Game of the Week #682: Dieren Open 2025

by Merijn van Delft
8/5/2025 – In the new episode of his Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents a game by young Dutch FM Saša Albers. He played it at the Dieren Open and he played it brilliantly. | 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 #682

The Dutch Open in Dieren was won by IM Eelke de Boer, who recently scored his first grandmaster norm in Maastricht. Young Dutch FM Saša Albers missed his first IM norm by half a point after a well played tournament, but he did impress with his fantastic win over GM Koen Leenhouts, which is our Game of the Week.

Strategical depth, harmony between the pieces, the game has a good flow and a beautiful finish.

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.