Ris on a rising star
The match between Alireza Firouzja and Jorge Cori, played in Hoogeveen last week was a treat for the audience. In the sixth and last game of the match the Iranian star won a spectacular game playing the Budapest Gambit (1.d4 ♞f6 2.c4 e5), using the Drimer Rook-lift (...a5, ♜a8-a6-h6). In tonight's show we will have a look at some thematic ideas for both sides in this opening variation, which perhaps isn't as bad for Black as its reputation!?
The live show is free to watch and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium accounts.
A preview
Aimed at players below 2200, the idea of the series is to provide a basic grounding on a variety of subjects, which will assist general all-round improvement. On ‘First Steps in Attack’, Andrew Martin treats the viewer to a selection of classic attacking games and lays out a foundation course in the art of attack. Key thinking points reinforce the analysis and the games.Warming-up exercise: Firouzja had a powerful attack, but in the following position Cori missed a chance to survive Black's assault and take over the initiative. Do you see White's best continuation?
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.To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows
Robert is live at 19:00 CET
Watch previous shows
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.
Many more Fast and Furious episodes are available in ChessBase Videos
Solution to today's problem
Links
.jpeg)
