Master Class Vol.4: José Raúl Capablanca
He was a child prodigy and he is surrounded by legends. In his best times he was considered to be unbeatable and by many he was reckoned to be the greatest chess talent of all time: Jose Raul Capablanca, born 1888 in Havana.
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.
José Raúl Capablanca, World Champion from 1921 to 1927, is famous for his solid play (in his entire career he played 578 official tournament and match games and lost only 36(!) of them) and his seemingly simple but powerful positional chess. In today's how we will take a look at a beautiful positional squeeze by the Cuban genius: his win against Viacheslav Ragozin from the 6th round of the Moscow International Tournament 1935.
But to level things out, here's a position in which things went better for Ragozin: White has had the best of things so far, but is there a concrete way to convert the advantage?
Try your moves!
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The Fashionable Caro-Kann Vol.1 and 2
The Caro Kann is a very tricky opening. Black’s play is based on controlling and fighting for key light squares. It is a line which was very fashionable in late 90s and early 2000s due to the successes of greats like Karpov, Anand, Dreev etc. Recently due to strong engines lot of key developments have been made and some new lines have been introduced, while others have been refuted altogether. I have analyzed the new trends carefully and found some new ideas for Black.
Follow along with Lawrence and try your own moves
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Read a review of Trent's previous FritzTrainer on the "Bombastic Bird's Opening"!
The Bombastic Bird's - an energetic and exciting repertoire after 1.f4
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.
26.Nf5+ was the devastating refutation!
