Game of the Week: A Carlsen clash

by Merijn van Delft
1/1/2020 – Kicking off 2020, IM Merijn van Delft reviews a game from the absolute elite: Aronian vs Carlsen from the World Rapid Championship in Moscow. The live show is free to watch, and available on-demand for ChessBase Premium account holders (but FREE for a limited time!). Merijn is live this week starting at 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET / 4 PM EST).
Scarcely any world champion has managed to captivate chess lovers to the extent Carlsen has. The enormously talented Norwegian hasn't been systematically trained within the structures of a major chess-playing nation such as Russia, the Ukraine or China.

Game of the Week #393

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?

 
Aronian vs Carlsen, Moscow 2019
Position after 14.Bb2

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 c5 5.cxd5 exd5 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.0-0 0-0 11.Qc2 Bb6 12.Na4 Bd7 13.b3 Re8 14.Bb2 h5 15.h4 Ne4 16.e3 Rc8 17.Nxb6 axb6 18.Qd1 Bf5 19.Qxh5 Qd7 20.Qd1 c5 21.Re1 Rcd8 22.Rc1 Bh3 23.Qf3 f6 24.Bxh3 Qxh3 25.Rcd1 b5 26.Qg2 Qe6 27.f3 Nd6 28.g4 d4 29.Qd2 Qd5 30.exd4 c4 31.Ba3 Qxf3 32.Qg2 Rxe1+ 33.Rxe1 Qc3 34.Rd1 b4 35.Bb2 Qe3+ 36.Qf2 Qh3 37.Qg2 Qe3+ 38.Qf2 Qe4 39.Qg2 c3 40.Bc1 c2 41.Rf1 Qxd4+ 42.Kh2 Qe5+ 43.Kg1 Qc5+ 44.Kh2 Nf7 45.g5 Qe5+ 46.Kh1 Rd1 47.g6 Nd8 48.Qf3 Rxf1+ 49.Qxf1 Qe4+ 50.Qg2 Qxh4+ 51.Kg1 Qd4+ 52.Kh2 Qd1 53.Qe4 Kf8 54.Qxb4+ Ke8 55.Qb5+ Ke7 56.Qc5+ Ke6 57.Qc8+ Ke5 58.Bb2+ Ke4 59.Qb7+ Nxb7 0–1
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Aronian,L2775Carlsen,M28720–12019World Rapid 201912.1

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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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