How to Beat Hikaru | So vs Nakamura | Skilling Open 2020
Channel: Mordimer's Chess Channel
Date: 2020-11-29

Giuoco Piano chess opening is known as the "quiet game", it's one of the oldest openings in chess history. One of the most important Wesley So chess games this year started with as a continuation of Italian Game chess opening. Wesley advanced to the final of Skilling Open 2020 online tournament where he's gonna play against Magnus Carlsen. 

The Skilling Open takes place on Chess24 Sun 22nd Nov to Mon 30th Nov 2020 with play starting at 17:00 each day. This is the first event of the new Champions Chess Tour that takes place over the next year. The event is a 16 player rapid tournament in two phases. An all-play-all that will reduce the field to 8 players followed by series of knockout matches. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ding Liren, Wesley So, Vidit Gujrathi, Peter Svidler, Teimour Radjabov, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Hikaru Nakamura, Le Quang Liem Sergey Karjakin, Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, David Anton Guijarro and Alireza Firouzja.

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Wesley So vs Hikaru Nakamura, Skilling Open 2020
Italian Game: Classical Variation, Giuoco Pianissimo [C53] 
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O h6 7. Re1 O-O 8. Nbd2 a5 9. Nf1 Be6 10. Bb5 Bb6 11. Ng3 Nh7 12. h3 Ng5 13. Nxg5 hxg5 14. d4 exd4 15. Bxc6 bxc6 16. cxd4 c5 17. d5 Bd7 18. a4 Re8 19. Bd2 c4 20. Qf3 Rb8 21. Bc3 Bc5 22. Re2 f6 23. Nf5 Bb4 24. Bd4 Bc5 25. Bc3 Bb4 26. Ne3 Bc8 27. Bd4 Ba6 28. Nf5 Bc8 29. Ne3 Ba6 30. Nf5 Bc8 31. Rc1 Qd7 32. Rec2 Ba6 33. h4 gxh4 34. Qg4 Kf8 35. Bxf6 gxf6 36. Qxh4 Kg8 37. Re2 Re5 38. Re3 Rxf5 39. Rh3 Rg5 40. Qh8+ Kf7 41. Rh7+ 1-0

Link to Study created of this game: 
https://lichess.org/study/gLT5h5bz/bVVRDnvN#0

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0:07 Introduction
0:33 Chess game

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