 He is known as the beast for his aggressive and fearless play tonight's master class is by Naanadar, then Grandmaster Adiban. Welcome. Yeah, hi. Nice to be here. Alright Adiban, now before we start, we have to address the elephant in the room. What happened today? Ah, today? Okay. You were looking for an elephant. Yeah. No, no. What happened today in your game? No, I chose a complicated line and I was not expecting some night decent and then I was trying to recollect my prep and I could not and then I went for this very interesting bishop of sound sacrifice and I am getting like three pawns for a piece. Actually I think at some point, yeah, I have to take the knight on d4 at some point and then I get like three pawns for a piece and a very interesting battle but for some reason I played fast and it was not a good idea and then the situation just got worse and worse, yeah. Well, one of your qualities is that despite having a bad day in office, you're often seen with a very positive attitude and you've always got that smile on your face. Yeah, that's true. What's the secret? I don't know. I remember having like, this is just one game. I remember having like a very bad day where I lost many games in World Rapid and stuff, World Rapid and Blitz and then with it I wanted to take a picture where I was trying to be sad. But I could not, just I could not bring myself to be sad. No, it's just overall positive attitude and just, I know this is just one game and I know it's not going to stop me so I just don't feel sad about it and also I feel like after every loss I come back even stronger, so yeah. Yeah, you're known for your comebacks. Yeah. Right, now what do you have in store for us today? Yeah, this is one of my favorite games. I played with Sergey Teviakov, it was a long time back and it always had a special memory because he was one of the strongest players I had bet at that time. Okay, still is because I think at the time of this game his rating was 2698. And also Sergey I think has, he has been holding the record of unbeaten streaks actually, so he has been having that for quite some time, which okay, recently was bet by Dingler and of course with the soundtrack. But yeah, so yeah, that's why it's, I thought it's an interesting game which I wanted to share with the audience. We can't wait, hope it has all your aggressive and tactical style in it. But before that, give us a little background about the game. Was it an important round? What were your thoughts going into it? Do you remember? Yeah, it was in the Orissa Open in India and no, actually the tournament was pretty much normal because I was more or less playing, I think lower rated opponents and this was my first game with the Grandmaster. And funnily, after I won this game, everyone was asking me if I made a Grandmaster norm. So you were not a Grandmaster already? No, no, no. So I was like 2493 or something. So I thought, okay, everyone was asking me if I made a Grandmaster norm after this game, but I said the minimum criteria is to meet three Grandmasters and even I won't be able to fulfill even that because the last round was one more Grandmaster and totally it's two, that's it. But still, it was a very nice game and yeah, I think I was preparing till three in the morning, so it was like a crazy night. Is that normal for you to prepare for, you know, because you don't come across as... Yeah, because this was probably, I think, the strongest player I had faced at that time. So I was really taking it very seriously. Yeah, also you were playing to become a Grandmaster around that period, so you were very motivated. Yeah, yeah, to be sure, yeah. Should we dive into it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. Okay. You wanted to talk about this... We will be talking about... Just later, yeah. About what? About this, my victories. Yeah, we will, we'll come back to... So Adiban is very excited to talk about his many wins, which we will be very soon, but first let's start with the game. Yes. Okay, so let's go right into it. I'm black, I'm... Against Sergei Tevriko? Yeah. So all this is well known. Okay. So the Roy Lopez? Yes. Okay, now I think we can start off... I have to ask you, Adiban, there'll be, you see, a lot of players actually going in for the Italian instead of the Spanish, instead of Bishop B5, we see Bishop C4 happening more and more now. What do you think is the reason for this trend? No, I think one of the main reasons is this Berlin. To avoid the Berlin. Yeah, to avoid the Berlin and Italian was... No, Berlin was well researched and in the top level, after a while, everyone knows this line so well that they needed to find a new system where they can analyze and try to explore new grounds and Italian was the perfect ground for it because Scorch was having this droish tendencies and... Italian, the thing is, you can aim for a fighting game. Right. And previously, I used to use Italian in my younger days when I wanted a fight away from theoretical battles but nowadays, everyone is playing that even... That has become theoretical, so nowadays there's no such thing as... So we might see after Bishop B5, Bishop C4, we might see a Bishop D3 development or something. Hopefully not, but. Sorry, Bishop? To go Bishop D3 instead of... Yeah, yeah, something like that. I hope not, though. All right, so this was a Roy Lopez and it continued with C3 here. Yeah, okay, so I just wanted to know, like, who knows the name of the line? Stunned. Stunned, yeah. It's the first official world champion. So I just like to play the... I mean, openings of the world champions, so I chose this and... Who's your favorite world champion because... I don't know too many. Okay, I think the first book I read was... Of Michael Tall, my life and games, or actually, it was Attack with Michael Tall. And another book was My Memorable 60 Games by Bobby Fisher. So, like, I always have preference... Tal and Fisher. Tal and Fisher, yeah. And if there was one thing that you had to say you learned from them, from studying their games? Yeah, Tal is his fearlessness. Like, you would just go for the kill right from move one. So that and Fisher was like... From move one. Yeah, move one, yeah. And Fisher was this professional, yeah. He would be like the pro... Because Tall was playing for just enjoyment and he just wanted to have fun. But Fisher, he wanted to win the game. He wanted... Okay, he wanted not so much as enjoying, but he just wanted to beat his opponent. So these two things I really liked from these champions here. So combining these two would be... Yeah, that would be... The ultimate. Yeah, yeah. All right. So C3, yeah. Short-casel is one of the main lines and I think it's more popular nowadays. And C3 is... It allows like a very posing line with F5. So to avoid this, many players, they try to go short-casel. So F5, yeah, already it starts, yeah, like I said. So here you have... Okay, there's one line with D4, but it goes in some PSAC. So EFI is more or less the main line. Anyone in the audience who plays this line? No. Well, maybe after this game. Hopefully they will get inspired. So yeah, Bishop F5. And yes, now there are a couple of lines. Like there's one