The Weekly Show: Edouard at the ECC

by Lawrence Trent
11/12/2019 – This week IM Lawrence Trent checks out the Euro Club Cup and specifically a win with black by French GM Romain Edouard. | Puzzle time: In the diagram below, it's White 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.

The European Club Cup

Each week, I bring you the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments on Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12 Noon EST).

Today we're going to be taking a look at the action at the European Club Cup including a special victory with the Black pieces by Romain Edouard vs Ruslan Ponomariov.

But first, here I had to be very precise to win this position. What should White play?

 
Trent - Klimkowski, Konin Masters, 2019
Position after 55...Ra5

White to play - Try your moves!

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd3 Qb6 8.Nb3 a6 9.Qg3 Qc7 10.Bxf6 gxf6 11.Be2 h5 12.Qh4 Bg7 13.Bxh5 Kf8 14.f4 Ne7 15.Qh3 d5 16.0-0 dxe4 17.Nxe4 f5 18.Ng5 Nd5 19.Nxf7 Qxf7 20.Bxf7 Rxh3 21.Bxe6 Rxb3 22.Bxd5 Rxb2 23.Rad1 Rxc2 24.Bb3 Re2 25.Rd8+ Re8 26.Rd6 b5 27.Bd5 Rb8 28.Rc1 Rb6 29.Rxb6 Bd4+ 30.Kf1 Bxb6 31.Rc6 Bd4 32.h4 a5 33.h5 Rd8 34.Bb3 a4 35.Bc2 Ke7 36.h6 Be6 37.h7 Bc4+ 38.Ke1 Bc3+ 0–1
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Ponomariov,R2648Edouard,R26350–1201935th European Club Cup2

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Lawrence Trent's latest

Read a 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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