The Weekly Show: Rocking Gibraltar

by Lawrence Trent
1/22/2020 – Straight from Gibraltar, IM Lawrence Trent looks at his own first round clash with super-GM Le Quang Liem. | Puzzle time: In the diagram, it's White to move! | Lawrence is on-demand this week beginning at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET / Noon EST) and free for a limited time, or forever on-demand with a ChessBase Basic Account. You can register a free 90-day account to watch.

The Bombastic Bird's - an energetic and exciting repertoire after 1.f4 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.

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Today, in an unusual Wednesday Weekly Show, I will be covering Gibraltar — from Gibraltar — and specifically my first round loss to Le Quang Liem, a positional grind from a Spanish Archangelsk variation.

But first: Game 10 from the Women's World Championship match. White has a decision, to go up the board or go backwards. Which is best?

 
Goryachkina va Ju Wenjun, Game 10
Position after 52...Ra3+

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Bc5 6.c3 0-0 7.d4 Ba7 8.Re1 C78: Ruy Lopez: Archangelsk and Möller Defences d6 8...b5 9.Bc2 d6 10.h3 h6 11.Be3 Re8 12.Nbd2 Bb7 13.dxe5 Bxe3 14.exf6 Bxd2 15.Qxd2 Qxf6 1/2-1/2 (27) Nakamura,H (2736)-Carlsen,M (2872) Moscow 2019 9.h3 9.Bxc6!? bxc6 10.h3= 9...Bd7 10.Be3N White is slightly better. Predecessor: 10.Bg5 b5 11.Bc2 exd4 12.cxd4 h6 13.Bh4 g5 14.Bg3 Nb4 15.Bb3 c5 16.Bxd6 Re8 1-0 (59) Fuentes Allauca,D-Silveira,M Juiz de Fora 2014 10...Re8 11.Bc2 exd4 12.cxd4 d5 Of course not 12...Nxe4?! 13.d5± 13.e5 Ne4 14.Nc3 Bf5 15.a3 Bg6 16.Qb1 Qd7 17.Nxe4 dxe4 18.Bxe4 Nxd4 19.Bxd4 Bxd4 20.Re2 Rad8 21.Bxg6 hxg6 22.Qe4 c5 23.Rae1 b5 23...Re7 24.Qh4
Strongly threatening Ng5. 24...f6 25.Qg3 aiming for e6. Kh7 25...Bxe5 26.Nxe5 Rxe5 27.Rxe5 fxe5 26.Re4 Rh4+ is the strong threat. Qf5 27.b4 Bxe5 28.Nxe5 And now Qh4+ would win. fxe5 29.Rxe5 Rxe5 30.Rxe5± Endgame KQR-KQR Qf6 31.Rxc5 Rd1+ 32.Kh2 Rd2 33.f3 Qd6 Black should play 33...Rd3 34.Re5 Qf6 35.Re3 Rd4 36.Qb8 36.Re8 36...Qd6+ 36...Rd8± 37.Qg3 Rd6 37.Qxd6+- Rxd6 38.h4 Rd4 39.Kg3 a5 40.Re4 Rd3?
40...Rd7± was necessary. 41.Re5 41.bxa5 Ra7+- 41...a4 42.Rxb5 Rd3 41.a4! Accuracy: White = 76%, Black = 34%. Less strong is 41.bxa5 Rxa3 42.Re7 Rxa5±
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Le,Q2713Trent,L23831–02020Gibraltar Masters 20201.6

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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.

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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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