Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Nakamura

by Merijn van Delft
5/6/2020 – Merijn van Delft takes a look at the dramatic final of the Magnus Carlsen Invitational match where Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura showed their skills in rapid chess. | 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.
The most popular chess program offers you everything you will need as a dedicated chess enthusiast, with innovative training methods for amateurs and professionals alike.

Game of the Week #410

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational was exciting and instructive until the very end. There were many interesting games to choose from, but obviously Carlsen himself beating Nakamura in the very final was the Game of the Week. Actually, White won 7.5-0.5 between these two players, which shows that chess is more alive than ever.

The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium accounts.

Warming-up question: What would you play here with White?

 

Merijn will explain in the show!

This week's show

At the airport, in the hotel or at home on your couch: with the new ChessBase you always have access to the whole ChessBase world: the new ChessBase video library, tactics server, opening training App, the live database with eight million games, Let’s Check and web access to playchess.com

 

Follow along with Merijn as you watch

The purpose of this DVD is to explain the viewer all main methods of defence: exchanging pieces, creating a fortress, eliminating dangerous enemy pieces, escaping the danger zone with the king, improving the position of the pieces.

Watch previous shows

Recent shows

Many more Game of the Week shows are available in ChessBase Videos

Links

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.

Discuss

Rules for reader comments

 
 

Not registered yet? Register