Game of the Week #504
The new season of the online Meltwater Champions Chess Tour has started. The first event is the Airthings Masters, with preliminary and knockout stages. The lineup is incredibly strong, as Aronian and Giri failed to get through and Kosteniuk only scored one win and lost her remaining games, while Hansen and Keymer impressively qualified.
Nepomniachtchi recovered from his deafeat at the World Championship match by winning the preliminaries by a wide margin and beating Carlsen with the black pieces in the process.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with Black?
Carlsen vs. Nepomniachtchi - Airthings Masters Prelims
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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