Game of the Week: Vachier-Lagrave vs Rapport

by Merijn van Delft
8/14/2019 – IM Merijn van Delft is live this week and will examine Maxime Vachier-Lagrave's win over Richard Rapport from the St. Louis Rapid tournament. 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).
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After coaching at the Dutch Open in Dieren and at the European Youth Championship in Bratislava, I returned to Amsterdam. So tonight we can finally do a live show again. In the past few days I've enjoyed watching the rapid games in Saint Louis. While World Champion Magnus Carlsen is not in good shape at all, Levon Aronian and Maxime Vachier Lagrave shared first place in the rapid. My favourite game is the one MVL played against Rapport.

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Vachier-Lagrave vs Rapport
Position after 24...Qh7

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This week's show

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1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 7.Nbd2 Na5 8.g3 Bd7 9.h4 0-0-0 10.Bh3 Kb8 11.0-0 h6 12.Re1 Ne7 13.Rb1 Nc8 14.Nf1 Qc7 15.h5 Nb6 16.Be3 Ba4 17.Qe2 Be7 18.N3h2 Qd7 19.f4 g6 20.Bf2 Rdg8 21.Ne3 Nc6 22.Kh1 Bd8 23.hxg6 fxg6 24.Qg4 Qh7 25.b3 cxb3 26.Qxe6 Nxd4 27.cxd4 Bd7 28.Qxd7 Nxd7 29.Rxb3 Nb6 30.a4 Nxa4 31.Nxd5 g5 32.f5 g4 33.Bg2 Nb6 34.Ne3 h5 35.f6 h4 36.Kg1 Bc7 37.Rc1 Qd7 38.Rd1 hxg3 39.Bxg3 Rh3 40.Nhf1 Rh5 41.Rc3 Rc8 42.Rdc1 Qxd4 43.Rxc7 Rxc7 44.e6 Rhc5 45.Rxc5 Qxc5 46.e7 Qh5 47.Nf5 Nc8 48.N1e3 Qg6 49.Nd5 Qxf5 50.Bxc7+ 1–0
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Vachier Lagrave,M2778Rapport,R27471–02019Saint Louis Rapid 20193.5

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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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