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In this lecture, we see Anatoly Karpov playing against Anthony Miles or Tony Miles.
So the late Tony Miles, one of Britain's leading grandmasters at the time.
So this is 1982, the Phillips and Drew tournament round nine.
We see E four from Karpov and Tony Miles plays a Sicilian dragon.
So this is an interesting, dynamic, aggressive opening.
So we have Karpov playing Bishop E three, D seven, and then we have three, The Yugoslav Attack Relation.
So Queen RD 290, C six, G four, Bishop E six.
And here there might be a temptation to take on E six.
But Karpov rejects that.
He just castles it seems nine takes e six might actually be okay for white.
For example, 95 Bishop e to queen.
Thank Bishop d4.
We have a small edge here, but maybe Karpov didn't like the potential play on the F file.
The semi-open F file.
If we look at also D five while we're here, if we look at E tanks 96 1960 5ex.
So Black is looking at a three.
But if we take on D five this possession with the Queen's coming off, we should have a small edge here.
Off to Bishop C five.
So this position Bishop G2, the rook goes back Bishop ih free and it looks pleasant enough with the
bishop free to pull majority on this side of the board.
Of course, it will be more difficult because our king lives over here to exploit that majority.
But overall, it's slightly better.
Bishop, our counterpart, stands out.
So OC comp of councils though, we have nine takes RD for Bishop takes the Evil Queen, a5a free.
So protecting that pawn rook a bit H for rook 58 and now 95 offering exchange of queens.
So this is making the game calmer potential less maids to lose horribly with the king on the queenside
Tony Myles obliges to the Queen exchange Queen 62, Rook 62.
And now we have Bishop takes D five, E takes D five, a six.
If Knight takes the five, we just take on G seven and then we're taking on D five.
Thanks very much.
So A6 we have Bishop E2 97 and now this is really interesting positional play actually, and for Karpov
realizes that this third rank could be really useful.
So F4 clears that third rank for the rook, which would be a useful preventative move of the 95 black
is actually threatening something.
So we have to make use of a preventive move preventative.
And to do that we need to know what the opponent is threatening.
So what is the opponent threatening?
What if we played h five as example?
Well, can you see for ten points?
What will Black do?
Yeah.
Black can play.
Might be free track.
Or even better play.
Bishop takes first after Rook takes 90 free check.
Just winning whole piece.
So rook free is played and this prevents this naughty business.
So prevention is better than cure Sometimes.
Often.
So we have rook seven rook e free here.
H5 is plausible actually.
So for example A for B free this possession.
It is plausible to play like this with G five.
For example here G tanks H five.
Bishop takes G seven King two, g seven.
And as long as we keep our rook protecting B free, this is fine.
This is a this is an advantage for white.
So rookie free is an interesting positional alternative, trying to put pawns under pressure.
We have B five and now Bishop takes G seven.
It turns out here actually Bishop takes C five.
Has some thing going for it.
For example, if rook takes C, if I were taking only seven, if D take C five, D six is interesting
for this position where we can try and probe these pawns.
So this position, we've definitely got a small edge.
So anyway, Bishop takes G seven, King takes G seven rook D for a five, and now four we have Knight
A four.
It seems black could equalize here just taking on b4, not giving white potential past pawn.
So this position should be absolutely fine.
For both sides.
It's an evil possession, but the way it's played, we have nights, a fall.
So this is interesting.
Cop might just take on a fight.
Is this being naive or something just to win this point?
Is there some hidden trap or agenda when taking that pawn?
The thing is, guess what Commonwealth played here.
Yeah.
He takes the form because it is a potential technical, you know, technically it's a pass --.
It looks like.
Well, this is structural damage.
The thing is, B five could be on the fire.
It takes time to exploit this structure and resources, and there's very limited resources in this position.
Now we see C three and the bishop just drops back.
King of fire and the king now moves the B to BCA is actually a big mistake.
Black could have played a full check and say King C one, This position should be okay.
Let's say Bishop takes B five, rook takes a four.
It should lead to an equal position, basically.
So this actually really helps cop off this mistake.
It does create a downside.
This technical upside is is actually significant.
If we look at this again, just for a moment, though.
So we played King B3.
We can't be that adventurous with the king.
There's always a six, a six check and might be seven.
It's going to be even.
So yeah.
