The Weekly Show: Back from Batavia

by Lawrence Trent
3/3/2020 – Back from Amsterdam, IM Lawrence Trent reviews the tournament and presents another personal highlight. | Puzzle time: In the diagram, it's White to move! Is 51.Ke3 safe? | Lawrence is live his 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.

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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Trent vs Bosboom

I'm wrapping up Batavia as there's nothing else super-interesting happening (the Women's GP games yesterday were rather dull.)

We'll look at my game vs the legendary Manuel Bosboom!

But first: Warakomski-Trent, here I expected my opponent to play 51.♔c3 but instead he confidently played ♔e3. I reacted with 51...f6, but was this the best reaction? How should the game finish after both 51.♔e3 and ♔c3?

 

Try your moves!


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Lawrence Trent's latest

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.

Solution to the puzzle

Black wins with 51...h3!!

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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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