The Weekly Show: British Championship wrap-up

by Lawrence Trent
8/6/2019 – The British Championship finished this past weekend in Torquay, England, with the resounding seventh title for GM Michael Adams. IM Lawrence Trent looks at how he did it, plus a glance at other highlights of the week in professional chess. 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.

Week 32

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).

As always this week I take a brief look at all the movers and shakers in world chess but specifically look at a stunning final round game by Mickey Adams to clinch the British Championships for the seventh time, analysing a very interesting opening idea in the Moscow Sicilian and a Mickey-esque exchange sacrifice to seal the deal.

But first, a warm up: Black just took on f4 but missed a major blow, can you see it?

 
Zeng-Motylev, Belt and Road tournament 2019
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.Ba4 4.0-0 a6 5.Bd3 Ngf6 6.Re1 e6 7.a4 b6 8.c3 Bb7 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.Na3 Be7 11.Bb1 e5 12.d4 cxd4 13.cxd4 exd4 14.Nxd4 1/2-1/2 (42) Jakovenko,D (2719)-Ding,L (2809) Shenzhen 2019 4...Ngf6 5.0-0 a6
And now ...b5 would win. 6.c4 B51: Sicilian: Moscow Variation (3 Bb5+) without 3...Bd7 e5 7.d3 g6 8.Nc3 White is slightly better. Bg7 9.Rb1N Predecessor: 9.a3 0-0 10.Rb1 Qc7 11.Bg5 Nb6 1-0 (60) Mons,L (2554)-Volokitin,A (2634) Germany 2019 9...0-0 10.h3 Ne8 11.b4 cxb4 12.Rxb4 Nc5 13.Nd5 White is pushing. b5 14.cxb5 Bd7
14...Nf6 15.b6!± Strongly threatening Bxd7. Nxa4 15...a5± was worth a try. 16.Rc4 Be6 16.Rxa4+- Bxa4 17.Qxa4 f6 18.Nd2 Rf7 19.Nc4 Qd7 19...f5 20.Ba3 Qd7 20.Qxd7 Rxd7 21.Be3 f5 22.f3 Bf6 23.Rb1 Bd8 24.Na5 Rb8 25.Nc6 Rbb7 26.Na5 Rb8! 27.Nc6 27.exf5 gxf5 28.Nc6 27...Rbb7! 28.a4 Kf7 29.a5 Nf6 29...f4 30.Bf2 Be7 30.Ndb4 Accuracy: White = 81%, Black = 44%. 1–0
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Adams,M2690Gordon,S25161–02019106th British-ch 20199.1

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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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