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Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Aronian

by Merijn van Delft

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6/17/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game between Magnus Carlsen and Levon Aronian from the Clutch Chess International. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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Game of the Week #417

The Clutch chess tournament provided us with very entertaining chess at the highest level and the dream final Carlsen-Caruana ended in a photo finish. In the end the World Champion managed to win. We will study a game from the semi-final between Carlsen and Aronian.

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Merijn van Delft 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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