Game of the Week: Williams vs Lopez

by Merijn van Delft
3/6/2019 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET, 2 pm EST). On this week's show: Jasel Lopez win over Simon Williams from Round 2 of the Batavia tournament. The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows.
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Halfway the 11th edition of the dMP Batavia Amsterdam Chess Tournament, we have a surprising tournament leader. Jasel Lopez, who is from Aruba and studies in Amsterdam, is now half a point ahead of the pack. Tonight we'll study his instructive win over Simon Williams.

Warm-up question: What would you play here with Black?

 
Williams vs Lopez, Round 2
Position after 13..Nbd4

Black to move

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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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