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Game of the Week: M. Bluebaum vs A. Heimann

4/14/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at another duel from the German "Kader-Challenge" in Magdeburg: a positional masterpiece by Matthias Bluebaum. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: Svane vs Svane

4/7/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft shows a duel between two brothers - Rasmus Svane and Frederik Svane. The two faced each other in round three of the German "Kader-Challenge" in Magdeburg and everyone who expected a lifeless draw was pleasantly disappointed. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: Beating the favourite

3/31/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft shows how the young German FM Julian Kramer (Elo 2419) defeated Ivan Cheparinov (2667) at the European Club Cup. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: Anish Giri vs Ian Nepomniachtchi

3/24/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes another look at the relatively new and highly fascinating 7.g4 variation in the Taimanov Sicilian, a line which Anish Giri used to win a crucial game against Ian Nepomniachtchi in the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: A fascinating approach against the Sicilian

3/17/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at the relatively new and highly fascinating 7.g4 variation that Grandelius came up with against the Sicilian. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: A new setup against the Caro-Kann

3/10/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game in which Jorden van Foreest tried a new - and promising? - setup against the Caro-Kann. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: A. Giri vs A. Shirov, Hoogeveen 2014

3/3/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game in which Anish Giri enriched opening theory and showed his attacking skills against Alexei Shirov. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Alina l'Ami

Game of the Week: M. Bosboom vs I. Khenkin

2/24/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine attacking game in which Dutch player Manuel Bosboom found a number of unusual, surprising and pleasing positional sacrifices. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: So vs Carlsen

2/17/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft looks back to the final of the Opera Euro Rapid Tournament and presents a crucial game, in which Wesley So defeated Magnus Carlsen. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Dubov

2/10/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft wonders how Magnus Carlsen plans to counter the original and creative style of Daniil Dubov in their quarterfinal match of the Opera Euro Rapid. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

Game of the Week: A. Giri vs R. Wojtaszek

2/3/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft again looks back to the Tata Steel Tournament 2021 in Wijk aan Zee and analyses how Anish Giri managed to squeeze a nice win out of a seemingly equal position against Radoslaw Wojtaszek. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here. | Photo: Photo: Jurriaan Hoefsmit – Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2021

Game of the Week: Jorden van Foreest vs David Anton Guijarro

1/27/2021 – This week Merijn van Delft takes a look at a one of the interesting games Jorden van Foreest played in the Tata Steel Tournament 2021 in Wijk aan Zee: van Foreest's nice win against David Anton Guijarro. | Merijn's show is available at 16.00 UTC (17:00 CET, 12:00 EDT) and on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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