Game of the Week: Alekseenko vs Harikrishna

by Merijn van Delft
9/18/2019 – P. Harikrishna is again the focus of IM Merijn van Delft for his live game of the week, this time from the ongoing World Cup in Khanty-Mansiysk. 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). | Photo (Alekseenko): Lars OA Hedlund
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Game of the Week #380

The World Cup is an highly entertaining tournament, with almost all 2700 players participating and many spectacular battles. The third round was especially interesting: 16 matches on the highest level. Tonight we'll have a look at how Kirill Alekseenko knocked out Pentala Harikrishna.

The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium accounts.

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

 
Alekseenko vs Harikrishna
Position after 16...b5

White to move

This week's show

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1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.0-0 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 a6 7.a4 h6 8.Re1 0-0 9.h3 Re8 10.a5 Ba7 11.Qb3 Qe7 12.Be3 Bxe3 13.Rxe3 Rb8 14.d4 b5 15.axb6 cxb6 16.Nbd2 b5 17.Bf1 Qc7 18.d5 Ne7 19.c4 b4 20.Qa4 Nd7 21.Qa5 Qxa5 22.Rxa5 f5 23.Nb3 fxe4 24.Nfd2 Nf6 25.Nxe4 Nxe4 26.Rxe4 Bf5 27.Re1 Bc2 28.Nd2 Nf5 29.Rxa6 Red8 30.Rea1 Nd4 31.Ra7 Rf8 32.R1a6 Rbd8 33.Rb6 b3 34.Rbb7 g5 35.c5 dxc5 36.Bc4 Rf6 37.Re7 Kf8 38.Rxe5 Rf7 39.Ra6 Kg7 40.f3 Rdd7 41.d6 Rf8 42.Rxc5 Rfd8 43.Rd5 Nf5 44.Bxb3 Ne3 45.Re5 Rxd6 46.Rxd6 Rxd6 47.Rxe3 Rxd2 48.Bxc2 Rxc2 49.Rb3 h5 50.h4 gxh4 51.Kh2 Rc1 52.Rb4 1–0
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Alekseenko,K2671Harikrishna,P27461–02019FIDE World Cup 20193.1

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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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