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Game of the Week XVII: Caruana, Fabiano (2792) – Dominguez Perez, Leinier (2752)

Game of the Week XVII

During Chess.com’s coverage of the FIDE World Championship, Caruana said that he likes to go against the engine’s will in his opening preparation.

Today, it is almost impossible to find any significant advantage in serious openings. Instead, the main goal of top GMs is to take their opponent out of their preparation.

Caruana claims that he tries to look for moves that are not the engine’s top choices. The idea behind this strategy is that everyone checks to see what the engine suggests in critical positions of the openings; therefore, if you play the engine’s top choices, the likelihood of surprising a strong opponent is low.

However, if you play something like the 5th, 6th, etc. choice of the engine and analyze it deeply, the most likely scenario is that you will at least gain a time advantage and your opponent will make inaccuracies if the position is complex. This leads us to the Game of the Week…

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Contributors:

GM Vasif Durarbayli

GM Ulvi Bajarani

Edited by Della Almind

Vasif

Vasif Durarbayli is a highly accomplished Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. He was born on February 24, 1992, in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, and began playing chess at the age of six. Durarbayli quickly showed a talent for the game, winning several national and international chess competitions as a young player. He holds the record for being the youngest player ever to represent the Azerbaijani Olympic chess team, achieving this feat at just 14 years old. To this day, his record has yet to be broken or renewed. He also won the World Youth Chess Championship U14 and the European Youth Chess Championship U18. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2007 at the age of 15 and became a Grandmaster in 2010, at the age of 18. Throughout his career, Durarbayli has competed in and won numerous prestigious chess tournaments, including the Azerbaijani Chess Championship twice (in 2021 and 2023). He was also ranked among the top 16 players in the World Cup in 2021. Durarbayli has represented Azerbaijan in several Chess Olympiads. Currently, he resides in St. Louis, MO.

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