Game of the Week #381
The World Cup is becoming a very tense affair, as the stakes are very high. The two finalists qualify for the Candidates tournament. For instance, Aronian just missed his chance to knock out MVL in the round 5 tiebreak. Tonight we'll study Grischuk's exceptional handling of the Catalan against Dominguez.
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This week's show
On this DVD Grandmaster Daniel King offers you a repertoire for Black against the Catalan, based around maintaining the rock of a pawn on d5. Keeping central control ultimately gives Black good chances to launch an attack against the enemy king.To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows. Merijn is on-demand at 18:00 UTC (20:00 CEST / 2 PM EDT).
| 1.e4 | 1,166,623 | 54% | 2421 | --- |
| 1.d4 | 947,298 | 55% | 2434 | --- |
| 1.Nf3 | 281,602 | 56% | 2441 | --- |
| 1.c4 | 182,102 | 56% | 2442 | --- |
| 1.g3 | 19,702 | 56% | 2427 | --- |
| 1.b3 | 14,265 | 54% | 2427 | --- |
| 1.f4 | 5,897 | 48% | 2377 | --- |
| 1.Nc3 | 3,801 | 51% | 2384 | --- |
| 1.b4 | 1,756 | 48% | 2380 | --- |
| 1.a3 | 1,206 | 54% | 2404 | --- |
| 1.e3 | 1,068 | 48% | 2408 | --- |
| 1.d3 | 954 | 50% | 2378 | --- |
| 1.g4 | 664 | 46% | 2360 | --- |
| 1.h4 | 446 | 53% | 2374 | --- |
| 1.c3 | 433 | 51% | 2426 | --- |
| 1.h3 | 280 | 56% | 2418 | --- |
| 1.a4 | 110 | 60% | 2466 | --- |
| 1.f3 | 92 | 46% | 2436 | --- |
| 1.Nh3 | 89 | 66% | 2508 | --- |
| 1.Na3 | 42 | 62% | 2482 | --- |
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1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 e6 4.0-0 Be7 5.c4 0-0 6.d4 dxc4 7.Qc2 a6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Qxc4 Bc6 10.Bg5 Nbd7 11.Nc3 h6 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Rfd1 Bd5 14.Qd3 Bxf3 15.Bxf3 c6 16.Kg2 16.e3 a5 17.h4 h5 18.e4 g6 19.Qe3 Re8 20.Kg2 Kg7 21.Rd3 Qb6 22.Rad1 Rad8 23.e5 Nd7 24.Ne2 c5 25.Rb3 cxd4 26.Rxb6 dxe3 27.Rxb7 Nxe5 28.Rxe7 Rxd1 29.Rxe8 Nd3 30.Nc3 Rd2 31.Be2 Nxb2 32.Kf1 exf2 33.Rb8 Rc2 34.Rb3 Kf6 35.Kxf2 Nd3+ 36.Ke3 Nc5 37.Ra3 Ke5 38.Bb5 Rg2 39.Kf3 Rd2 40.Ra2 Rd4 41.Re2+ Kf5 42.Ke3 Ke5 43.Rf2 f5 44.Rf4 Rd8 45.Rc4 Nb3 46.Ne2 Kf6 47.Rc6 16...Qa5 17.e3 Rfd8 18.Qc4 Rac8 19.Rab1 Nd5 20.Qb3 Qb4 21.Qc2 a5 22.h4 Nf6 23.h5 Rc7 24.Ne2 Qb6 25.Nf4 Nd5 26.Rbc1 Bd6 27.Nd3 Nb4 28.Qb3 Rcd7 29.Be4 Qc7 30.Rh1 Nxd3 31.Bxd3 Be7 32.Bb1 Qd6 33.Qc2 Bf6 34.Qc5 Qxc5 35.Rxc5 Rd5 36.Rc4 e5 37.Be4 R5d7 38.dxe5 Bxe5 39.b4 axb4 40.Rxb4 Ra8 41.Rhb1 Ra7 42.Bf5 Re7 43.Bc8 c5 44.Rb5 Rc7 45.Bxb7 Rxa4 46.Bd5 Kf8 47.f4 Bc3 48.e4 Bd4 49.e5 c4 50.Rb8+ Ke7 51.R1b7 Ra7 52.Bc6 f5 53.Rxc7+ Rxc7 54.Ba4 Ra7 55.Rb4 Rc7 56.Kf3 Ke6 57.Bc2 Ba7 58.Ra4 Bb6 59.Ke2 Kd5 60.Bxf5 Ra7 61.Rxa7 Bxa7 62.Kf3 Bc5 63.Bh7 c3 64.Kg4 Bf2 65.Bg8+ Kc6 66.Bb3 Kd7 67.Kf3 Be1 68.g4 Bd2 69.Ke4 Ke7 70.Kf5 Be3 71.g5 hxg5 72.Kxg5 Bd2 73.Kg4 Be3 74.Kf3 Bd2 75.h6 gxh6 76.f5 c2 77.f6+ Kf8 78.Bxc2 Bc3 79.Kf4 h5 80.Bd1 h4 81.Bg4 Ba5 82.Kf5 Bc7 83.e6 Bd8 84.Bh5 h3 85.Bg4 h2 86.Bf3 Kg8 87.Kg6 Kf8 88.Bc6 1–0
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| Grischuk,A | 2759 | Dominguez Perez,L | 2763 | 1–0 | 2019 | | FIDE World Cup 2019 | 4.1 |
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