The Game of the Week

by Merijn van Delft
9/19/2018 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 20:00 CEST (19:00 UT, 2 pm EDT). On this week's show: Learning from a painful loss in the Dutch League.

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Learning from a loss

Last Saturday was the first round of the Dutch League and both my team and me personally lost terribly. Since I have this tradition of sharing my most painful losses on Wednesday evening, we'll have a close look at what happened and try to draw some conclusions.

But first, here's a warm-up:

 

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Merijn is live at 20:00 CEST (18:00 UT, 2 pm EDT). The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders.


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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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