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Ding Liren’s epic Kingwalk – D. Liren vs S. Mamedyarov – Catalan Opening, Open defense – 5th a6

In this video we are studying the open defense of the Catalan opening with the 5th move for black a6. The instructive game in the video is an amazing game played by Ding Liren and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

PGN OF THE GAME:

[Event “2nd IMSA Blitz 2017”]
[Site “Huai’an CHN”]
[Date “2017.12.12”]
[Round “1.4”]
[White “Ding Liren”]
[Black “Mamedyarov, S.”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “2777”]
[BlackElo “2799”]
[Variant “Standard”]
[TimeControl “-“]
[ECO “E04”]
[Opening “Catalan Opening: Open Defense”]
[Termination “Normal”]
[Annotator “lichess.org”]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 dxc4 5. Nf3 { E04 Catalan Opening: Open Defense } a6 6. O-O Nc6 7. e3 Rb8 8. Nfd2 e5 9. Bxc6+ bxc6 10. dxe5 Ng4 11. Nxc4 Be6 12. Nbd2 h5?! { (0.62 → 1.26) Inaccuracy. Qd5 was best. } (12… Qd5 13. b3) 13. f3 Rb4 14. fxg4?! { (1.13 → 0.37) Inaccuracy. Qe2 was best. } (14. Qe2 h4 15. fxg4 hxg3 16. b3 Rxh2 17. Qf3 Qd5 18. Ne4 g2 19. Rf2 Rxc4 20. bxc4 Qxe5) 14… Bxc4 15. Nxc4 Qxd1 16. Rxd1 Rxc4 17. Bd2 Rxg4 18. Ba5 Bc5 19. Kf2 Bb6 20. Bc3 Rg6 21. Kf3 Re6 22. Rd3 O-O 23. Rad1 f6 24. Rd8 h4 25. gxh4 fxe5+ 26. Ke4 Rh6 27. Be1 Rg6 28. Rxf8+ Kxf8 29. Bg3 Rg4+ 30. Kf5 Rc4 31. e4 Bd4 32. Bxe5 Bxe5 33. Kxe5 Rc2 34. Ke6 Kg8? { (1.92 → 3.63) Mistake. Ke8 was best. } (34… Ke8 35. Rd7) 35. e5 Rxb2?? { (3.25 → 6.96) Blunder. Re2 was best. } (35… Re2 36. b4 Kh8 37. a3 Kh7 38. Rc1 Rxh2 39. Kd7 Rd2+ 40. Kxc7 Re2 41. Kd6 Rd2+ 42. Ke7) 36. Ke7? { (6.96 → 3.77) Mistake. Kd7 was best. } (36. Kd7) 36… c5? { (3.77 → 6.42) Mistake. Rxa2 was best. } (36… Rxa2 37. e6) 37. e6 c4? { (5.20 → 11.67) Mistake. Rxh2 was best. } (37… Rxh2 38. Kd7) 38. Kd7 c5?! { (7.00 → 59.77) Inaccuracy. Re2 was best. } (38… Re2 39. e7) 39. e7 Rb7+ 40. Ke6 { Black resigns. } 1-0

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(3/4) I missed one very likely obvious winning move.
Here I played Bg2? but I should just play Qh6!
For some reason I had missed ...Qxh6 Bxh6 ...Nxc3 a3! Which is game over.
In the end I lost 😔 after Johann played excellently.

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