GM Larry Christiansen is a three-time U.S. Champion and one of the most dangerous and respected attacking players of his generation. He is a feared competitor and attacker who authored two popular books that showcase his aggressive style: Storming the Barricades and Rocking the Ramparts. Each week on the show, Larry will feature various attacking motifs and themes and showing you how best to play for mate.

Today's show is: Guns of Navara

The European Individual Chess Championship, being played these days in Jerusalem, is offering interesting games, and our Tactician Master GM Larry Christiansen is taking advantage of the pearls he can find either in the lower and the top boards. The first snippet of this week's show is a little but amazing attacking game - played between Israeli IM Igor Bitensky and Romanian WIM Camelia Ciobanu - which shows how a rather passive move in the opening can lead to disaster. Then Larry goes on with the main dish, the game played between the uber-strong Czech GM David Navara - who can be a demonic attacking player - and the Romanian GM Mircea-Emilian Parligras. Navara unleash a vicous attack, taking advantage of his advanced pawn formation. Navara combines deep calculation and pure chess intuition, to destroy his opponent. A game you don't want to miss!

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