Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Nakamura

by Merijn van Delft
5/20/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the game between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura played at the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge tournament. | 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 #412

Kramnik impressively won the Play for Russia preliminary, while Grischuk was superior at the final stage. Carlsen was victorious in the Steinitz Memorial. Both events were blitz though, so for our Game of the Week we focused on the first round of the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge. Carlsen scored two amazing attacking wins on day one, but our focus will be on his great fight against Nakamura.

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The Art of Defence

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.

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Topics: Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge, The Game of the Week, Training and improvement
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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Game of the Week: Karjakin vs Dubov

5/28/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at the match between Sergey Karjakin and Daniil Dubov at the Lindores Abbey Chess Challenge tournament. | Merijn's show is available at 15.00 UTC (17:00 CEST, 11:00 EDT) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target="_blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
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Game of the Week: Van Delft vs Van den Doel

4/1/2020 – The Candidates was pretty much the last tournament running, and has been cancelled halfway. The entire chess community has moved online by now and many new initiatives appear. This week Merijn van Delft looks at an interesting game he played before the (semi-)lockdown. | The show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!).

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Play the Exchange Variation against the Caro-Kann

The Exchange Variation (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3) is a simple and easy to learn answer to the Caro-Kann. By clarifying the central tension White gives himself a clear plan of attack using the half open e-file and the e5 square. This is far from easy for Black to meet as Bobby Fischer, Jan Timman, Walter Browne and other leading Grandmasters have demonstrated in their games. Black too has his resources but he needs to know what he's doing. On this DVD you will find a clear explanation of the strategy for both sides as well as answers to popular treatments such as 4...Nc6 5.c3 Qc7. Whilst the main focus is on the White side of this opening you will also find ways for Black to defend.

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