The Weekly Show: Sunway Sitges

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12/21/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the Sitges tournament, in which a number of the world's brightest stars take part. The game of the day will be Niemann-Puranik where the young Indian GM gets the better of, to quote Lawrence, "the greatest American natural talent since Nakamura". | Lawrence’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here

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Lawrence will also talk about the Gashimov Memorial, European Rapid and Blitz and the Upcoming World Rapid and Blitz

But first a warm-up: Below is a position from the game S. Karjakin vs S. Mamedyarov, Gashimov Memorial 2021. Mamedyarov here played the natural looking move 25…Bxh3 but was this decision correct?

 

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