Game of the Week: Bacrot vs Iturrizaga

by Merijn van Delft
10/9/2019 – Today IM Merijn van Delft covers the latest on the Caro-Kann, featuring a win by Etienne Bacrot. The show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). Merijn is on-demand this week starting at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT).
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Game of the Week #383

The theme of this week is Beating the Caro-Kann. While the Advance Variation is an interesting, but complex fighting weapon, the Two Knights Variation is going through a renaissance recently. This has to do with a key concept that has been discovered a few years ago, but only now is fully appreciated. A few days ago Bacrot convincingly beat Iturrizaga with it.

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Warm-up question: How would you recapture the pawn here with White?

 
Bacrot vs Iturrizaga, Linares 2019
Position after 8...Nxg3

The solution will be revealed tonight!

This week's show

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1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5 Ne4 5.Ne2 Qb6 6.d4 e6 7.Ng3 c5 8.Bd3 Nxg3 9.fxg3 cxd4 10.0-0 Nc6 11.a3 Bd7 12.b4 a6 13.Qe2 h6 14.g4 g5 15.Bd2 Be7 16.Be1 Rf8 17.Bg3 a5 18.b5 Na7 19.a4 Bb4 20.Bf2 Bc5 21.Nd2 Bb4 22.Nb3 Bc3 23.Qf3 f6 24.Bg6+ Ke7 25.Qxc3 fxe5 26.Qh3 1–0
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Bacrot,E2671Iturrizaga,E26261–02019TCh-ESP Div Honor 20196.2

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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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