5/2/2024 – Gukesh won the Candidates Tournament, but India's official number one is Arjun Erigaisi, who currently plays in the TePe Sigeman tournament. In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at one of Erigaisi's games from this tournament. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/25/2024 – In his Game of the Week show #616, Merijn van Delft takes a look at the crucial game Gukesh won in the penultimate round of the Candidates against Alireza Firouzja - a game which helped Gukesh to win the Candidates Tournament 2024. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/19/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at the game Vidit Gujrathi vs Gukesh D from the Candidates Tournament in Toronto, a fine game and an impressive comeback by Gukesh. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/10/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at the Candidates and shows how Ian Nepomniachtchi instructively won against Alireza Firouzja in an Anti-Berlin. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
4/4/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at an interesting game, in which Velimir Ivic countered Abhimanyu's Winawer French with a dangerous line that posed too many problems for Black. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/28/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft takes a look at a fine game played by Fabiano Caruana against Grigoriy Oparin at the American Cup. In about a week Caruana will play in the 2024 Candidates Tournament in Toronto and he is one of the favourites to win this tournament. Especially if he shows the form he showed against Oparin. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/21/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft looks at an all-Dutch confrontation from the Bundesliga, between Lucas van Foreest and Erik van den Doel. Erik played very patiently and suddenly managed to get an edge in a game featuring very instructive moments. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/13/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft presents a real fighting game: Nodirbek Abdusattorov's win against Parham Maghsoodloo at the Prague Masters 2024. Both sides showed uncompromising fighting spirit, which led to a tense game full of unusual positions. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/7/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft delves into the depths of modern theory and looks at a Grünfeld line that Daniil Dubov and Anish Giri discussed at the Shenzhen tournament. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
3/1/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft analyses a fine attacking game Parham Maghsoodloo played at the Prague Festival against Praggnanandhaa. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/23/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft turns his attention to the Mitropa Cup and looks at a fine attacking game won by German Grandmaster Matthias Bluebaum against Swiss Grandmaster Nico Georgiadis. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/15/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft shows an interesting game from the German Bundesliga, in which White showed ways to overcome the Berlin wall. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/10/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft analyses a crucial and fantastic attacking game that helped Vincent Keymer to win Division II of the Chessable Masters. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
2/2/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft turns his attention to the winner of Wijk: Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi. Merijn takes a look how Wei Yi used the hidden potential of the seemingly harmless Colle System to win a crucial game against Vidit. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/19/2024 – The chess world's attention is currently focused on Wijk aan Zee, which is once again proving to be a fascinating tournament, thanks to an interesting mix of top players, young talents and strong up-and-coming players. In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft also turns his attention to Wijk aan Zee and, on the advice of Anish Giri, analyses the clash between Parham Maghsoodloo and Nodirbek Abdusattorov - an intriguing battle. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
1/12/2024 – In his new Game of the Week show, Merijn van Delft analyses one of the games played by world champion Ding Liren at a rapid Chinese tournament. Ding returned to an official competition after a long hiatus. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/30/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #595, Merijn Van Delft takes a closer look at the marquee matchup between Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So from the Sinquefield Cup in Saint Louis. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/24/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #595, Merijn Van Delft takes a closer look at Alexander Predke's long but instructive win against Vincent Keymer at the European Team Championship 2023. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/16/2023 – Baskaran Adhiban had quite a rough start in the FIDE Grand Swiss, but that did not prevent him from returning to his trademark creative style in round six against Eduardo Iturrizaga. We don’t want to give too many spoilers, but Paul Morphy would have been proud! In Game of the Week #594, Merijn Van Delft takes a closer look at this encounter. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/9/2023 – Over the course of their careers, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana have played some epic games against each other. The last one was played in the penultimate round of the Grand Swiss Tournament on the Isle of Man. Nakamura won the game and later qualified for the Candidates. In Game of the Week #593, Merijn Van Delft takes a closer look at this encounter. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
11/2/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #592 Merijn Van Delft analyses how the young Uzbek grandmaster Javokhir Sindarov defeated US grandmaster Sam Sevian at the Grand Swiss Tournament with a dazzling attack on the black squares. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
10/26/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #591 Merijn Van Delft looks at an unusually creative attacking game played by German Grandmaster Frederik Svane against Tigran Gharamian in the Bundesliga. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
10/19/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #590 Merijn Van Delft looks at a crucial game from the US Championship: Fabiano Caruana's win with Black over Hans Niemann, a fine game that helped Caruana become the 2023 US Champion. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
10/13/2023 – In his Game of the Week show #589 Merijn Van Delft analyses how Magnus Carlsen defeated Vincent Keymer, who had come close to eliminating Carlsen from the World Cup, in the European Club Cup. A clash of generations in which Carlsen tried an interesting concept against the Najdorf. | Merijn’s show is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can register a Premium account here.
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