The Weekly Show: The Portugal Open

by Lawrence Trent
2/4/2020 – Back from Gibraltar, IM Lawrence Trent returns his attention to the Iberian peninsula where the strong Portugal Open is wrapping up. | Puzzle time: In the diagram, it's White to move! | Lawrence is live this week from 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12 Noon EST) and free for a limited time, or forever on-demand with a ChessBase Basic Account. You can always 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.

Tromping in Porto

It's a slow week on the international tournament calendar. I will take a look at the Portugal Open and the crucial last round encounter between Grigoryan-Indic, a wild game won by the Armenian resulting in a surprising outright tournament victory as all the other results went in his favour.

But first: I am down to my last seconds and play the move 35...♝d8 with the idea of ♝e7 and an eventual a3. Was I happy after White's next move or not?

 
Barbosa-Trent, Gibraltar Masters
Position after 35...Bd8

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1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Bxf6 exf6 4.e3 Bd6 5.c4 dxc4 6.Bxc4 f5 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.Nc3 0-0 9.0-0 D00: 1 d4 d5: Unusual lines Nf6 10.a4!? An interesting side line. a5N Predecessor: 10...c6 11.Qb3 Qe7 12.h3 Rb8 13.Rfd1 g6 14.a5 Kg7 15.Qc2 Be6 16.Bxe6 1/2-1/2 (16) Rozental,E (2219) -Buzas,G (2197) LSS email 2009 11.Qb3 The position is equal. Qe7 12.Rac1 c6 13.d5 Rb8 14.dxc6 bxc6 15.Qc2 g6 16.Rcd1 Bb7 17.Rfe1 Bb4 18.Re2 Ne4 19.Nd2 Ng5 20.Nb3 h5 21.Na2 c5 And now ...Be4 would win. 22.Nxb4 cxb4 23.Bd5 23.Rd4 is more complex. Ra8 24.Bb5 Be4 25.Qd1 Rfd8 26.Red2 23...Rbc8 23...Rfc8!? 24.Qb1 Qd7 25.Bxb7 Qxb7= 24.Qb1! Bxd5 25.Rxd5 h4 26.h3 White has good play. But not 26.Nxa5? Qe4!-+ 26...f4 27.Nd4 f3 28.gxf3 Rfd8 29.Rxd8+ Avoid the trap 29.Rxa5? Rxd4 30.exd4 Qxe2-+ 29...Rxd8 30.Qf1 Rxd4? 30...Kg7= and Black has nothing to worry. 31.exd4+- Nxf3+= Endgame KQR-KQN 32.Kh1? 32.Kg2+- Qb7 33.Re8+ Kg7 34.d5 Qxd5 35.Qb5 Ne1+ Discovered Attack (Double check) 36.Kf1! Qh1+ 37.Ke2 32...Qc7 33.Kg2 Qc6 34.d5! Deflection Qxd5 Hoping for ...Nd2+. 35.Re8+ Kg7?
35...Kh7! 36.Qb5 Ne1+ Discovered Attack (Double check) 37.Kf1 Qh1+ Double Attack 38.Ke2 Nf3 39.Qxa5 Nd4+ 40.Kd3 Qd1+ 41.Kc4 Nf5 36.Qb5!+- Ne1+
37.Kf1! Qh1+ 38.Ke2 White threatens Qe5+ and mate. Nf3
Strongly threatening ...Nd4+. 39.Qd7! 39.Qxa5 Ng1+ 40.Kd2 Nf3+ 41.Ke3 Qe1+ 42.Kxf3 Qxe8± 39...Qg2 intending ...Ng1+. 40.Ke3 Ng5? 40...Qh1 41.Re4 41.Qc6 Qe1+ 42.Kf4 g5+ 43.Kg4 Qd1= 41...b3 41.Qd4+ Double Attack. White is clearly winning. f6 42.Re7+ Nf7 43.Qd7 Qg5+ 44.Kd3 Qf5+ 45.Qxf5 gxf5 46.f4 Kg6 47.Ra7 Accuracy: White = 97%, Black = 81%. 47.Rd7 Kg7 48.Ra7 1–0
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Grigoryan,K2632Indjic,A26221–02020Portugal Open 20209.1

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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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