Game of the Week #621: M. Van Oosch - M. Gurevich, Limburg 2024

by Merijn van Delft
5/30/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents a unique endgame: two knights and six pawns fight against the queen! | 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 #621

Last week we discussed the game Van Meegen vs Kramer from the Limburg GM tournament, and this week we will cover a game by the winner of the Limburg Open. Chess legend Mikhail Gurevich shared first place with local hero Max Warmerdam after the latter squeezed a win out of an endgame in the final minutes of the tournament.

Our game of the week is Gurevich's sixth round win over FM Mees van Osch, with a unique endgame you have never seen before.

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.
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After 1.d4 d5 many players with White avoid the great amount of theory in the Slav, Semi-Slav, QGA and Orthodox Queen's Gambit and do not therefore play 2.c4. This is not very ambitious, but the painful experience of many chess players has been that the Colle System, the Trompowsky Attack, the Torre Attack and the London System are nevertheless extremely dangerous. Black has to be prepared for each of these openings and IM Valeri Lilov offers you some help with his six instructive videos, in which he demonstrates for each single opening a relevant plan for Black. In addition to the openings mentioned, the Bulgarian trainer also delves into the Catalan, the Blackmar-Diemer Gambit and the Richter-Veresov Opening.