[Event "FIDE Women's Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.06"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Koneru, Humpy"]
[Black "Tan, Zhongyi"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2546"]
[BlackElo "2521"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 15,63,29,31,29,32,34,34,38,30,32,39,35,33,10,17,13,16,13,11,0,0,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. g3
c5 4. Bg2 Nc6 5. O-O cxd4 6. Nxd4 e5 7. Nxc6 bxc6 8. c4 Be6 9. Qa4 {[#]
Strongly threatening cxd5. D02: 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 sidelines, including 2...Nf6 3
g3 and 2...Nf6 3 Bf4.} Qd7 10. Nc3 Rc8 11. cxd5 {White is slightly better.}
cxd5 12. Qxd7+ Kxd7 13. Rd1 Bc5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 {The position is equal.} 15. Bxd5
Bxd5 16. Rxd5+ Ke6 17. Rd1 Rhd8 18. Rxd8 Rxd8 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRB-KRB}
19. Bg5 f6 20. Rc1 Bb6 21. Be3 Bxe3 22. fxe3 {KR-KR} Rd2 23. Kf2 Rxb2 24. Rc6+
Kf5 25. Ra6 Rb7 26. Ra4 h5 27. Kf3 Rc7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 27... g5 28. h3 Rd7
29. g4+ Kg6 30. Ra6 h4 31. a4 Rd1 32. Rxa7 Rg1 33. Rb7 Rg3+ {1/2-1/2 (43)
Atalik,E (2450)-Tregubov,P (2588) Caleta 2020}) ({RR} 27... g5 28. h3 Rd7 29.
g4+ Kg6 30. Ra6 h4 31. a4 Rd1 32. Rxa7 Rg1 33. Rb7 Rg3+ 34. Kf2 Rxh3 35. Rb1
Rh2+ 36. Kf3 e4+ 37. Kxe4 Rg2 38. Ra1 h3 39. a5 h2 40. Rh1 Rxg4+ 41. Kf3 Ra4
42. Rxh2 {Atalik,E (2450)-Tregubov,P (2588) Caleta ENG 2020 1/2-1/2 (43)}) ({RR
} 27... g5 28. h3 Rd7 29. g4+ Kg6 30. Ra6 h4 31. a4 Rd1 32. Rxa7 Rg1 33. Rb7
Rg3+ 34. Kf2 Rxh3 35. Rb1 Rh2+ 36. Kf3 e4+ 37. Kxe4 Rg2 38. Ra1 h3 39. a5 h2
40. Rh1 Rxg4+ 41. Kf3 Ra4 42. Rxh2 {Atalik,E (2450)-Tregubov,P (2588) Caleta
ENG 2020 1/2-1/2 (43)}) 28. h3 Rd7 29. Ra5 Rc7 30. Ra4 Rd7 31. Ra5 Rc7 32. Ra4
{Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 96% Pretas 100%. Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas
98% Pretas 99%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 99.4% Pretas 99.8%.} 1/2-1/2
[Event "FIDE Women's Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.06"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Muzychuk, Anna"]
[Black "Lagno, Kateryna"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C88"]
[WhiteElo "2520"]
[BlackElo "2542"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 16,87,24,26,25,25,23,1,9,5,12,5,0,0,0,0,-1,0,0,-2,-1,-2,-1,-12,16,14,17,
8,40,28,40,22,25,25,35,6,37,8,35,22,35,27,28,29,39,26,28,44,371,364,371,369,
369,371,393,402,434,432,431,0,441,441,441,0,411,415,435,0,0,2,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4
e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. h3 Bb7 9.
d3 d5 {C88: Closed Ruy Lopez: Anti-Marshall Systems.} 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nc3
Nxc3 12. bxc3 Bf6 13. Nd2 Na5 14. Ne4 Be7 15. Qh5 Nxb3 16. axb3 f6 17. Ba3 $146
({RR} 17. c4 Qd7 18. Ba3 b4 19. Bb2 a5 20. Nd2 a4 21. bxa4 Rxa4 22. Qg4 Qxg4
23. hxg4 Rfa8 24. Rxa4 Rxa4 25. Ra1 Bc6 26. Kf1 Kf7 27. f3 g6 28. Ke2 Rxa1 29.
