Game of the Week #645: A. Tabatabaei - A. Erigaisi

by Merijn van Delft
11/14/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents one of the most astonishing games played recently. Arjun Erigaisi's star is on the rise, and his win over Amin Tabatabaei at the Chennai Masters shows why - with Black, Erigaisi unleashed an original attack full of interesting manoeuvres and twists until he finally won in the endgame. | 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 #645

While Aravindh managed to beat both Erigaisi and Aronian in the tiebreaks to impressively win the Chennai Grand Masters, it was Erigaisi who played the most enterprising chess.

We will have a look at Tabatabaei-Erigaisi from the fourth round as our Game of the Week.

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

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The flexible Open Spanish

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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60m English New ideas in the Najdorf_E

‘New ideas in the Najdorf – a Power Play 18 Update’ aims to complement Daniel King’s popular DVD from last year ‘The Sicilian Najdorf - a repertoire for Black’. Such a dynamic and popular opening as the Najdorf is developing the whole time. On this download, Daniel King updates lines that were included on his DVD but also responds to viewers’ requests, considering lines that he omitted from his original repertoire. The lines examined on this update are: • 1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nf6 5 Nc3 a6 6 h3 e5 7 Nde2 • 5….a6 6 Bc4 in combination with the English Attack (Be3, f3 etc) • 5…a6 6 Be3 and the …a5 variation • 5…a6 6 Be2 and 9 Re1 • 5 f3 (instead of 5 Nc3) It isn’t necessary to have seen the original Najdorf DVD to understand the lines examined here – but it would help as they form part of a complete repertoire.