400 weeks of great games!

by Merijn van Delft
2/19/2020 – The Prague Masters is in the crosshairs for this anniversary edition of Game of the Week. IM Merijn van Delft explores the third round win of the tournament leader Vidit Gujrathi. 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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Vidit vs Ragger

Dear chess friends, tonight we'll celebrate the 400th Game of the Week broadcast. Thanks for your participation throughout the years, and let's go for many returns!

Tonight we will focus on the strong Prague Masters. Vidit is leading the tournament and beat Firouzja very quickly in the sixth round with the Exchange Slav. We will study instead Vidit's interesting win against Markus Ragger in the Gruenfeld from the third round.

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?

 
Vidit vs Ragger, Prague Masters 2020
Position after 10....a6

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Be3 c5 8.Nf3 Qa5 9.Qd2 Nc6 10.Rb1 a6 11.Rc1 cxd4 12.cxd4 Qxd2+ 13.Kxd2 e6 14.Bd3 0-0 15.h4 h6 16.Rc5 Rd8 17.Rb1 Bf8 18.Rc4 Bd7 19.Rb6 Be8 20.Rc1 Bg7 21.e5 Bf8 22.Rxb7 Nb4 23.Bc4 Bc6 24.Rc7 Bb5 25.Bb3 Nd5 26.Bxd5 Rxd5 27.Rc8 Rd8 28.Rxa8 Rxa8 29.Bf4 Kg7 30.Rc7 Bb4+ 31.Ke3 Rd8 32.g4 Rd7 33.Rc8 a5 34.Bg3 Ba6 35.Rc2 Bb7 36.Ng1 g5 37.f4 gxf4+ 38.Bxf4 Be7 39.h5 Ba6 40.Nf3 Bb4 41.g5 hxg5 42.Nxg5 Bb7 43.Ne4 Be7 44.Nd6 Bd5 45.h6+ Kg6 46.Rc1 1–0
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Vidit,S2721Ragger,M26701–020202nd Prague Masters 20193.5

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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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