What is Lawrence Trent IM The Smith-Morra Gambit for Cheap?

What do you do against the Sicilian Defence? Do you play a mainline, safe in the knowledge that despite being the most reliable way to gain an opening advantage, you could be condemned to spending years studying a huge body of opening theory, or do you choose an Anti-Sicilian, a way to sidestep the mainlines at the risk of allowing Black to have a sneaking chance to achieve equality? The Morra Gambit, characterised by the moves 1.e4 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.c3 is one of the least played, yet according to IM Trent most underrated Anti-Sicilians that White has at his disposal.

By sacrificing a pawn, White aims to rapidly develop his pieces with the objective of delivering a swift knockout blow to the unprepared Black camp. Objectively speaking, Trent emphasises, if Black knows his stuff he has various ways to achieve a perfectly reasonable position. The beauty of this opening, Trent explains, lies in its practical “over-theboard” potential. Black players will have trouble coping with unknown positions and being put on the back foot from the start. It should be of no surprise that around 50% of players with Black decide to decline the gambit, but even in this case Trent presents a host of tricky variations which allow White to play with venom and great attacking possibilities, not to mention a number of previously unseen theoretical novelties!

Video runnig time: 5 h 25 min.

Lawrence Trent IM The Smith-Morra Gambit Index:

📄 Morra.cba (24.01 KB)
📄 Morra.cbc (156.00 B)
📄 Morra.cbe (32.00 B)
📄 Morra.cbg (31.87 KB)
📄 Morra.cbh (1.21 KB)
📄 Morra.cbj (2.01 KB)
📄 Morra.cbm (2.03 KB)
📄 Morra.cbp (1.73 KB)
📄 Morra.cbs (100.00 B)
📄 Morra.cbt (329.00 B)
📄 Morra.cbtt (93.00 B)
📄 Morra.cib (2.32 KB)
📄 Morra.cit (1.03 KB)

📂 Morra.html
📄 01 POTENTIAL INTRO SMITH MORRA.wmv (1.36 MB)
📄 02 GAME 1 Morra Declined 3…e5.wmv (2.41 MB)
📄 02 Introduction Morra Declined.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 03 GAME 2 Morra Declined 3…g6.wmv (1.95 MB)
📄 04 GAME 3 Morra Declined 3…d3 fianchetto.wmv (1.37 MB)
📄 05 GAME 4 Morra Declined 3…d3 Hedgehog.wmv (861.38 KB)
📄 06 GAME 1 Early d6 and Nf6.wmv (2.41 MB)
📄 07 GAME 2 Early Nc6 and Nf6 .wmv (1.80 MB)
📄 08 GAME 3 Qc7 Line Be7 and Ne5.wmv (1.81 MB)
📄 09 GAME 4 Qc7 Line Nf6 AND Ne5.wmv (1002.06 KB)
📄 10 GAME 5 Qc7 Line Critical with 13…wmv (0.00 B)
📄 11 GAME 6 Qc7 Line With 13..wmv (707.98 KB)
📄 12 GAME 7 Bd7 Line.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 13 GAME 8 Classical Mainline Nxb4 and Bg4 lines.wmv (2.10 MB)
📄 14 GAME 10 Classical Mainline 11…wmv (1.27 MB)
📄 15 Game 11 Siberian Trap.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 16 GAME 12 Chicago Defense Na4.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 17 game 13 Langrock-Reddmann.wmv (1.71 MB)
📄 18 game 14 Nge7 Zakharov Nd5.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 19 GAME 15 Nge7 Variation delaying a7-a6.wmv (1.00 MB)
📄 20 GAME 16 Nge7 Variation with d6.wmv (767.19 KB)
📄 21 GAME 17 Bc5 System I.wmv (1.44 MB)
📄 22 GAME 18 Bc5 system II.wmv (1.81 MB)
📄 23 GAME 19 Larsen Variation.wmv (1.78 MB)
📄 24 GAME 20 Fianchetto Variation.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 25 GAME 21 TAYLOR DEFENCE.wmv (0.00 B)
📄 26 GAME 22 FINEGOLD DEFENCE.wmv (1.85 MB)
📄 27 Outro.wmv (226.29 KB)
📄 FritztrainerOpening.jpg (13.17 KB)
📄 Trent.bmp (33.45 KB)
📄 cblogo.gif (2.33 KB)

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