Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov against Arthur Andersen in 1973 Madrid.
Tournament round 3d4 from Karpov, we see.
And some claim of six.
C four, E six.
Now Knights three the Queen's Indian Territory.
We have B six, G three.
Bishop B four.
Czech Knight bd2.
Bishop B seven.
Bishop G two.
Black Castles Karpov Castles C five.
We have a three.
So one gets this dance going.
Bishop without a counterpart for one moment.
Now C takes DD four.
This is a very interesting moment for gaining a slight edge out of the opening.
So what would you play here?
Okay.
Perhaps you'd consider just getting the pawn back straight away.
But then after Bishop takes G too, King takes G to the five, we can still get a small advantage with
Bishop before.
But the way Karpov plays, it seems a little bit better.
Bishop, before immediately hitting the rook and Karpov is not in a rush to get the pawn back.
He plays Bishop dd six.
You might think this is quite risky, isn't it?
In between moves here, but there's no E5, so why can get this pawn and sitting on the point is to
restrain the DD seven pawn.
This is like the if you look at the particular status of pieces or pawns, this is now blockaded status.
And this is interesting how these delicate little aspects of the position status of pieces is used in
this game, in fact.
So Bishop DD six blockading DD seven.
If Knight takes DD four.
In this moment, Bishop takes King takes the five.
Yeah, it's just even here, really.
So Bishop dd six we have now Knight E four.
And does Karpov want to keep the Bishop.
No, he accepts it can be traded off because he's got now a queenside pawn majority.
In any case, a free to two pawn majority.
So he doesn't mind the bishop being chopped off.
But black plays Knight a six first and it looks as though well, the C five square could be useful.
So that's ruled out before we have Rook he ain't.
If Knight takes DD six Air Queen takes dd six.
Yes, that backward D seven pawn is a problem.
This looks like torture already after FD one and this position is taking on E seven and it could even
afford Knight for offering exchange of bishops.
This possession leads to a nice isolated Queen's pawn position with a nice blockade on DD four.
So Rook is played.
We have rook AC one Knight takes these six Queen takes these 697 Rook FD one rook seven So this is an
interesting position now.
So a queenside pawn majority.
There's a key move here which increases White's advantage.
It has certain France.
Can you see what that move is?
It really is a key move.
Queen Defray the immediate win of a peace front is G five because it's looking at age seven and B seven.
And the thing is, black compromise is possession by giving up the lights.
Choir Bishop This doesn't look good in principle, but the thing is, say.
Bishop eight Safeguarding the Bishop instead of G five.
Now it has 95 that's looking at D seven
and well, everything is looking at D seven.
We're not going to take with the Queen because the rook, but we're looking at D seven and what would
black play here?
It's uncomfortable if d5c takes this position, there's e four and that is essentially going to be winning
material.
Black has the tricky move Rook C seven.
A very tricky response indeed to try and get some counterplay, but one can just play Rook DD one keeping
the pin and after F6 nine g for f5e takes F five.
Why?
It's going to be well off here.
Very well off here in this position.
So yeah.
Bishop eight there's 95.
So a lot of pressure on the black position here.
If instead of Bishop eight, let's have a look at G six because that would suppress the G five If we
look at this game with 95.
Bishop takes G two here, King takes, let's say Queen E four.
This is just a very comfortable bind on the position of the C five.
It's really a nice position there.
If we look again with D five, one can actually play C tanks.
And here as an example E takes there's nine, C six and when it's getting a light square bishop without
counterpart, which is going to be very useful here.
So OC Bishop takes her free.
It looks like a major compromise of the black position.
Bishop takes her free 98.
What to do though, with this bishop and this queenside pull majority how to hurl it through.
We have the first move is Bishop B five.
This is looking uncomfortable with the black pieces.
Rook seven now.
Bishop a six So the bishop leaves this diagonal to kind of potentially assess the pawns.
But isn't it getting away in front of the eight pawn?
We have Rook C six and also this is an unprotected piece, which means it could become a target in many
variations.
So this next maneuver from Karpov, it might not be the engines top choice, but if we're looking at
the status of pieces, we want to move this ideally from unprotected to a protected piece.
