Hi there.
In this lecture, we see Anthony Komp of Playing Avenger gig.
This is in 1968.
So, Moscow Championship.
Student Championship.
So E4.
So Anatoly Karpov was an undergraduate and he's playing graduate of Moscow University.
So C five from gig, we have nice F three, D, six D, four C takes the fall, night takes D four,
and another bit of trivia.
So apparently they became good friends actually, and get co-authored some books with Karpov later.
So we have an exciting Sicilian dragon here.
We have Bishop E free to the Yugoslav attack system and we Black Castles, Bishop C four, C six, Queen
RD two, Queen A five.
So you might think, Hang on, is this really a positional game?
Well, it does have some positional aspects to the attack.
The nature of how the attacking chess is played out So white castles queenside This looks pretty standard
so far.
H 495 Bishop B Free Rook FCA No H five is played perhaps slightly more accurate as King B one.
This can prevent some tactics occurring sometimes.
And also, by the way, it means that if the night moves, there's no queen text to have check.
So King bee one is is quite accurate for Bishop G five hair and for example here Bishop takes six leaves
white with a much better position after 95 if the Queen's come off Y is immediately threatening.
The big deal is night be sex.
Forget night takes have sex for a moment and you know, say a five.
We're going to play this and if a for Bishop D five and we're winning in exchange.
But otherwise if rook obey yeah we will take on F six and then D six is on fire.
So this is a great way of playing it as well
rather than rook e one sorry, rook just doubles on D six and it's difficult for black so.
Okay.
So H five though is played with the king on C one and we have Knight takes H five, Bishop H six And
this is another point where the king on C one it's prone also to technically there's an interesting
resource in this position which black didn't play black play Bishop takes h six but there is knight
D free check.
Funny enough, if C takes D free, there's Bishop 64 and here black actually could be better.
After rook take C three.
B takes this position with Bishop.
Take C free Queen before is rather interesting.
White's subjected to an attack here with Bishop a four and if Queen de five.
Yes Bishop takes be free and it's very dangerous for eight takes for Queen a free And if queen takes
yeah black's going to take off things and this will be slightly better for black.
Yes.
So that was very, very interesting.
On Knight the Fray.
But the thing is, and we can also rule out Queen takes the free easily.
But there is a snag.
You know this position black does best to play rook take C free and here black will be better And if
black doesn't play rook, take C free then 95 is strong for white Knight takes E seven is a blast with
a five check Queen takes DD six jack Queen takes dd seven and and queen of sevens mating.
But yeah there is a problem White can play king be one here anyway.
Maybe Karpov saw this knight in take speed to King takes B2 now although this looks a bit scary this
position.
Let's say rook S.C free g for y ends up being better here because of it on me e five.
So that disconnects the Queen from H five.
And if D takes E five, g five.
This is a very strong attack.
If it's five white can continue with Rook takes in G six.
It's a strong attack, basically.
Here there are strong attacking possibilities emerging.
So, yes, this is not so clear if it takes me to it.
This isn't so clear as it might seem.
G4 is still a strong attack because of this E5.
So anyway, Black simply played.
Bishop takes h six.
We have queenside st six and they'll rook S.C three B tanks, Queen St C free and now Knight E two not
minding the check that King is just going to go to D So.
So we have Queen C five, if not the free check here, it looks like a tactic to win a rook.
But the thing is, why can it just accept this?
Because now there's G four and the problem is Black's knight gets stranded.
White plays like this and strands the knight and is able to scoop up that knight soon after preventing
some threats from black.
We're scooping up the knight.
Thanks very much.
Winning.
So yes, 93 doesn't help.
So Queen C five, we have G four Knight, six, G 595.
And this shows the absolute brilliancy of copper from the attack.
Rook takes h five is played.
It turns out this actually there might be a more accurate way of playing it.
King B one actually carries with it.
It's annoying for threat.
It's very useful for the king to be on B one rather than allowing like checks.
So here, let's say 94, there's rook D five and white gets a better position here.
That's that's like winning material.
You might think if the queen had gone back you say Knight F4 and here Rook takes H five is a crushing
attack for example like this.
So it does does seem king B one is pretty venomous actually, given A four.
Yeah.
It's preventing it's looking at active operations, preventing moves like Queen E free.