crazy line with D4, E4 and D5. And it's actually a peace sacrifice if I remember correctly. Yeah, like white even doesn't take on C6 and just goes for a... But it's like super complex and... Yeah, generally white goes for like safety first, yeah. And now, yeah, Bishop D3. Just stopping D4 and controlling everything. So Bishop D3 prevents white development on the queen side. On the queen side, yeah. So rookie one, yeah, pretty much forced. Yeah, now like... Okay, I played Bishop E7, but I want to ask why not Knight F6? All right, this is for the audience. One for the audience that... What happens after Knight F6? Like there's a difference between this and Bishop E7. So... So... Huh? Oh, I take on E5, yeah, I think... Let's have that on the board. So we have a suggestion of take on E5 directly, but probably takes back... Yeah, it takes back. So rookie E5, but Bishop E7. Now, the problem is like the pieces are not ready, yeah, for getting compensation, and also I just need one more short castle. Yeah, also one of the reasons I wanted to show this game is... When I was taught chess, I learned these three golden principles of chess, which I'm curious if you guys know. Why don't you tell us? Tell us while they're having a think. What are the three principles? Three principles. Does anyone have a guess? Or they're still thinking? They're still thinking. But tell us a bit, while we have our audience giving this position a thought, how much of this obviously was part of your preparation, right, till now? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. So do we have anyone or... with any ideas in this position? Yes, that's the one. Oh, good one. Yeah. That's the difference between Bishop E7. So you... The pin. Yeah, the pin, yeah. So it's like a super, like double pin, yeah. So Bishop A4 and Ruki 1. So this is the reason why Black goes Bishop E7 first to prevent this idea. So after Knight D4, it's very unpleasant, I mean... I don't remember the exact evaluation, but I think, yeah, it was not pleasant for Black, if I don't... Right. Yeah, because Queen D7... You've got Queen F3 as well. Yeah, Queen F3 idea is there, yeah. Maybe have that on the board for a moment. Yeah, so Queen D7, yeah. On the pin continues, yeah. Attack on D3 and attack on C6, so it gets... Yeah, so E4, the problem is going into D3, yeah. So this pin is still a problem, yeah. Nice. Yeah, so Knight of 6, that's why I'm in Bishop E7. Yeah, I remember once it was in 2016, I think. It was in Hussleback and Open in Sweden, and the game was... They were not starting the first round, and... So we didn't know... Okay, we were a group of youngsters, and we had a lot of time, so we started analysing this portion out of nowhere, and Shiro came across our analysis, and he suggested Queen B3, and he said this was his preparation from some time back. And did you use that in this game then? Or this was after this game happened? No, this was in like 3 years back or something, 2016, yeah, so just... No, it's just Curia, like it goes something like this, and Queen D5, and it's like... A mess. Yeah, a mess, yeah. This is a very typical Shiro position as well. And yeah, also I played on-game with Nils, actually, in the same system. I was playing this game, yeah. So Ruki 3, yeah, the point is, okay, he wants to kick the Bishop, and... So White basically wants to get D4? Yes. As soon as he can. Yeah, and the main line is Bishop C2, actually. This is the easier way, yeah. So to take, take Knight of 6 and D4, and this is the main line, and yeah, it's probably around slightly better for White or equal, yeah. So this is what I was more or less expecting. Yeah, but Ruki 3 actually had played some games, so I was kind of prepared for this. And did Sagar take some time for this move? No, he played it quite fast. He played it fast, okay. Yeah, if I remember correctly, yeah. So, and I was happy to get this E4. Yeah, so now, now why not Knight B4? When you say you were happy to get E4, tell us a bit. I don't know, basically, like, my preparation continues, yeah, so... Okay, so you were still in your book. And you've got Adibhan's trainer. Yeah, he wanted to see... Mr. Uplava joining us. He wanted to see me. He's just making sure he's done a good job with you. No, I thought after my game today, he will not join. You ever? He will not join. Maybe it's just the wine. Yeah. Yeah, okay, so the principles, the three principles of chess which I learned was captioning the center on peace development, which is what my opponent didn't follow and I didn't follow today, so always develop your pieces. It's never a good idea not to do it. And, yeah, the third one is... What was that? Castling, yeah. Okay, so knight E1. Okay, so you're still planning to get rid of this bishop at any cost. Yeah, so now any such jumps, how I continue. This is a very interesting position because black is not fully developed here. But neither is white on the queen side. Yeah, but yeah, I think black is a little bit better developed, maybe, I guess. Then? Yeah. Some of these, all these queen side pieces make a very weird impression. Yeah. So we have a suggestion, sorry? B5. B5 followed by 95. B5 followed by 95. Yeah, I think that was one of the moves I was considering. Let's have it on the board. Yeah. So we have a suggestion with B5 here. Yeah, but I think probably I can play bishop B3. 95 was the idea. Yeah, and I think I can go here if it works. Yeah, but okay, it's still knight C4. I'm not at all sure what is happening. Maybe I think probably to take here but then still ID3. Yeah. B5 is an interesting suggestion. Yeah, but for some reason. Bishop C2? Maybe just bishop C2, yeah. Knight C2. Or queen C2. Maybe, maybe you want to go queen H5 as well. Knight C2, you have to still go for knight H6. Yeah, but somehow I'm not at all sure. Maybe D4. Yeah, D4, but at least Hx and short casurates. Yeah, it's still game. So B5 is a reasonable suggestion. Yeah, B5 is reasonable, yeah. And B5, if I take the knight with the queen H1 check. Yeah, this is what I was about to suggest. G6. G6. Queen D5. Yeah, queen D7. Bishop D1. Oh, this is, no, this is beautiful. Maybe bishop D3, yeah. And yeah, it's, yeah, not enough. Because bishop D1, knight F6 is still possible, but now it looks. No, now it's still possible, but you can just take the pawn and bishop E6 is right there. Yeah, it's not a good question. Yeah, B5, I think the main problem is it weakens the light squares. So. Right. I'm going to find something more in the spirit of the position. To play in the spirit of the position. Should I take a guess? Am I allowed? Yeah, but you can see. Oh yeah, you're right. I actually had. You can see the gift. It's true, but to be honest, I hadn't seen it until you mentioned it, but that was going to be my move. Yeah, okay. So that's. So I assume you would come up with that. So do we have another suggestion? Very interesting. Yes. That is correct. Yes. So that's. Yeah, basically we are not going to allow in time to take this piece here. So now I remember it was some line with rook K3 and knight F6. Like basically like I'm going to give up this D3 pawn and go for short castle and try to go for some attack initiative. But