Preview on the Candidates: Daniel King on Fabiano Caruana

by Arne Kaehler
3/15/2020 – In his last "Preview on the Candidates 2020" Daniel King takes a look at the chances of Fabiano Caruana to win the Candidates and to challenge Magnus Carlsen again. Currently, Caruana is the world's number two but that is not the only reason why he is a favourite to win in Yekaterinburg. | Photo: Niki Riga / World Chess

The Ruy Lopez is one of the oldest openings which continues to enjoy high popularity from club level to the absolute world top. In this video series, American super GM Fabiano Caruana, talking to IM Oliver Reeh, presents a complete repertoire for White.

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Daniel King has profiled all eight candidates on his YouTube channel (with a bonus video of Teimour Radjabov) and in his last instalment he gets to the point very quickly: Fabiano Caruana is the top choice to win the Candidates 2020. With a rating of 2842 Caruana is the top seed in Yekaterinbug and closer to Magnus Carlsen (2862) than to Ding Liren (2805), the world's number three who also plays in the Candidates. However, in 2019 Caruana could not win a single game against Ding Liren but suffered a painful loss at the Sinquefield Cup 2019.


 
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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 0-0 6.e3 b6 7.Bd3 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Qe2 Qc8 11.0-0 Qb7 12.a3 c5 13.Nb5 Rac8 14.b4 Nd5 15.bxc5 bxc5 16.Rab1 Rc6 17.Be5 Rb6 18.a4 Nac7 19.dxc5 Bxc5 20.Rbc1 Nxb5 21.Rxc5 Nd6 22.a5 Rc6 23.Bxd6 Rxd6 24.Rfc1 h6 25.h3 Rfd8 26.Ne5 Nf6 27.Nc6 R8d7 28.a6 Qb6 29.Ne5 Rd8 30.Rc8 Qa5 31.f4 Rd2 32.Qf3 R2d5 33.R1c7 Kh7 34.Kh2 Rxc8 35.Rxc8 Qxa6 36.Ra8 Qb7 37.Rf8 Rb5 38.Qf1 Qd5 39.Nxf7 Nd7 40.Rd8 Rb8 41.Rxb8 Nxb8 42.Qb1+ Qf5 43.Qb7 Nc6 44.Nd6 Qc5 45.Ne4 Qc2 46.Nf6+ Kg6 47.Ne8 Qc3 48.e4 a5 49.Qd7 a4 50.Qxe6+ Kh7 51.e5 Nd4 52.Qd7 Kg6 53.Qxg7+ Kf5 54.Nd6+ Kxf4 55.Qf6+ Ke3 56.e6 Kd3 57.e7 1–0
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Ding,L2805Caruana,F28181–02019Sinquefield Cup 7th9

Still, 2019 was an excellent year for Caruana. And he started 2020 with one of the best performances of his career by winning the Tata Steel Tournament with 10 out of 13, distancing Carlsen by two points.

As King points out Caruana has gained a lot of confidence in the last months and that his opening preparation is still fantastic. In the video, King looks at a game of Fabiano Caruana against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, from the Grand Chess Tour tournament in Zagreb 2019.

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Arne Kaehler, a creative mind who is passionate about board games in general, was born in Hamburg and learned to play chess at a young age. By teaching chess to youth teams and creating chess-related videos on YouTube, Arne was able to expand this passion and has even created an online course for anyone who wants to learn how to play chess. Arne writes for the English and German news sites, but focuses mainly on content for the ChessBase media channels.

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