The opening of the week – Catalan

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How Magnus destroyed Niemann’s chances using the opening develop by his guru (Kramnik)

Let’s look at one of the finest games from the recently held Speed Chess Championship in Paris.

Here is the first interesting moment of the game, Where Magnus decided to showcase his creativity with 6.d3!?. Of course, the most common and well-known move is 6.d4 when there is a huge theory after …dxc4.

You can find the full article on the following links:

https://lichess.org/@/GMSzabo/blog/the-opening-of-the-week-catalan/y4E77EA5

https://www.chess.com/blog/GMSzabo/secrets-of-the-catalan

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