The Weekly Show: Leaders at the World Juniors

by Lawrence Trent
10/22/2019 – On the heels of the World Youth, Under-18 winner Praggnanandhaa moved on to the stiffer competition of the World Junior Championship. IM Lawrence Trent analyses his game against the fifth round leader, GM Evgeny Shtembuliak. | Puzzle time: In the diagram below, it's Black 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.

Exciting game from World Juniors

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 I'm going to be taking a look at the World Juniors and the performance of current leader GM Evgeny Shtembuliak. I'll focus on his key clash vs Praggnanandhaa's in round five.

But first, Haria vs Santos Ruiz: The young English IM Ravi Haria just played Re1 thinking he was coordinated enough to stymie the Black initiative. What did he miss?

 

Black to play

This week's show

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Follow along with Lawrence and try your own moves

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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.

Solution to today's puzzle:

28...♛xe1!

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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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