Game of the Week: Good knight vs bad bishop

by Merijn van Delft
12/26/2018 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 20:00 CET (19:00 UT, 2 pm EDT). On this week's show: Good knight vs bad bishop. The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders. To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows.

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Week 52

Tonight we are going to finish the year with a modern example of a classical theme. At the Nutcracker Match of the Generations, Nigel Short beat David Paravyan with good knight vs bad bishop.

As a warm-up question: How would you proceed from this position with White?

 

White to move

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The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders.

To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows

Merijn is live at 20:00 CET (18:00 UT, 2 pm EDT)

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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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