The Weekly Show: Barcelona Open

by Lawrence Trent
10/1/2019 – Looking south to Spain, IM Lawrence Trent analyses a game from the ongoing Barcelona Open featuring a rising French star. | Puzzle time: In the diagram below, it's White to move. | Lawrence is 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.

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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).

Today I will be taking a look at the "French Revolution" as a contingent of young talented French players make a move for victory at the very strong Barcelona Open. The featured game is by one of the biggest improvers of the past six months: GM Maxime Lagarde.

But first, from the diagram below, White has just played ♘g3 and he went on to win the game. However, did his opponent miss a chance in this position?

 
Moussard-Rahman, Barcelona Open
Position after 18.♘g3

Black to play

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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.exd5 exd5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 Nge7 7.Bf4 Bg4 8.f3 Bf5 9.Bxf5 Nxf5 10.Qd3 Nfe7 11.0-0-0 Qd7 12.Na4 0-0 13.h4 Bd6 14.Qd2 Rfe8 15.g4 Nc8 16.Nc5 Qe7 17.Rhe1 Nb6 18.Ng3 Bxf4 19.Qxf4 Qxe1 20.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 21.Kd2 Rg1 22.Nf5 Rg2+ 23.Kc3 Re8 24.Qxc7 Ree2 25.Qxb7 Rxc2+ 26.Kd3 Nb4+ 27.Ke3 Rce2+ 28.Kf4 Re8 29.h5 h6 30.Qxa7 Rxb2 31.a4 Nc4 32.Qd7 Rbe2 33.Qb5 Nc2 34.Nd3 Rd8 35.Ne5 Nxd4 36.Nxd4 Rxe5 37.Nc6 1–0
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Moussard,J2608Rahman,M22711–02019Barcelona Open1

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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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