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A week ago the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi was still in a deadlock, but meanwhile Carlsen has shown why he is the World Champion. With never-ending patience and an enormous willingness to work hard at the board, he managed to fully dominate the match.
While the World Championship games have been analysed extensively by the best players in the world, we'll focus this week on the second GM norm that my young friend Thomas Beerdsen has scored at a tournament in Barcelona. In the fifth round he won an intelligent attacking game against Sergey Fedorchuk.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
Practical Chess Strategy: The Bishop
When it comes to strategy, one of the key things that chess professionals understand much better than amateur players is the role of the bishop which is the key theme on this video course.
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In this opening Black opts for active piece play and is not afraid to fight for the initiative from an early stage. One of the many good features of this opening is that Black is often the side which controls the pace of the game.
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