Game of the Week: Jorden Van Foreest vs Anish Giri

by Merijn van Delft
4/15/2020 – Last week we examined the revolutionary handling of a bishop endgame by Stockfish, this week we return to human chess and take a look at an online game between Jorden Van Foreest and Anish Giri. | You can register a Premium account here. 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 #408

Anish Giri is playing online training matches and the first of these was against his young compatriot Jorden van Foreest. These two Dutch top players are working together a lot these days and Jorden seems to learn a lot from this cooperation, as he managed to beat Anish 3-1. The fourth game had a really nice flow and is our game of the week.

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

 
Jorden van Foreest vs Anish Giri, Online Match 2020
Position after 8...Bxc3

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1.c4 e5 2.Nf3 e4 3.Nd4 Nc6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Qb3 Nxd4 7.exd4 a5 8.a3 Bxc3 9.dxc3 a4 10.Qc2 h6 11.Be2 d6 12.h3 Bf5 13.Be3 Bg6 14.g4 Qe7 15.0-0-0 b6 16.h4 h5 17.gxh5 Bxh5 18.Rdg1 Bxe2 19.Qxe2 Nh5 20.c5 bxc5 21.dxc5 d5 22.Rg5 g6 23.Rxd5 c6 24.Rd6 0-0 25.Qxh5 Qxd6 26.Qh6 Qe7 27.Bd4 f6 28.Rg1 Kf7 29.Qxg6+ Ke6 30.Re1 Kd7 31.Rxe4 Qf7 32.Qf5+ Kc7 33.Be3 Qd7 34.Qf4+ Kc8 35.Rd4 Qd6 36.Qxd6 1–0
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Van Foreest,J2682Giri,A27641–02020Giri-Jorden van Foreest m4

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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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