Game of the Week: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov vs Wesley So

by Merijn van Delft
7/24/2019 – The FIDE Grand Prix has just ended and IM Merijn van Delft has flagged the semi-final Catalan of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as his Game of the Week. 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 on-demand this week starting at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT).
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Last week we saw how Vachier-Lagrave knocked out Veselin Topalov from an exciting Najdorf battle. Interestingly, in the semi-finals there were no tiebreaks needed. Vachier-Lagrave went on to beat Grischuk by meeting 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.h4 with a clever Benko setup. We'll have a detailed look at how Mamedyarov beat So in an impressive Catalan game.

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

 
Mamedyarov vs So, Riga 2019
Position after 13...Qd6

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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.Ne5 Nc6 8.Nxc6 bxc6 9.Na3 Bxa3 10.bxa3 Ba6 11.Qd2 Rb8 12.Qa5 Rb6 13.a4 Qd6 14.a3 Rfb8 15.e4 c3 16.e5 Qd8 17.exf6 Bxf1 18.Bxf1 c2 19.Ra2 Qd5 20.Qxd5 cxd5 21.Rxc2 gxf6 22.Rxc7 R8b7 23.Rc5 Kg7 24.Kg2 Rb1 25.Bb5 Ra1 26.Rc3 Rb6 27.Bf4 Rb7 28.Kf3 Rd1 29.Be3 Rb1 30.Kg4 Rh1 31.h4 Kg6 32.Bd3+ f5+ 33.Kf3 Rd1 34.g4 1–0
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Mamedyarov,S2765So,W27631–02019Riga FIDE Grand Prix 20193.1

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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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