Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Michael Adams playing against the hands.
Johnson In 1993, the 17 Floyds Masters open round one.
So E four from Adams.
We have a Sicilian defense notes F three, D, six, D four.
C takes the fall Knight takes three, four.
It's F six, 93, 96.
And now we enter the Rector L's variation Bishop g5e6.
Queen RD to a six.
White Castle's queenside h six.
Bishop drops back Bishop e7f4.
Knight takes the fall, Bishop takes the fall and NB five.
Bishop D three.
So it looks like a fairly standard sequence of moves here B4 and now 92 is played now here.
Yeah.
The pawn is being hit and black makes it a kind of pawn sacrifice gambit with E five.
Well, very shortly after E5 first, E5 is played first.
And yeah, so this is kind of interesting.
Now here if f six, e5d takes you might ask about Bishop takes E five and you might think initially
the Queen 85 is quite dangerous for white because you know it's hitting a two and E five.
The thing is.
This isn't quite right for black to do this with that idea with green takes, say, two.
So Bishop takes f6.
What do you think Black's best move is here?
You know plants best move would actually be.
Bishop takes up stakes.
Yeah, it's a treat it as a dynamic pawn sacrifice and not not try and take on a two track mate.
So this position, for example, Black has to tread carefully with Bishop G.
Five.
It's again the tempo.
If black cancels, then Rook takes off.
Six is nasty for black a free for example here.
And White's got a strong attack on the kingside soon.
So the thing is, the point is if we go back if Queen takes a two was played in this position, can
you see the resource that White has which refutes this whole idea of threatening checkmate?
The king's in the center.
So this kind of backfires, actually, because White has a resource here.
Yeah.
Bishop Be fine.
Check.
So eight X, there's queen de check and mating.
And that works with also King F eight, which is play Queen D and that's mate.
So yeah, there's interesting variations here stemming from.
At this point.
90 2e5.
Won't take the pawn.
So yes the the bigger point is sure, this Queen 85, but this has to be calculated.
The weight of the bishop takes F six.
So Queen five looking at e five and ato.
Interesting tactics here.
So Black's best course is to just take on have sex if one also considers Bishop RD for her here this
position.
Yeah it is a bit scary black overall rather is is going to be with a small edge at least.
But yeah it's very very interesting stuff.
So e five though it's kind of all bypassed for Bishop E free by Adams.
So game on from here.
Bishop E free and black actually lets the B four go now with castling.
And from a positional perspective, what is happening if we take this pawn.
Well we do enhance the long term pawn majority on the queenside if we can take out this pawn.
This was mentioned by some of my correspondence players at Chess World where you know I'm the webmaster
of chessboard dot net.
But some correspondence players have basically said it's not really about the attack, it becomes about
the queenside pull majority.
So this move now Adams place looks like a move for correspondence player would play actually quite materialistic
greedy but if white can actually survive to the endgame, there will be a nice pawn majority on the
queenside.
So does black have ferocious counterplay?
Here we see Bishop E6.
So that's interesting.
Bishop e6 it looks active and logical.
Black's play looks kind of straightforward here with a semi open B file.
We have F5.
If King B won.
Yeah, Black's going to get a bit of play here for sure and it should be about even so F5 was played
Bishop D seven, Queen B six now.
So one thing the exchange of coins Black Rejects.
That's 90 C free now.
Bishop C six, Bishop d2a5, King B one and now Rook B eight.
So this is setting another kind of trap, offering that pawn.
We have Queen E free.
If Queen takes a five, Queen B seven is really strong, hitting B two and hitting E four, so be free.
But there's another point to it as well.
There's a there's a bigger point about trampling the Queen Rook eight So that would be a naughty, naughty,
materialistic queen being trapped.
So the queen retreats to E for a good square, queen b7b free a four rook he18 times b3c text B free.
Now, black kind of liberates.
It seems like a logical liberation e takes, but the follow up has to be played precisely here and Black
didn't follow up precisely Black played Bishop takes the five.
This seems this is a major issue to give up the light square.
Bishop Knight takes the five was essential here it seems so the raw idea is sometimes a bishop f six.
If queen takes their that's very dangerous looking.
So we have Knight takes D five in this variation and this would actually be okay for black.
If we take this a bit further, this should be okay for black Black hood.
Take out the f five pawn.
Yeah, because there's a lot of pressure building up on the defile for example, here revoked ain't
coming.
So G four is not really that possible here because of this build up on the default.
So let's say a pawn is given back.
It ends up being about even this possession.
But in the game we have Bishop takes the five and it sets very difficult problems now for black after
nine takes the five we have Knight 65 Queen F3 and this is kind of a nasty pin and the light squared
bishop is quite good actually here rook for eight So if Knight before Queen takes P seven, rook takes
Bishop C four.
This is a big advantage point.
So Rook for eight, Bishop E for Queen B five and white can actually play.
There's a very strong move.
I mean, Adams plays one of the very strong moves.
Can you guess what is played?
But there's actually a very simple and strong move here as well.
Plays.
Bishop takes H six, which is taking out a pawn because there's cover on B five, but also just Queen
D Free hair is problematic for black.
If Queen Bee seven then this position.
Ouch.
Look at the pen pressure on D five.
That's horrendous.
It's just winning material.
And if 97 here, then White would welcome the exchange of queens and just be simply better here.
So yes.
So Bishop takes his nice as well we have of sinks.
So if G takes Bishop or rather Brook takes the five is the most accurate, but Bishop takes the five
is also possible, but Rook takes the five with advantage.
So 90 of six though is tried.
We have Bishop going back to C one.
Bishop b4 Rook f1 wrote d4 per Rooks come off Bishop dh free.
It seems as though it doesn't have too many major concrete king safety issues here.
Bishop C for Bishop DD two So that's pretty sad if Black's asking with simplification, but if White
gets a few moves, it does look as though G for G five is going to come Black's way.
So this exchange of bishops doesn't seem to be great, especially off the Queen F4, which kind of encourages
the Queen's go back to B4.
We have Queen b4.
So if Queen C free now we're just taking out B.
There's one other square.
So Queen B for fun.
Meet Queen b4 and now Queen takes D for taking out a centre pawn.
So things look quite convincing for white hair now.
Absolutely convincing.
So Queen a five rook d one just offering a five g4 is possible and say this position plant's going to
get a bit of play though, which might have been annoying to consider.
So with this move instead, by giving up five, Black's counterplay is significantly reduced hair of
King b2 any 94 this Bishop dd free for example.
So what does black play rookie angst Well there's now A4 is played Queen H five and now after H three
Black actually became convinced.
This is after the time trial that her position is hopeless.
This past a pawn is very significant now.
So she kind of resigned generously.
Maybe, but Rookie four Queen D free.
Let's have a look at this position with Queen C frame.
White dominates the possession and that outside passport is going to get very painful after a five.
So yeah, an interesting case of materialism letting black have a bit of fun and then trying to consolidate
the material after it was really helped by one of Black's inaccuracies, Though it has to be said that
Black did have significant counterplay.
It was well, there was temporary compensation, but the follow up here, giving up the loyal Squire
Bishop, was a very bad decision in retrospect, giving up the bishop here Knight takes D five absolutely
had to be played here for black to stay in the game.
So interesting kind of use of an opening which you think you're going for the attack.
But the positional play here, Adams is looking at the long term like a correspondence player.
At the long term, how a queenside pawn majority can simply be winning after if you can withstand the
counterplay.
So interesting game.
I hope you enjoyed it this game.
So yeah, this was the big turning point.
Bishop 65, where White was taking control of the position on the line squares and so much.