Hi there.
In this lecture, we see a fascinating game between Key Falco, a British grandmaster, and Michael
Adams.
So this is in 1989, round nine of the British championship, the fall from Farkle.
We have going to have six C, 4e6, by the way, both for Arkell and Plaskett play for my Kings Crusher
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So we have knights.
Every is a really nice guy.
So we have B six from Adams, Queens, Indian territory.
We have G three Bishop before Jack.
Bishop D to Bishop takes D to Czech Queen takes D two.
Now, this is an unprotected pawn in White's position, and this is a pretty standard move.
One of the better moves Bishop a six to at least provoke some dance square weaknesses.
So be free, so provoking, some dance square weaknesses.
C six, Bishop G two and now D five.
Now White plays 95.
We have both sides castling for seven, so it does seem a right pain.
This diagonal which the bishop is left, it seems this bishop is being confronted with granite and it
is annoying, but Keith uncle knows what he's doing here.
He plays 93.
This is a really great temporary pawn sac concept concept.
If Knight takes DD seven 967 this is plausible.
But yeah, why?
It's got a small edge.
It's plausible to do that.
But 93 is very interesting.
We have D take C four so night before temporary pawn sack.
Now here Adams actually plays Bishop B seven.
This might not objectively be one of the strongest moves, but it is a practical move to keep the tension
and complexity in the game.
If C takes be free losing the light squared Bishop like this.
Yeah, it leads to a position where White's got dynamic play.
This is kind of interesting for White having that bishop without a counterpart and the dynamic compensation
on the file.
So overall, even though this technically might be equal, it's maybe more fun for White to play here.
And if C takes be free.
Yeah.
So that's C to be free.
But let's also check out pardon me, A takes B free immediately.
This is also possible.
This is going to be about even here, even if this bishop is still on the board.
There's dynamic compensation for white hair, basically.
So anyway, Bishop B seven from Adams, we have B take C for Quincy, eight D, free and now C, five.
Quite provocative, asking White to occupy quite aggressively the center we have e take C takes.
But look what's happens for passport potential.
This is a remarkable situation.
There's a free to one pawn majority on this side of the board and white has a big majority on this side
of the board.
Five, two, three.
Very interesting play now rookie 89c489a6 might be five.
Queen B eight.
We have might be too light F six.
So D five under fire 9c4 in response.
Och we have now 9e4 cutting off the protection of D five.
So that's taken.
So once given up that line square Bishop, is there a slight downside creeping in, theoretically these
light squares around the King are they a bit weak.
We see knights cd6 rookie 7e49 37 910 five.
Rook D seven, nine.
BD six.
F six.
So trying to keep these principles locked not with too much potential.
Knight takes B seven White could have kept more tension with F one and play 90 C for that is an alternative
and why it should be better there.
So Knight takes B7, loses a bit of tension in the position and the past pawns of both sides in a sense
get stronger.
However, the problem with White's past pawns, if they're connected with white playing four there is
a certain penalty of King weakness being exposed here.
You could say, Well, blacks weaken the king of F six.
That's true as well.
But in this position, concretely, it does seem as though the move played here and move 28 is a mistake.
F4 is borrowing from kingside safety.
It seems White could try and get authority in the position enough authority by applying e five instead
of F4 playing E5.
So here's an example.
So even though it isn't connected past pawns anymore, there's perhaps a more significant aspect of
this position that White has authority on the E file here.
So this looks very, very interesting.
Tactically, this is working out as well.
Black can't really take on DD five because there's Queen 65 here.
Check and then 97 check and what would be a piece up.
So it tactically works out.
And furthermore if we say the move rookie one king and Queen G five black's under attack as well.
It's not just the authority on the E fold.
There's juicy targets emerging from this rookie six frets think things like rook takes F six sometimes,
but as well as that Knight RD six is supported.
And this is really, really dangerous stuff.
So say Knight takes D 596 Black's king is a bit in trouble.
If black plays Queen B eight, Queen takes D five.
If black has to second the exchange, this is going to be winning for white.
This position is winning for white.
Technically, it does seem as though f for it borrows from king safety to try and get central past pawns,
which does seem in a sense lucrative.
But there's always a doubt here because of these downsides of king safety.
There's a doubt being creeping in here 96, nine times.
D six rook takes D six rook 81 We have rook add eight.
So at the moment black is actually threatening and undermining move five to actually take out D5 potentially.
So g four is played.
It's almost as if weaknesses are begetting weaknesses here.
There's more weaknesses around the king, this vacuum of weaknesses around the king here.
But if a4f5 is strong to undermine this will be even at least even so g four we have B five.
And I remember at the time of this game, people were remarking, you know, how is it that Adams is
making his pawns seemingly more important than your.
Opponent's pawns.
So C4 we have rook E two, B four, Queen C five, because surely white has the central pawns.
King Safety has been slightly compromised.
More for white.
C Free king F to the king moving to F two.
It doesn't seem to bode that well.
Rook B six, Queen C four and a five and inaccuracy.
Actually, it seems Quincy eight seems very useful for black hair, for example, in this position.
King eight And here, black can actually blockade in time with advantage.
And if instead of F text e5d7 again, black block Black's black.
Safe enough here with the king on F seven.
Black should have the advantage there.
So it's very interesting move Queen eight as an alternative to what was played so very very interesting
stuff.
As long as black doesn't play King E six then that would be asking for trouble that be of town.
But no f e five it seems okay for black.
So but anyway, a five was played and now E5 is actually a mistake.
It looks really lucrative.
Right?
But look at the king safety of this.
Something's being borrowed from King safety to create these central passe pawns.
If these six instead Queen of seven, Queen C five, Queen B seven, and let's say E five, F takes
F takes.
Roxy six.
This situation is also kind of pleasant for Black, actually.
As it turns out, like this, for example, it's a bad news for white there.
So e five we have F takes, F takes, and now Roxie eight, Queen dd four, and now a four.
In fact, a more accurate move here would have been B free.
This seems very counterintuitive to break the connectedness of the past pawns though, but it turns
out that the idea of vacating B four is significant for Rook before because look at the white King taking
out G four.
This is becoming about king safety.
So here Queen B for for example, Queen RD for King's being pushed around.
Rook G one is incredibly useful.
So this position, for example.
There's key to crashing through.
Yeah, it starts to get really nasty there.
So anyway, a four though was played D, 6c2, C, one B free.
So pass pawns versus pass pawns.
But as the ingredient of king safety, I takes B free.
If 37 black can use the king on fdt with f h actually and here be two is strong.
So this is taking a rook with queening will balance more than balance.
White's Queen Black will have a big advantage there so eight XB free.
Eight XB free Queen b2 we have rook f h check King G one and now Rook b4 h free, Queen free.
And yeah, you can see that white's in big trouble on the King side here and is having to be distracted
by key issues about king safety.
Essentially we have Rook G two and now Queen Fritchey ends the game.
So one is in the game if King H one as example, Rook B four is threatening basically to get in and
checkmate the white king if Queen a one rook half free.
Ouch.
This is the king's just had it here.
Rook takes h three and let's say this position Queen H six, rook gg2 and then we can actually play
C one here crushing.
It was remarkable at the time how Adams made his past pawns stronger than whites passports.
But we can see now, in the light of day, a little bit more perhaps, that king safety is a big issue
if you're borrowing from King safety to pay for your connected passport as it can backfire as it did
in this game.
It's absolutely a remarkable game in this tournament, which Adams eventually won, has become British
champion in 1989.
Absolutely amazing stuff.
But credit to Keith and Carl for his resourcefulness.
Just Adams was getting super strong by this point in 1999.
Okay, Thanks very much.