Game of the Week #688: Aditya Mittal - Yagiz Erdogmus, Grand Swiss 2025

by Merijn van Delft
9/11/2025 – In his latest Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft goes over a highly memorable game from the Grand Swiss. Turkish prodigy Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus, aged 14, beats Aditya Mittal in an encounter which featured a number of unusual tactics and an iconic finish. | 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 #688

Sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the new rising superstars!

At the spectacular Grand Swiss, it is 14-year-old Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus from Turkey who is stealing the show so far. After drawing Gukesh Dommaraju and Vincent Keymer early in the event, he played Aditya Mittal with black in the fourth round. It turned into quite a memorable game, full of unusual tactics and an iconic finish, which makes it our Game of the Week.

Erdogmus proves that chess is more alive than ever before.

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

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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.