Game of the Week #513
The most prominent event of the past week was the Oslo Esports Cup, which is part of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Exciting chess as usual, and suprising results here and there. After a very exciting final round Jan-Krzysztof Duda won ahead of Le Quang Liem, Magnus Carlsen and Praggnanandhaa.
Especially world champion Magnus Carlsen clearly had his ups and downs. His provocative 1.f3 in one of his games in his first-round match against Duda seems to reflect his somewhat unusual mindset.
1.f3 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 Bc5 4.Na4 Be7 5.d4 exd4 6.e5 Nd5 7.Qxd4 Nb4 8.Qf2 d6 9.a3 N4c6 10.exd6 Qxd6 11.Ne2 0-0 12.Bf4 Qg6 13.0-0-0 b5 14.Nac3 b4 15.Nd5 bxa3 16.Nxe7+ Nxe7 17.bxa3 Nbc6 18.Qc5 Ba6 19.Nc3 Bxf1 20.Rhxf1 Qxg2 21.Bxc7 Rfc8 22.Bd6 Ng6 23.Rf2 Qh3 24.Nd5 Nd8 25.Qe3 Ne6 26.f4 Qxe3+ 27.Nxe3 Nc5 28.f5 Ne4 29.fxg6 Nxf2 30.Rf1 hxg6 31.Rxf2 Rc6 32.Bb4 Rd8 33.Rd2 Rxd2 34.Kxd2 g5 35.c4 Rh6 36.Kd3 f6 37.c5 Kf7 38.Nf5 Rxh2 39.c6 Ke6 40.Nxg7+ Kd5 41.c7 Rh3+ 42.Kd2 Rh2+ 43.Kd3 Rh3+ 44.Kc2 Rh8 45.Be7 Rc8 46.Bd8 g4 47.Kd3 Kc6 48.Ne8 f5 49.Ke3 g3 50.Kf3 f4 51.a4 Kd7 52.Nf6+ Kc6 53.Nh5 Rxc7 54.Bxc7 Kxc7 55.Nxf4 Kb6 56.Nd3 Ka5 57.Ne5 Kxa4 58.Nc6 a6 59.Nb8 g2 60.Kxg2 a5 61.Nc6 Kb5 62.Nxa5 ½–½
The game we will study is the one between Jorden van Foreest and Eric Hansen, with a special very modern treatment of the Maroczy Bind.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
J. van Foreest vs E. Hansen, Oslo Esports Cup 2022
This week’s show
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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