The Weekly Show: Two fantastic games

by Lawrence Trent
7/23/2019 – With so many events going on it must be hard for IM Lawrence Trent to choose. This week he's decided on two "fantastic attacking games" from ongoing events. 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 30

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).

In this week's show, I'm going to be looking at two fantastic attacking games today: Moiseenko vs Korley from the Xtracon Open as well as Mamedyarov vs MVL from the Riga Grand Prix.

But first, a warm up:

 
Wojtaszek vs Fridman, Dortmund 2019
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Qa4+ Qd7 D85: Exchange Grünfeld: Unusual White 7th moves and lines with 7 Nf3 8.Qa3 b6 9.Nf3 Bb7 The position is equal. 10.Bd3 0-0 11.0-0 c5 12.Bf4N White has some pressure. Predecessor: 12.Rd1 cxd4 13.cxd4 Nc6 14.Bb2 e6 15.Rac1 1/2-1/2 (41) Bogner,S (2599)-Vachier Lagrave,M (2757) Germany 2015 12...cxd4 13.cxd4 Nc6 14.d5 Na5 15.Rac1 Strongly threatening Rc7. Rfc8 16.h3 e6 17.d6 f6 18.e5 Bxf3
19.exf6! Bxf6 White must now prevent ...Bd5. 20.gxf3 e5 21.Bd2 Rxc1? 21...Kh8± 22.Rxc1+- Rc8 23.Rxc8+ Qxc8 24.Kg2 Not 24.Bxa5 bxa5 25.Qxa5 Qc1+ 26.Kg2 Qg5+ 27.Kf1 Qc1+ 28.Ke2 Qb2+ 29.Qd2 Qd4 24...Bd8 25.Be4 Qe6? 25...Qc5 26.Qd3 Kg7 26.Qd3
Hoping for Bd5!White is clearly winning. 26...Kg7 27.Bc3 Qf6 28.Kf1 Accuracy: White = 93%, Black = 43%. 1–0
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Mamedyarov,S2765Vachier-Lagrave,M27751–02019Grand Prix Riga 20194.1
Moiseenko,A2628Korley,K24370–12019Xtracon Open 20194.4

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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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