Game of the Week: Carlsen-Grischuk

by Merijn van Delft
4/17/2019 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT). On this week's show: Magnus Carlsen's win over Alexander Grischuk from the last round of Shamkir. 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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At this year's GAMMA Reykjavik Open, first place was shared by eight grandmasters, all rated above 2600, and each reaching an impressive 7 out of 9 score. The tournament winner by tiebreak was Romania's number 1 Constantin Lupulescu. Lawrence Trent looked at his sparking win over Alirez Firouzja in The Weekly Show, a strong candidate for Game of the Week, so Merijn has instead chosen Carlsen vs Grischuk from the last round of Shamkir. (Replay the full game below.)

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Warm-up question: How would you take back on c5 here with Black?

 
Firouzja vs Lupulescu
Position after 10.O-O-O

Black to move

This week's show

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.0-0 d6 7.Ba4 LiveBook: 4 Games. C65: Ruy Lopez: Berlin Defence (3...Nf6), unusual lines and 4 0-0 Bc5 Ne7 8.Bc2N Predecessor: 8.Nbd2 Ng6 9.d4 Bb6 10.Bc2 Re8 11.Re1 c6 12.h3 h6 1-0 (22) Karjakin,S (2753)-Jakovenko,D (2735) St Petersburg 2018 8...Ng6 9.d4 The position is equal. Bb6 10.a4 a5 is the strong threat. c6 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Nxe5 12.Bf4 with more complications. Bc7 13.h3 Re8 14.Nbd2 Ng6 15.Bh2 12...dxe5 13.Qxd8 Rxd8 14.a5 Bc5 15.Nd2 Be6 16.Re1 b5 17.Nb3 Bxb3 18.Bxb3 Ng4 19.Re2 Rd6 20.Bg5 aiming for Be7. Kf8 21.Rf1 Nf6 22.g3 a6 23.Kg2 Hoping for f4. Nd7 24.Bc1 Ba7 25.f4 f6 26.h4 Re8 27.h5 h6 28.Ba2 c5 29.Be3 exf4 30.gxf4 Black must now prevent e5. Rxe4
And now ...c4 would win. 31.Bb1 31.Rfe1!± 31...Re7= 32.Rfe1 f5? 32...Nb8!= and Black is okay. 33.Bxf5+- Nf6
34.Kf3! Nd5? 34...Rd5 is tougher. 35.Bg6 Rdd7 35.Rd2 White is clearly winning. Rd8 36.Be4 Red7 37.Red1 Nf6 38.Rxd7 Nxd7 39.Rd6 Precision: White = 75%, Black = 44%. 1–0
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Carlsen,M2845Grischuk,A27711–020196th Shamkir Chess 20199.3

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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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