How's Irina's second game going?
The Women's World Chess Championship of 2012
What in the world are all those cgi vars? Starting with the well-named p1, and continuing on through p2, p3, p4, and all the way to p12. No wonder they devoted an entire lecture in 6.033 to Naming.
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Wow, thanks for the game Scottrf. Pretty shocking result. So Humpy is out, and Hou and Anna Muzychuk are going to have to play tie-breakers to stay in the tournament!. There is a clause I believe, where if Yifan Hou is not the winner of this tournament, she will automatically get to play the winner in a match for the WWCC.
Houdini evaluates Pogonina's position as +1.07, against Kosteniuk!
Still looks a tough slog to win.
29. Qxb8 just looked ridiculous to me?
other moves would have been worse ... 28.Bd4 was a blunder (allowing some nice black combinations with the pawn on d3) but she was going downhill after the "obvious" 21.Rc7 ?
29. Qxb8 just looked ridiculous to me?
other moves would have been worse ... 28.Bd4 was a blunder (allowing some nice black combinations with the pawn on d3) but she was going downhill after the "obvious" 21.Rc7 ?
Yeah thought that might be the case after looking for a bit longer, black was getting quite a bit of pressure with the 2 bishops and the rook on the b file.
What is the move if 29. Qc3? d2 maybe?
white can play Nb2 then i think, but black has the trade on d4 followed by a bishop sac when the pawn is motoring
Cramling-Krush was quite a game, however Irina Krush does seem to be off to a bit of a slow start.