Game of the Week: Caruana vs Aronian

by Merijn van Delft
8/21/2019 – 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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Really, among the open games the only opening with which White can really fight for an advantage in the long term is the Ruy Lopez. But in order to make this serious effort, he has buckle down and learn a whole series of sub-variations. That is what the professionals do, including of course Viktor Bologan, who now reveals the secrets of his own grandmaster repertoire.

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Game of the Week #376

How to win a game, in a field that is so super strong, that winning seems close to impossible? The 7th Sinquefield Cup features twelve players, including every single one of the world's very best. Yet after four rounds, 22 from 24 games ended in — mostly very "correct" — draws. Tonight we'll check out Caruana vs Aronian and will discuss what was going on.

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Topics: Fabiano Caruana, Levon Aronian, Sinquefield Cup 2019, The Game of the Week, Training
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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9/4/2019 – Join IM Merijn van Delft live for a look at his favourite game of the week: Anish Giri's last round win at the Sinquefield Cup over Ian Nepomniachtchi. 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 <a href="https://videos.chessbase.com/live">videos.chessbase.com/live</a> or login via <a href="http://en.playchess.com/Home/Clients">Playchess for Windows</a>. Merijn is live this week starting at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT).

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The Botvinnik System in the English opening

The setup for White recommended by Valeri Lilov is solid and easy to play – the thematic moves are almost always the same ones: Nge2, 0-0, Bg5 (or Be3), Nd5, Qd2. Later, according to Black’s setup, things continue with f4 or even Rac1, b4 and play on the queenside. Starting with the classic Botvinnik-Spassky, Leiden 1970, the author describes this universally employable setup in 7 videos (+ intro and conclusion).

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