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?

 

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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.

Solution to today's puzzle:

28.Qh7+!

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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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