The Weekly Show: The Women's Grand Prix

by Lawrence Trent
9/17/2019 – IM Lawrence Trent turns his attention to another high-profile event going on in Russia for 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 38

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).

I'm going to be taking a look at the Women's Grand Prix this week with a focus on Elisabeth Paehtz's performance and the theoretically critical game vs Gunina in round six. Ironically Radjabov also played this in his game in the World Cup so this fashionable line is clearly important to analyse.

Until then, what combination did White spot in the position below to give him a clear advantage?

 
Nisipeanu-Svidler, World Cup R3
Position after 30...Qxb8

White to play

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MoveNResultEloPlayers
1.e41,166,62354%2421---
1.d4947,29855%2434---
1.Nf3281,60256%2441---
1.c4182,10256%2442---
1.g319,70256%2427---
1.b314,26554%2427---
1.f45,89748%2377---
1.Nc33,80151%2384---
1.b41,75648%2380---
1.a31,20654%2404---
1.e31,06848%2408---
1.d395450%2378---
1.g466446%2360---
1.h444653%2374---
1.c343351%2426---
1.h328056%2418---
1.a411060%2466---
1.f39246%2436---
1.Nh38966%2508---
1.Na34262%2482---
1.e4 0 c6 0 2.Nf3 5 d5 0 3.Nc3 4 Bg4 0 4.h3 3 Bxf3 0 5.Qxf3 6 Nf6 1 6.Be2 13 e6 1:15 7.0-0 7 Bc5 5 8.Rd1 33 Bd4 39 9.Qf4 4 e5 46:29 10.Qg3 5 dxe4 2:29 11.d3 0 exd3 1:12 12.Bxd3 19 Nbd7 8:41 13.Ne2 3:47 Bb6 8:30 14.Bf5 48:16 g6 3:31 15.Bxd7+ 18:22 Nxd7 32 16.Rxd7 9:15 Kxd7 38 17.Bg5 4 Qc7 0 18.Rd1+ 18 Kc8 1:50 19.Bf6 2:08 Re8 5 20.Nc3 1:29 Kb8 2:08 21.Ne4 40 a6 1:34 22.Nd6 5:57 Re6 0 23.Bxe5 1:14 f6 11:34 24.Bf4 3 g5 3:00 25.Qg4 2:15 gxf4 3:57 26.Qxe6 4 f3 27 27.Ne4 1:43 Ka7 0 28.Rd7 45 Qf4 38 29.Rxb7+ 31 Kxb7 0 30.Nd6+ 5 Qxd6 51 31.Qxd6 4 Rg8 45 32.Qd7+ 49 Bc7 0 33.Qxh7 1:09 Rxg2+ 20 34.Kf1 0 Rh2 34 35.Ke1 8 Kb8 39 36.Qf5 53 Rh1+ 26 37.Kd2 2 Rb1 0 38.Qxf6 1:08 a5 14 39.b3 40 Kb7 32 40.a4 0 Rg1 0 41.Qxf3 1:06 Bd6 1:06 42.h4 50 Bb4+ 0 43.c3 13 Ba3 22 44.Kd3 38 Kb6 57 45.h5 44 Bc1 13 46.Qf8 0 Bg5 7:26 47.Qb8+ 1:12 Kc5 1:35 48.Qa7+ 27 Kd6 20 49.Qxa5 2:36 Rd1+ 30 50.Ke2 27 Rd2+ 42 51.Kf1 48 Rd1+ 22 52.Kg2 10 Rd5 0 53.Qb4+ 6 Kc7 9 54.Qe4 2:58 Bd2 37 55.c4 48 Rg5+ 1:34 56.Kf1 14 Kb7 52 57.Qe7+ 55 Ka6 0 58.Qd6 29 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Paehtz,E2479Gunina,V25021–02019FIDE Womens Grand Prix 2019-206.6

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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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