Fast and Furious: Scandinavian 3...Qd6

by Robert Ris
1/2/2020 – Welcome to 2020 Fast & Furious! IM Robert Ris checks out the theoretical implications of a Carlsen win from the World Rapid Championship. Tune into the live show at 18:00 UTC (19:00 CET / 1 PM EST) which is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows. In the diagram, it's Black to play!
Pattern recognition is an important tool in modern chess, as it helps you to understand better the characteristics of a position. Particularly when you have been confronted with a surprise opening system played by your opponent, it helps when you can just

Happy New Year!

To start the year well let's have a look a game of World's best player Magnus Carlsen who last week won both the World Rapid & Blitz. Particularly I quite enjoyed his game vs Azamat Utegaliyev (2502) in the 1st round of the Rapid, as with very natural developing moves the Mozart of Chess makes chess look so simple. Besides that, we will also have a look at an even sharper approach for White which was recommended by GM Krisztian Szabo in CBM 193! It seems that Black is having a very hard time in the Scandinavian with 3...Qd6 at the moment!

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Carlsen vs Utegaliyev, Moscow 2019
Position after 17...g6

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1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 c6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Ne5 Nbd7 7.Nc4 Qc7 8.a4 a5 9.Qf3 Nb6 10.Bf4 Qd8 11.Be5 Nbd5 12.Nxd5 Nxd5 13.c3 Nf6 14.Bd3 Be6 15.0-0 Bxc4 16.Bxc4 e6 17.Qg3 g6 18.f4 Bg7 19.f5 exf5 20.Bc7 Qc8 21.Qd6 Ne4 22.Rae1 Qd7 23.Rxe4+ fxe4 24.Bxf7+ Qxf7 25.Rxf7 Kxf7 26.Qd7+ 1–0
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Carlsen,M2886Utegaliyev,A25641–02019FIDE World Rapid Championship1

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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.

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