The Weekly Show: The powerful play of Aleksandra Goryachkina

by Lawrence Trent
6/14/2019 – On the show Lawrence had a look at the Women's Candidates tournament in general and the performance of Goryachkina in particular. Free 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.

Powerful: Aleksandra Goryachkina

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).

Today I am going to look at the Women's Candidates tournament and the performance of Goryachkina in particular. I will take a look at how she deals with playing against ultra-aggressive players via swift counterattacking chess. The feature game will be Gunina-Goryachkina.

But first a little warm-up, Yu-Caruana, Altibox Norway Chess.

 

Black to play. Can Black save this position?

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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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