The Weekly Show: Leela vs Stockfish

by Lawrence Trent
4/14/2020 – In his weekly show IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the marathon match the computer programs Leela and Stockfish recently played. | Lawrence' show is available at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST, 12 Noon EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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Machine vs Machine

Lawrence Trent: "In this Weekly Show I am to take a look at the incredible Leela vs Stockfish marathon match. The featured game will be Game 35, involving a concept I have never seen before, although the game ultimately ends in a draw."

But first, a position from another game from the match: Stockfish has ground down his opponent but has he got enough to win? White to play!?

 

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Lawrence Trent's latest

Read a review of Trent's previous FritzTrainer on the "Bombastic Bird's Opening"!


The Bombastic Bird's - an energetic and exciting repertoire after 1.f4

Welcome to the Bombastic Bird's, a revolutionary repertoire for one of the most enterprising and underrated openings in chess theory (1.f4). In this series, IM Lawrence Trent uncovers a number of groundbreaking theoretical novelties and new ideas that will soon have scorners of this romantic system regretting they ever doubted its soundness.

Solution to the puzzle

White wins with Rg7+!.

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Born in 1986, Lawrence Trent is an international master, who has represented England in numerous international youth championships (including a 7th place in the U18 WCh in 2003). The Londoner, who has a degree in Romance languages, already has a lot of experience as a trainer. Trent has recorded several DVDs for ChessBase.

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