Featured is the sharp chess game between Gukesh D and Ding Liren from the 2024 Tata Steel Masters. The opening is an Italian Game, Giuoco Piano. It's instructive to see how exactly Ding Liren handles Gukesh's darksquared bishop and its pin on Black's king knight. After Gukesh advances in the center with d4, Ding Liren responds with an excellent sequence that carves out a significant weakness on White's queenside, which a knight can then exploit.

Image of Ding Liren courtesy of Lennart Ootes
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