Bxa1 Ba4 30. Nb3 Bxb3 31. cxb3 Bc5 {Vasquez Schroeder,R (2506)-Kosteniuk,A
(2521) chess.com INT 2022 1/2-1/2 (46)}) 17... Bxa3 18. Rxa3 a5 $146 ({
Predecessor:} 18... Qd5 19. Qf5 a5 20. c4 bxc4 21. bxc4 Qc6 22. h4 a4 23. h5 h6
24. Qh3 Bc8 {0-1 (89) Feldis,Y (2037)-Guidoni,M (2284) ICCF email 2015}) 19.
Nc5 Qd5 {[%csl Gb7][%CAl Rd5g2]} 20. Nxb7 Qxb7 21. c4 bxc4 22. dxc4 a4 {
[%mdl 64] Decoy} 23. bxa4 Qb4 24. Rea1 Qxc4 25. a5 Ra6 26. Qf3 c6 27. Qd1 Rfa8
28. Rd3 h6 29. Rd8+ Rxd8 30. Qxd8+ $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KQR-KQR} Kh7 31.
Qc8 Qb5 $2 {[%mdl 8192]} (31... e4 $1 $14) 32. Qf5+ Kh8 33. Qc8+ $1 Kh7 34. Rd1
$1 e4 35. Rd8 $1 {[%CAl Rd8h8] Black must now prevent Rh8+.} Rxa5 $6 {
Inaccuracy. Qxa5 was best.} (35... Qxa5 36. Rh8+ Kg6 37. Qe8+ Kf5 38. Qh5+ Ke6
39. Re8+ Kd6 40. Qf7 Ra7 41. Re6+ Kc5 42. Qf8+ $1) 36. Rh8+ Kg6 {White should
prevent ...Qf5.} 37. Qg4+ $4 {Blunder. Qe8+ was best.} (37. Qe8+ $1 Kf5 38.
Qh5+ Ke6 39. Re8+ Kd6 40. Qd1+ Kc5 41. Rd8 {[%csl Gd8][%CAl Rd1d4]} Qa4 42.
Qd6+ Kb5 43. c4+ Kxc4) (37. Qe8+ $1 $18 Kg5 38. Qf7 (38. Qxe4 Qf5 $11) (38. Qd7
Ra1+ 39. Kh2 Qe5+ 40. g3 Kg6 $14)) 37... Kf7 $4 {Blunder. Qg5 was best.} (37...
Qg5 $1 38. Qxe4+ Qf5 39. Qe8+ Kg5 40. Qe3+ Kg6) (37... Qg5 $1 $11) 38. Qd7+ $18
Kg6 39. Qg4+ $4 {Blunder. Qe8+ was best.} (39. Qe8+ $1 Kf5 40. Qh5+ Ke6 41.
Re8+ Kd6 42. Qd1+ Kc5 43. Rd8 {[%csl Gd8][%CAl Rd1d4]} Qc4 44. Qd6+ Kb5 45.
Rb8+ Ka4) ({White must play} 39. Qe8+ $1 $18 Kg5 40. Qf7 (40. Qxe4 Qf5 $11) (
40. Qd7 Ra1+ 41. Kh2 Qe5+ 42. g3 Kg6 $14)) 39... Kf7 $4 {Blunder. Qg5 was best.
} (39... Qg5 $1 40. Qxe4+ Qf5 41. Qe8+ Kg5 42. Qe3+ Kg6 43. Qe8+) (39... Qg5 $1
$11 {and Black stays safe.} 40. Qxe4+ {[%mdl 64] Double Attack} Qf5 41. Qe8+
Kg5 42. Qe3+ Kg6) 40. Qd7+ Kg6 {[#]} 41. Rg8 $4 {Blunder. Qe8+ was best.} (41.
