Retrospective
Make life difficult for the Sicilian! 2.b3 is a thoroughly venomous but still solid kind of "Anti-Sicilian". No matter what setup black chooses, the bishop on b2 will always be unpleasant for him.With the chess world grinding to a hall, ChessBase decided to host a "live broadcast" of the famous USA vs USSR match of 50 years ago. I’ll look at the Fischer-Petrosian battle — a very nice game.
First, a small tribute to WIM Arianne Caoili, who died yesterday at the age of 33: Here the strong Russian GM Vladimir Epishin played 37...♛xd4 with the idea that 38.♕xd4 would be met by ♞e2+. But did he miss something in his calculations?
Try your moves!
This week's show
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The Caro Kann is a very tricky opening. Black’s play is based on controlling and fighting for key light squares. It is a line which was very fashionable in late 90s and early 2000s due to the successes of greats like Karpov, Anand, Dreev etc. Recently due to strong engines lot of key developments have been made and some new lines have been introduced, while others have been refuted altogether. I have analyzed the new trends carefully and found some new ideas for Black.Lawrence is live most Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST / 12 Noon EDT)
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Lawrence Trent's latest
Read a review of Trent's previous FritzTrainer on the "Bombastic Bird's Opening"!
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
38.♘f5+ was the devastating refutation!
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