The Weekly Show: The Spanish Team Championship

by Lawrence Trent
8/27/2019 – Lawrence is LIVE this week covering the Spanish Team Championship, plus a brief ode to Pal Benko. Live 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.

Week 35

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).

Yesterday was the first round of the Spanish Team Championships and there were some cracking games. Will take a look at a GM scalp by Pablo Almagro in the first round, which featured a devastating attacking display.

I will also talk briefly about Pal Benko and his legacy. The warm-up for today is from Benko, but I'm afraid I don't know the year:

 
Pal Benko
White to play and mate in 3!

Check out the recent ChessBase post on this "Fischer challenge"

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1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.f3 e6 3...e5 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 6.Bc4 Ke8 7.Ne2 Bc5 8.Bd2 Nbd7 9.Nc1 Ke7 10.a4 a5 11.Nb3 Bb6 12.Bc3 Ne8 13.Na3 Nd6 14.0-0-0 f6 1-0 (43) Vallejo Pons,F (2707)-Onischuk,V (2637) Riadh 2017 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Be3 a6 6.Qd2 B07: Pirc Defence: Miscellaneous Systems 0-0 7.g4 c5N Predecessor: 7...b5 8.g5 Nfd7 9.h4 c5 10.dxc5 Nxc5 11.0-0-0 1-0 (39) Sion Castro,M (2390)-Fernandez Lopez,F (2315) Ponferrada 1992 8.Nge2 The position is equal. Nc6 Black should try 8...b5= 9.g5 Nd7 10.f4 cxd4 11.Nxd4 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 e5 13.Qd2! exf4 14.Bxf4 Ne5
Threatens to win with ... Nf3+. 15.Be2 Be6 16.0-0-0 Rc8 17.Kb1 b5 18.h4 Qc7 19.Nd5 Bxd5! 20.exd5 b4 Black should play 20...f6 21.Bxe5 Much less strong is 21.Bxa6 Ra8 21...dxe5 22.Bxa6 Rcd8 23.Qe2 Bc5 24.Bc4 Bd4 25.h5 Rd6 26.Bb3 Qb6 27.Rh3 f5 27...Qd8± 28.c3+- bxc3 29.bxc3 Bc5 30.Qxe5 Qa7 31.h6
g6! is the strong threat. 31...g6? 31...Qd7 was called for. 32.hxg7 Qxg7 32.Re1 f4 32...Qd7 33.Kc2 Bf2 33.Rf3 Accuracy: White = 76%, Black = 36%. 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Vallejo Pons,F2678Espinosa Aranda,A24971–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.1
Plazuelo Pascual,J2411Alekseenko,K26680–12019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.2
Sarana,A2655Rubio Mejia,L24351–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.3
Almagro Llamas,P2453Arizmendi Martinez,J25121–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.4
Pallardo Lozoya,J2380Cabrera Trujillo,J23081–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.5
Rodrigo Yanguas,M2079Garcia Martin,M23131–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.6
Delorme,A2489Andersen,M2603½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.7
Salgado Lopez,I2596Alsina Leal,D2477½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.8
Alonso Moyano,J2358Martins,D24271–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.9
Sousa,A2362Martinez Ramirez,E22171–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.10
Rivas Garcia,V2165Gomez Dieguez,D2296½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.11
Hernandez Estevez,Y2247Garcia-Castany Musellas,G2149½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.12
Matnadze,A2363Cori,J26860–12019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.13
Shirov,A2658Gonzalez Merino,A22261–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.14
Rodriguez Amezqueta,C2063Henderson de La Fuente,L24870–12019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.15
Cramling,P2493Fernandez Gonzalez,J23961–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.16
Iglesias Ferreira,A1845Castellanos Rodriguez,R24930–12019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.17
Granero Roca,A2354Garcia Elio,E18121–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.18
Alonso Alvarez,A2305Kokarev,D2598½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.19
Volkov,S2547Andres Gonzalez,I22841–02019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.20
Vergara Anton,D2128Cuenca Jimenez,J25150–12019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.21
Alshameary Puente,I2444Gonzalez Guedes,I2115½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.22
Badillo Ramos,S1967Cori T.,D2400½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.23
Antunez Munoz,I1891Bermudez Revuelta,P1702½–½2019ESP-chT Primera Division 20191.24

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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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