The Weekly Show: Summer Classic

by Lawrence Trent
6/25/2019 – The focus this week is on the St. Louis Summer Chess Classic tournaments where I take a look at a game — and a novelty — by another young hope from the USA: Brandon Jacobson. 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.

Summer time, and the winnin' is easy...

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).

His idea against the Gruenfeld looks extremely dangerous and worthy of further analysis.

For a preview, have a look at this position from round 1: Shankland vs Howell, from the A Group. How should Black proceed?

 
Shankland vs Howell
Position after 27.Kg3

White to play. Can White save this position?

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.0-0 Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5 Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.h3 Bd7 C67: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defence: 4 0-0 Nxe4 10.Rd1 Kc8 11.g4 Black must now prevent Rxd7. Ne7 The position is equal. 12.Ng5 Be8 13.f4 h6 14.Ne4 b6 15.c4 h5 16.Kf2 Ng6 17.Nbc3
17...Be7N 18.b3 Bd7 19.Kg3! Bh4+ 20.Kf3 Be7 21.Nf2 hxg4+ 22.hxg4 f5 23.exf6 Bxf6 24.Bb2 c5 Black should play 24...Nh4+! 25.Ke2 Re8+ 26.Kf1 Re3 25.Rd2 Rf8! Black is pushing. 26.f5 Nh4+! 27.Kg3 Be5+! 28.Kxh4 Bf4! 29.Kh3 Bxd2 30.Nce4 Bh6 31.Rd1 Bc6 32.g5 Rxf5 33.gxh6 gxh6 34.Kg4 Rf7 35.Nf6 Kb7 36.Rd2 Rg7+ 37.Kf4 Rg2 38.Be5 Rf8 39.Ke3 Rg5 40.Kf4 Rg6 Played: Rg5-g2 0–1
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Shankland,S2717Howell,D26920–12019Summer Chess Classic-A 20191.2

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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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