yeah, he played knight into D3. So this, I was actually expecting it. Yeah, because he had already played rook E3. So I was like, like I said, I was preparing for quite a long time. So once again, what did you have in mind if you just moved the rook? Knight F6, right? Just simply knight F6. Yeah. So rook H3, I think just knight F6. And white's lack of development is very obvious in the situation. And if he just takes on D3 at the moment. So rook D3. Yeah, I think just... Did you just want to go short castle or what? No, I was just trying to remember. I think maybe it was something like D5 maybe. D5, someones are still this. Yeah, so bishop D3 and now knight here maybe. But again, it's super messy. It was long back, so I don't really remember. But 95, this looks good, no? No, but I'm just not sure if bishop D7, D8, what is happening. Right. Queen H5, knight D6, queen H7. Yeah, but still, the problem is, the queen's idea is somewhat plain. So it will take some time to come. Did he think for a while before he moved or did he go for this exchange sacrifice really quickly? Yeah, quite quickly, yeah. I think maybe I could have thought here but somehow he wanted to play part, yeah. So yeah, now okay, it's pretty much D3, now knight B4. Yeah, now the second question. Okay, now the second question. So now how to continue? And remember this is Adibhan playing with black so that's a big hint. And the first suggestion that comes in bishop F2, and it's obviously the right one. Yeah, yeah, just play like me. Yes, let's see. Okay, basically we don't have time to go back because knight in the C6 is threatened and the time is of the essence so just we go for that back. Yeah, now how to continue? Actually in some ways while you have a think, I mean let's just see this position here. Yes. You would have had to see bishop F2 before. Yeah, yeah. Simply because it's probably the only move in the position, right? I will tell you when my preparation actually entered. So we are still in your preparation. So bishop F2 here and white has to take. All right, how do you follow this up? Yes. Who said bishop F2? I did. So I have to continue. I'm thinking of myself. Knight in C6. Sorry, we have a suggestion. I was talking. Knight in C6. Where did it fall? Just now, right? I think that you can just probably take on C6, no? If knight in C6. Also, you have to be careful about queen H5 check because you will not have G6 anymore. Yeah, this queen has to... So this can be unpleasant. Yeah. Because now the 8-6 knight hangs. Yeah, it's more or less the same idea but I just changed the order of the moves. So queen H4 check first. So now I have to go king G1. And now... Yeah, knight in H6. This is a little bit better than knight of 6 for some reason. Now I'm trying to remember why. Yeah, I think just the e-sound is under control. And you keep that while open. So knight in 6 is slightly better place than knight of 6. So this is what it did. And yeah, he took knight C6. So the big difference with including queen H4 check is that the H5 is under control. So your idea was correct. Yes, as always. Exactly, yeah. Nice. So now they are thinking like me. So it's easy. So the audience just suggested castle. I have to ask how. Where is that coming from? Just to get the rook into the game. Also because it feels like the only move. Yeah, actually we don't really have an option. Because you can't really take on C6 because white after taking is just completely winning in this position. So now black has a really big threat of checkmate. So you're threatening queen F2 and queen F1 next. Okay, maybe this time for a change to avoid this. Well you know what you have to play against. And you were still in your prep. Yes, yes. How do you feel now? There's been a lot of talk and controversy around opening preparation. The fans at least don't like it a lot because they feel that chess has become a lot about openings. As a strong grandmaster you can't really avoid opening preparation. Do you think it's healthy for chess? Yeah, okay because now for example today I think I lost mainly because of opening. So it has now become a major part of our career. So we need to be always ready. And yeah, I think the main problem with why fans don't like it is the increase in draws. There are just so many draws because if you play correctly it's always ending in a draw. And the computers are not at all helping for this because always if you switch on the evaluation it's always like 0.00. That's why people are calling classical chess as dying so that's why you should focus more on rapid and blitz. But I think still there are a lot of areas which are not explored. Even I think Dingle Run it continues to come up with some interesting ideas. Yeah, so I think it's just you have to strike a balance because it's part of opening is always going to be a major part of the game so we can't really avoid it. And how do you feel about this whole argument around classical chess becoming more and more difficult because of this results that we often get especially in the top elite events. The world championship got decided in the tie breaks. We had no result in the classical format. Hikaru won the entire grand chess store without winning a single game in any of the classical events. Do you see that do you think rapid and blitz is the future of chess? In a way it feels it's a little bit sad that the world championship is decided by rapid because we have a separate world rapid championship few in that you are the rapid world champion but not when you go through the classical cycle. People are not ready to take so much risks in a game because of they just want to be safe and I think that is the main reason. I still like classical chess more but at the same time I'm also for me always rapid and blitz was for fun but nowadays I see that the world cup and a lot of even the world championship is decided by rapid so it's becoming more and more important. I think you should be ready in all formats. In fact we had an interview with Hikaru recently where he said that a world champion should be strong in all formats which is why he thought that Magnus would be the favorite to win because it's very important to have a world champion who is good at blitz rapid. This was a little bit silly in my opinion because he went through all the difficulties of candidates and stuff so if Karwana won the match I think he fully deserved to be the world champion but even he could not I think he himself did not play up to his usual self like he was playing more defensive like I think he was happy to go to the tie break but where he actually did not have so much of a chance so he should have actually like someone was telling me that you should have started the match as minus one then maybe you would have taken it more seriously because like going to rapid is a big handicap for him because Kalsun was clearly superior to him so yeah I think no I think it doesn't matter that the current world champion has to be the best but there have been instances in the past where like I think Fisher was world champion in blitz and also Mikhail Chal was like he was also very good in blitz so I think all this world champion so I think in a way