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 #658: Gukesh vs A. Erigaisi, Tata Steel 2025

2/14/2025 – Despite all the current excitement about Freestyle Chess, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a classical game in his new Game of the Week show. He analyses the game Gukesh lost against Arjun Erigaisi in the final round of the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee - a game, in which Erigaisi showed his attacking skills. | 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 #657: Praggnanandhaa vs A. Sarana, Tata Steel 2025

2/7/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game by Praggnanandhaa, the winner of the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Praggnanandhaa played against Alexey Sarana and crowned a skilful attack with a nice sacrifice. | 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 #656: M. Warmerdam - Gukesh, Tata Steel 2025

2/1/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the performance of World Champion Gukesh at the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee and wonders how risky Gukesh plays. | 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 #655: V. Fedoseev - F. Caruana, Tata Steel 2025

1/24/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. He analyses Vladimir Fedoseev's win in round 5 against Fabiano Caruana. | 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 #654: J. Van Foreest - J. Bjerre

1/17/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft takes a look at one of the many interesting games played in the Bundesliga - Jorden Van Foreests impressive win against Jonas Buhl Bjerre. | 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 #653: D. Paravyan - S. Salem

1/9/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft presents another fine attacking game played at the World Rapid Championship in New York. The opening was modern, but the game ended with a well-known sacrifice leading to mate. | 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 #652: B. Jacobson - H. Nakamura

1/6/2025 – Merijn van Delft starts the year with a provocation. In his first Game of the Week show of 2025, he presents a rapid game, in which White played 1.a4 against Hikaru Nakamura, the current world number 3. Despite his dubious opening, White won the game - in which his a-pawn made a remarkable career. | 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 #651: D. Paravyan - P. Nandhidhaa, Qatar Masters 2024

12/30/2024 – In his last Game of the Week show 2024, Merijn van Delft presents one of the most amazing games of the year - an encounter between David Paravyan and Nandhidhaa. White again and again came up with surprising, original and beautiful ideas. | 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 #650: N. Abdusattorov - L. Mendonca

12/20/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks at a game Nodirbek Abdusattorov and Leon Mendonca played at the Qatar Masters - a game that was fascinating and full of surprises from beginning to end. | 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 #649: Ding Liren strikes

12/12/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks at what many experts consider to be the best game of the World Championship match between Ding Liren and Gukesh D at Singapore 2024. They also consider it to be one of Ding's best games in years - his win in game 12 of the match that levelled the score and was a positional and strategic masterclass. | 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 #648: Gukesh - Ding Liren, Game 7

12/5/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft does what the whole chess world is doing at the moment - he takes a look at the World Championship match in Singapore between World Champion Ding Liren and Challenger Gukesh D. Merijn analyses Game 7 of the match, which ended in a draw but was exciting from start to finish. | 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 #647: Gukesh - Ding Liren, Game 3

11/29/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a closer look at Gukesh's first ever win in a classical game against Ding Liren - in game 3 of their World Championship match at Singapore 2024. | 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 #646: V. Fedoseev - A. Indjic

11/21/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft praises the new European Champion Aleksandar Indjic by taking a look at his brilliant win against Vladimir Fedoseev at the European Championship. | 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 #645: A. Tabatabaei - A. Erigaisi

11/14/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents one of the most astonishing games played recently. Arjun Erigaisi's star is on the rise, and his win over Amin Tabatabaei at the Chennai Masters shows why - with Black, Erigaisi unleashed an original attack full of interesting manoeuvres and twists until he finally won in the endgame. | 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 #644: A. Kosteniuk - E. Roebers

11/9/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents a recent game by Dutch talent Eline Roebers. The 18-year old International Master just won the crown group in Hoogeveen by beating Mariya Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Machteld van Foreest, all of them with a 1.5-0.5 score. Merijn looks at Roebers' win against Kosteniuk. | 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 #643: V. Keymer - A. Sarana

11/6/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks back to the European Club Cup, which was won by the team of Novy Bor. With a score of 5.5/7 German GM Vincent Keymer was the topscorer on the team, and his best game was probably his win against Alexey Sarana - which Merijn analyses closely. | 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 #642: R. Robson - F. Caruana

10/29/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks at a crucial game from the US Championship 2024, in which Caruana wonhis 4th title after 2026, 2022 and 2023. However, with two draws this year Caruana had a slow start, but then scored an important win against Ray Robson in round 3. Merijn had a closer look at this important 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 #641: Equisetum - Leela Chess Zero

10/17/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes an excursion into the world of computer chess and presents an absolutely crazy game, in which two computers tested their tactical skills. Which led to an incredible slugfest. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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