Game of the Week: Parham Maghsoodloo vs Murali Karthikeyan

by Merijn van Delft
6/19/2019 – Last week IM Merijn van Delft analysed a great positional queen sacrifice by Murali Karthikeyan in the King's Indian. Tonight he will return to the Asian Continental, since later in the tournament, Karthikeyan again played an inspiring positional sacrifice. 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).
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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:

Last week we analysed a great positional queen sacrifice by Murali Karthikeyan in the King's Indian. Tonight we'll return to the Asian Continental, since later in the tournament, Karthikeyan again played an inspiring positional sacrifice.

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

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

 
P. Maghsoodloo vs M. Karthikeyan, Asian Continental 2019
Position after 9.Nc3

Black to move

This week's show

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).

 
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nc6 4.0-0 Bd7 5.Re1 Nf6 6.c4 e5 7.h3 Be7 8.d3 0-0 9.Nc3 Ne8 10.a3 Nc7 11.Ba4 f5 12.b4 Ne6 13.exf5 Rxf5 14.Nd5 Rf7 15.Be3 Ncd4 16.Bxd4 Bxa4 17.Qxa4 cxd4 18.c5 Bf8 19.Qb3 Rxf3 20.gxf3 Kh8 21.Re4 Qg5+ 22.Rg4 Qf5 23.Rg3 dxc5 24.b5 Rd8 25.Re1 g6 26.h4 Ng7 27.b6 axb6 28.Nxb6 Nh5 29.Rg5 Qxf3 30.Qd1 Qh3 31.Nc4 Bh6 32.Nxe5 Rf8 33.Rxg6 Rxf2 34.Nf7+ Rxf7 35.Re8+ Bf8 36.Rg5 Ng3 0–1
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Maghsoodloo,P2665Karthikeyan,M25930–1201918th Asian Continental9.4

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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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