The Weekly Show: Carlsen's latest losses

by Lawrence Trent
8/13/2019 – Lawrence is LIVE this week talking about the surprising losses of World Champion Magnus Carlsen in St. Loius. 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 33

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).

For the first time ever, I am going to be looking at a couple of Magnus Carlsen's defeats in the show! 

As usual, a warm up: White has just played ♖xc3, do the tactics work out for him?

 
Cuenca Jimenez-Plazuelo, Iberoamericano Championships 2019
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.a4 D39: Queen's Gambit Declined: Ragozin Defence with 5 Bg5 dxc4 c5 8.axb5 cxd4 9.Nxd4 White is slightly better. h6 10.Be3 10.Bxf6 Qxf6 11.Bxc4 0-0 12.0-0 Bb7 13.Qa4 a5 14.bxa6 Nxa6 1/2-1/2 (78) Vidit,S (2695)-Duda,J (2738) Wijk aan Zee 2019 10...Nxe4! 11.Qc2N Predecessor: 11.Qa4 Bxc3+ 12.bxc3 Nxc3 13.Qa3 Nd5 14.Bxc4 Bb7 1-0 (62) Illescas Cordoba,M (2605)-Mingarro Carceller,S (2363) Barcelona 2018 11...Bb7 12.Bxc4 Qc7
13.Qb3 White should play 13.0-0!± Nxc3 14.bxc3 13...Bxc3+= 14.bxc3 Threatens to win with b6! 0-0 15.0-0 Rc8 Black is not keeping still 16.Bd3 Nc5! 17.Qb1 Nxd3 18.Qxd3 Nd7 19.Qe2 Nb6 20.Qg4 Kh7 21.Bf4 Qc5 22.Rfe1 Nc4 23.Rad1 Hoping for Nxe6! Rd8 24.Rd3 Qe7 24...Qf8= keeps the balance. 25.Nc6± Bxc6 26.Rxd8 Rxd8 27.bxc6 Nb6 28.Be5 Qg5 29.c7 Rd5 29...Rc8± 30.Qe4+ Qf5 30.Qe4++- Qg6
...Qxe4 is the strong threat. 31.Qb4! aiming for c4. Qd3? 31...Qf5 is a better defense. 32.f4 f6 32.h3 Qb5 33.Qe4+ f5 34.Qf4 Qd7 35.Bd4 35.Qb4+- 35...Nc8 35...Qc6± 36.g4 Nc4 36.Qg3 Rd6 37.h4 Rc6? 37...a5 38.Rb1 Rc6 38.h5 Qf7 39.Be5 Nb6 40.Ra1 Nc4 40...a5 41.Rxa5 Nc4 41.Rxa7 Nxe5 42.Qxe5 Qxh5 43.f3 Played: Qe5xg7 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Ding,L2812Carlsen,M28721–02019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20191.1
Rapport,R2735Carlsen,M28720–12019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20192.4
Carlsen,M2872Dominguez Perez,L27601–02019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20193.1
Caruana,F2819Carlsen,M28721–02019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20194.1
Carlsen,M2872Aronian,L27560–12019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20195.1
Yu,Y2736Carlsen,M2872½–½2019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20196.4
Carlsen,M2872Vachier-Lagrave,M27751–02019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20197.2
Karjakin,S2748Carlsen,M28721–02019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20198.1
Carlsen,M2872Mamedyarov,S2765½–½2019GCT Saint Louis Rapid 20199.4

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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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