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.

 
Yu-Caruana, Altibox Norway Tournament

Black to play. Can Black save this position?

This week's show

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1.e41,166,62354%2421---
1.d4947,29855%2434---
1.Nf3281,60256%2441---
1.c4182,10256%2442---
1.g319,70256%2427---
1.b314,26554%2427---
1.f45,89748%2377---
1.Nc33,80151%2384---
1.b41,75648%2380---
1.a31,20654%2404---
1.e31,06848%2408---
1.d395450%2378---
1.g466446%2360---
1.h444653%2374---
1.c343351%2426---
1.h328056%2418---
1.a411060%2466---
1.f39246%2436---
1.Nh38966%2508---
1.Na34262%2482---
1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Qa5 7.Bc4 Bf5 8.Qe2 e6 9.Ne5 Be7 10.c3 Bf6 11.d4 Bxe5 12.dxe5 Nd7 13.g4 Bg6 14.f4 b5 15.b4 Qd8 16.Bb3 Qh4+ 17.Kd1 Rd8 18.Bd2 h5 19.f5 exf5 20.e6 Nf6 21.exf7+ Kf8 22.Kc1 Ne4 23.Be1 Qg5+ 24.Kb2 hxg4 25.a4 Bxf7 26.Bxf7 Kxf7 27.axb5 cxb5 28.Rxa7+ Kg6 29.Qxb5 Rd1 30.Qc6+ Kh7 31.Qc7 Rg8 32.Kb3 Rb1+ 33.Ka4 Qe3 34.Kb5 Rxe1 35.Rxe1 Qxe1 36.c4 Nc3+ 37.Ka5 Qa1+ 38.Kb6 Qg1+ 39.Ka6 Qd4 40.Qf7 Qd6+ 41.Ka5 Qg6 42.Qd7 Rf8 43.c5 f4 44.Ra6 Qf5 45.Qd4 Qc2 46.Kb6 Rb8+ 47.Kc6 Qg2+ 0–1
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Gunina,V2506Goryachkina,A25220–12019B11FIDE Women's Candidates9.2

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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:

 
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21.Rxc6! Qxc6 22.Nxe5 Qd6 23.Ng6 and White has a winning position, e.g. Rf7 24.Bb4 Qd7 25.Ne5 and White regains the material with interest. 1–0
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Souleidis-Gordon-1–02019

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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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