Game of the Week #612: G. Oparin vs F. Caruana

by Merijn van Delft
3/28/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine game played by Fabiano Caruana against Grigoriy Oparin at the American Cup. In about a week Caruana will play in the 2024 Candidates Tournament in Toronto and he is one of the favourites to win this tournament. Especially if he shows the form he showed against Oparin. | 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 #612

One week before the start of the Candidates, it is interesting to see how the top favourites are faring. Fabiano Caruana is the only player apart from Magnus Carlsen currently rated above 2800 and is third on the all-time ranking list.

This week in the American Cup he scored an instructive positional win against Grigoriy Oparin, which is our game of the week. A masterclass in dealing with the bishop pair.

Warm-up question: What would you play here with Black?


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The flexible Open Spanish

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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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.