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FIDE Girls’s Candidates 2024 (3)
Tan Zhongyi stays the chief as Vaishali is the one winner in Spherical 3 of the Girls’s Candidates
Mark Crowther – Sunday seventh April 2024
Rameshbabu Vaishali and her brother Praggnanandhaa (the R preliminary within the score listing is the household identify) have been the one winners within the Candidates immediately. Picture © | https://candidates.fide.com
Humpy Koneru has seemed very strong up to now within the Girls’s Candidates, she had the draw
that gave her the black items within the first two rounds, she met the chief Tan Zhongyi in Spherical 3 and had the white items for the primary time.
This was a reversed Gruenfeld and after a slight inaccuracy Koneru allowed the sort of equality
often seen in this type of place and the sport was drawn.
Rameshbabu Vaishali identical to her brother Praggnanandhaa was the one winner within the girls’s occasion.
Nurgyul Salimova appeared to panic within the face of Vaishali’s aggression and her place collapsed
after a number of errors. Anna Muzychuk virtually received her recreation in opposition to Kateryna Lagno, it was
simply the ultimate exact sequence that escaped her. Lei Tingjie drew with Aleksandra Goryachkina
in a seemingly effectively performed recreation by each side in an Evans Gambit.
Spherical 3 Standings:
1st Tan 2½pts
2nd Goryachkina 2 pts
Third-Fifth Koneru, Lagno, Vaishali 1.5pts,
Sixth-Eighth Lei Tingjie, Anna Muzychuk, Salimova 1pt.
Spherical 4 seventh April at 19:30BST:
Lagno-Tan,
Salimova-Koneru,
Goryachkina-Vaishali,
Muzychuk-Lei.
Spherical 3 Abstract
Humpy Koneru had her first recreation with the white items
within the match in opposition to the chief Tan Zhongyi.
This was a reversed Alternate Gruenfeld. White had
a little bit one thing however 14.Nxd5 wasn’t correct and
black was equal. Trades occurred and so they drew
by repetition on transfer 32 in a really drawn place.
Rameshbabu Vaishali bounced again from her
vexing loss to the chief in spherical 2 by beating
Nurgyul Salimova in a Petroff. The important thing moments
of the sport have been within the sequence 10…Bd7N 11.h4?!
(11.Bd3) 11…Re8?! (11…Ng4! and black is greater than
equal) 12.Ng5 h6 13.Bd3 (13.Bc4 was higher) 13…Ng4
14.Nxf7 (greatest however solely equal) Kxf7 15.Bc4+ Kf8 16.Qd3
Bg5+? (16…Bf6 solely transfer however equal) and now white is successful.
17.Kb1?! (17.hxg5 works undecided what the gamers have been lacking)
17…Ne5? (17…Bf6= final likelihood) 18.Bxe5 (not the one win) Bf6 19.Bxd6
and Vaishali completed up 4 pawns up and Nurgyul Salimova struck
the flag on transfer 33.
Anna Muzychuk had a nasty loss in spherical 2 however ought to have bounced
again in Spherical 3 in opposition to Kateryna Lagno. This was a Ruy Lopez
the place white did not get a lot, 19.Nc5 Qd5?! (19…Bc6 was cleaner)
was the beginning of some rigidity, 31.Qc8 was a wonderful attempt
forcing black to search out 31…e4, a extremely not apparent reply,
31…Qb5 was dropping, however provided that Rd1 was discovered, both immediately
or after 32.Qf5+ Kh8 32.Qc8 returning to the unique place. This
was certainly discovered, many of the laborious work was completed however a last exact sequence
beginning with 37.Qe8+ Kf5 38.Qh5+ Ke6 39.Re8+ wanted to be discovered round right here,
as a substitute perpetual verify was given by Muzychuk.
Lei Tingjie drew with Aleksandra Goryachkina in an Evans
Gambit in 45 strikes. White appeared to be barely higher
at one stage however a draw was solely a matter of time after transfer 33.
| FIDE Girls’s Candidates Toronto CAN (CAN), 3-26 iv 2024 | cat. XI (2517) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Tan, Zhongyi | g | CHN | 2521 | * | * | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | . | 2½ | 2796 |
| 2. | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | g | FID | 2553 | . | . | * | * | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | ½ | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 2662 |
| 3. | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2546 | ½ | . | . | . | * | * | ½ | . | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1½ | 2512 |
| 4. | Lagno, Kateryna | g | RUS | 2542 | . | . | ½ | . | ½ | . | * | * | . | . | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | 1½ | 2539 |
| 5. | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | m | IND | 2475 | 0 | . | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | * | * | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1½ | 2499 |
| 6. | Lei, Tingjie | g | CHN | 2550 | 0 | . | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | * | * | . | . | ½ | . | 1 | 2377 |
| 7. | Muzychuk, Anna | g | UKR | 2520 | . | . | 0 | . | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | * | * | ½ | . | 1 | 2384 |
| 8. | Salimova, Nurgyul | m | BUL | 2432 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | . | ½ | . | ½ | . | * | * | 1 | 2390 |
| Spherical 3 (April 6, 2024) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Koneru, Humpy | – Tan, Zhongyi | ½-½ | 32 | D02 | Queen’s Pawn Recreation | |
| Vaishali, Rameshbabu | – Salimova, Nurgyul | 1-0 | 33 | C42 | Petroff’s Defence | |
| Lei, Tingjie | – Goryachkina, Aleksandra | ½-½ | 45 | C51 | Evans Gambit | |
| Muzychuk, Anna | – Lagno, Kateryna | ½-½ | 44 | C88 | Ruy Lopez Closed | |
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