Hi there.
In this section, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Henrik making.
So this is in 1972, the Hastings tournament, round six, E four from Karpov we see C five, nine,
ten 3d6d4c ten 3496349569c3a6.
The Sicilian Najdorf Bishop e two and e five.
So with E five there is this polski hole on D five and sometimes that can be a great outpost square.
The importance of an outpost in the square.
It's frontally shielded by Black's pawn on D six.
So such outposts are very, very useful to have.
And often attacks are more successful if you have an outpost.
So let's see what happened in this game.
Might be free.
Bishop E six and F four.
Karpov is keen to push away the key defender of D five.
We have Queen c7849, C six and now F five.
And in fact here Bishop takes B3 is played so this weakens a little bit more.
The D five square.
Okay, there's a point.
A kind of price paid for that D five square the double pawns but are they of great significance here
you could argue.
Well blacks got an outpost haven't they.
True.
Let's see how this hands out.
Now we have Queen B six, Bishop G five.
And now to make the outpost even secure, we have comp of playing Bishop takes F six.
So Bishop takes five, 695, queen a five check.
And Karpov doesn't fear here the Queen's coming off So Queen ditto.
And it isn't fair.
The opposite kind of bishops so it's obviously colored bishops does white outpost on D five really give
white an advantage Here we have Bishop G five check.
You might ask what about 94?
Yeah, it's be free.
We can protect it usefully with Bishop C for and then we can seal the queenside to make sure that this
is a very nice position established here where white is better.
And even if, if black indulges in tactics, it doesn't really matter here, by the way.
It doesn't matter.
That's just straightening out the pawns and we're left with a great, magnificent knight on D five and
great prospects.
We even even come to play Rook free to be free later.
Perhaps so.
Okay.
Bishop G five check is played.
We have King D free.
And now blank cancelled if Rugby eight.
This is an interesting try for a little bit of play and let's say before 97 the idea to play for 97.
To try and challenge the Outpost and Bishop be six.
This is interesting, but what you still ends up with a nagging edge here after B5 if Black plays with
D5.
Sure, the outpost square is not so dominant here at all.
It's but it's been converted into another advantage in this position.
Just a better bishop and better active pieces.
And Black is actually having to shed a pawn here with no advantage for whites.
The thing is about this position.
So why is Black shedding a pawn?
If b six we play bishops, C six check invading seven Frank winning material with King of Fate.
We still invade the seven Frank Then when material So so King E seven in this line in Bishop takes seven.
So that was an interesting challenge.
That whole outpost, that whole variation represents a challenge to the D five outpost.
But Black just Castled And then we have H for Bishop, the eight Rook, AC one, a five, King D two
and now Rook be eight.
And you can see that there's also a padlock on B five that really hasn't got too many sources of counterplay
here we have G four, might be four.
Bishop C4 OC.
The outpost is replaced by Bishop outpost and you might think, well, isn't that less painful for black?
Is white really in a convincingly winning position?
We have five being played.
If King H eight we can play G five and we get a kind of squish situation here emerging where we can
play rook C free and maybe take out C five.
And this position, we should have much better prospects in the long run with the King kind of being
in prison.
We have a bad king.
It's a good advantage for White to work with.
So G five was tried and then we have f tanks, G six.
In fact, there's another fascinating move here worth mentioning, I feel, which is F six.
This is really fascinating on Bishop takes some six to play H five.
It is making use of the outpost and also a potential form pawn.
So say b5h6 form pawn and if we get this scenario, it really is interesting.
Four white black can get an active rook, but it doesn't really constitute counterplay after rook takes
F seven.
So for example, this situation we get an infiltration into the position supported by the outpost and
this is going to be very dangerous for black losing material.
This is just so dangerous.
So that's a really interesting situation.
Let's have a look at that again.
So F6 Bishop takes H five.
This is the key move here if this is played.
So we looked at B five.
If King G seven, we can play H six check and here rooks seven.
And because the bishop takes F seven, black really can't do this because the bishop takes F seven.
And if taking we're going to take on C eight.
So it's really interesting stuff and let's say B six rook D seven.
So D six is falling or something else is falling basically because this situation black is kind of in
a bind.
We can either torture with that or just go straight for the B pawn.
Maybe that's a little bit more to the point.
And the thing is here, once we play this position, we have Bishop takes F seven, so that's not able
to be played.
So yeah, this is a really dominating position that's showing actually why.
Rook seven But then we play Rook.
Let's say Rook eight.
We're just going to play Rook be seven here now.
And and you can see that actually this position we have, Bishop takes F seven check.
So if rook takes rook takes B eight.
So basically, yes, we infiltrate and it's kind of irresistible.
F6 does seem like a delicious concept as well, but the way Karpov played it is very convincing as well.
F Tanks.
G six.
H six.
G six.
We have King D Free, King G seven and now H five.
We have Bishop B six.
If B five.
Hare eight takes Rook takes B five, rook C six.
And White has a nice advantage in this situation, quite dominating.
So Bishop B six we have Rook H free, Bishop C five and now, yeah, the attack is underway.
Rook f one tying black down to f7f6.
But now the H file is white's.
So h takes we have King text g six which gives white control of the h file.
But if Rook eight white can just go back for the f six pawn.
And this situation is very unfortunate for black as example.
Bishop f seven and King can enter into the position, for example, to even to e six and black's starting
to crumble.
So King takes g six was played giving comp off the H file.
So he's really increasing his advantages systematically and he's going to easily crown it here with
a strong attack.
So we have this rook to the seven Frank and the king's being cut off.
So that's a good sign of mating nets.
And now here, guess what Karpov plays.
Yeah, this is mating that time.
King E to let G4 go.
King Forrest played If King takes G for Rook G seven, check king for this rook H for mate.
So King F4 But now rook 12h free securing a mating that basically starting to B of the bishop.
D4 How do we secure the mate possibilities in this position?
White's playing for ten points that move 34.
Yeah.
G seven.
Yes.
But the idea that we're just going to make black has to resign here.
So, yes, this outpost square, which was substituted, you know, annoying got substituted by bishop
was still very, very dangerous.
So this is a beautiful way of guaranteeing kind of more irresistible attacks if we can get an outpost
pace.
This was a great example, in fact, of an outpost piece in a comp of game, which, you know from the
opening, this is certainly a night off with the E five.
There is an element of strategic risk and cop off even before castling is interested in trying to get
black to give up that bishop for the night.
He wants to seal the D5 outpost square.
So this is a very, very interesting game and this stops any B5 counterplay.
But yes, tempting black, otherwise black looks pretty passive here if the bishop retreated anyway.
So Timothy Black for this situation, which really is nice and favorable for White's strategic, you
know, strategically giving up the bishop for the knight to secure a nice outpost.
So wonderful stuff.
This is quite a clear example in my view of the power of an outpost on D five.
And even if it's substituted like in this game and even if simplification occurs, the advantage is
persisting.
So yes, the the black made an idea here to get rid of the knight, but it just got substituted with
a bishop and that was still very, very powerful as we saw.
So great stuff.
This is, in my view, a kind of inspirational game for Outpost Play.
It's a great small win to get and if we get these small wins we're helping guarantee are attacking potential
later and and the tactics to be more favorable to us in tactical situations generally okay and so much.