Days so couples move is Queen B free simply wants to be able to protect a six and this is very handy
in many situations to have pieces protecting each other.
As example, if we were in a rush to play C five, although this is not hitting, the Queen is protecting
the bishop here, but there is Queen a five.
Then we'd have to move the bishop and we're only getting a small edge.
If we dissolve our pawn, then we've kind of lost something from the position.
And if we played it with Rook, take C five again.
We've kind of fragmented our pawns, but this is actually better.
Black wouldn't really want to do that.
That is a possible there.
But if Black plays B takes yes, there is a potential salvation here for black if they can get us to
dissolve our pawns.
So yeah, it's interesting though.
Queen B free is a kind of strengthening move to get rid of a limited piece basically.
So more ideal statuses for the pieces, protected pieces.
So Queen by eight is played, Queen A four
and we have Rooks seven.
And now another kind of status change pinning this pawn.
It's these little nuances, just pinning that pawn make C5 more dangerous potentially have six.
Now there might be a potential danger in the future with 94 comp she plays F3, which there's a couple
of points it restricts the knight clearly and there might be some naughty business blacks trying to
brew up as well.
But the thing is also white is now threatening e four this is another thing.
E four would be nice to chase the knight back.
We have D five.
Let's just show this in action.
If D five wasn't played, say eight six and we get to play E four, it is a proxy bind.
King If ie5 And when does the knight go back then?
C five This is really comfortable for white.
So D five is tried.
We have C five now and now H five.
So Black is trying to create some counterplay.
A for the past pawns though a menacing if C six straight off the bat e five this position white could
consider an exchange sac and this is interesting compensation but yeah, it's only a small edge.
So a four we have rookie eight C tanks B six.
So yeah, going for this with the 2 to 1 you might think, well C six is lucrative here, this is another
option.
And for example E five the exchange TAC here is actually a little bit more effective.
Or is it.
No, it's actually less effective.
Queen the Bishop C for E for this is just even.
It's not that convincing.
Don't always be in a rush to play an exchange sacrifice like this.
So yeah, the C six option is interesting.
So instead of Route 65, why it could play though a five and if RD for eight tanks, Queen takes B six.
This is an example where we cement are possible.
We've got basically a protected passport potential.
So for example here this is that's not really getting that much counterplay after we secure a protected
passport.
This is really great for us.
So OC C takes B six, though it's played that way of playing it A five.
And now the thing is, with this way of playing, it makes things a lot worse in this position by exchanging
off on C one, but that really has to go into grovel mode really with 97 to minimize White's advantage.
So for example, Rook C sinks rook tanks, queen tanks where there's a lot of pressure now on the black
position by here as example, Queen 87, Queen B seven, Rook eight.
So this is looking a bit gravelly, but actually White's advantage is contained somewhat.
Well, it does have a small edge.
It looks grim for black.
To be fair, it does look fairly grim, but yeah, okay, that was a way of playing it.
But Rook C1 makes things easier for White, so Rook takes him on Queen five so there's a threat to deal
with Queen free check.
So is this counterplay significant?
If B takes had been played then Queen takes rook tanks, B tanks.
Is is it basically a winning position?
This outside parcel is so dangerous here.
If, for example, Rook before Bishop d3g6, we get behind the pawn because there are dangers in this
position.
The bishop's covering the escape square, so that's kind of tempo gain.
Then we get enough to get behind the pass pawn and this is really, really passive black.
This position is on the way out.
So that's on the way out.
This position, it's going to be a big advantage for white there.
And the king's got a walk on the dark squares available.
It's just a winning endgame there.
So Queen E5 is tried, Queen takes B6, takes the pawn and extinguishes Queen E free frats.
We have D for renewing the Queen E for France.
So here we see King H one just to put that on the board.
If Bishop the free Queen is free tank, we'll pick up our rook.
That's not good.
So, King H one we have Queen E free and now rook f one safeguarding the rook we have E5 and our Bishop
D free H four.
There's no real point in playing e four here.
White just takes on E four and in this position, Queen C six is a pain hitting the rook.
What does Black do if Knight have to check?
We're just taking there to take on and that's checkmate.
