The Weekly Show: Spanish Team Championship

by Lawrence Trent
10/8/2019 – Still in Spain (virtually speaking), IM Lawrence Trent analyses highlights from the Spanish Team Championships, specifically one from the inimitable Vassily Ivanchuk. | 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.

Week 41

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 this Tuesday, I will be taking a look at the Spanish Team Championships that took place in Melilla, including an absolute masterpiece by Vassily Ivanchuk in the first round.

But first, Radjabov only needed a draw to seal the deal, but he did one better than that. White to play and win!

 
Radjabov-Ding, World Cup Tiebreaks
Position after 40...♜xb6

White to play

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1.e4 0 c5 0 2.Nc3 37 d6 0 3.f4 1:31 g6 5 4.Nf3 5 Bg7 5 5.d4 3 cxd4 1:03 6.Nxd4 0 Nc6 1:18 7.Be3 3:48 Nf6 21 8.Be2 11 0-0 38 9.Nb3 40 Be6 0 10.g4 2:15 d5 27:06 11.f5 43 Bc8 4:36 12.exd5 26 Nb4 4 13.Bf3 30 gxf5 2:52 14.a3 1:28 fxg4 0 15.Bg2 27 Na6 3:47 16.Qd3 3:56 Bd7 10:39 17.0-0-0 6:14 Qc8 58 18.Rhf1 20:34 Ne8 9:49 19.Bd4 6:19 Bh6+ 0 20.Kb1 14:15 f6 17 21.Ne4 11:17 Rf7 5:24 22.d6 35 f5 55 23.Qg3 0 fxe4 4:33 24.Rxf7 4:03 Kxf7 2 25.Qh4 39 Bf5 1:03 26.Qxh6 3:17 Qe6 24 27.Qg5 2:19 h6 21 28.Qf4 0 Nxd6 38 29.Be5 57 Nc4 1 30.Bc3 16 Kg6 1:07 31.Nd4 6 Qe5 13 32.Qxe5 23 Nxe5 2 33.Nxf5 4 Kxf5 4 34.Rd5 16 1–0
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Ivanchuk,V2686Cheparinov,I26701–02019ESP chT Honor Division 20191.19

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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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