Game of the Week: Carlsen with Black

by Merijn van Delft
5/8/2019 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday. On this week's show: Svidler vs Carlsen from the Grenke Chess Classic. 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.
Always wanted to play like a World Champion? Search no further! With Magnus Carlsen using the Sveshnikov variation as his weapon of choice in the World Championship match against Fabiano Caruana, this DVD could not be better timed.

Game of the Week 361

Dear chess friends, please note that tonight's lecture will be one hour earlier than usual, so 19:00-20:00. The reason is, that at 21:00, Ajax will play against Tottenham Hotspur for a place in the final of the football Champions League. Here in Amsterdam everyone is very excited about it, since that didn't happen since the 1990s.

When I talk about football and chess with my best friend (a football player), we always compare Messi with Carlsen. Technically perfect, creative, and capable of doing things that nobody else ever did. In tonight's lecture we'll talk once more about Carlsen's amazing performance at the Grenke Chess Classic. How is it possible to score 7½ out of 9 in a modern elite tournament? If we have time left, we may have a look at the Sigeman & Co tournament as well.

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

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

 
Svidler vs Carlsen
Position after 26.Qxb7

Black to move

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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Bc4 Be7 5.d3 d6 6.Nd2 Nf6 7.Nf1 Nd7 B30: Sicilian: 2.. .Nc6 3 Bb5, lines without ...g6 7...Bg4 8.f3 Be6 9.Ne3 0-0 10.0-0 Nh5 11.g3 Bg5 12.Ncd5 Bxe3+ 13.Bxe3 Ne7 14.Bg5 Bxd5 15.Bxd5 h6 16.Bxe7 Qxe7 17.f4 Nf6 18.Bb3 1/2-1/2 (57) Bacrot,E (2725)-Yu,Y (2751) Riadh 2017 8.Nd5 Nb6 9.Nxb6 axb6 White has an edge. 10.c3 0-0 11.Ne3 Bg5 12.0-0 Kh8 13.a3N Predecessor: 13.a4 Be6 14.Re1 Bxe3 15.Bxe3 Bxc4 16.dxc4 1/2-1/2 (23) Kollars,D (2541)-Nayhebaver,M (2471) Le Castella 2018 13...f5 14.Nxf5 With the idea Bxg5. Bxc1 15.Rxc1 Bxf5 16.exf5 d5 17.Ba2 Rxf5 18.Qg4 Rf6 19.f4 exf4 20.Qg5 Qf8 21.Qxd5 Rd8 22.Qf3 Ne5 23.Qe4! Ng4 24.Rce1 Ne3 Black has some pressure. 25.Rf2 Re8 26.Qxb7
26...g5! 27.Rfe2? 27.Qf3! 27...g4 Hoping for ...Re7. 28.Rf2 White hopes to continue with Qd7. Qh6 ( -> ...g3!) 29.Qc7 intending g3. Ref8 White must now prevent ...g3! 30.h3
30.Qe5-+ g3 31.hxg3 30...gxh3 Black mates. 31.g3 fxg3 32.Rxf6 h2+ 33.Kh1 g2# Accuracy: White = 44%, Black = 86%. 0–1
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Svidler,P2735Carlsen,M28450–120196th GRENKE Chess Classic 20198.3

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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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