it makes sense but still you cannot discount Fabi just because he is not good in rapid yeah that's what right but talking about draws with your style of play that's obviously not a problem for you because we often see yeah I always find a way to make it interesting that's true okay so coming back to this position any suggestions you had quite a lot of time to think let's go for the equestrian ah yes queen e2 interesting yeah I think I wanted to just continue with IG4 yeah okay maybe yeah yeah I think it was something like this if I remember and the idea is to play queen g3 or to take on h3 so if he goes 97 check here do you just move your yeah this is the point to just ignore it actually and the threat is knight h3 or queen g3 so it's really quite nasty yeah this was actually I think what he should have played actually if I remember queen e2 was correct but I think what he did was wrong actually played h3 he also prevented the back rank with a different move or I think one more way was an id sound check just to distract the queen actually during the game I think I would have taken it but later on I found that king h3 was actually even stronger the same idea just ignoring and going for that attack yeah basically I think no the line is like in old I can now tell you in old annotations it shows as clearly winning for black but ok the computer doesn't exactly agree but probably the computer at that time was only climbing it slightly better for black so that is the assessment of the portion so even h3 yeah so now I think it's interesting for black how I continued so now the question for our audience how to continue the momentum of the attack I mean let's just if you actually take stock of situation you've got he's got three pieces for a rook at the moment yeah three pieces yeah maybe the clue is ok I think this is the reason why queen e2 was maybe a little bit better than h3 and that's interesting yes so queen f2 king h2 I guess on id f5 yeah yeah but can I do queen g4 maybe but still you can go knight h4 and try the knight of 3 check but then maybe knight d4 I'm just still thinking if I should distract knight e1 let's just have queen g4 on the board so if knight h4 with the idea of knight f3 and queen g1 can white go knight d4 here and rook f4 yeah this is dangerous no yeah it looks very dangerous maybe even rook f4 here or even c5 maybe because just get rid of this knight I mean whites biggest disadvantage is that none of his pieces on the queen side are this is what you're playing against yeah maybe so queen f2 maybe I should go king h1 yeah but then you have at least queen f1 and take this guy so the count will be a little bit less telling three pieces yeah now it will become 2 yeah so king h2 yeah knight f2 yeah this is a good suggestion actually I didn't see this so your threat is knight h4 so can white just go knight d4 right now you'll anyways go knight h4 and can I go oh yes this looks good knight h4 now and then queen e2 no queen e2 knight f3 sorry you have to go queen e1 let's just have that on the board let's just show our audience that queen e2 doesn't work so if you take knight f3 your queen hands otherwise it's queen g1 mate so instead can white defend with queen g1 queen g1 then queen f4 right yeah but this is probably the way queen f4 king h4 king h4 yeah oh maybe g3 so you are on fire yes queen g1 nice defense yeah so this is maybe c5 c5 yeah I think okay probably it should not work but I was thinking something like this oh this is nice to run the king I mean white does have a lot of pieces yeah but I'm worried that it'll be checkmate just take the knight and okay I think it should be yeah but okay it's not made yet yeah it's not made yet so I don't even want to take this yeah okay so I have to give everything why can't you go knight e6 yeah I think he wanted rook f6 then d4 okay we want to do this rook f5 and g6 yeah but I think same d4 yeah bishop g5 no okay I just want to give as much pieces as possible yeah checkmate yeah d3 yeah okay knight e6 rook f6 and then d4 yeah this looks like not possible yeah somehow it's not and maybe it's even stronger to include bishop b3 check so that my knight on e6 is defended yeah but anyway it can't really take that oh yeah so maybe it is better to yeah rook f8 maybe yeah d3 check and then knight e6 yeah and then you get your d4 yeah yeah knight a3 like I was trying to save every too many pieces four pieces for a rook might just be too much if there is no made yeah it's not enough yeah so this was interesting line queen f2 king h2 knight h5 good suggestion knight f5 yeah so any other suggestions in this position h3 alright let's try that so we have queen f2 king h2 and rook f3 yeah what is the idea exactly because you're not really threatening rook h3 right knight d4 let's say come back yeah and white will yeah I think some are just I think black is not a massive material problem going on but he has no risk I think he can always make a draw with knight g4 like tex and queen check and he can so repeat repeat anytime he wants so he will say he is not having any problem yeah so queen f2 yeah is good suggestion but I am looking for something more forcing and more awesome more awesome more pressure just more awesome yes yes nice one Ashley so the clue was good yeah so yeah just as they say bring all your pieces to that tech so and yeah I am stopping all this queen e2 and all this stuff and I am threatening queen g3 so your immediate threat is queen g3 yeah queen g3 and there is no way to defend the mate actually found a very interesting way to defend against it no I mean in this position queen g3 is on the board it's over yeah alright let's try and come up with a defense so you have to think of something against the idea of queen g3 king h8 so let's have that on the mode so we have a suggestion of knight e7 king h8 on norubons let's anyway have it on the board yeah yeah yeah okay anyway this is what happened in the game this is correct yes this is good but the big question is now what the theme of over loading the queen yeah so knight e7 I can't take so king h8 so now just have that on the board you have to just have that on the board so knight e7 is important because queen e7 your rook is yeah yeah you cannot take yeah rook is attacked yeah but anyway I don't think I was ever planning to take back so you really didn't care about the pieces in this game I was just going for the majesty king so still a very big threat of queen g3 on the board yeah again I have to emphasize yeah so his main problem is all the pieces are sleeping so they're not really playing yeah I think that's the main reason why that attack is quite strong queen e1 yes so you yourself have to find the refutation for queen e1 yeah nice one so queen e1 let's have that on the board yeah so queen e1 unfortunately doesn't work yeah this was my point actually yeah so king g1 and you lose the queen yeah actually materially it is not doing so bad but the problem is again the king like okay if you try to play knight a3 and I bring the last piece and okay after rook it will be checkmate so on right yeah so queen e1 here doesn't work when now yeah I was bishop c2 so the coach has the students