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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.Today we're going to have a look at Hastings and a quick update on the Women's World Championships plus a Tata Steel Chess preview.
Some brilliant individual performances including the winner GM Panchanathan and our very own Ginger GM Simon Williams.
GOTD will be Panchanathan's win vs Sengupta in round 8. A brilliant attacking performance by the tournament winner.
But first: In the position below, Simon Williams has played in his typical aggressive style, but where is the knockout blow?
Merry-Williams, Hastings 2019
Black to play — Try your moves!
This week's show
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This DVD gives you the key to start out with the French Defence. GM Yannick Pelletier is a specialist of this opening, and believes that the most efficient way to understand its ideas, plans, and typical structures is to study classical lines.Lawrence is live most Tuesdays at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET / 12 Noon EST)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.Ng5 d5 5.exd5 Na5 6.Bb5+ c6 7.dxc6 bxc6 8.Be2 h6 9.Nh3 Bc5 10.d3 0-0 11.0-0 Nb7 12.Nc3 Bd4 13.Kh1 Nd6 14.Ng1 Re8 15.Na4 Nf5 16.Nf3 Ba6 17.Nxd4 Qxd4 18.c3 Qd6 19.Be3 Rad8 20.Bxa7 e4 21.d4 Bxe2 22.Qxe2 h5 23.Bc5 Qf4 24.Nb6 Qh4 25.Kg1 Re6 26.Nc4 Nd5 27.g3 Qh3 28.Kh1 h4 29.Rg1 Rh6 30.Qf1 Qxh2+ 0–1
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| Sengupta,D | 2550 | Panchanathan,M | 2482 | 0–1 | 2020 | | 95th Caplin Hastings Congress | 8.1 |
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Lawrence Trent's latest
Read a review of Trent's previous FritzTrainer on the "Bombastic Bird's Opening"!
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.
Solution to the puzzle
SHOW12.♗xc4!
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