The Weekly Show: Brilliancies at the World Cup

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7/13/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the World Cup and the glorious game the Chilean GM Pablo Salinas won with Black against GM Mads Andersen from Sweden. Lawrence will also do a roundup of what happened at the Swedish Championships, the San Fermin Masters and the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Croatia. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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But first, a warm-up: Below is a position from the game Moaataz vs Ushenina, which was played in the first game of the first round of the Women's Grand Prix. The former Women’s World Champion Ushenina had just played 38...Rbd7 in what looked like a winning position – but what did she miss?

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