Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Chino, a taco playing against Michael Adams.
Will Chino a taco get an attack in this game?
Sorry, the jokes are free in my courses.
Yes.
So this is the 2011 British Championship.
Round four.
We have E four from a taco.
See?
Five from Michael Adams.
Sicilian defense, nine C free the close Sicilian, 96 g4g6.
So we have Bishop G two, Bishop G seven, d3d6.
So Black is employing a dance by a grip strategy, getting a grip on these nice dark squares, especially
the four here knights F3 and now actually E five not minding the D five hole.
Is this hole exploitable?
It's not particularly exploitable right now.
White consoles we see 9g7 and now 92.
Now Black hasn't committed to castling.
And in fact, guess what Adams plays here.
I'll give you 5 seconds to pause the video.
And a lot of math games, by the way.
Generally, we see, you know, both sides.
They seem to cancel after each other quite routinely.
Here.
Adams is not obliged to Castle.
He plays actually H five.
The knight has neglected control of H four, making h four more lucrative.
Here we see C four if h four now gfg4 is weakens and Bishop g4 could provoke weaknesses, so say for
free then we're weakening more the dark squares here.
So this is going to be positionally quite good.
For example, this situation we can take on F four and play D five to give us a semi-open default play
with and this activates our pieces.
This is a very nice structure to have because it has a lot of weaknesses in their camp.
Out black has a small edge if we look at this again.
Yeah.
Bishop four is the way to go.
Not g five.
This is it's actually going to be okay for white after nine.
C for good for white, but yeah, positionally Bishop G for provoke weaknesses as a priority.
So 9c4 though is played allowing the possibility of H four we have 94 first nine E to Bishop G four
so weakening the dark squares now three we have Bishop e696 default.
This is really helping black as well because it's creating a semi-open CFO which could be used to switch
resources to the kingside later as well.
F We have Roxy eight At the moment it looks as though the knight should move.
F five is played.
Intriguingly, there are some tactics here hidden beneath with a four you might think, Hang on, why
wouldn't Black just win a pawn?
This is a fascinating line.
Bishop.
Take C4 rd, take C4 If we take on C4, are King's in the center?
And even if we're a fantastic positional player, things can backfire for us.
After four takes takes Rook takes F seven with the idea of the Nifty Queen F one check and white has
a small edge.
So things to bear in mind here about bishop take C4 if a for best is e takes e4 it seems you know and
then D five and then we're getting a great position here in any case but in the game afore wasn't played
we have f five here from white G takes our five e takes and oc b seven is on the fire but it doesn't
really matter.
It seems like it takes our five.
We have Bishop E for first nudging the knight.
Knight goes back and now Bishop takes B seven.
The thing is rook c seven.
This is just a great position for black overall because D five now pushes this knight back.
Once got passive pieces and H4 promises either to open up the king or install a dreaded form pawn.
Yeah.
T h or n form pawn.
So we have g four if king G2.
Well that's just asking for h takes and Bishop H free check.
And if King F2 we're going to play Bishop H free and open up the H file and then we can use a nifty
rook lift Rooks six to put pressure on F3 like this.
Rook f six Bishop G four It's going to be end of game here.
Okay, so yeah, we're winning with Terrell.
So G4 was played H This is a very dangerous form.
Pawn it also positionally and tactically it's working.
It's an intersection actually of attacking chess and positional chess.
In my view, this just takes a lot of boxes.
H three We have Bishop dd two, Queen dd seven, Bishop E one and now Adams.
Just castles.
Yeah, he doesn't mind, just castling.
We have Bishop before rugby.
Ain't Bishop takes E seven.
Yeah.
One is perhaps concerned that now that this Knight's been on the pins Knight G six therefore looks very
juicy.
So this weakens though white on the dark squares, the dark square guardian is gone.
Rook B one We have rook B six Queen C one and now Queen H four.
Yeah.
White's position is full of weaknesses.
G five And now, yeah, this opens up the Queen across hair supporting E four and actually White resigned
here.
The position is pretty miserable.
Look at White's pieces.
They've been destroyed.
To be fair.
Yeah.
The previous year, Adams was destroying even GM's in less than 50 moves.
So this player is not a GM.
When I'm just a 2100 player, it shows that the level of devastation that can occur when a positional
player, Adams is just destroying all their pieces, counterplay and king safety.
So here, if D takes E for D, takes E for Bishop H one, Queen G for checking after a great move would
be Bishop E five here.
And what would White be doing in this position?
Say Queen D one.
Queen H four check.
Bishop G four check.
This is out town.
Now, if also we look at Bishop H one, Queen G four check.
Bishop e five we.
Is strong here.
Free check.
We can even play Bishop G free.
The tactics just flow from this amazing position.
So, for example, Bishop G for crack Queen G to check, the tactics are absolutely flowing.
As Bobby Fischer says, tactics flow from superior positions.
So here Queen takes.
Sorry, it would be a blunder.
No, it's Queen DD two is checkmate.
So yes, that's that's over.
Queen RD two is checkmate.
And if we look at another variation.
So instead of here, King one bishop takes.
If rook takes, we're just going to queen.
That form pawn.
That form pawn is now a menacing past pawn here.
So this is absolutely crushing.
And here we can shortly checkmate with Queen two again.
Queen need to attack me.
So an absolutely brutal positional attacking game because White didn't seem to estimate black playing
age five.
This already gives black a promising position right out of the opening.
And that's, you know, a trademark of Michael Adams in his wins.
Quite often it's out of the opening.
He's got a definite advantage against his victims in these British championships.
So, yeah, a fascinating game.
I hope you enjoyed this and showing the dangers of the form pawn installation and the dangers of casting
too early going right into an h pawn attack.
Okay.
And so much.