The Weekly Show: Batavia battles

by Lawrence Trent
2/26/2020 – On the rest day at the 12th Batavia tournament in Amsterdam, IM Lawrence Trent reflects on his tournament so far and shows one of his own wins. | Puzzle time: In the diagram, it's Black to move! | Lawrence is on-demand 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.

Trent vs Sukandar

Going to be taking a look at Batavia in general, and the featured game is my own win vs IM Irene Sukandar from round five.

But first: Black looks like he has decent attacking chances but can he finish off the game?

 
Van Haastert vs Warakomski, Amsterdam 2020
Position after 30.Qg3

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1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.d3 A34: Symmetrical English: 2 Nc3, lines with ...d5. Nc6 7.Bd2 a6 8.Qc1
The position is equal. 8...Rb8N Predecessor: 8...d6 9.Bh6 Bd7 10.h4 Ng4 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.h5 Rb8 13.Bh3 Rh8 14.h6+ Kf8 1-0 (57) Polert,A (1852)-Krtschil,A (1445) Osnabrueck 2013 9.Bh6 b5 10.h4 bxc4 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.h5 Rh8 13.h6+ Kf8 14.dxc4 d6 15.b3 Bb7 16.Ng5 Nd4 17.Bxb7 Rxb7 18.e3 Nc6 19.Qd2 Qd7 20.Rh4 20.0-0-0 20...Qf5 21.e4 Qd7 22.0-0-0 Nd4 Hoping for ...Rxb3! 23.Qb2 White should try 23.Qf4± 23...Qd8 23...Ng4= 24.f4 And now e5 would win. Nh5 24...e5± keeps fighting. 25.e5+- Nxg3? This move loses the game for Black. 25...Qa5± 26.Qg2!
Double Attack 26...Qa5? 26...d5 might work better. 27.Qxg3 Qa5 27.Qxg3 Qa3+ 28.Kd2 Qb2+ 28...d5 29.Ke1 Qa5 29.Ke1 Nf5 30.Rh2 Qa3 31.Qf3 Qb4 32.Rh3 Rb8 33.Kf1 Qa5 34.Kg1 dxe5
35.Qd5! Double Attack Kg8 Accuracy: White = 76%, Black = 41%. 1–0
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Trent,L2386Sukandar,I24081–0202012th Batavia Amsterdam 20205.3

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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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