Game of the Week #474
The World Cup is getting more exciting every week. While several top 10 players have been knocked out, World Champion Magnus Carlsen appears to be quite inspired. But in round five he met rising star Andrey Esipenko, who was up to the task, and only lost the match in the blitz-tiebreak.
But our Game of the Week is Carlsen-Wojtaszek, which is full of tricky move orders which quickly gave White an overwhelming attacking position.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
M. Carlsen - R. Wojtaszek, World Cup 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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