Game of the Week #472
The Grand Chess Tour Croatia rapid and blitz event was quite a wild one. First of all there was the total collapse of Garry Kasparov in the blitz part, which did hurt many of the older chess fans. Kasparov not being ready to enter the main lines of the Najdorf was a huge handicap to him.
In the end MVL won the combined standings and seems to be back on track after a difficult year.
We decided to select Nepomniachtchi-Korobov from the rapid section as our Game of the Week, for entertainment and educational reasons.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
I. Nepomniachtchi - A. Korobov, GCT Croatia 2021
When it comes to strategy, one of the key things that chess professionals understand much better than amateur players is the role of the bishop which is the key theme on this video course.
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The Modern Pirc is actually a mixture of the Caro-Kann and the Pirc. In many lines Black combines the ideas of the classical Pirc in which the fianchettoed bishop is important with the Caro-Kann idea to fight for the center with c6-d5.
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