Qe8+ $1 Kg5 {[#]} 42. Qf7 $1 {[%CAl Rf7g7]} Ra1+ 43. Kh2 g6 44. h4+ Kf5 45. g4+
Kxg4 46. Qxg6+ Kf3 47. Qxf6+ Ke2) ({Only move:} 41. Qe8+ $1 $18 Kf5 42. Qh5+
Ke6 43. Re8+ Kd6 44. Qd1+ Kc5 45. Rd8) 41... Ra1+ $11 {The position is equal.}
42. Kh2 Qe5+ 43. g3 f5 44. Qxc6+ {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 78% Pretas 69%.
Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas 83% Pretas 86%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 87.
4% Pretas 85.4%.} 1/2-1/2
[Event "FIDE Women's Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.06"]
[Round "3.3"]
[White "Lei, Tingjie"]
[Black "Goryachkina, Aleksandra"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C51"]
[WhiteElo "2550"]
[BlackElo "2553"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 12,89,1,-4,12,8,6,10,9,10,12,12,9,2,21,19,18,18,38,41,25,25,37,22,46,31,
31,29,35,27,31,26,35,7,19,21,16,16,20,12,25,25,48,10,14,13,25,8,10,2,4,0,0,0,0,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4
Bc5 4. b4 $6 {Inaccuracy. O-O was best.} (4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 a6 6. c3 d6 7. h3
Ba7 8. a4 O-O) 4... Bxb4 5. c3 Be7 6. d4 Na5 7. Be2 d6 {C51: Evans Gambit:
Declined and Accepted without 5...Ba5.} 8. Qa4+ c6 9. dxe5 dxe5 10. Nxe5 Nf6
11. O-O Qc7 12. Nf3 ({RR} 12. f4 O-O 13. Be3 Re8 14. Nd2 Bd6 15. Nec4 Nxe4 16.
Bd3 Nxc4 17. Qxc4 Nxd2 18. Bxd2 Be6 19. Qe4 g6 20. Qf3 Bc5+ 21. Kh1 Rad8 22.
Be1 Bd5 23. Qg4 Bxg2+ 24. Qxg2 Rxd3 25. f5 Qd7 26. fxg6 hxg6 {Rangeet Majumdar
(1610)-Medhvansh Madeti (1269) Bhubaneswar IND 2023 0-1 (46)}) 12... b5 13. Qc2
O-O 14. Re1 Ng4 $146 ({Predecessor:} 14... h6 15. Nbd2 Rd8 16. Bf1 Rb8 17. Nb3
Nxb3 18. axb3 a5 19. h3 c5 20. Qa2 b4 21. cxb4 axb4 {1/2-1/2 (46) Jimenez
Ariza,J (2376)-De Andres Senra,S (2361) ICCF email 2022}) ({RR} 14... h6 15. e5
Nd5 16. Bf1 Nb6 17. Qe4 f5 18. exf6 Bxf6 19. Bd3 g5 20. Ba3 Bb7 21. Bxf8 Rxf8
22. Nd4 c5 23. Qg6+ Qg7 24. Nxb5 Qxg6 25. Bxg6 Kg7 26. Be4 Bxe4 27. Rxe4 a6 28.
Nc7 Kf7 29. Na3 {Cejas,J (2324)-Anino,S (2203) Mar del Plata ARG 2019 1-0 (43)}
) ({RR} 14... h6 15. e5 Nd5 16. Bf1 Nb6 17. Qe4 f5 18. exf6 Bxf6 19. Bd3 g5 20.
Ba3 Bb7 21. Bxf8 Rxf8 22. Nd4 c5 23. Qg6+ Qg7 24. Nxb5 Qxg6 25. Bxg6 Kg7 26.
Be4 Bxe4 27. Rxe4 a6 28. Nc7 Kf7 29. Na3 {Cejas,J (2324)-Anino,S (2203) Mar
del Plata ARG 2019 1-0 (43)}) 15. h3 Ne5 16. Nbd2 Ng6 17. a4 Bd7 18. Bf1 Nb7
19. Nd4 {[%CAl Ra4b5]} a6 20. Nf5 Bf6 21. Bb2 Rfe8 22. Rab1 Nc5 23. c4 {
Bxf6 is the strong threat.} Bxb2 24. Qxb2 {[%csl Gf5][%CAl Rb2g7] [#]} Qe5 25.
