Game of the Week #613: V. Ivic vs A. Mishra

by Merijn van Delft
4/4/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at an interesting game, in which Velimir Ivic countered Abhimanyu's Winawer French with a dangerous line that posed too many problems for Black. | 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 #613

The Candidates Tournament is about to start and will occupy our attention for the next few weeks, but for now our theme is the French Defence. In our game of the week, Ivic-Mishra, played in the seventh round of the Grenke Open, White came as close to refuting the French Defence as one can get. Of course, with accurate play Black can hold, as in any main opening, but White's remarkable concept has universal value and can certainly give Black players a headache for a while.

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

V. Ivic - A. Mishra, GRENKE Open, Karlsruhe 2024
Position after 18...e5

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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.
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