, which is lucrative, but B four because this carries
C, C five and C six concretely in the position.
If we have C five, we have ac6 threat.
What does black do?
King eight Then this we can carry on with a nice position.
For example, here we've just got a very nice position and that Bishop's not doing much is blunted anyway.
We've just got a superior position.
So yeah, we can keep the options open.
We don't have to automatically snap up the B seven Bishop but in the game Rook the eight, we have C
four and now 94.
There's more of a case now for taking out the bishop.
It's being annoying on this diagonal so actually takes out the bishop and you can see he has got a kind
of permanent advantage now, more semipermanent advantage.
The bishop pair, they could be snapped up if White's not careful, but the pieces largely on the first
round gets funny.
But White does have this bishop pair to play with Bishop e five.
We have nine C free.
Route tanks was also possible.
Maybe this is a slightly more accurate for Knight C one.
This handles the D three issue and then you know, we're going to be playing G for it at some point.
Say black plays 9g6 in advance of G three, then we're using this diagonal.
So this is great.
Now this would be great.
So that's another way of playing it with advantage.
So 9c3 that was played, pair of volts come off like this, wrote the eight G for it still in It's a
relative of the other position we're still getting on this diagonal that's the key point The light square
bishop without the counterpart is a long term advantage in its own right.
So Bishop G two check.
So one is stronger on the light squares and controlling king escape squares, which is exciting even
for a positional player to try and make the opponents king Now.
So positional play is establishing advantages but other things like tactics and attacking crown that
positional play.
We can use our levels of sophistication to get great attacking positions.
So sophistication is understanding the small permanent advantages of positions.
So we have this Bishop pan.
Sea freight is very dangerous now for blacks.
King Bishop default.
We have nothing Ito funny enough here.
Bishop e five and now f four.
So tempo gaining getting on this key diagonal now potentially.
But first 90 C free.
So this key diagonal as well, the bishop looks absolutely great but 93 first before was also an interesting
move.
It's a really strong position.
So frightening.
C five, F, C five Bishop F So this is also very strong for white, as you might suspect.
And B five we can even just go for a pass pawn strategy like two connected pass pawns on the queenside.
Huge advantage here if eight takes those bishops are amazing on the diagonals.
So anyway, noisy free though is played c six If King a seven bishop have to check this position before
is strong.
So even though the king's not getting mated, it's very dangerous for black.
If Bishop takes b4, we're going to be winning material with the pen.
So let's say black players h5b5 and we're back to having very strong passport potential and attacking
potential here.
So C six is played
and Compo actually finds an amazing resource here.
So for 500 points, what would you play in this position?
It really is about king safety.
Now White has accumulated enough advantages and can go for it.
Even though queens have come off, one pair of rooks have come off.
It's still now great attacking potential here.
So what would you play here?
500 points.
Yeah.
C five chip.
So it's working with tempo.
Has to do something about that.
Now, if Kim takes five, then we have Bishop have to check and look at these bishops.
They're helping to make the king.
They're helping each other to make the king Bishop be would be a beauty here to prevent the king using
a five and C five.
So Francis, think a three chap mating so like that.
That would be amusing.
So Bishop take C five was tried, but now a four check.
The king's coming down the board and now beautiful move here.
Can you say what does won't play?
So don't allow any reverse gear of the king.
We have king be free protecting the knight.
So the knight holds that reverse gear.
The king can't step back.
We're threatening Bishop F one.
So black tries Rook D free check, Bishop C free.
We're still threatening Bishop F one.
So Black desperately gives up the exchange.
We have maintained C for each check.
King a5f king B 694 check and blacks again in big trouble with the king.
This position Bishop and for one check, 1965 is just winning material anyway so.
King a five knight a4f to rook C 197 Rook C to Bishop e3a now Bishop take C six.
So, yeah, this is a winning position.
Let's see what happened.
95 For the record, Bishop e89 takes G three And now.
King see for getting the -- ready for b4 chat mating so 95 stops before chat mate.
Let's put that beauty on the board just for fun.
So here b4 and that's chat mate.
The bishop is holding the knight.
So Knight takes Geoffrey.
We have kingussie for 95 and now a free again to renew the idea of B four.
We have knight b six check.
And now King D free takes a four, king takes E free.
So och black's not mated, but it's still it's the exchange down for no compensation.
And Black actually resigned here.
If h five we can play B four check and pick up the knight after bishop takes a four.
Yeah, it's a totally like, hopeless position.
And the funny thing is, if Knight B six that takes away the King's own escape square b4 it's checkmate
there.
So yes.
Och, end of game here.
So the game show's about the bishop, how a weakness in structure in particular can lead to another
form of kind of permanent advantage.
The Bishop power is accumulated here and it's just very nice.
So might be free.
We have this even though the pieces are on the first rank as they un Spring and British international
master batsman Rest in Peace was a great was great with the bishop as well with situations which look
kind of funny with his pieces in the first round.
The the key point is to preserve the bishop here, but even the option of taking is an option.
There are other options available to why it's only until 94 that it's taken out.
But now, yeah, the white pieces, you know, this helps control d free.
The white pieces are springing into life and especially this bishop about the counterpart is absolutely
great.
The bishops here work towards a nice kind of near mating attack.
That beautiful C five move is an iconic move of this particular game showing Once Karpov is is satisfied
that he's accumulated advantages, he can go for the attack.
Well the reassurance the attack is very low risk and it's going to either win material or make the opponent's
king.
So wonderful stuff.
I hope you enjoyed this.
Got some instructive points.
Thanks very much.