Happy new year everyone! Tonight we'll start the new year by looking back at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship. Magnus Carlsen managed to win both tournaments and now holds all titles. The world's undisputed number one played smoothly, only losing one game (with black in blitz against Andreikin) along the way. We will look at Aronian-Carlsen from the rapid, and surely there is more, in case we have time left.
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Warming-up question: What would you play here with Black?
Merijn will explain in the show!
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