Ris returns
My student Eline Roebers (The Netherlands Girls U-14) was leading the field by half a point after nine rounds, though two very unfortunate losses threw her back in the rankings and eventually she ended up on the sixth place.
In this episode of the Fast & Furious show I will reveal some sharp opening systems we discussed in our preparation, our general approach challenging the opponent and my role as a coach throughout the event.
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A preview
The greater part of the material on which the Sicilian Sveshnikov Powerbook 2019 is based, comes from the engine room in playchess.com: 193 000 games. This imposing number has been supplemented with another 12 000 games from the Mega Database and from cor
Warming-up exercise: What would you play here with Black?
Hakobyan vs Roebers, Mumbai 2019
Move the pieces on the live diagram
This week's show
The attention will be paid to the castled king and in particular on ways of exploiting the weakened kingside. Several well-known themes, pawnformations and other attacking weapons are covered in 8 chapters.
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Special attention will be paid to Intermediate Moves, Quiet Moves, Sacrifices on Empty Squares, Mating Patterns, Ignoring Opponents Threat, Calculation in Defence and Method of Comparison. Plus 50 interactive examples to test your knowledge.

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Solution to today's problem
25...Na3+ 26.bxa3 Rc3 27.Qe2 bxa3+ 28.Nb3 axb3 29.cxb3 Rxb3+ 30.Ka1 Rb2 31.Rb1 Bb4 32.Qe3 Qb5 33.Rhd1 Qc4 34.Rxb2 axb2+ 35.Kb1 Rc7 36.Qb6+ Ka8 0–1
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Zou,C | 2440 | Sethuraman,S | 2630 | 0–1 | 2019 | B69 | Belt and Road Hunan op-A | 2 |
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