You know, that would be check if we played it immediately then there's check So looking at our active
operations, preventing threats in advance, King B one is actually a really powerful move here.
And yeah so Queen C seven for this possession there's rook takes 95, it's just crashing through but
rook takes H five is played.
G Thanks, Rook one And this looks a little bit risky to invite the Queen in to the position.
So here Queen takes free is played.
It does seem too slow to indulge Queen size E two because of Rook taints H five.
It looks very dangerous for Black's king.
So we have queen tanks.
Our free rook takes H five here and e six if I.
Is that queen size E too?
We're playing Queen takes H seven Shaq.
And there was a weakness of the last move.
Basically that queen wasn't protecting that f seven.
We just might.
So, yeah, this is really interesting, this position.
So it's been played if like G six, a powerful move is actually rock H one here, funnily enough.
So again, the queen is kind of pinned.
If Queen takes, we take on H seven and then take on F seven mating.
And given that case, we're now threatening actually 94 without any annoying check on D one to pick
up the night.
So this is quite a preventative move to prevent the checks on D one.
And yeah, so let's put one or two things on the wall.
So that's mating.
Just to recap there.
And if D five bishop takes D five, this is just a menacing position here with 94.
Once we get in 94, blacks in big trouble here because 96 check.
And then Queen takes G six.
We're now threatening rook H eight.
Among other things.
This is just desperate from black.
We're going to just get rid of all blacks checks and then start checking to win material.
So, yes, that would have been a very interesting that's a very interesting move in that relation.
So anyway, E6 is played, but now this is absolute brilliancy.
It looks as though blacks kind of shielded the king, blunted the bishop.
And how does White's attack proceed?
And also what is this?
The first rank is available for checks.
The Knights in danger here.
So what on earth is Karpov up to in this position?
But it turns out it's it's actually a rather interesting position, to say the least.
So for 100 points, what would you play here?
G6 is played.
Now, there's a few points to this.
First of all, let's rule out queen size Ito.
That's a weakness of the last move, right?
We can play actually g tanks h seven track and then queen F six is mate.
And what about the ways of taking Well, if H tanks, that's clear enough.
Queen H is checkmate.
If f tanks, we take on h seven.
And here we can actually play queen h h and then rook h seven check.
And after nine of seven, we're free to take this.
There isn't too much counterplay here.
We're just winning and we're threatening.
Rook takes F seven and Queen takes D seven immediately.
We're just winning position there.
So Knight tanks is play.
You might think, well you know what's the big deal about the G six move the G six move actually activated
the rook here.
And there's a key resource in particular we have Queen six, eight, seven check king of eight.
And guess what kind of plays here?
I've given you a clue for 100 points.
What would you play here?
A crushing blow.
I mean, Karpov's tactical ability is absolutely amazing.
Like Capablanca amazing tacticians.
Rook five.
So hitting the queen hitting f7.
What does Black do?
So if EA takes that's just mate.
So Black gives up the Queen and it's not enough.
Really.
He takes it and now we have full precision here.
Might afford to try and lure the night away from age eight.
So that's really strong.
Rook is played.
If Knight tanks are for Queen, Air Queen takes a big advantage.
So Rook is tried.
Queen H six, check.
King eight, nine, 6g6f Tanks, Queen Tanks G six check.
King E seven Queen G five check King.
Now E takes her five.
And it's an overwhelming position.
Check, check.
And the pawn is going to queen soon.
F stakes Black resigned here if King C seven, f seven and then we're cleaning.
Yeah.
A very very nice game from Anatoly Karpov showing huge tactical abilities even in 1968.
Karpov Don't underestimate the tactical ability of Karpov also.
Adams you know, also Capablanca.
These are fantastic positional players, but they are fantastic tactically as well.
So that resource, you know.
G six for the Rook five absolutely amazing stuff.
What seemed to be a blunted bishop, you know, it can be blunted through tactical resources.
So great stuff and inspiration.
I did put this on YouTube many years back.
You know, I'm attracted, of course, to attacking games, but it's kind of positional attacking.
So.
Okay, I hope you enjoyed this one.
It shows that positional players when there's very little risk to attack.
And if players play things like the Sicilian Dragon, they are just asking for it for the foul attacks.
Okay.
As Fischer says about the dragon, sac, sac and mate, it was a bit like this in this game in some
of the variations.
Och, that's so much.