stumped yeah I should yeah maybe yeah no probably yeah bishop c2 I didn't think actually yeah maybe it was possible yeah bishop c2 I guess I should continue bringing all the pieces rook f8 yeah and rook into g2 is a threat yes rook into g2 yeah very sharp today very sharp today thanks baby thank you all this training with laurance helped I think doing commentary yeah looks really bad yeah so just no difference I think for rook g2 alright so any other knight f5 knight f5 that's an interesting idea this is once again stunned yeah but I think I'll play rook f5 yeah and okay guys what is the threat so you're asking if it's black to play here what are you threatening alright so imagine black to play yeah this yeah I think it's quite interesting but I'm not sure if it works yeah I think it's not it's got I really can't no no I was hoping it would end in mech but it's not because king has shut that so I mean you're a best bring but you do realize the online audience can hear you so rook f1 is a suggestion is that a threat here yes that was the one and yeah I was hoping it would be an example just for let's see a3 you don't make such moves on the board ever but just to demonstrate yeah so rook f1 takes and knight g3 and yeah king either way it's checkmate so this is the one so yeah rook f8 and yeah if he takes knight h4 and the x-ray rook g2 rook f1 and actually even with all these pieces on the board there's just no way to play against rook g2 rook f1 yeah there's no difference I think yeah so this I think probably only one more left to defend actually so we have to defend the g2 pawn yes okay maybe I can show so tell us what you did what you did here yeah so it was knight d5 and so it's just ready to play knight e3 so yeah with the queen g3 or rook f8 both can just go knight e3 and I think the e3 square is very important because it defends f1 as well as g2 yeah sure so I just continued rook f8 so he just continued being a million pieces down yeah yeah so it's pretty much force to do this okay now I think okay the main reason why I showed wanted to show this game was this moment which I found very interesting and this moment were you at least out of your book now yeah yeah sure no I think when he played h3 yeah it was not in my preparation so all this rook f2 I had to find over the board yeah so it's three pieces for the rook currently yeah but this is a very interesting motive that we often see which is to sacrifice material when all your opponent's pieces are on one side and then go for the kill on the other side over here he's you're just attacking white's king even though you're materially down it doesn't matter because all his pieces are on the other side of the board yeah yeah there are some of my trainers yeah he told me to split the board and then I can count how many pieces I have for attack and okay so like you can just see like I have queen two rooks and knight and it's basically knight and king and queen yeah so it's heavily hand-off forward yeah that's an interesting thought process so you split the board into two let's say along the e file yeah and even though on the queen side you've got nothing it really doesn't matter because the game will end in the king side hopefully any suggestions again stunned knight g2 what is happening king g2 and king h2 rook f3 yeah you wanted I think I have queen e1 somehow I'm escaping so can we just have that on the board rook f3 and queen e1 defense yeah actually the problem is you don't have to rook f3 I don't think it's like a big threat so I just stop it right yeah it's not working okay let's go back to the position knight e3 oh yes that's the one yes so yeah it's like removing the main defender so like once this knight e3 goes okay queen g3 will be very strong and actually I have like another thread actually okay so he can't take on f3 with the pawn because can we just have that on the board so you can't take because it's mate king h1 and you can decide rook h2 or queen h2 and let's go back to rook f3 and now yeah the point is the same idea I'm threatening rook h3 so he cannot yeah he cannot take because of the same queen g3 and queen h2 and again just to demonstrate a move like a3 rook h3 and rook h1 is not unstoppable otherwise you run into a queen g3 mate if you take on h3 so now black has to white has to find a way against the idea of rook h3 yes so finally one of the pieces is coming to play from the queen side this is a very interesting geometry of defense that this piece on the absolute other flank comes to defend h3 yeah so now I see that okay the idea of rook h3 is gone forever so I need to draw some arrows arrows no but you missed a square yes so what were you saying Adi Ban you missed bishop d7 during the game no no no I don't remember okay I was just going with the flow so I don't know what I saw and what I missed I was just so happy with my question so I was just you were so happy with your position because you were really enjoying playing yeah yeah yeah I was like attacking against such a great player so I was very happy sorry that's a good question that's actually a very good question this is the thing yeah there's no other difference and now finally having all these stupid pieces will actually make sense materially like now it's not so bad maybe black is still probably okay but it's not what he wants it's a good spot with yeah queen f1 yeah it was the only way actually to defend this so rook h3 doesn't work yeah rook h3 doesn't work so basically like I have to continue the same plan but just not giving any more pieces yes actually knight g4 interesting lot of pieces can capture it bishop g4 what you wanted yeah but it was nice I think he wanted to overload the pieces but even perhaps wait actually I'm curious what actually knight g4 rook g2 yeah it's completely okay but probably everything is holding no but yeah bishop g4 is coming but I think his point was take rook h3 right yeah this is nice takes and queen g3 again the same point right yeah this team actually is very nice it happens many time like how do you call it exactly I don't know the word blocking maybe I don't know blocking is yeah queen g3 yes so and now thread is rook e3 and basically I should not give him too much to develop his pieces yeah because if I just wait one more move he has knight a3 and knight c2 interesting I'll also put this arrow from the other the right side click this one on this okay great so if you wait one more move he goes knight c3 and then the e3 knight is protected so then it becomes very difficult to continue the attack I'm not at all sure if it's yeah but still probably have some chances but it's not clear so yeah queen g3 and now I'm going to take on e3 and it looks almost hopeless but he managed to still find a defense actually in such positions tempos and every move really really does count you have to keep the momentum of the attack going yeah there is I mean giving up all the pieces will be for a waste haha so any defense what's your defense with white queen f1 yeah but then you lose a lot of material after rook f1 knight f1 queen f2 perhaps or rook actually let's see yeah it's enough I think because this f1 will actually it's nice you know first