Game of the Week: Grischuk vs Nakamura

by Merijn van Delft
5/29/2019 – The tiebreak of the FIDE Grand Prix tournament in Moscow was played today between Alexander Grischuk and Ian Nepomniachtchi. IM Merijn van Delft looks at how Grischuk reached the final — a key win over Hikaru Nakamura. 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. Merijn is live at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT).
The Sveshnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence is considered one of the most promising replies to 1.e4, often giving rise to sharp and complex positions which require precise and inventive play from both sides. Thus, an opening tailor-made for Alexei Shirov (FIDE World Cup finalist in 2007), who has included it into his repertoire with both White and Black and knows the mutual tricks and traps all too well.

Game of the Week 364

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:

Grischuk's play has been very impressive this week. With black, he picked up the Sveshnikov and with white he managed to knock out several heavy-weight opponents. Tonight we'll study his positional win against Nakamura.

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Warming-up question: What would you play here with White?

 
Grischuk vs Nakamura, Moscow Grand Prix 2019
Position after 8...b4

White to move

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Be7 5.Bg2 0-0 6.0-0 dxc4 7.Qc2 b5 8.a4 b4 9.Nfd2 c6 10.Nxc4 Qxd4 11.Rd1 Qc5 12.Be3 Qh5 13.Nbd2 Ng4 14.Nf3 Nxe3 15.Nxe3 a5 16.Nd4 Ba6 17.Rac1 Rc8 18.Bf3 Qg6 19.Be4 Qh5 20.Bf3 Qg6 21.Be4 Qh5 22.Kg2 Ra7 23.h4 g6 24.f4 Qh6 25.Nb3 Kh8 26.Bd3 Bb7 27.Nc4 c5+ 28.Be4 Ba6 29.Nbxa5 Qf8 30.Bf3 Rd8 31.h5 Bf6 32.Rxd8 Qxd8 33.Rd1 Rd7 34.Rxd7 Nxd7 35.h6 Nb6 36.Ne5 Bxe5 37.Nc6 Nc4 38.Nxd8 Ne3+ 39.Kf2 Nxc2 40.Nxf7+ Kg8 41.Nxe5 c4 42.Bg4 Nd4 43.Ke1 Kf8 44.Kd1 Ke7 45.e3 Nb3 46.Nc6+ Kf6 47.Nxb4 Bb7 48.Be2 Na5 49.Kd2 Nb3+ 50.Kc3 Nc5 51.a5 Ne4+ 52.Kxc4 Nxg3 53.Bd3 g5 54.fxg5+ 1–0
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Grischuk,A2772Nakamura,H27611–02019Moscow FIDE Grand Prix3.2

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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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