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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.
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