If Knight c free, we're just playing a six and this is just going to be absolutely winning here.
So.
The thing is.
Yeah, I mean, once a seven happens, that's really dangerous.
Black actually tried h.
Now that's taken Queen F four here.
If e four if we look at E four here F takes nine.
G four might have a queen H three threat that we can easily deal with this in this position with Queen
C seven though.
Take time out not to push the pawns automatically.
This position, Rook five is dangerous.
And the knight's kind of virtually pinned.
Seven.
So if Knight takes the free Queen, takes F seven, check rook h five will win the Queen.
And we can even take first and then win the queen.
So given that's the case, if f six, then we have a six here getting along with the passport potential.
Now, you might wonder.
Here, hold on, hold on.
King's Krishnan hasn't just got Knight takes the free.
We've got to be in control of the tactic opportunities especially on wings of the last move.
So positional players need to be aware of weakness in the last move.
If F6 been played, Black has weakened the king.
Guess what we play after Knight takes RD free in this position to manage Black's counterplay.
So there is a weakness of the last move.
It's we can see for we tap in to see four here tactically to manage the counterplay.
We want this position where we're fine.
We certainly don't want black having any counterplay.
So this our positions are going to be going well here smoothly.
We definitely don't want to play.
He takes the free hand routinely.
And now this position, that's not what we want.
It's got all sorts of terrible ideas.
So, yeah, just just be aware of weakness of the last move plays into this.
Once we've created a weakness around the king, we can leverage that quite often with checks.
So yes, that's great stuff.
So basically Queen F4 is played.
We have Rook G one.
Queen 6h4 and a five.
So is Karpov worried here about E four?
No G six is played, but if E four, guess what?
We can play here tactically to keep control of the position.
Yeah.
This is a kind of weakness of the last movie.
It's disconnected the queen from default.
We can take on default.
That's a pin against the queen there.
So if g6 asymm we're getting along with the past pawns.
Black hasn't got anything to really show her.
Kind of paralyzed.
So G6 is tried a seven, King G seven.
And now guess what ends the game in really nice tactical style.
Okay.
For 100 points.
Yeah.
Bishop G.
Jakes, this is a great tactic as well.
So Black resigned.
If EFF takes, we have a choice.
We can either play Queen B seven.
Sorry, We have a choice.
Coming up, Queen B seven.
Check here.
And after King H eight, we have a choice here.
We can either just simply queen that's convincing enough.
That's absolutely winning, or we can be even more accurate.
Rook Thanks.
G Sex threatens Queen G seven mate if check Rook g one and then blacks can have to give up the queen.
Otherwise Queen G seven mate France there.
And if Queen H seven you know what this looks as though Have we just made a compromise?
We can actually just take on h seven here.
This position is clearly winning with the two connected pass pawns.
Just show the power of the past pawns.
So here, Rook six and black's doomed.
And the queen.
But what is black doing here?
Getting behind the pawn rooks.
I meant behind past pawns, either yours or the opponent.
We just play B six.
We're going to cross that rook with B seven.
So yes, that would be amazing.
So Bishop takes G six nicely, ends the game.
Yeah.
Really smashing into Black's kingside here brutally.
So complete control of the position and demonstrated.
So a really nice game showing how to exploit a queenside pawn majority.
So that was set up in the opening.
The queenside pawn majority was set up in the opening and very, very interesting play.
So see to change the structure of the position to give that kind of imbalance.
And the interesting thing, Bishop, before to say it's very instructive maneuver trying to leverage
blockades and not mining the bishop taken off land, we've still got that backward deep horn on the
default to play with as well.
So it's a number of different advantages and also the soft spot, it is made softer without defensive
piece and tactically that's very, very useful to get black to give up the bishop here, given this
big Knight G5 front, which looks at the bishop and looks at age seven, but also there's 95 coming
up as well.
So potentially in some lines.
So yes, this was a big compromise and it showed from this position Karpov showed great technique,
minimizing the opponent's counterplay, getting that past pawn potential without too much controversy,
getting it going without too much controversy in counterplay.
So really control game.
I hope you enjoyed this one.
PENCE Very much.