The Weekly Show at the London Chess Classic (1/2)

by Lawrence Trent
12/3/2019 – From London IM Lawrence Trent is on the scene at both the Grand Chess Tour Finals and the London Chess Classic ancillary events, and brings you his take in this Weekly Show. | Puzzle time: In the diagram, it's Black to move! | Lawrence is on-demand this week beginning at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET / Noon EST) and 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.

Lawrence in London (Part 1)

Each week, I bring you the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments on Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12 Noon EST).

I will be talking about all the happening here in London, including the side events such as the British KO and FIDE Open.

"Game of the Day" is Jones-Howell, from British KO semis. A pure roller-coaster where Gawain unleashed a fantastic opening idea but ultimately succumbed to a fantastic Howell comeback.

But first, from the elite four: Here Carlsen repeated with 30.♔c1/31.♔a2, but what would happen if he just played 31.♗xe4 instead?

 
Carlsen-MVL, GCT finals
(Analysis) Position after 30.Bxe4

Black to play - Try your moves!

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1.e4 0 e6 0 2.d4 0 d5 0 3.e5 0 c5 0 4.c3 0 Nc6 0 5.Nf3 0 Qb6 0 6.Be2 0 cxd4 0 7.cxd4 0 Nh6 0 8.Bxh6 0 Qxb2 0 C02: French: Advance Variation 9.Nbd2 0 9.Nc3 Qxc3+ 10.Bd2 Qa3 11.0-0 a6 12.Qc2 h6 13.Rab1 Qe7 14.Rb6 Qc7 15.Rfb1 Be7 16.Bd1 1-0 (51) Durarbayli,V (2618)-Jumabayev,R (2621) Saint Louis 2018 9...gxh6 0 10.0-0 0 Nxd4 0 11.Rb1 0 Nxe2+ 0 12.Qxe2 0 Qa3 0 13.Nd4N 0 Predecessor: 13.Qb5+ Kd8 14.Rfc1 Qa6 15.Qb3 b6 16.Nd4 0-1 (31) Logar,M (2069)-Massanet Massanet,S (2297) Calvia 2009 13...a6 0 14.Rfc1 0 Bg7 11:46 14...Qxa2= 15.Qe3 Qa5 15.Nf1! 0 Qe7 34:58 16.Ng3 0 f6? 23:37 16...0-0! 17.Qh5+ 2:50 Kd8 7 18.f4? 1:08 18.Qh4+- 18...fxe5 6:30 19.fxe5 7 Rf8 11:43 20.Rb6 5:14 Bd7 4:35
21.Rd6! 20:41 But not 21.Rxb7 Rc8 21...Qxd6? 3:25 21...Rc8± might work better. 22.Nxe6+ Qxe6 23.Rxc8+ Kxc8 24.Rxe6 Bxe6 22.exd6 16 Bxd4+ 5 23.Kh1 2 Rc8 1:16
24.Re1? 13:55 24.Rf1!+- and the rest is easy. Rxf1+ 25.Nxf1 24...Rc4 3:00 24...Be3! 25.Qxh6 37 Double Attack Re8 26
26.Qxh7 1:06 26.Nh5! 26...Bc5 49
26...Kc8± 27.Nh5? 4:47 White has to play 27.Nf5!+- 27...Bxd6 18 28.Nf6 1:47 Re7 2 29.Qg8+ 2:30 Kc7! 12 30.Nxd7 7 Kxd7 57 31.Rb1 7 Kc7 1:10 Better is 31...b5 32.g3 5:11 d4 31
33.Qa8 2:43 33.h4!+- has better winning chances. 33...Kc6 3 34.Qf8 6:52 e5 27 35.Qd8 10:54 Rc7 59 36.a4 2:05 d3 32 37.a5 27 Kc5 28 38.Qg5 7:43 Kd4! 13 Much weaker is 38...Kd5?! 39.Rd1± 39.Re1 19 e4 5 40.Qg6 5:48 Kd5 10 41.Rf1 5 Be5 1:21 42.Rf8? 2:54 42.h4= 42...R7c6 23 43.Qg5 1:33
43...Kd4! 23 Worse is 43...Rc1+ 44.Kg2= 44.Re8? 4:08 44.Rf1 only move. 44...R6c5 29 Weaker is 44...Rc1+ 45.Kg2 45.Kg2 41 45.Rd8+ Kc3 46.Rd7 45...Rc2+ 30 46.Kh3 5 d2 16 47.Qd8+ 3:17 Kc3 1:12 48.Rxe5 3:29 Rxe5 6 49.Qc7+ 21 Kb3 43 50.Qxb7+ 1 Rb5 40 51.Qf7+ 30 Kb2 21 52.Qf6+ 1 Kb1 24 53.Qd4 12 e3 16 Promotion 54.Qd3 3 Rxa5 1:00 54...Kb2 55.Kg4 Rc3 56.Qd4 Kc2 57.Qa4+ Rbb3 58.Kh3 d1Q 59.Kh4 e2 60.Qe4+ Kc1 61.Kg5 Rb5+ 62.Kh6 Qd6+ 63.Qg6 Qxg6+ 64.Kxg6 Rc6+ 65.Kf7 Rb7+ 66.Kg8 Rc8# 55.Qb3+ 5 Rb2 21 56.Qd3+ 4 Ka1 21 57.Qf1+ 17 Rb1 26 58.Qf6+ 4 Ka2 9 59.Qf7+ 32 Rb3 13 60.Qf3 14 Rd3 39 61.Qd1 35 Kb2 10 62.Kg2 17 Ra1 35 63.Qe2 4 Kc3 4 64.Qh5 16 d1Q 25 65.Qc5+ 8 Kb2 15 0–1
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Jones,G2663Howell,D27010–1 British KO-ch 20192.1

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Lawrence Trent's latest

Read a 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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