Game of the Week #455
Online top level chess is back with the tournament that started it all — the Magnus Carlsen Invitational.
The preliminaries were exciting as usual, with Tata Steel winner Jorden van Foreest making his debut. The other newcomer, Alan Pichot, actually had a rough ride with his favourite Taimanov Sicilian. While Carlsen was successful with the Fianchetto Variation, Nakamura and Nepomniachtchi won their games with the 7.Qf3 main line.
We will study the relatively new and highly fascinating 7.g4 variation that Swedish GM Nils Grandelius came up with.
Warm-up question: What would you play here with White?
When it comes to strategy, one of the key things that chess professionals understand much better than amateur players is the role of the bishop which is the key theme on this video course.
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The continuous stream of new ideas in the Sicilian makes 1..c5 the most popular answer to 1.e4. On this DVD I do give an introduction to the most important Sicilian systems.
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