Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Ding Liren

Game of the Week #424

The final event of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour has started and features the World Champion himself, Ding Liren, Hikaru Nakamura and Daniil Dubov. They have played for a few days now and as so often lately, we are spoiled with very entertaining chess. Nakamura won 3-0 against Daniil Dubov and Carlsen is leading 2-1 in his match against Ding and we will study one of his trademark wins.

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