Game of the Week #679: J. Van Foreest vs S. Tiviakov, Dutch Championship 2025

by Merijn van Delft
7/14/2025 – In the new episode of his Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks at a game from the Dutch Championship that helped Jorden Van Foreest to win the title: Van Foreest's win again Sergei Tiviakov, who is notoriously hard to beat. | Merijn's show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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Game of the Week #679

The Dutch Championship was played in an exciting knockout format similar to the World Cup. While Jorden van Foreest is the favourite to win the men's section (Giri is not participating), his sister Machteld is the favourite to win the women's section.

In the first round, Jorden faced his former trainer, the notoriously hard-to-beat Sergei Tiviakov. Jorden produced an impressive positional masterpiece in this match, which is our Game of the Week.

Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?

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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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Merijn van Delft is an International Master from the Netherlands who lived in Hamburg for many years and is currently based in Amsterdam. After scoring a GM norm in 2017 he is eager for more. His ChessBase show on Wednesday evenings has been running for over ten years now.