Game of the Week: The Challengers
1/16/2019 – 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: The Tata Steel Chess Challengers. 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.
The Sicilian Dragon Vol. 1: Main Line with 9.Bc4
Volume one of the DVD deals with 9.Bc4, White's sharpest option, and shows how Black can counter this ambitious try by White with the main lines of the Soltis variation (12.h5), which was played by Magnus Carlsen regularly as well.
Week 3
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Tonight's show will be recorded in Wijk aan Zee as close to the tournament hall as one can be. We will focus on the exciting Challengers group. I've selected my favourite game so far, but let's see what happens today in the fifth round.
As a warm-up question: How would you defend the b7 pawn with Black?
Black to move
This week's show
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