Featured is an instructive rapid (10+0) chess game between Magnus Carlsen and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave from the Champions Chess Tour Chess.com Classic Grand Final, Game 1. Carlsen takes a positional approach early on to MVL’s Sicilian Defense with the innocent looking 4. h3. A battle revolves around the weakened d5-square until it is occupied with a white pawn. From there the attention shifts to pawn majorities, and Carlsen’s deadly unopposed light-squared bishop!
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Image of Magnus Carlsen by Lennart Ootes
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1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. h3 Nc6 5. d4 cxd4 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Nf3 h6 8. Bc4 Be6 9. Bb3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Re1 Rc8 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. exd5 Na5 14. Ba4 Nd7 15. c3 f5 16. Bc2 Qb6 17. Rb1 Rf7 18. a4 Qc7 19. g4 fxg4 20. hxg4 Rcf8 21. Qd3 Rxf3 22. Qh7+ Kf7 23. Bg6+ Kf6 24. Bh5