give a check yeah so that you cannot run with the king you take everything with check and then no just take checkmate yeah haha haha no haha right so queen f1 unfortunately does not work what else yeah it's almost very similar to what he played queen f1 but yeah so rook e3 is the big threat so how would you defend it actually here now I remember I actually thought the game was over but he managed to find a defense actually find a resource oh yes Peter and the producer haha of the show queen e1 well done Peter the only move to defend yeah rook e3 and queen f2 queen f2 rook e1 yes this is what and I thought it was over queen f1 this is beautiful yeah so this is what I missed I thought rook e1 he has to take and okay I thought I'm just and you win the c1 bishop but unfortunately as queen f1 and the difference is that after you don't you're not able to win another piece yeah yeah yeah it's like I can go queen d3 check and queen c2 but knight a3 and is just in time yeah so queen d3 king f1 and knight a3 just in time yeah so protecting everything very interesting yeah this also looks quite nasty but somehow there's no clear way to proceed and okay all the pieces are gone so I just have like a night lift so which will take another move to come into the game as well alright so let's go back so queen e1 was correct but rook e3 doesn't work yeah so now okay I'll give a clue so okay I think all my pieces are playing quite well except one piece so I hope you don't mean the king it's too early for that yeah this is what I did actually because the problem is he's kind of stuck on the king side I have to say you've got some very impressive players in the audience well done guys yeah knight a3 was really cool actually so the point is the threat is knight e5 and then yeah you can probably take yeah this is probably nice to show okay let's say something like this so I come knight e5 knight c2 okay one option is I think knight d3 is winning but I yeah knight d3 is probably the simplest and just brutal rook e3 doesn't work because of king f2 or what queen f2 but knight f1 yeah it's just barely surviving yeah queen edge yeah too much force to make a drop probably with this yeah yeah so I think yeah I wanted knight d3 I guess here knight d3 and yeah that looks really strong because the queen doesn't have the point is that queen can't go to d1 because now you just take on actually I think probably just knight f4 you can't take on g2 in that position I think also I can but knight g2 queen f2 king edge to knight f1 but rook edge queen g1 or knight e3 maybe queen g1 yeah no because bishop on d7 is very annoying it's defending the edge 3 pawn no but queen d1 I'm pretty sure you can find the nice mate or maybe not what about rook f1 here knight f1 oh sorry yeah no that's no okay I think just knight f4 and rook g2 is really unstoppable right because if knight e1 you just take rook e3 yeah just even rook f1 no no you have to take rook e3 yeah rook e3 and finally it crashes yeah right yeah so knight e3 yeah so you cannot do so okay you wanted to prevent this knight e5 at any cost so he played d4 yeah but now this major flaw with this plan and now one of the lines which was not working before actually works alright so while the audience has a think seeing this game I now understand why wishy anand said that you're such a risky team player and having you on the team is just you know things can get really crazy and chaotic so it's your style of play this is very normal for you yeah I just I think I was like a very bad team player at first I think because of me many times like my team did not win a medal but now yeah the things have changed and now because of me my team is winning so what do you think has been the shift is basically I stopped losing in team events I think that is the main reason actually and okay because in team events it's not just you like if you actually one of the reasons why we got bronze medal in 2014 was we were never losing any of the matches and at some point some guy would somehow win and so as long as you're not losing the match okay there's always a chance that you can win the like one of your teammates will win and you can eventually win the match talking about not losing team matches it wasn't the case on the night of the battle of the sexes huh that was very sad yes yeah I still have nightmares about that DC 3 more which I played so that's when the women team won against the men team but I think it's like a tradition right they always beat us if I remember no actually earlier it was the men team that won and I think the year before that as well Brian said women have won twice in history and once was last night that's what he said I have been here 3 times and I think 2 times I was here probably they were maybe those were the 2 times that the women team won stick to the women yeah yeah but the thing is having a player like you on the team means that when there's a must win situation for the team they would want to field a player like you because of your style of play yeah yeah sure actually that's one of my specialties I would say to play in must win situations no actually this Olympia actually I was playing too solid and then when I drew one of her teammates lost and which eventually put us out of the contention okay I'm not gonna play solid anymore I'm just going back to my old how I used to play so I think that was do we have a suggestion 9G5 9G5 what is the thread yeah okay yeah I guess Bishop G4 anyway I think it's quite close so I can just show them actually I mean the idea is correct as you mentioned yeah so now after D4 I just went rook and E3 now this line works so you just continue the trend of giving more and more pieces yeah so I just gave queen F2 and rook E1 check and queen F1 and now this this is the difference yeah so this was not possible previously and now a new pawn joins the this is very interesting so when this pawn was on D2 the E3 move was not working but after D4 and suddenly you have the threat of queen F2 now queen F2 yeah so yeah so after E3 it's basically over there's no difference oh so he yeah he played knight D2 and because now if he takes on E1 you just take and you I mean besides the E pawn being very strong you win everything on the queen side as well yeah I mean exactly like the knight cannot move and I will queen the E pawn also yeah so now I just went queen F2 and yeah it was over so I can go here but I just take on E2 there's too many queens yeah so I have to yeah queen F2 design and this was probably yeah one of my favorite games from when I was even younger that's a very very imaginative play from you actually in this game it was channeling your inner thal right we're going to open the audience for questions very soon but tell us a bit about your experience here so far in Gibraltar yeah Gibraltar I always tell Stuart like okay I'm very happy to be here and it's one of my favorite tournaments and also it's one of those opens which just kept on getting stronger actually I remember in 2014 it was I think not maybe so strong like nowadays but then slowly I think it got even bigger and always like it's one of the special places where women may be given more preference