Game of the Week: Ivan Cheparinov vs Wang Hao

by Merijn van Delft
8/7/2019 – From the strong Belt and Road Hunan International Open tournament in China, IM Merijn van Delft has selected the game between Bulgarian GM (now playing for Georgia) Ivan Cheparinov against China's Wang Hao. The 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).
The Queen’s Gambit Declined Exchange Variation is one of the most important opening systems, having been played by most of the great players in history and from both sides of the board. The most outstanding specialists in this method of play include Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Botvinnik and Samuel Reshevsky. The Black side proponents include Anatoly Karpov, Boris Spassky and Paul Keres. It is truly an opening of champions!

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While coaching at the European Youth Championship in Bratislava, I came across several interesting and attractive games, but the game that I liked best was played in China between Cheparinov and Wang Hao. White build up the game very instructively and then created beautiful tactical fireworks.

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Ivan Cheparinov vs Wang Hao
Position after 12...g6

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Be7 7.Bd3 Nbd7 8.Nge2 Nf8 9.0-0 Ne6 10.Bh4 0-0 11.f3 b6 12.Kh1 g6 13.Bf2 c5 14.Qd2 Bb7 15.Rad1 a6 16.Bc2 Re8 17.Rfe1 Rc8 18.dxc5 bxc5 19.Ba4 Rf8 20.Bb3 Qb6 21.Nf4 Nc7 22.e4 dxe4 23.fxe4 Rcd8 24.Nfd5 Ncxd5 25.exd5 Qc7 26.Bg3 Bd6 27.Bh4 Bf4 28.Re7 Qd6 29.Qe1 Bc8 30.Re6 Bxe6 31.dxe6 Qe5 32.e7 Rxd1 33.exf8Q+ Kxf8 34.Qxd1 g5 35.Bf2 Bxh2 36.Qe2 Qc7 37.Ne4 Nxe4 38.Qxe4 Kg7 39.Qf5 1–0
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Cheparinov,I2666Wang Hao27251–02019Belt and Road Hunan Op A6.1

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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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