The Weekly Show: The World Cup begins

by Lawrence Trent
9/10/2019 – The start of the bi-annual World Cup is the focus of the chess world this week and with IM Lawrence Trent jumps on the first round action in today's show. Lawrence is live and free on-demand 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 37

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).

This week we're watching the kickoff of the FIDE World Cup KO tournament in K-M (Khanty-Mansiysk for the uninitiated). Details TBD!

Meanwhile, here's a classic mating attack by Alexander Alekhine:

 
Alekhine vs Supico, Lisbon 1941 (simul)
Position after 19...Ba6

White to play and mate!

This week's show

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Lawrence is live most Tuesdays at 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST / 12 Noon EDT)

 
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1.e4 0 e6 0 2.d4 0 d5 0 3.Nc3 0 Bb4 16 4.e5 0 c5 26 5.a3 0 Bxc3+ 13 6.bxc3 0 Ne7 17 7.Qg4 16 cxd4 0 8.Qxg7 32 Rg8 16 9.Qxh7 4 Qc7 36 10.Qd3 5 Qxe5+ 8:09 11.Ne2 5 dxc3 36 12.Qxc3 4 Nbc6 0 13.Qxe5 13 Nxe5 8 14.Ng3 25 f6 4:18 15.Bb2 5:49 Kf7 2:23 16.Nh5 48 Nd7 5:02 17.0-0-0 1:43 b6 0 18.Rg1 8:39 Bb7 1:25 19.g4 2:00 Rh8 16:50 20.f4 3:56 Rh6 4:31 21.Be2 0 Rah8 1:06 22.Nxf6 4:37 Nxf6 5:53 23.g5 5 Rxh2 40 24.gxf6 3:07 Nf5 3:40 25.Bd3 28 R8h7 15 26.Bxf5 34:42 exf5 7 27.Bd4 1:39 Ba6 0 28.Rg7+ 7:28 Rxg7 2:16 29.fxg7 3 Be2 22 30.Rg1 3:48 Bg4 11 31.Re1 15 Be2 26 32.Rg1 2:41 Bg4 0 33.Re1 3 Be2 2:39 34.a4 27 Kg8 1:58 35.Kb2 2:44 a5 5:15 36.Ka1 0 Kf7 2:57 37.Rb1 1:36 Rh6 25 38.Rg1 2:03 Kg8 30 39.Rg3 38 1–0
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Huschenbeth,N2620Naiditsch,A26431–02019FIDE World Cup 20191.45
Wojtaszek,R2739Christiansen,J25580–12019FIDE World Cup 20191.16

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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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