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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M. Carlsen - H. Nakamura, Lindores Abbey Challenge 2020
Position after 10...Nbd7

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Bf4 c6 7.Qc2 g6 8.e3 Bf5 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3 Nbd7 11.h4 Nb6 12.Ne5 Qc8 13.0-0-0 Qe6 14.Kb1 Ne4 15.Qc2 Bb4 16.Nxe4 dxe4 17.h5 g5 18.Bxg5 f6 19.Rh4 fxg5 20.Rxe4 0-0 21.Ng6 Qf7 22.Nxf8 Rxf8 23.Re5 h6 24.g4 Bd6 25.Rf5 Qe6 26.e4 Re8 27.f3 Bf4 28.Rd3 Nc4 29.Qc3 Nd6 30.d5 Qe7 31.Rf6 Be5 32.Rg6+ Kh7 33.Qc2 c5 34.Re6 Qc7 35.Rxe8 Nxe8 36.d6 Nxd6 37.Rd5 Nf7 38.Rxc5 Qb6 39.a4 a6 40.a5 Qe6 41.Rd5 Kg7 42.Qc5 Qf6 43.Rd7 Bxb2 44.Rxb7 Bc3 45.Kc2 Be1 46.Qd5 Qxf3 47.Qe5+ Kg8 48.Qe8+ Kg7 49.Qe5+ Kg8 50.Qe8+ Kg7 51.Qe5+ ½–½
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Carlsen,M2863Nakamura,H2736½–½2020Lindores Abbey Prelim4.5

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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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