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).
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.

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

 
Caruana vs Aronian
Position after 10...Nf6

White to move

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.c3 0-0 6.0-0 Re8 7.d4 Bb6 8.d5 Ne7 9.Nxe5 Nxe4 10.Qf3 Nf6 11.d6 cxd6 12.Nc4 d5 13.Nd6 Rf8 14.Bg5 Ne4 15.Nxe4 dxe4 16.Qxe4 f6 17.Be3 d5 18.Qf3 Ng6 19.Na3 Bc7 20.Rad1 Ne5 21.Qe2 a6 22.Ba4 Bg4 23.f3 Be6 24.Bb3 Re8 25.f4 Nc6 26.Qf3 Bb6 27.Nc2 Na5 28.Bxd5 Bxd5 29.Rxd5 Bxe3+ 30.Nxe3 Qb6 31.Rd3 Nc4 32.Qd5+ Kf8 33.Qxc4 Rxe3 34.Rxe3 Qxe3+ 35.Kh1 Rd8 36.h3 b5 37.Qc6 Qe2 38.Rf3 Qxb2 39.Qxa6 h5 40.Kh2 h4 41.Qa7 Kg8 42.Qe7 Qd2 43.Re3 Qd6 44.Qe4 Qd5 45.Qb4 Rc8 46.a4 Qc5 47.Re8+ Kh7 48.Rxc8 Qxc8 49.axb5 Qf5 50.b6 Qd3 51.c4 Qg3+ 52.Kh1 Qd3 53.c5 1–0
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Caruana,F2818Aronian,L27651–020197th Sinquefield Cup 20194.3

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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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