Lawrence Trent: The Amazing Albin Counter-Gambit

ChessBase Fritztrainer Eröffnung, Englisch, ISBN: 978-3-86681-655-8, 2018.

Niveau: Fortgeschritten, Turnierspieler, Profi

The Albin Counter-Gambit (1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5!?) has been a favourite of Grandmasters and amateur players alike since it was popularised by Adolf Albin in the 1890s. This hyper-aggressive system, which immediately sets out to destabilise White’s position, had a renaissance in the mid-2000s when none other than GM Alexander Morozevich revitalised the opening with a number of fresh ideas and excellent results.

Over the past decade though, the consensus among Grandmasters was that White had found several ‘antidotes’ to the Morozevich setup. However, upon further inspection, not only do I believe the opening is completely sound, but that a number of leading theoreticians may have overestimated White’s chances at achieving a serious advantage. In fact, as this DVD will show, I believe that it is White who has to take extreme care not to stand worse out of the opening, and that I have found a number of extremely dangerous Theoretical Novelties which will truly put the Albin Counter-Gambit back on the map.
 

• Video running time: 5 hours (English)
• With interactive training including video feedback
• Exclusive database with more than 50 model games
• Including ChessBase-Reader

Lawrence Trent, geboren 1986, ist ein Internationaler Meister, der England bei vielen internationalen Jugendmeisterschaften vertreten hat (u.a. 7. Platz bei der WM U18 2003). Der Londoner mit Studienabschluss in Romanistik hat bereits viel Erfahrung als Trainer gesammelt. Trent hat für ChessBase schon mehrere DVDs und 60-Minuten Videos aufgenommen. Seine Fähigkeiten zur Live-Schachkommentierung unterstrich Trent auch bei den London Chess Classic, wo er die Partien von Carlsen, Kramnik und Co. für das Publikum im Saal und auf Playchess kommentierte.