The Weekly Show: Maghsoodloo brilliancy

by Lawrence Trent
7/9/2019 – IM Lawrence Trent tackles the Leon Masters performance of Iranian World Junior Champ Parham Maghsoodloo, who took down Vassily Ivanchuk in a four-game rapid match. Free for a limited time, or forever on-demand with a ChessBase Basic Account. You can register a free 90-day account to watch.
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.

Leon Masters

Each week, I bring you the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments on Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST, 12 Noon EDT).

This week a brilliant game from the World Junior Champion Parham Maghsoodloo that was key to his match victory over Vassily Ivanchuk at the Leon Masters rapid tournament.

But first, a warm up:

 
Van Weersel vs Ratsma
Position after 20.Rc7

Black to play and win

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1.Nf3 1:10:13 Nf6 1:10:13 2.c4 23 c6 21 3.g3 23 g6 32 4.Bg2 22 Bg7 21 5.0-0 1:05 0-0 27 6.b3 23 d6 55 7.d4 40 e5 21 8.dxe5 43 dxe5 21 9.Ba3 23 Don't go for 9.Nxe5? Nfd7-+ 9...Qxd1 48 E60: King's Indian: Unusual lines and Fianchetto Variation without Nc3 10.Rxd1 22 Re8 21 11.Nc3 36 Na6 37 White has an edge. 12.Ng5N 1:53 Predecessor: 12.Rac1 Bh6 13.e3 Bf8 14.Bxf8 Kxf8 15.Rd6 Ke7 16.Rd2 ½-½ (28) Esipenko,A (2584)-Kovalev,V (2687) Wijk aan Zee 2019 12...Bf5 1:13 13.e4 1:04 Bg4 2:12 14.f3 22 Bd7 22 15.Bh3 21 Rad8 1:29 16.Kg2 1:34 Bh6 1:20 17.Bxd7 23 Nxd7 25 18.h4 2:02 Ndc5 2:00 18...f6!? 19.Nh3 Ndc5= 19.Rxd8 1:49 Rxd8 22 20.Rd1 21 Rxd1 1:45 21.Nxd1 21 f6 33 22.Nh3 22 Kf7 22 Black should try 22...Nd3 23.Kf1 23 Ne6 31 24.Ndf2 2:47 Be3 3:51 25.Nd3 46 h5 33 26.Nhf2 26 Nac5 53 26...Nd4 is interesting. 27.Nd1 Bh6 28.Kf2 Nc2 29.Bc1 Bxc1 30.Nxc1 Nc5 27.Nxc5 1:14 Bxc5 21 28.Bxc5 33 Nxc5= 21 Endgame KN-KN 29.Ke2 21 Ke7 40 30.Ke3 23 a5 42 31.g4 2:28 Ne6 2:25 32.Nd3 24 Kd6 40 33.gxh5 1:29 gxh5 21 34.f4 21 b6 21 35.f5 36 Nd4 57 36.c5+ 2:59 Kc7! 32 37.Nb2 2:21 37.Nf2! 37...b5! 46 37...bxc5 38.Nc4 38.Nd3 50 Nc2+ 2:10 39.Kd2 36 Nd4 35 40.Nf2 2:16 40.Ke3 Nc2+ 41.Kd2 Nd4 40...Kd7 1:32 41.Nh1 21 Ke7 45 41...Nf3+ 42.Ke2 Nxh4 42...Ng1+ 43.Ke3 Nh3 44.Ng3 Nf4 43.Kf2 42.Ng3 22 b4? 28
Better is 42...Ke8! 43.Nxh5+- 34 White is clearly winning. Nb5 30 43...Nf3+ 44.Ke3 Nxh4 45.Kf2 44.Ng3 33 Nc3 36 45.a4 27 Kf7 21 46.Ke3 1:13 Kg7 39 47.Nf1 21 Nb1 21 48.Kd3 59 Kh6 20 49.Ne3 21 Na3 31 50.Ng4+ 22 Accuracy: White = 63%, Black = 45%. Kg7 51.h5 1–0
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Maghsoodloo,P2656Ivanchuk,V26841–02019XXXII Magistral Ciudad Leon 20192.1

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Lawrence Trent's latest

Read a recent review of Trent's previous FritzTrainer on the "Baffling b3 Sicilian"!

Make life difficult for the Sicilian! 2.b3 is a thoroughly venomous but still solid kind of "Anti-Sicilian". No matter what setup black chooses, the bishop on b2 will always be unpleasant for him.

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Born in 1986, Lawrence Trent is an international master, who has represented England in numerous international youth championships (including a 7th place in the U18 WCh in 2003). The Londoner, who has a degree in Romance languages, already has a lot of experience as a trainer. Trent has recorded several DVDs for ChessBase.

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