Game of the Week #628: V. Mikhalevski - J. van Foreest

by Merijn van Delft
7/19/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft analyses a very interesting encounter played at the Canadian Open in Laval. Jorden van Foreest beat Viktor Mikhalevski after prevailing in a dynamic, tense struggle. | 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 #628

Jorden van Foreest is playing a few tournaments in Canada, and this week he won the Canadian Open with a remarkable 8½ out of 9 score.

In the seventh round, Toms Kantans almost beat Van Foreest, but he let him escape with a draw. Our Game of the Week is the fifth-round encounter between Victor Mikhalevski and Van Foreest. After a long theoretical line the position was dynamically balanced, but the nature of Black's compensation was very abstract - and therefore is interesting to study.

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

V. Mikhalevski - J. van Foreest, Canadian Open 2024
Position after 24.Rad1

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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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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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