Game of the Week #654: J. Van Foreest - J. Bjerre

by Merijn van Delft
1/17/2025 – In his new Game of the Week show Merijn van Delft takes a look at one of the many interesting games played in the Bundesliga - Jorden Van Foreests impressive win against Jonas Buhl Bjerre. | 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 #654

The Tata Steel tournament in Wijk aan Zee will start on the weekend, but before we dive into that in the coming weeks, let's have a look how the Dutch fared in the German Bundesliga.

Max Warmerdam had a difficult weekend, including a tough loss with White against Magnus Carlsen, but Jorden van Foreest did much better.

Our game of the week is his creative handling of the Ruy Lopez against Danish Grandmaster Jonas Buhl Bjerre, leading to complete domination of the position.

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

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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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