Game of the Week: Radjabov vs Ding

by Merijn van Delft
10/2/2019 – The World Cup is headed for a dramatic conclusion, and today IM Merijn van Delft brings you right up to date. 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).
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Game of the Week #382

In the past two weeks we had a good time with the third and fifth round of the World Cup and tonight we'll study the big final. It is no surprise that Ding Liren qualified for the final, but for Radjabov it represents a big comeback in his career. Yesterday Ding delivered the first heavy blow with an impressive strategical win. It felt like the match was decided, but today Radjabov managed to beat the rock-solid Marshall and tonight we'll study how he did that.

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

 
Radjabov vs Ding
Position after 20...Rac8

The solution will be revealed tonight!

This week's show

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Radjabov,T2758Ding,L28111–02019Khanty-Mansiysk FIDE World Cup57.1

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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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