Qxe5 Rxe5 26. axb5 axb5 27. Ng3 {[%CAl Rc4b5]} h5 28. cxb5 h4 29. Ne2 {Hoping
for f4.} cxb5 {The position is equal.} 30. Nd4 (30. Nc3 {keeps more tension.}
Rb8 31. Nf3 Ree8 32. Nxb5 Nxe4 33. Bd3) 30... Rb8 31. Bxb5 (31. Rb4 {is
interesting.} Na6 32. Rb2 Nc5 33. N4f3 Re7 34. Rb4) 31... Bxb5 32. Rxb5 Rxb5
33. Nxb5 Nxe4 34. Rxe4 Rxb5 $11 {[%mdl 4096] Endgame KRN-KRN} 35. Nf3 Rh5 36.
Rb4 f6 37. Kf1 Kf7 38. Ke2 Kg8 39. Ra4 Kf7 40. Rg4 Rh8 41. Re4 Rh5 42. Ra4 Kg8
43. Rg4 Kf7 44. Ra4 Kg8 45. Rg4 {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 89% Pretas 92%.
Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas 98% Pretas 98%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 98.
5% Pretas 98.4%.} 1/2-1/2
[Event "FIDE Women's Candidates 2024"]
[Site "Toronto, Canada"]
[Date "2024.04.06"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Vaishali, Rameshbabu"]
[Black "Salimova, Nurgyul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "2475"]
[BlackElo "2432"]
[Annotator "Stockfish 16.1"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2024.??.??"]
{[%evp 13,65,30,29,27,26,27,42,7,38,-17,49,57,60,8,8,8,6,6,6,5,223,68,427,421,
423,394,398,391,401,398,392,394,396,396,503,495,477,493,495,473,533,518,510,
492,491,487,478,476,500,498,503,497,497,497]} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4.
Nf3 Nxe4 5. Nc3 Nxc3 6. dxc3 Be7 7. Be3 O-O 8. Qd2 {C42: Petroff Defence: 3
Nxe5 and unusual White 3rd moves.} Nd7 9. O-O-O Nf6 10. Bd4 $146 {White is
slightly better.} ({RR} 10. Bd3 c5 11. Rhe1 Be6 12. Kb1 Qa5 13. c4 Qxd2 14.
Bxd2 h6 15. Nh4 Rfe8 16. Ng6 Ng4 17. Nxe7+ Rxe7 18. Re2 Ne5 19. Bf4 Nxd3 20.
Rxd3 Rd7 21. Rxd6 Rxd6 22. Bxd6 Rd8 23. Rd2 Bxc4 24. Kc1 b6 {Carlsen,M (2835)
-Caruana,F (2832) London ENG 2018 1/2-1/2 (55)}) ({RR} 10. Bd3 Re8 11. Rhe1 Bg4
12. Bg5 Qd7 13. a3 Bf5 14. Nd4 Bxd3 15. Qxd3 Nd5 16. Bxe7 Nxe7 17. h4 Ng6 18.
h5 Ne5 19. Qg3 h6 20. Re4 Nc6 21. Rg4 Nxd4 22. Rxg7+ Kh8 23. cxd4 Qf5 24. f3
Re2 {Carlsen,M (2863)-Caruana,F (2835) lichess.org INT 2020 1-0 (57)}) ({RR}
10. Bd3 c5 11. Kb1 Be6 12. Ng5 Bd5 13. Nxh7 Bxa2+ 14. Kxa2 Nxh7 15. Qe2 Re8 16.
Bxc5 Qa5+ 17. Ba3 Nf6 18. Bb5 Red8 19. Kb1 Bf8 20. Rhe1 d5 21. Bxf8 Rxf8 22.
