The Weekly Show: Highlights from Wijk

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2/2/2021 – In his "Weekly Show" IM Lawrence Trent will summarise the action at the Tata Steel Tournament, with a focus on the fantastic last-round game between Jorden van Foreest and Nils Grandelius that helped van Foreest to win the tournament. Lawrence's show is available at 17:00 UTC (18:00 CET, 12:00 ET) on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.

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But first a warm-up: The position below is from the Armageddon game between Anish Giri and Jorden van Foreest. White, who is clearly better, played the move 26.c6. Is this strong, or did Giri miss something?

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