The Weekly Show: Euro Teams and others

by Lawrence Trent
10/29/2019 – The European Team Champs has seen a number of interesting games. IM Lawrence Trent checks out one from Anish Giri. | Puzzle time: In the diagram below, it's Black to move! | Lawrence is live for free and 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).

Giri played a nice game with the black pieces vs Papaioannou in the second round, which will be the focus of today's show.

But first, can Christian Bauer with black in the position below break through first?

 
Pérez Candelario vs Bauer, Batumi 2019
Position after 32.♗xc6

Black to play — try your move!

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1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.Bf4 Bg7 4.Nbd2 0-0 5.c3 d6 6.e4 Nbd7 7.Be2 b6 8.0-0 Bb7 9.Qc2 e5 10.Bg5 h6 11.Bh4 Qe8 12.Rfe1 Nh5 13.Rad1 Kh8 14.dxe5 dxe5 15.Nc4 Nc5 16.Nfd2 Bf6 17.Bxf6+ Nxf6 18.f3 Kg7 19.b4 Ncd7 20.Nb3 h5 21.Qd2 h4 22.Qg5 Rh8 23.Rd2 Qe6 24.Red1 b5 25.Nd6 Rh5 26.Qe3 cxd6 27.Rxd6 Qe7 28.Bxb5 Nf8 29.Nc5 Rb8 30.a4 Rh8 31.Bc4 Bc8 32.a5 Nh5 33.Bf1 Nf4 34.Kh1 Nh7 35.b5 Nf6 36.Kg1 N6h5 37.Kf2 Qg5 38.Qd2 Ng3 39.hxg3 hxg3+ 40.Ke3 Rh2 41.Qc1 Bh3 0–1
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Papaioannou,I2645Giri,A27800–1201922nd European Team Championship2

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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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