Game of the Week: Carlsen vs Xiong

by Merijn van Delft
6/10/2020 – In this show Merijn van Delft takes a look at a game between Magnus Carlsen and Jeffery Xiong 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 #416

Yet another exciting top level online rapid event has started and yet another new format with that: clutch chess. In our Game of the Week we will see how Carlsen does what he does best lately: direct attacking chess. With convincing attacking manoeuvres he impressively outplayed Xiong.

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Warming-up question: How would you recapture here with White?

 
M. Carlsen - J. Xiong, Clutch Chess Showdown 2020
Position after 11...Nxd2

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1.Nf3 c5 2.e4 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Nxd7 5.0-0 Ngf6 6.Re1 Rc8 7.c3 e6 8.d4 cxd4 9.cxd4 d5 10.e5 Ne4 11.Nbd2 Nxd2 12.Qxd2 Be7 13.Qf4 0-0 14.Qg4 Re8 15.h4 Qc7 16.Bh6 g6 17.Qf4 Qc2 18.g4 b6 19.b3 Ba3 20.Kg2 Qb2 21.Ng5 Re7 22.Rad1 Rc2 23.Re3 Rc3 24.h5 Qc2 25.Rxc3 Qxc3 26.Nxh7 Kxh7 27.Bg5 Kg8 28.Bxe7 Bxe7 29.Rc1 Qb4 30.Rc8+ Nf8 31.h6 g5 32.h7+ Kg7 33.h8Q+ Kxh8 34.Qxf7 Qxd4 35.Rxf8+ Bxf8 36.Qxf8+ Kh7 37.Qf7+ Kh8 38.Qh5+ Kg7 39.Qxg5+ Kh7 40.Qe7+ Kh8 41.Qf6+ Kh7 42.Qxe6 Qd1 43.Qf5+ Kg8 44.e6 1–0
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Carlsen,M2863Xiong,J27091–02020Clutch Chess Showdown Int1.3

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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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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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