The Weekly Show with Lawrence Trent

by Lawrence Trent
3/20/2018 – Tuesdays at 18:00 CET (5 pm UK time, Noon EST) Lawrence Trent goes on air on Playchess.com. In his show, Lawrence will be dealing with the latest trends, games and combinations from elite chess tournaments. Today, Lawrence will have a look at games from the European Individual Championship.
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European Individual Championship

In the position below, White just played Rf1 looking to get an attack going against the black king. But was this a good idea?

 
Vallejo Pons-Bosiocic, Round 3
Black to play

You can move the pieces on the live diagram

In the rather large shadow of the Candidates Tournament in Berlin, this year's European Championship began on Saturday, March 17th and will run until Wednesday, March 28th. Over 300 players are participating in Batumi, including eight over 2700 Elo such as Dmitry Jakovenko, Radoslaw Wojtaszek and David Navara. This week Lawrence looks at highlights from round three: 

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Lawrence is live on Tuesdays at 18:00 CEST / 5 pm BST time / 12 Noon EDT

After each show, the video is available along with all previous editions in the videos archive. To watch those you'll need a ChessBase Account. 

At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library, tactics server, opening training App, the live database with eight million games, Let’s Check and web access to playchess.com

Lawrence Trent's new 60 Minutes on the Fort Knox Variation:

If you're one of those French Defence players who has been desperately searching for a reliable and easy-to-learn system against White's two main 3rd moves (3.Nd2 or 3.Nc3) then this is the 60 Minutes for you! The Fort Knox variation (3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bd7!

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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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