So anyway, so what does Karpov do with BC eight, which makes this so bad?
So guess what happens here?
What does White play in this possession?
Yeah.
We have the move.
King Be free.
This is now difficult for black.
It's a really difficult position.
We see Rook See five, if not a four.
Despite having seemingly bad pawns, we have Bishop takes B five concretely to undermine the knight.
If check, we can play King before.
And if we reach this position with a six and 95, we can play rook c four.
And there's trouble brewing here.
There's big trouble brewing.
We could play, let's say, black plays of six and we play like this and we could even play Rook take
C five here because that is a definite danger.
That pass pawn here with King A five White's got all the play and is just going to celebrate the past
pawn winning.
So there are dangers of merging now we have rook see five which looks to try and take out a center pawn.
But now a69 times D five is played.
What else if Rook eight White can just exploit the weakness of the last move?
C phrase been loosened.
We just take on C free.
So Knight takes his tried.
But guess what Karpov plays here, which is really amazing in this position.
For 100 points.
And yes, it is possible.
Related this combination, the tactics flow from a superior position.
As Fisher says.
In this position, it looks as though White doesn't structure.
It looks a bit strange, but Rook takes the five structurally is a pass born and this exchange sacrifice
Rook takes the five is now followed with rook c free.
Yeah, it just amplifies the passport potential, the simplification rook.
The eight is played.
Now you might wonder in this position, what if Rook eight had been played?
What would you play here for?
Ten points.
Yeah, there's a great move here to be aware of.
There's an awkward configuration.
Even if we're just looking at the opponent's position without our own possibilities, we can see.
Oh, wouldn't it be nice to skewer these rooks?
And we have actually got Bishop Jitsu to actually make use of that observation.
Bishop Due to securing the Rooks Absolutely winning.
So yes, Rook day was played instead of rook eight.
If rook takes C free check, King takes five check king before this position is going downhill.
BLACK Once just going to march with the king with the pawn and it's absolutely winning.
We're just going to queen and there's no problem.
So Rook eight is tried Rooks seven, Rook D one And now Bishop takes five, e five and now a seven.
He takes a four and now rook be seven.
So gearing up for route B eight.
Yes, Check King A four.
And now Rook takes B five we have here.
Rook tanks B5 being played.
Not minding this slight inconvenience because this is an absolutely winning position and free rook be
eight.
It's with tempo against the rook on the eight.
So after F two.
Yeah.
Rook takes the eight black resigns.
I mean, it is a rook down.
If King G seven, we're just going to Queen and then check.
And we were the first one with the check so we can just carry on checking until the fourth mate rises.
So.
You know, this is absolutely winning.
So here there will be an easy win with Queen Bee five, just getting the queens off.
That's fair enough.
That's easy enough from there to take it from that.
So anyway, the final possession of the game.
Rog takes the eight.
Yeah, we're celebrating the past pawn in this game.
It's very, very interesting how dangerous past pawns are when simplification occurs.
So this was a bit of a theoretical risk.
And Karpov's King moves made the post a pawn to get two of the amazing exchange sacrifice in this position
with amazing use of rook see free.
It really is a fantastic demonstration here of pawns pawn potential.
So yes, this infiltration with the rook on the seventh rank and yeah, it's just an absolutely winning
pass pawn.
So yes, pass pawns are a joy to behold.
They create winning probability.
They're not to be underestimated.
Nimzowitsch said Pawn spawns like criminals.
Active surveillance is not enough.
They need to be kept under lock and key.
That wasn't the case here.
This past pawn became very dangerous indeed, winning in fact quite rapidly.
So a very interesting game from Karpov showing that even against the opening line Sicilian Dragon,
you can expect some slugfest against the king.
Karpov managed to play it with his Rovian python style, trying to get rid of counterplay and just winning
in end games instead.
Och much more guaranteed style of winning sometimes rather than indulging in tactics trying to get to
the opponent's kings in opposite side castling games, which you'd think they're usually about that
opposite side.
Castling is usually a race to get to each other's king.
But yeah, great positional treatment here.
Using the third rank, using the possible opportunity to the maximum, as Kasparov says of Karpov,
is that Karpov has minimum minimal use of resources with maximum effect, maximum effectiveness.
And that was the case in this game.
Well, so I hope you enjoyed it and so much.