Robert Ris' Fast and Furious: Highlights from Wijk

by Robert Ris
1/23/2025 – In his new Fast & Furious episode, Robert Ris takes a look at three fascinating games from the Tata Steel Tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Enjoy! | Fast & Furious is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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Robert Ris: "Three fascinating games featuring the Open Catalan were played during the first five rounds of Tata Steel Chess.

It started in round one with the fascinating battle between Gukesh and Giri, in which the new World Champion sacrificed his knight for two pawns. An interesting, but objectively dubious idea which could easily have gone wrong had Giri not blundered at the end.

The Indian encounter between Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi was a strategical masterpiece in which Black had too many difficulties handling the weaknesses on the queenside which made him lose a pawn on the other side of the board. Pragg converted smoothly.

In Harikrishna-Warmerdam White's knight sacrifice on f7 in a queenless middlegame led to a fascinating battle, which was objectively OK for Black but difficult to handle over-the-board."

Two exercises this time! 

Exercise 1: Black to play!

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Exercise 2: Find the killer blow for White!!

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Robert is an International Master who mostly spends his time training and coaching talented youngsters. On the PlayChess server The Fast and the Furious is a popular show where he explains sharp opening lines for a wider audience. He is also a well-known ChessBase author who produced numerous DVDs and regularly contributes to ChessBase Magazine as well. Since 2015 he is the organizer of the Dutch Rapid Championships in his home town Amstelveen. He has started a YouTube channel with chess analysis as well.
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