Game of the Week #651: D. Paravyan - P. Nandhidhaa, Qatar Masters 2024

by Merijn van Delft
12/30/2024 – In his last Game of the Week show 2024, Merijn van Delft presents one of the most amazing games of the year - an encounter between David Paravyan and Nandhidhaa. White again and again came up with surprising, original and beautiful ideas. | 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 #651

While rapid and blitz are very exciting forms of chess to entertain a live audience, nothing beats a good classical game of chess.

One of the most creative contemporary grandmasters is David Paravyan and in the fifth round of the Qatar Masters he created a positional masterpiece versus WGM Nandhidhaa.

The funny thing is that the most artistic moves of the game where objectively speaking far from the best ones, but in the end it all added up to a rare piece of beauty.

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.