Game of the Week: Gunina vs Sebag

by Merijn van Delft
2/13/2019 – Ideas and strategies in Grandmaster games can be quite instructive. IM Merijn van Delft presents games like these every Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET, 2 pm EST). On this week's show: Gunina vs Sebag from the Cairns Cup. The live 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.

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Week 7

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

At the Cairns Cup in St Louis, ten of the World's leading women are currently playing a very interesting tournament. In round 5 Valentina Gunina beat Marie Sebag in a fantastic attacking game, which we'll study tonight.

Warm-up question: How to continue White's attack?

 

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To chat, please visit videos.chessbase.com/live or login via Playchess for Windows. Merijn is  live  at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET, 2 pm EDT).

The complex Najdorf

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Topics: Cairns Cup, Marie Sebag, The Game of the Week, Training, Valentina Gunina
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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