The Weekly Show: Highlights from the Skilling Open

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11/24/2020 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent presents highlights from the Skilling Open and takes a close look how Maxime Vachier-Lagrave won against Le Quang Liem in round 7. | Lawrence's show is available at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET, 14:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Ray Morris-Hill

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The Skilling Open

But first a warm-up: In round 6 Alireza Firouzja played with White against Teimour Radjabov and suffered in the opening. But Firouzja now tried to win material back. Question is, what did the young phenom miss?

 
A. Firouzja - T. Radjabov, Skilling Open 2020

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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.


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