Harika shared about her choice of opening: When they drew, Harika had more time left than she started with while Humpy had used just three minutes. Though Black has to be careful, it's drawish with best play.īoth were well-prepared. In the matchup between India's top two women, GM Harika Dronavalli and GM Humpy Koneru tested each other's opening knowledge in the Four Knights: Scotch Variation, playing into a theoretical line that rapidly traded off pieces. Yet, she played practically and managed to trade into an opposite-color bishop ending, which they drew as they neared time control. In typical style, Zatonskih was down to 12 minutes after just 14 moves. GM Elisabeth Paehtz gained some initiative as Black in the Nimzo-Indian, but IM Anna Zatonskih calmly caught up in development, and the position equalized as the center opened up. Photo: Bryan Adams/Saint Louis Chess Club. With her elegant endgame victory, Khotenashvili is turning her tournament around. However, she overlooked one clever idea, and suddenly, the game was Krush's.
With accurate play, the Georgian grandmaster could keep the queenside majority at bay and prevent the white king from breaking through. The American grandmaster steadily improved her position, yet Dzagnidze had good drawing chances. She soon traded into an advantageous endgame and won her pawn back, gaining a strong knight on the c5-outpost and a queenside majority―essentially a two-result type of position. I feel like when Black doesn't control the e4-square, it makes sense to play in the maximally aggressive way." Krush pulled out a gambit from her teenage years to create fighting chances on Monday. Back when I was a teenager 20 years ago and I was studying these lines, I went through all the gambits. This is something I've kind of had a liking for for a very long time. Krush shared the background to her choice of opening:
Krush also opted for the Marshall Gambit but in a totally different system, the Queen's Gambit, offering up one of her center pawns to gain the initiative and poke at the weak points in Black's position. Mammadzada fought back despite Kosteniuk's overwhelming previous results against her.
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