Bd3 b5 23. Qe7 Qb6 24. Qe3 Qb7 {Zhigalko,S (2572)-Paravyan,D (2612) chess.com
INT 2024 1/2-1/2 (39)}) ({RR} 10. Bd3 c5 11. Rhe1 Be6 12. Kb1 Qa5 13. c4 Qxd2
14. Nxd2 h6 15. f3 Rfe8 16. b3 Rad8 17. Ne4 d5 18. Nxf6+ Bxf6 19. cxd5 Rxd5 20.
Bb5 Rxd1+ 21. Rxd1 Rc8 22. Bd3 a6 23. Be4 b6 24. Bb7 Re8 {Shahade,G (2476)
-Skatchkov,V (2283) chess.com INT 2021 0-1 (57)}) ({RR} 10. Bd3 c5 11. Rhe1 Be6
12. Kb1 Qa5 13. c4 Qxd2 14. Bxd2 Rfe8 15. Ng5 Bd7 16. f3 Bc6 17. a3 h6 18. Ne4
Nxe4 19. Bxe4 Bxe4 20. Rxe4 Bf8 21. Bf4 g5 22. Bg3 f5 23. Ree1 Kf7 24. Kc1 Rxe1
{Sasikiran,K (2671)-Miroshnichenko,E (2606) Saint Louis USA 2018 1/2-1/2 (48)})
10... Bd7 $146 ({Predecessor:} 10... Be6 11. c4 c5 12. Be3 d5 13. Ng5 d4 14.
Qe1 Bd7 15. Bd2 Re8 16. Bd3 Bd6 {0-1 (42) Gerigk,E (2318)-Postlmayer,J (2323)
Germany 2023}) 11. h4 Re8 $6 {Inaccuracy. h6 was best.} (11... h6 12. Bd3) ({
Better is} 11... Ng4 $11) 12. Ng5 h6 13. Bd3 (13. Bc4 $5 {[%CAl Rg5f7]} d5 14.
Bxf6 dxc4 15. Qd5 (15. Qxd7 Qxd7 16. Rxd7 Bxf6 $11) 15... hxg5 16. hxg5 Bxf6
17. gxf6 Qxf6 18. Qh5 (18. Qxd7 Rad8 $11) 18... Qh6+ 19. Qxh6 gxh6 20. Rxd7 $14
) 13... Ng4 $1 14. Nxf7 Kxf7 15. Bc4+ Kf8 {[#] Hoping for ...Bf6.} 16. Qd3 $40
{[%mdl 128] Black needs to defend precisely.} Bg5+ $4 {Blunder. Bf6 was best.}
(16... Bf6 $1 17. Qh7 $1 {[%CAl Rh7g8]} Be6 18. Bxe6 Rxe6 19. Qf5 Nxf2 $1 20.
Qxe6 Nxh1 21. Rxh1 Qe7 22. Qf5 Re8 $1 23. Qf3) (16... Bf6 $1 $11 {and Black
has nothing to worry.} 17. Qh7 Be6 18. Bxe6 Rxe6) 17. Kb1 $2 {Mistake. hxg5
was best.} (17. hxg5) (17. hxg5 $18 {Threatens to win with Qf3+.} Qxg5+ 18. Rd2
) 17... Ne5 $4 {Blunder. Bf6 was best.} (17... Bf6 18. Qh7 $1) (17... Bf6 $14)
18. Bxe5 $18 Bf6 {[#]} 19. Bxd6+ $1 {[%mdl 512]} cxd6 20. Qxd6+ {[%mdl 64]
Double Attack} Qe7 21. Qxd7 Qxd7 22. Rxd7 {aiming for Rf7+.} Re4 23. Bd5 Re2
24. Rf7+ {White is clearly winning.} Ke8 25. Rxb7 Rd8 26. Bc4 Red2 27. Re1+ Kf8
{( -> ...Rd1+)} 28. Kc1 {Rf7+ is the strong threat.} R2d7 29. Rxd7 Rxd7 30. g3
Be7 31. h5 Bc5 32. Re5 Bb6 33. a4 {Precisão Chessbase: Brancas 68% Pretas 58%.
Precisão Lichess.org: Brancas 94% Pretas 84%. Precisão Chess.com: Brancas 93.
4% Pretas 86.2%.} 1-0
