The Weekly Show: An English Weekender

by Lawrence Trent
11/5/2019 – This week IM Lawrence Trent examines a fine win from Grandmaster Danny Gormally. | 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.

In Hull...

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).

In focus this week, Hull, England, where there was a GM tournament and a weekender, and we'll look at a game featuring the winner of the Swiss, GM Danny Gormally — a cracking win over Mark Hebden in round four.

But first, from the position below, how did Black save his skin and win the match for his team?

 
Tomczak-Shirov, Batumi 2019
Position after 50.Rf4

Black to play - Try your moves!

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MoveNResultEloPlayers
1.e41,168,43054%2421---
1.d4948,59355%2434---
1.Nf3282,13556%2441---
1.c4182,40456%2442---
1.g319,72456%2427---
1.b314,32154%2427---
1.f45,91348%2377---
1.Nc33,81451%2384---
1.b41,75948%2379---
1.a31,22154%2405---
1.e31,07349%2409---
1.d395450%2378---
1.g466646%2361---
1.h444953%2374---
1.c343551%2426---
1.h328356%2419---
1.a411259%2465---
1.f39346%2435---
1.Nh38966%2508---
1.Na34262%2482---
1.e4 5 e5 21 2.Nf3 6 Nc6 7 3.Bb5 4 a6 21 4.Ba4 5 Nf6 22 5.0-0 4:40 Be7 40 6.Re1 8 b5 19 7.Bb3 5 0-0 28 8.c3 5 d5 56 9.exd5 31 Nxd5 17 10.Nxe5 8 Nxe5 9 11.Rxe5 11 c6 53 12.d3 38 Bd6 1:44 13.Re1 7 Qh4 50 14.g3 22 Qh3 12 15.Re4 6 Nf6 16 16.Rh4 1:08 Qf5 8 17.Nd2 21 Ng4 23 18.f3 10:16 Ne5 3:32 19.d4 3:27 Ng6 3:37 20.Bc2 4:26 Qd7 1:10 21.Rh5 3:07 f5 8:37 22.Bb3+ 9:37 Kh8 19 23.f4 9:00 h6 3:08 24.Nf3 1:45 Bb7 5:26 25.Ne5 6:13 Qe8 6:07 26.g4 4:09 c5 1:43 27.gxf5 5:12 Bxe5 24:12 28.fxe5 1:34 Nxe5 25 29.dxe5 3:22 Rxf5 35 30.Rxf5 3:56 Qg6+ 9 31.Rg5 3:59 Qe4 34 32.Bf4 4:56 Qxf4 2:54 33.Rg3 1:02 Qe4 9:28 34.Qg4 1:14 1–0
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WhiteEloWBlackEloBResYearECOEventRnd
Gormally,D2491Hebden,M24271–0201956th Hull Congress4

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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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