Game of the Week #491
Alireza Firouzja keeps amazing and has been dominating chess in the past couple of weeks. By scoring an incredible 8 out of 9 at the first board at the European Team Championship, he rised to second place in the world rankings at 18 years and 5 months of age, with only World Champion Magnus Carlsen ahead of him. All of his games are worth studying at the moment and we picked the legendary pairing Firouzja-Jobava as our Game of the Week.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
A. Firouzja vs B. Jobava, European Team Championship 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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In this opening Black opts for active piece play and is not afraid to fight for the initiative from an early stage. One of the many good features of this opening is that Black is often the side which controls the pace of the game.
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