than men yes it is an event which strongly supports women chess you know seeing this game Adivan like one gets feeling that you're a player who with a very strong sense of imagination and a very romantic style of playing as well and where does that come from is it something did you study a lot of a lot from books when you were growing up or no I think our style is more or less based on the first book which we read and like I said mine was Attack with my Mikael Tol so I think that's why I always want to go for the attack and my friend with it who has like a very solid style his first book was Cabo Blanca Base Game so you can see that the difference yeah and also the funny thing is I my trainer yeah he was like I'm very like grateful for my first trainer I see Subramaniam he made sure that I would study all the classics and so he actually presented me with the same book but I just could not go through it it was so boring and only after I became a grandmaster I'm like okay you have to master this also so you have to study and then I realized he was really a great world champion might be one of the strongest actually because he now used to make much mistakes actually Cabo Blanca yeah that's very interesting that to say that one of the first books that he leaves a big impression on you and if you are to give a big recommendation something I mean besides this book a book that you highly recommend for our audience that you feel left a big impact on you besides yeah like I said this I think this is my memorable 60 games Bobby Fischer that's very good I think every classical book is like very good and for end games I would actually recommend this book of Drotsky Endgame Manual and also now this recent classic is 100 end games you must know that is also very good Josh that's also I think very nice basically like books I think still has the importance which I feel nowadays many youngsters they are they think that they can just see work with computer and they can just ignore the classics which is not at all the right approach right well we are going to open the floor to the audience any questions from you guys or our online audience I'll start but I want you to be a better audience than the first in master classes alright they are very brave he's here to answer questions we are paying by the audience they are still thinking about the position I gave them too many questions they are very brave with their move suggestions yeah exactly too many questions yeah so I'll go first and I'll get a question so Adibon this guy named Vishy Anand he's pretty good at chess but tell us something you can absolutely crush Vishy at any sport game or activity what's something that he has no chance against you at no I think any sport other than chess I can crush him ok it could be an eating competition any sport other than chess ok that's your answer you have an interesting story about Vishy as well I remember he is going to kill me for this probably I'll receive a message right now ok my place once you come back to channel let's meet you would probably say there was this interesting story that you had about how he was someone you really looked up to and then from there playing in the same team with him and playing against him can you tell us about that yeah I think ok chess in India is so popular because of him and like everyone when we are younger we wanted to become like him he was our hero and personally I'm very grateful for him because like in spite of winning all this world championship he used to take the time to actually interact with us and like when he used to win like a national title my first open national title he would send me a message and when he became an international master he invited me for a dinner and so I remember my first time I was just sitting next to him like I just could not speak for the first 10 minutes I was just so stunned ok I'm usually very talkative no you don't say but the first 10 minutes I was just staring at him I was not talking I was just in awe and yeah I just I think he just takes a personal interest and I'm very grateful for them and I think he is one of the major reasons me, myself and all these youngsters from India are coming up here I think he is the big reason B.O.1988 on the air today he lost in six moves against Alonso Diaz so he is going to kill us first I know the reason why I know the story this is a question from the audience this is not my actual question but I believe that Vishy is very good at tennis so maybe he beats you there oh tennis yes actually tennis he can beat me I think he is his friend with B.J. Amitras oh yeah my question was that obviously you are very gifted tactics and you were mentioning game books but did you train with in-game studies, made in 2 or just normal tactic books that's a really interesting question yeah I think no you need to solve all sorts of things I think it's very good to start with made in 1, made in 2 some of my friends still have a problem with that why you gave me not you I just wanted to mention Vidit got a checkmate twice in a row so in made in 1 he missed so it's still a problem with many of my friends so like yeah I think start with made in 1 made in 2 and just then 3 is also I think quite challenging and studies are a bit I think little bit advanced so that maybe you might want to postpone until you are really ready for them because it's really like mind blowing and I remember I have solved all sorts of tactics around 4000 tactics or something I would have solved there was this softwares CTR because at the time there was like no online platform like chess.com or chess24 where you can actually become a member and you can always solve in this website but at the time there was no opportunity like that so I was there was this softwares so I used to solve a lot I think that would actually make you tactically very alert yeah because also I remember Topolow mentioned that calculation is everything it's one of his favorite quotes yeah so I think yeah it's very important to bring like make your combinational vision very powerful now Divan I know before we go to the next question I know that you really enjoy quotes and you have you have a thing for quotes tell us which would be the one quote that you live by or something that has left a big impression on you your favorite quote wait I just got a quote today I am trying to remember yeah I believe I have all I need so this is what I got today so I just thought that I believe I have all I need yeah so just like the perfect package so this is what I got today so it's like I am always having some quotes that's what I asked right so we have another question I think it's quite important when improving to go through the games that you have played and try and understand them what's your procedure for doing that yeah I think okay you have to probably okay the thing is first I think it's very important to analyze the games you have lost and also the games you have won because in the games you also have won basically try to analyze without computer I think that's very important like you have to analyze on your own then you can compare your notes with computer it's like on growing process you cannot