Game of the Week: Caruana vs Firouzja

by Merijn van Delft
1/29/2020 – Closing out our coverage of the Tata Steel Masters 2020, IM Merijn van Delft delves into a game from the winner Fabiano Caruana, who defeated Alireza Firouzja to kick off his superb four-game winning streak in the last third of the tournament. 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).
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Game of the Week #397

Tonight we will have a third and final look at the amazing Tata Steel chess tournament. Caruana started the tournament with only one win and five draws, but his second half of the tournament was absolutely phenomenal: six wins and only one draw. We will study Caruana va Firouzja, which was an exciting King's Indian.

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

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

 
Caruana vs Firouzja, Wijk aan Zee 2020
Position after 8...♞de7

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 0-0 6.Be3 Nc6 7.d5 Ne5 8.f4 Ned7 9.g4 c6 10.Nf3 cxd5 11.cxd5 b6 12.Nd4 Nc5 13.Qf3 Bb7 14.g5 Nfxe4 15.Nxe4 Bxd5 16.Nf6+ exf6 17.Qxd5 Re8 18.Nc2 fxg5 19.0-0-0 gxf4 20.Bd4 Bxd4 21.Qxd4 Ne6 22.Qd2 Qf6 23.Kb1 Rac8 24.Bb5 Red8 25.Nb4 d5 26.Rhf1 Rc5 27.a4 d4 28.Nd3 Rf5 29.Rf3 g5 30.Rg1 Kf8 31.h4 h6 32.hxg5 hxg5 33.Rh3 f3 34.Bc4 Ke7 35.Bxe6 Kxe6 36.Qh2 f2 37.Rf1 Kd7 38.Rh6 Qe7 39.Rxf2 Rxf2 40.Qxf2 Kc8 41.a5 bxa5 42.Qc2+ Kb8 43.Nc5 Rd6 44.Rh8+ Rd8 45.Qb3+ Kc7 46.Qb7+ Kd6 47.Rh6+ f6 48.Ne4+ 1–0
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Caruana,F2822Firouzja,A27231–0202082nd Tata Steel GpA10.5

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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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