Merijn van Delft

Merijn van Delft is an International Master from the Netherlands who lived in Hamburg for many years and is currently based in Amsterdam. After scoring a GM norm in 2017 he is eager for more. His ChessBase show on Wednesday evenings has been running for over ten years now. Producing a ChessBase DVD is still on the bucket list. Merijn's activities as a full-time chess professional include training both top juniors and ambitious amateurs, coaching at tournaments, writing articles and books, doing live commentary, organizing tournaments and other chess events. Don't hesitate to get in touch: merijnvandelft[at]gmail.com  

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Game of the Week #569: Samuel Sevian vs Nodirbek Yakubboev

5/25/2023 – In Game of the Week #569, Merijn van Delft shows why it's good to be prepared and looks at how Samuel Sevian won convincingly against Nodirbek Yakubboev's King's Indian at the Sharjah Masters. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #568: F. Caruana vs I. Nepomniachtchi

5/17/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #568, Merijn van Delft takes a look at Fabiano Caruana's fine win against Ian Nepomniachtchi at the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Bucharest. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #567: Gukesh vs Keymer

5/11/2023 – With a current rating of 2732, 16-year-old Indian grandmaster Gukesh D is ranked 18th in the world. He is an all-round player with impressive attacking skills, which he again showed in a recent game against Vincent Keymer. In his Game of the Week show #567, Merijn van Delft takes a closer look at this fine example of attacking play. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #566: Ian Nepomniachtchi vs Ding Liren - The decisive game

5/4/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #566, Merijn van Delft looks at the game that made Ding Liren the 17th World Champion in the history of chess: the fourth game of the World Championship match tiebreaker. A historically important, tense and instructive encounter! | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #564: Ding Liren vs Ian Nepomniachtchi, Game 6

4/19/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #564, Merijn van Delft continues to follow the World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. Merijn takes a close look at game 6, which Ding won. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #563: Ding Liren vs Ian Nepomniachtchi

4/13/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #563, Merijn van Delft does what most chess fans do these days: He takes a look at the World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren. Merijn analyses Nepomniachtchi's win in game 2 and discusses what makes Nepomniachtchi the favourite, and how Ding should continue the match. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #562: Jorden van Foreest vs Parham Maghsoodloo

4/7/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #562, Merijn van Delft presents an interesting, very modern game Jorden van Foreest and Parham Maghsoodloo recently played in ther German Bundesliga. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #561: L. Mendonca - S. Brunello

3/31/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #561, Merijn van Delft focuses his attention on Leon Luke Mendonca, who recently scored a perfect 9 out of 9 in Slovenia. In one of his wins, against Sabino Brunello, the youngster successfully combined his positional approach with tactical alertness. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #560: L. Dominguez - H. Nakamura

3/24/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #560, Merijn van Delft goes through an unconventional battle from the American Cup. The game between Leinier Dominguez and Hikaru Nakamura featured a sharp opening choice, a complex middlegame and a number of non-standard decisions. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #559: A. Sarana - A. Korobov

3/16/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #559, Merijn van Delft looks at the game Alexey Sarana vs Anton Korobov, played at the European Championship in Vrnacka Banja. The game was instructive and tense and turned out to be crucial for the tournament. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #558: A. Korobov - R. Ponomariov

3/8/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #558, Merijn van Delft analyses Anton Korobov’s victory over Ruslan Ponomariov in round 5 of the European Championship. In the game, Korobov came up with a truly remarkable concept! | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #556: N. Abdusattorov - A. Esipenko

2/24/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #556, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fantastic attacking game Nodirbek Abdusattorov played against Andrey Esipenko at the WR Masters in Düsseldorf. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #555: M. Warmerdam - J. van Foreest

2/15/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #555, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a complex and fascinating game that Max Warmerdam and Jorden van Foreest played in the Dutch League. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #554: D. Yuffa vs F. Svane

2/9/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #554, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fantastic attacking game that was played in the German Bundesliga last weekend, and in which Daniel Yuffa defeated Frederik Svane with a number of surprising sacrifices. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #553: A. Giri vs R. Rapport

2/2/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #553, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a historically important game: Anish Giri's win against Richard Rapport in the last round of the Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee, a game that helped Giri to win the prestigious tournament for the first time in his career. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #552: M. Carlsen vs N. Abdusattorov

1/26/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #552, Merijn van Delft analyses the all-important victory that Nodirbek Abdusattorov obtained (with black) over Magnus Carlsen at the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #551: A. Giri vs M. Carlsen

1/18/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #551 Merijn van Delft takes a look how Anish Giri won against Magnus Carlsen in round 4 of the Masters at the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week #550: F. Urkedal vs Pranesh M

1/12/2023 – In his “Game of the Week” show #550 Merijn van Delft looks at a crucial game of the young Indian player Pranesh M, who just won the Rilton Cup, a success which earned him the grandmaster title. In the last round of the Rilton Cup Pranesh came to a fine win with Black against Frode Urkedal. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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