Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Aronian

by Merijn van Delft
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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M. Carlsen - L. Aronian, Clutch Chess Showdown 2020
Position after 6...Be6

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1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.g3 Bb4 4.e4 Bxc3 5.dxc3 d6 6.f3 Be6 7.Nh3 a5 8.a4 0-0 9.b3 Na6 10.Ng5 Bd7 11.Be3 Nc5 12.Ra2 Ra6 13.Rd2 Rb6 14.Bxc5 dxc5 15.Bh3 h6 16.Bxd7 hxg5 17.h4 Rd6 18.Rxd6 cxd6 19.Bf5 Nh5 20.Kf2 g6 21.Bg4 Nf6 22.Qd2 Nxg4+ 23.fxg4 Kg7 24.h5 Rh8 25.Ke2 f6 26.Kd1 Qd7 27.Qe2 b6 28.Qf3 Rh6 29.Kc2 Qe6 30.Kb2 Qd7 31.Ka3 Qe6 32.Rd1 Rh8 33.Rd5 Rd8 34.Rd2 Rd7 35.Rh2 Rd8 36.hxg6 Kxg6 37.Qh1 Qg8 38.Rh6+ Kf7 39.Qh5+ Ke6 40.Rg6 Qf7 41.Qxg5 Ke7 42.Qf5 Rg8 43.Rh6 Rg5 44.Qc8 Rg8 45.Qc7+ Ke6 46.Qc6 Re8 1–0
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Carlsen,M2863Aronian,L27731–02020Clutch Chess Showdown Int2.5

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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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