Game of the Week: Ding vs Caruana

by Merijn van Delft
8/28/2019 – Join IM Merijn van Delft live for a look at his favourite game of the week: Ding Liren's pivotal win over Fabiano Caruana from the ninth round of the Sinquefield Cup on Monday. 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 live 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 #377

At the Sinquefield Cup wins remained rare until the very end. Nepomniachtchi is the most entertaining player of the field, but most impressive is Ding Liren who is leading the event with one round to go. Ding vs Giri from round five was my favourite for a long time, but Ding vs Caruana from round nine has to be the Game of the Week.

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Ding vs Caruana
Position after 13...Rac8

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 0-0 6.e3 b6 7.Bd3 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Ba6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Qe2 Qc8 11.0-0 Qb7 12.a3 c5 13.Nb5 Rac8 14.b4 Nd5 15.bxc5 bxc5 16.Rab1 Rc6 17.Be5 Rb6 18.a4 Nac7 19.dxc5 Bxc5 20.Rbc1 Nxb5 21.Rxc5 Nd6 22.a5 Rc6 23.Bxd6 Rxd6 24.Rfc1 h6 25.h3 Rfd8 26.Ne5 Nf6 27.Nc6 R8d7 28.a6 Qb6 29.Ne5 Rd8 30.Rc8 Qa5 31.f4 Rd2 32.Qf3 R2d5 33.R1c7 Kh7 34.Kh2 Rxc8 35.Rxc8 Qxa6 36.Ra8 Qb7 37.Rf8 Rb5 38.Qf1 Qd5 39.Nxf7 Nd7 40.Rd8 Rb8 41.Rxb8 Nxb8 42.Qb1+ Qf5 43.Qb7 Nc6 44.Nd6 Qc5 45.Ne4 Qc2 46.Nf6+ Kg6 47.Ne8 Qc3 48.e4 a5 49.Qd7 a4 50.Qxe6+ Kh7 51.e5 Nd4 52.Qd7 Kg6 53.Qxg7+ Kf5 54.Nd6+ Kxf4 55.Qf6+ Ke3 56.e6 Kd3 57.e7 1–0
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Ding,L2805Caruana,F28181–020197th Sinquefield Cup 20199.1

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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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