Game of the Week #477
After Nakamura's dominant performance at the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz in Saint Louis, it's now Caruana's turn to show at the Sinquefield Cup (which also takes place in Saint Louis) why he has been the world's number two for several years now and currently is the strongest American in classical chess.
Wesley So has also been very successful lately, so a tense fight for first place is to be expected. Our Game of the Week is the model game that Caruana won in the first round against Sam Shankland, with a convincing strategy and pretty tactics.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
F. Caruana - S. Shankland, Sinquefield 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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