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.
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 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?

 
Warakomski-Trent, Amsterdam 2020
Position after 50...♚f7

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 h6 5.c3 d6 6.a4 C55: Two Knights: 4 d3, 4 d4 exd4 5 e5 and Max Lange Attack. g5 7.Qb3 Qe7 8.a5 White is slightly better. a6
9.Be3N Predecessor: 9.Nbd2 Nd7 10.Nf1 Nc5 11.Qc2 f5 12.b4 fxe4 13.dxe4 Ne6 14.Ne3 Nf4 15.g3 1-0 (41) Savchenko,B (2577)-Gareyev,T (2598) Moscow 2019 9...Bg7 10.Nbd2 0-0 11.0-0 11.h4!? 11...Nh5 12.Kh1 Kh8 13.Ng1 Nd8 14.Qd1 g4 15.d4 f5 16.exf5 Bxf5 17.Be2 17.Ne2 17...exd4= 18.cxd4 Nf6 19.Ra3 Nc6 20.Bd3 Qd7 20...Bxd3 21.Rxd3 Qe6 21.Ne2 Bxd3 22.Rxd3 Qf5 23.Ra3 Rae8 24.Nc4 24.f3= 24...Ne4 24...Qe6 25.Ra4 Nd5 25.Nd2 Nb4 26.Nxe4 Qxe4 27.Ng3 Qg6 28.Rb3 Nd5 29.Rxb7 h5 30.Rb3! h4 Black is more active. 31.Ne2 Qe4 32.Qb1 Qxb1 32...Qe6 feels hotter. 33.Kg1 h3 34.gxh3 Rf3 35.Ng3 Bh6 33.Rxb1 Rb8 34.Rxb8 Rxb8 35.Bd2 c5 36.Kg1? 36.dxc5= dxc5 37.h3 36...cxd4-+ Worse is 36...Bxd4 37.Nxd4 cxd4 38.b4= 37.Kf1
37...Nc3! 38.Rc1 38.bxc3 Rxb1+ 38...Ne4 Stronger than 38...Rxb2 39.Bxc3 dxc3 40.Nxc3= 39.Rd1 Rxb2? Black should try 39...d3-+ 40.Be1 dxe2+ 41.Kxe2 Be5 40.Be1 Nc3 41.Nxc3! dxc3 42.Rxd6= Endgame KRB-KRB c2 43.Rc6 Kg8 Threatens to win with ...Bh6! 44.Bd2 Bf8 45.Ke2 Much weaker is 45.Rxa6 Bb4 45...c1Q 46.Rxc1 Bb4 47.Rd1! Bxa5 48.Kd3 Bxd2 49.Rxd2 Rxd2+ 50.Kxd2 K3P-K3P Kf7 51.Ke3?
51.Kc3= 51...Kf6? 51...h3! mates 52.gxh3 gxh3 53.f3 a5 54.Kd4 Kf6 55.f4 Kf5 56.Ke3 a4 57.Kd4 Kxf4 58.Kd3 Kf3 59.Kd2 Kg2 60.Kd3 Kxh2 61.Kc3 Kg3 62.Kb4 h2 63.Kxa4 h1Q 64.Kb5 Qd5+ 65.Kb4 Qc6 66.Ka3 Kf4 67.Kb4 Ke3 68.Ka5 Kd3 69.Kb4 Qb6+ 70.Ka4 Kc4 71.Ka3 Qb3# 52.f3! The position is equal. gxf3 52...h3!? 53.g3 gxf3 54.Kxf3 a5= 53.Kxf3 KPP-KPP Kf5 54.Ke3 a5 55.Kd3 Kf4 56.g3+ hxg3 57.hxg3+ Kxg3 58.Kc4 a4 59.Kb4 a3 60.Kxa3 Accuracy: White = 69%, Black = 78%. ½–½
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Warakomski,T2501Trent,L2386½–½202012th Batavia Amsterdam 20207.3

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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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