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.
Winning starts with what you know
The new version 18 offers completely new possibilities for chess training and analysis: playing style analysis, search for strategic themes, access to 6 billion Lichess games, player preparation by matching Lichess games, download Chess.com games with built-in API, built-in cloud engine and much more.

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:

 
What would you play here with White?
White to move

Try out your idea against the engine

This week's show

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.

Watch previous shows

Recent shows

Many more Game of the Week shows are available in ChessBase Videos

Links

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.

Discuss

Rules for reader comments

 
 

Not registered yet? Register

We use cookies and comparable technologies to provide certain functions, to improve the user experience and to offer interest-oriented content. Depending on their intended use, analysis cookies and marketing cookies may be used in addition to technically required cookies. Here you can make detailed settings or revoke your consent (if necessary partially) with effect for the future. Further information can be found in our data protection declaration.