Game of the Week: Banikas vs Meier

by Merijn van Delft
10/30/2019 – The European Team Championship is a fantastic source of fascinating battles and theoretical developments. Today IM Merijn van Delft highlights the game between GMs Banikas and Meier. 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 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET / 3 PM EDT).
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Game of the Week #385

After six rounds, there are already too many games to choose from, but I decided to pick the game Banikas vs Meier for us to study tonight. The Greek grandmaster is in good shape and won a creative game. The German team is doing well by the way, and is now in second place.

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?

 
Banikas vs Meier, Batumi 2019
Position after 19...Ne8

Merijn will explain in the show!

This week's show

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 Nbd7 7.0-0 c6 8.Qc2 0-0 9.Rd1 b6 10.b3 a5 11.Bc3 Bb7 12.Nbd2 Qc7 13.Rac1 c5 14.dxc5 Bxc5 15.Qb2 Rfd8 16.a3 dxc4 17.Nxc4 Bd5 18.Nfe5 Bxg2 19.Kxg2 Ne8 20.f3 Nxe5 21.Bxe5 Qe7 22.a4 Rd5 23.Bd4 Qd8 24.Bxc5 Rxd1 25.Bxb6 Qd5 26.Rxd1 Qxd1 27.Bxa5 Rb8 28.Bb6 Nf6 29.Ne3 Qd6 30.a5 Nd7 31.Nc4 Qb4 32.Qd4 Nxb6 33.axb6 Qxb3 34.Qd6 Rf8 35.Ne5 Qe3 36.b7 Qxe2+ 37.Kh3 Qf1+ 38.Kh4 g5+ 39.Kg4 h5+ 40.Kxg5 f6+ 41.Kh6 1–0
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Banikas,H2597Meier,G26281–0201922nd European Teams4.3

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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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