5/18/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the Chinese Championships, and his feature game is the nice technical victory Ju Wenjun, who played in the open section, achieved against the eventual winner Yu Yangyi. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/11/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the Russian Team Championships, with a focus on the game Rublevsky vs Askerov. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

5/7/2021 – 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 discuss chess in prison, analyse a game by Fat Fritz 2.0, take a look at some past Grandmasters, and finally find out, why noodles and spring rolls cost a fortune in Iceland, if the timing is wrong.

5/4/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will take a look at the New in Chess Classic where Magnus Carlsen won his first Meltwater Champion Chess Tour title. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/30/2021 – 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 candidates tournament outcome, the new in chess classic tournament, and how the world would have changed, if Fischer had lost against Spassky in 1972.

4/23/2021 – 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 some topics are Schwarzenegger vs. Tyson, who Bob Wade was, and some analysis of the Candidates Tournament, including some further predictions.

4/20/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will of course take a look at Kirill Alekseenko's win against Alexander Grischuk from the first round of the Candidates. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/16/2021 – 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 some topics are the gender gap, and if it even exists, who Max Bluemich is, and what his connection to Alekhine is, and of course who will win the Candidates Tournament. Caruana, or Giri?

4/13/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will be taking a look at the finale of the Polgar Challenge which the young Indian talent Praggnanandhaa won convincingly. Lawrence will particularly focus on Praggnanandhaa's nice win against Bjerre in round 13. | Lawrence's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

4/6/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will be taking a look at the victory of his "ex-flatmate and good friend GM Pepe Cuenca Jiménez" at La Nucia over the Easter weekend. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/30/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will look at the European Online Club Cup where favourites Baden-Baden couldn’t make it through their playoff group. He will also be talking about the continued cancellation of top level tournaments, the cheating scandal in the World Online University Championships and more. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/26/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They each choose three articles, which might be interesting, and worth talking about the most. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself.

3/23/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will look at the finale of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, specifically the first blitz game between Anish Giri and Ian Nepomniachtchi. It was a very well conducted attack by the Dutch #1 despite it being a blitz game. Lawrence will also do a quick recap of the current situation at the Candidates. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/19/2021 – Lawrence Trent and Arne Kaehler talk about what happened chess-wise last week. They each choose three articles, which might be interesting, and worth talking about the most. They give their opinions on various topics, and encourage you to think about the subject, analyse games, or read the articles thoroughly yourself.

3/16/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will look into arguably the best game of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational preliminary stage — an astounding win by the very talented Wesley So. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/9/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will honour the International Women’s Day - March 8 - and will take a look at a game from the greatest of all time – Judit Polgar. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

3/2/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent looks back to the great tournament San Sebastian 1911 that was played 110 years ago, from February 20 to March 17, 1911. Capablanca won the tournament and on his way to victory he showed some impressive chess. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/23/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the FIDE World Online Corporate Championships, which took place last weekend . The team of GRENKE Bank (Georg Meier, Alina Kashlinskaya, Hanna Marie Klek, and Inna Agrest) won this huge worldwide online event by narrowly beating the the team of the Russian bank SBER in the finals. Lawrence presents a game between Georg Meier and Ian Nepomniachtchi, the top encounter of the finals. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/16/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent looks back to the Opera Euro Rapid Tournament and forward to upcoming events like the FIDE World Online Corporate Championships and the resumption of the Candidates. When looking back to the Opera Euro Tournament Lawrence will talk about Carlsen's bad form and possible reasons for this. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/9/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the preliminary of the Opera Euro Rapid Online Tournament, with a focus on the game Nakamura-Shankland where Hikaru botched a winning position to then lose and thereafter be eliminated from the tournament. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

2/2/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will summarise the action at the Tata Steel Tournament, with a focus on the fantastic last-round game between Jorden van Foreest and Nils Grandelius that helped van Foreest to win the tournament. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

1/26/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will recap the action at the Tata Steel Tournament, with a focus on the fantastic game Duda-Grandelius from round two where Nils Grandelius shocked by winning with Black and getting to 2/2. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

1/6/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will revisit Radjabov’s fantastic victory over Levon Aronian in the Airthings Masters final. The focus will be on their fantastic game 1 of the final day, which ended in a draw but could have easily been a win for either player! | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

12/29/2020 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent takes a look at the preliminary stage of the Airthings Masters and in particular at the great game Nepomniatchi vs Dubov from Round 9. | Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Lennart Ootes