Featured is an excellent Freestyle Chess game between Gukesh D and Fabiano Caruana. This is classical game 1 of 2 from the Quarterfinals of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour Knockout, held in Weissenhaus, Germany. Time controls are 90+30. From start position #381, we observe exploitable a-pawns. After only 9 Gukesh obtains the bishop pair and a pawn majority on the wing, while Caruana has a central majority. Both are fairly quick to advance their majorities, and there are a couple really beautiful variations throughout.
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Image of Fabiano Caruana by Lennart Ootes
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1. f4 Nb6 2. Nb3 f5 3. e4 fxe4 4. Rxe4 Bd5 5. Re1 Qg8 6. Bf2 Ng6 7. f5 Nf4 8. Ne3 e5 9. Nxd5 Nfxd5 10. g4 c6 11. Ra1 Nf4 12. a4 a5 13. Nc5 Nbd5 14. Ne4 Qf8 15. g5 Bb6 16. Bxb6 Nxb6 17. f6 Kc7 18. Qg1 d5 19. fxg7 Qb4 20. Nc5 d4 21. Nb3 Re7 22. Re4 Nc4 23. Qf1 Nd6 24. c3 Qc4 25. Qxc4 Nxc4 26. Nxd4 Nd6 27. Rxf4 exf4 28. Bb3 Kd7 29. g8=Q Rxg8 30. Bxg8 Re1+ 31. Kc2 Rxa1 32. Bxh7 Ke7 33. h4 Rh1 34. Nf3 Rh3 35. Ne5 f3 36. Kd3 Ke6 37. g6 Nf5 38. Nf7 Kf6 39. g7 f2+ 40. Ke2 Rf3