8/26/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent focuses on the Wood Green Invitational, a 10-player single round robin played in Stafford, England. Ravi Haria impressed by winning the event with a phenomenal 7½/9 score. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here

8/18/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the action from the St Louis Rapid and Blitz. The featured game will be Caruana-Svidler from round 19. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here

8/13/2021 – Lawrence and Arne predict the winners of the Kramnik Challenge, RTU, St. Louis Rapid, and the EIWCC. While doing so, they start philosophizing about how many professional chess players actually love their job. While the elite players can mostly make a living, if they win many chess games in tournaments, thousands of GM's have to struggle their way through chess life. Or not? Is chess a sport so far away from golf or football, that they shouldn't even be compared with each other at all? This, and other interesting topics, are being discussed in the last episode of August. "ChessBase News Review" will continue in September.

8/11/2021 – In this week's "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent is doing something a little different: he will analyse the first "Over-the-Board" game he has played for about 18 months! It is his victory vs Torben Schulenburg from a match between the SK Norderstedt and the Chess Friends Hamburg in the "Oberliga", Germany's third league. Lawrence will also talk about the big news such as the Chessable Masters, World Cup winner etc. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here

8/6/2021 – Messi left Barcelona, Grealish is going to Manchester City for 100 million pounds, but how is a "transfer" working for chess players, and does playing in a chess league grant you a enough income? Lawrence Trent states, the coronavirus was troublesome for many chess players, relying on playing league games. What about Duda, winning the World Cup and receiving 110000 dollars? Besides the money business, Trent takes a close look at the two last World Cup games, and obviously Carlsen's game against Fedoseev, shouldn't be missed by anyone.

8/3/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the entertaining draw that meant that Alexandra Kosteniuk became winner of the Women’s World Cup. He will also look at other events e.g. the Chessable masters and the Grandmaster Tournament in Biel. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.Does White have everything under control or can Black break his opponennt’s defences?

7/30/2021 – In the summer, "ChessBase News Review" with Lawrence Trent will have a couple of breaks here and there. One of them was last week. Back on time, IM Trent takes a more profound look at the Arkhangelsk Ruy Lopez game between Vidit and Duda. Furthermore, Lawrence and Arne talk about The beautiful Fontainebleau chess festival, and the tournament in Biel. They also mention the "winning fist gesture" of Fedoseev, the New York Post article about Karjakin's GM title, and the behaviour of Niemann as a GM.

7/27/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will of course continue to talk about the World Cup but will also take a short look at the other big tournaments that are currently taking place. The game of the day is Vidit’s smooth win vs Durarbayli as Black, in which the Indian Grandmaster used a lovely little opening novelty. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/20/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will continue recapping the World Cup and the focus game will be Jumabaev's surprising win with Black against world number two, Fabiano Caruana, which eliminated Caruana from the tournament! | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/16/2021 – This was an exciting week of chess upsets, and not only because of some lower rated players winning their games in the World Cup. First, chess is being played in Dortmund, with the two veterans Anand, and Kramnik, battling it out, without castling. Second, in the same city, the German Grand Prix takes place, with Pavel Eljanov in top form. Third, the World Cup in Sochi has unfortunate covid cases to deal with. Lawrence Trent also has an anecdote, why he had a hard time to play against a smelly chess opponent, and how he dealt with it.

7/13/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the World Cup and the glorious game the Chilean GM Pablo Salinas won with Black against GM Mads Andersen from Sweden. Lawrence will also do a roundup of what happened at the Swedish Championships, the San Fermin Masters and the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Croatia. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/9/2021 – Lawrence Trent is looking forward to Sunday, when Italy will face England in the Euro 2020 final. But there is more to come, like the no-castling chess event in Dortmund and, of course, the World Cup in Sochi. Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about Nihal Sarin, who keeps on winning tournaments; Pia Cramling, who is not far away from winning the Swedish Championship, and Ian Nepomniachtchi, who is dominating in Croatia. Furthermore, we talk about the English opening 1.c4, and dive into the "Chess Train" events. Will we ever be able to play chess on Mars?

7/6/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the Russian Higher League. He analyses a highly entertaining victory by Maksim Chigaev, one that included a spectacular finish. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

7/2/2021 – Lawrence Trent is English, Arne Kaehler is German - time to analyse the recent Euro 2020 football game clash of both nations, which, funnily enough, had a couple of similarities to a grandmaster chess game. Furthermore, the "Wunderkinder" from India are breaking world records, winning tournaments, and are on top of the tables these last weeks. Lawrence Trent gives an analysis of the youngest chess Grandmaster Abhimanyu vs. Mendonca. We also take a look at the Goldmoney and Silver Lake tournaments, and talk about Larry Kaufman's interesting life.

6/29/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the Asian Goldmoney Rapid tournament (part of Meltwater Chess Tour). He will particularly focus on the performance of another new young star – the Indian GM Arjun Erigaisi who qualified for the knockout stage and defeated Hou Yifan in round 10 in crushing style. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/22/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the National Open in Las Vegas, focusing on the game Levy Rozman vs Christopher Yoo in round 5, a superb attacking display by the "internet's chess teacher". And Lawrence will talk about the Paris Rapid & Blitz tournament and the Prague Masters. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/15/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at Shakhriyar Mamedyarov’s win at the Superbet Classic in Bucharest. The featured game will be Caruana-Mamedyarov where Mamedyarov scored a brilliant victory with Black against the world's number two. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/11/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself. This week they discuss the juicy topic of how fair you would play chess in a high stakes situation, how Alex Yermolinksy played in Mexico, and Lawrence Trent's journey to becoming a Grandmaster.

6/8/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the Superbet Chess Classic Tournament in Bucharest. The game of the day will be Lupulescu-Giri, where the big underdog stunned the Dutch number 1. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

6/4/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself. This week they discuss a lot of studies, and Lawrence does an impressive job trying to solve them. They also analyse a game from the Grand-Prix, and talk about the Isle of Man tournament, and the rather controversial idea to set candidate spots for the tournament winners.

6/1/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will focus on the fantastic performance by Zhansaya Abdumalik at the Women’s Grand Prix in Gibraltar. She is s currently two points clear of the field and, perhaps more importantly, crossed the 2500 barrier and has officially got her Grandmaster title. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/28/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself. This week we talk about the newest Fritz & Chesster project, and take a detailed look at the Gibraltar Grand Prix, and the FTX Crypto Cup + Analysis of two games.

5/25/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will focus on a new crop of young super talents - Marc’Andria Maurizzi, who got his GM title at the age of 14 years and 5 days, and Abhimanyu Mishra, the 12 year old close to becoming the youngest GM in history (he only needs 8 points and one norm to be the youngest GM of all time). | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/21/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself. After not having a show last Friday, This week we talk about the Fritztrainer tournament with Kasimdzhanov, King & Co, the young talent Adewumi, how "funding" plays a role in developing child prodigies, and our thoughts about "no castling" chess, which will take place in Dortmund soon.