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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov against Kurt Hanson in 1992.
The bill torments round 11 default from Karpov.
We have DD six e4, 910, six, nine C, Frasier, the parents, the friends we have G Sex Knight every
Bishop G seven.
Bishop E two.
Both sides Castle C six.
Bishop f4 9bd7.
Rookie one.
So this is quite reserved play you might think.
Is there something in E5?
Well, it gets a bit tricky.
Black can just take on E5 and playing like G four and it's going into complication.
So e6 F takes blacks getting some peace activity potentially if like g five.
This is a clever move looking at g four an e six but like D five and after Queen C one, queen a five,
a three.
Nice f six blacks getting a decent enough position.
White does have a small edge, but why enter this level of complexity?
There isn't a clear strategic plan like in the game that we see.
So rook e one is simple and solid.
Queen B six we have Queen C one protecting B two, we have E, five, D takes E five, D takes E five,
and our bishop e free Queen seven.
And now 92 we have rook the eight, rook D one Knights F eight and L 94 pair of rooks come off.
So Queen takes the one hand 98 We have a full 96 and now I can't Jovian style move.
Can you guess what was played here?
Yeah.
Might be one.
The night's prospects on scifri aren't that great.
So this is improving a piece.
Basically, the Knights not really doing anything, but if it can reroute, so might be one.
It can have other options.
We have B six, C free knights have four and the bishop is preserved with Bishop F one, Bishop E six.
And then the Knights sports the other one with Knights one, two, B two, So D two so H five Queen
to rook the eight B for Knight F six.
Knights F three.
1987 and now Karpov is happy to have some more exchanges.
So Rook takes the one queen takes the one Bishop G4 and now even more exchanges.
Queen DD six There is an asset in the white position.
You can see that the structure over here is under scrutiny from these guys.
So is there a potential pass pawn situation emerging here?
We have Queen takes DD sex Knight takes DD six and Black needs to tread carefully here.
The bishop is guarding C eight.
Black needs to be aware that initiate could potentially be dangerous if the bishop's not gone in C eight
King fate is played If Bishop takes our phrase example to double the pawns.
The thing is of the bishop f8c8 and that's just winning material.
96b688c takes Bishop takes P four, there's 9c4.
And here this is a very dangerous outside pass pawn supported by the minor pieces.
So for example Bishop C free h h4 just to prevent any activities like a fight, let's say a five this
position the past pawn is pretty dangerous and often like B six king of a seven.
We're going to win material.
It's too dangerous to give Y an outside pass.
Pawn basically with Bishop takes F free.
And yeah, the bishops are both very useful in this scenario.
So King Fe is tried.
We have a five, King E seven and now 94.
So clearly the bishop supports the eight.
So this way of attacking the pawn chain is used.
Now Bishop takes her free hair, g tanks and now be five.
So guess what Karpov plays here and why.
So a great, great move and great conception.
Okay.
Are you afraid?
They say a night on the rim, Dim.
Does this look like a positional move to you?
Well, it depends what the follow up is.
We're also attacking the A seven pawn.
We have a six.
So guess what?
The idea is here, which is great.
Okay.
It's the queen of --.
We need to create a passport first.
Like takes B five.
We have C takes B five.
If 95 instead, then a seven is strong.
So looking at Bishop takes a six zone, so this position we can tuck our king away on H one.
And here it's just going to be absolutely winning with the pass pawns.
So see, sex is played here and our bishop takes B 595.
Black dare not take on B five because after a six it looks as though.
Hold on, hold on.
King's Crusher doesn't this knight kind of help here with 96?
What would you play in this position if this happens for ten points?
Yeah.
Delayed gratification.
Bishop.
Sex to stop 19 seven.
That's the way of queening.
The -- bit of delayed gratification if a seven immediately 97 so we played bishop be six here to cut
97 first and then a seven and we're cleaning and even if we lose the bishop, we've got quite a lot
for the queen here and we've got more pass pawns on the way.
So that is in its favor.
So 95 was tried.
Bishop takes a six, like six Bishop drops back.
King The eight, a six, King C eight and other possible pawns are meant to be pushed.
B six in general.
BISHOP If 8b6 we have Bishop C five.
And now a very strong move here.
BISHOP So this is adding more support for the passport potential.
So with a seven coming along supported by the bishops, so the Bishop's taken, he takes Bishop Sykes.
E Frey And what is the key point here?
Okay.
First insert a check.
And now what's the key point?
Which piece to take?
Yeah.
D takes e sex.
The bishop is having real trouble controlling all of these past pawns of the bishops.
c5e takes F seven.
Just resign there.
It's a pretty hopeless position.
But let's see what happens if Bishop e seven, we can just actually add more pressure to the black position
with king of one.
Bring our king to the center.
So this way and then now King D five and then C four, as example, and end up taking E five.
And then this situation is going to be devastating after a seven check, as example for King C seven.
So we're threatening B ain't queening and plants just in hopeless position.
So it's certainly delaying.
We're going to be queening.
So yes, the crushing game now with the past pawns, quite dramatic brilliant game really showing passport
potential a pawn chain under scrutiny earlier.
So the fascinating thing is basically yeah, this queen sign scrutiny does actually mean something.
You don't actually have to go for the opponents KING Positional players like their past pawns.
That is a lot of things are about pawns for positional players and there was a kind of advantage of
queenside scrutiny with Black's pieces on this side of the board as if they had some attacking intentions
here.
But they moved away from protecting pawns.
And it's actually difficult, very difficult in this situation when there's no attacking potential and
there's a pawn chain under scrutiny like this.
This is a really instructive example in many respects, in my view, for the amazing impact of sacrificing
a piece here to generate very dangerous pass potential.
So absolutely wonderful stuff.
Yep.
And you know, the notion of Bishop Be6 as well, if you sort of see takes if we look at eight takes
instead this fast outside pass point if 96 delayed gratification is important here with Bishop B6 to
stop make seven pass pawns on the way.
So yeah great great game example of the impact of potential past pawns.
I hope you enjoyed this one as much as me and so much.