do it one day and forget about it so you have to just do it continuously and eventually you will become very strong and I read this book by Axel Smith what was the name again pump up your rating yeah yeah yeah yeah it's a very popular book and all my friends said it's very good and he recommends that he that was one of his training like Aryanthari he improved just by analyzing his games again and again so I think yeah that's like a well known proven method yeah do we have any other questions Adibhan at the Olympiad in Batumi I felt very good because there's a couple Indian restaurants and the one I walked into the entire Indian national team was there so I knew I had done well have you ever played a tournament where there's just no Indian food anywhere to be found in that city yeah no I am not like your typical Indian so like when I go outside India I'm really not looking for Indian food actually because I want to explore their own cuisine like I want to try different foods in fact I try to avoid Indian food when I go outside so there have been many times probably it existed but I would not know because I would be like I'm a big fan of like pizza and all this so you're going to go two weeks here with no Indian food yeah sure I can live my Indian life without Indian food it's not a big problem then I can go I know you have a thing for Georgian cuisine yes that's my favorite and also Japanese I like talking about Georgian food I know that you also had an experience of working of training the Georgian women team for a for an event yes left yeah okay it was because of my trainer Obilawa he suggested that okay maybe it would be interesting to train with the Georgian women team and okay I thought it would be fun and quiet and they actually had a good performance and I just asked them which is their best performance so far and they said a long time back they had one silver and before that maybe bronze so I thought okay silver if and they I think got silver in this European teams so yeah it was overall nice experience and I had fun right and someone said I was that I was a very lucky trainer to work with all this beautiful ladies any more questions from the audience Peter anything from online probably not also tell me Adwan what you we have so much young talent coming from India we've got we've got Nehal now Gukesh what is your opinion on that play and tell us a bit about your thoughts on that yeah I think okay we have this culture there's always tournaments going on like every weekend there's some tournament going on in Chennai especially so Chennai is where you're from that's why like there's no talent and somehow yeah I think we are just well worth for chess from the beginning and right now like I think Gukesh is showing a lot of promise also I don't know if I have to pick I don't know it's kind of hard but I think all these youngsters really have like huge promise but it's very important that the next phase is going to be very difficult for them and they need to prove themselves and I'm like in a way I can help somehow it would be nice like wish he was helping me right no they're extremely talented but I also feel that I mean talent is not rare but I think they also have this ability to work really hard and this passion for chess because I always see them they're playing a lot and yeah Nehal for instance like after finishing Tiring tournament like the Isle of Man he was playing online till 5 o'clock in the morning some blitz so yeah these kids I think they are like they are fully into chess and even their hobby consists of chess so I think it's all basically they are very hard workers I think at this such a young age and I think they have like a good support system and it's very important that your family is supporting you and like when I was growing up like there was literally no pressure from my parents which is very important because nowadays many kings and many kids and our each their potential because they have too much pressure from their parents and I mean if you are afraid when you are young then like okay then I don't think there's much hope for you yeah when you get older all those things like become even worse so when you are young you have to be like ferocious and like you have to go for the kill always and all these kids are just like that so yeah they don't fear anyone over the board no matter who they are playing at all yeah I remember in Reykjavik when I was playing everyone's concern was not to play against Nihal and Prag they were happy to play with me or Rapport they were not scared of us but they didn't want to play with those kids this is the year that you won Reykjavik yeah yeah yeah and I have to thank you of course for bullying me to going there because I did not know what tournament to play and actually marked my year very well actually so you're welcome okay I have to ask you because this is something that I also as a player struggle with and I'm sure it probably resonates with a lot of us here you know when we've had a bad day or a bad game or a bad tournament it's really difficult to sort of get ourselves back up there the next time or the next tournament practical advice I mean it's easy to say to keep a positive attitude and to keep smiling but what would you advise us to do to be able to give our best for the remaining rounds or the next tournament no okay like personally for me like I have this one question I ask myself after I lose or when the things are not going so well I ask myself is this going to stop me and the answer is always no so okay if this not going to stop you then there's no reason that you should be affected by it and yeah so and the main thing is okay just you have to just keep removing everything like for example okay how would the people think like prestige like okay you lost the game okay like I mean it's like how the outside world thinks of you this is what people find it more difficult to cope with like oh everyone is thinking that I have lost they think I'm a bad player all this you don't need such things like you just have to play for yourself I think that's very important and yeah I think I think I also had this face where after a loss I would also lose the next game so it became two in a row which is not one but yeah slowly I think the major thing I just stopped caring about how the outside world would think and I stopped caring about the rating and yeah just remove all this unnecessary elements and then I think you'll be fine yeah just just to be have hope for the future yeah that's very interesting because I think Magnus Carlson also said something similar to that where he said that he doesn't really care about what people think about him or what their opinion is and it's not important yeah yeah yeah okay but he maybe takes it a little bit extreme but he says that okay I will never listen to anyone okay so that's maybe little bit extreme but yeah the concept is kind of similar yes that's interesting alright anybody else with anything okay well thank you so much for your time Madhuban that was a very very entertaining game and a great conversation learnt a lot and wish you all the best for the remaining games thank you thank you for joining us