This Week's Free ChessLecture Show: Carlsen-Tari from Norway Chess
Monday, October 26, 2020 at 12:05PM
Dennis Monokroussos in 2020 Norway Chess, ChessLecture Videos, ChessLecture.com, Magnus Carlsen

Each week ChessLecture.com makes one of its videos available for free, on-demand, for two weeks, and this week it's one of my recent videos that's available. The game is Magnus Carlsen's smooth positional win over his countryman Aryan Tari, and it's a model of the good knight vs. bad bishop middlegame. (Note when you're watching such games not only the damage that gets done once the imbalance is constructed and the knight reaches an ideal square like d5, but also pay careful attention to the setup. What did the player do to get the knight to its ideal square? What exchanges were made to create that favorable imbalance? And what should the loser of the game have done to disallow that unfavorable situation in the first place?)

You'll need a ChessLecture.com account to watch, but as you can sign up for a free one if you don't have one already, that should only be a minor hurdle. Happy viewing!

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