The Weekly Show: A Praggnanandhaa special

by Lawrence Trent
10/15/2019 – The World Youth concluded with a fantastic result for Indian prodigy Praggnanandhaa in the Under-18. IM Lawrence Trent analyses one of his best games. | Puzzle time: In the diagram below, it's White to move. | Lawrence is free on-demand 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.

World Youth 2019

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 we'll take a look at one of Prag's oustanding games from the World Juniors en route to his historic victory (plus some special comments from Vladimir Kramnik about the future of this young Indian star).

But first, White to play, did Black overestimate his defensive resources?

 
Safarli-Rodshetein, Isle of Man 2019
Position after 20...♚g7

White to play

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1.Nf3 0 Nf6 20 2.g3 0 c5 3.Bg2 Nc6 4.0-0 e5 5.e4 Be7 6.d3 0-0 7.Nc3 d6 8.Nd5 Nxd5 9.exd5 Nd4 10.Nd2 Bg5 11.a4 b6 12.f4 exf4 13.Ne4 h6 14.Bxf4 Bxf4 15.Rxf4 Nf5 16.Qd2 Ne7 17.Rf6 Nf5 18.g4 gxf6 19.gxf5 Kg7 20.Ng3 Kh7 21.Kh1 Rg8 22.Qf2 Rb8 23.Re1 Rxg3 24.hxg3 Rb7 25.Re4 Re7 26.Rg4 Re5 27.Be4 Bb7 28.c4 Bc8 29.Qf4 Qf8 30.Kg2 Bd7 31.b3 Qh8 32.Rh4 Kg7 33.Rh3 Kf8 34.Rxh6 Qg7 35.Rh5 Ke7 36.Qh4 Be8 37.Kf3 Bd7 38.Kf4 a6 39.Rh7 Qg8 40.Rh8 Qg7 1–0
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Praggnanandhaa,R2567Kozak,A23541–02019WYCC U18 Open 20192.2

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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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