WGP Geneva: Muzychuk joins Lahno in the lead

by ChessBase
5/9/2013 – The key game in the fifth round was the encounter between the number one and two seeds in this tournament, Hou Yifan and Anna Muzychuk. The Slovenian outplayed the former Women's World Champion and shares the first place with Ukrainian GM Katerina Lagno, who drew her game against Anna Ushenina. Full report with analysis by GM Adrian Mikhalchishin and an historical guess-who picture.
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Neva Women's Grand Prix in Geneva

The Neva Foundation in partnership with the Internation Chess Federation (FIDE) has organised the first leg of the official Women's Grand Prix series for the first time in Geneva. From May 3 to May 15, twelve of the best women players featuring current Women World Champion Anna Ushenina from Ukraine, will confront each other at the N'vY Manotel. The tournament is an eleven-round all-play-all at classical time controls.

Round five report

Round 5 on Wednesday, May 8th 2013 at 14:00
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
1-0
 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
½-½
 GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
½-½
 GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
1-0
 GM Yifan Hou 2617
WGM Olga Girya 2463
0-1
 WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
½-½
 GM Anna Ushenina 2491

Two Russian players Alexandra Kosteniuk and Olga Girya lost their games against Bela Khotenashvili and Ju Wenjun respectively. Another Russian, Tatiana Kosintseva, had a winning position against Tuvshintugs Batchimeg but missed a couple of chances and only drew. Viktorija Cmilyte and Nana Dzagnidze were the last to finish their game in a draw after 72 moves.

A full summary of all six games is to be found here on the official tournament site.

Analysis by Adrian Mikhalchishin

Adrian Mikhalchishin analysing with GM Anna Muzychuk

Once again Arrian Mikhalchishin has sent us analysis of the key game. Incidentally he received a mild reprimand for referring to Hou Yifan as the Women's World Champion, althought the Chinese GM lost her title earlier this year to Anna Ushenina. He replied: "I call Hou Yifan World Champion because I believe that every former Champion has the right to be called that!" And he does it without compunction in today's analysis.

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A very important game between the number 1 and 2 seeded players in the tournament. Anna said that she had not beaten Hou Yifan for a long time - the last win was in Krasnoturjinsk in 2007! In this round she decided not to play main openings but to chose a side line which has promised White good results recently. Even World Champion Anand lost twice against it. 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ The World Champion plays this line regularly, and just once played a sharper move: Bd7 3...Nd7 4.Bxd7+ Qxd7 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 g6 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bg7 9.f3 0-0 10.Be3 Nc6 11.0-0 a6!? Kasparov,G. The logical plan is to try to control the black squares. 11...Qd8 12.a4 e6 13.Nxc6!N A very logical novelty. bxc6 Clearly worse would be 13...Qxc6 14.Rc1 Qxc4? 15.Nd5 Qa2 16.Ra1 Qxb2 17.Bd4 Nxd5 18.Bxb2 Bxb2 19.exd5 14.a5 It is necessary to keep the d6 pawn weak. 14.c5 d5 15.e5 Ne8 16.f4 Rb8 with very serious counterplay. Muzychuk considered here 14.b4 but decided that Ng4 was very unpleasant. 14...Qc7 Safer it would be to go to the other side with 14...Qe7 15.Bb6 Sharper and probably equally good was 15.Na4 d5 16.Bb6 Qf4 17.g3 Qg5 18.f4 Qh6 Anna said that she did not want to allow her opponent to build a strong structure. 15.Qd2 c5 15...Qb8 It was still not late to go other way 15...Qe7 16.Na4 Very unclear developments would follow after the rook transfer 16.Ra3 Nd7 17.Rb3 Nxb6 18.Qd3 Qd8 19.Rxb6 Qg5 16...Nd7 17.Be3 Anna said that she must had to return with her bishop as it was threated to be cut off with c6-c5. c5 18.Qd2 Qc7 Black has problem with the d6 pawn, which could be solved in a slightly unusual way 18...Rc8 19.Rfd1 Rc6 19.Rfd1 Ne5 20.Nb6 Rad8 21.Ra3 Typical rook transfer to increase the attacking power. Nc6 An aggressive approach could lead to many weaknesses 21...f5 22.Bg5 Rde8 23.exf5 23.Qxd6? Qxd6 24.Rxd6 Nf7 23...Rxf5 24.Bh4 Bf8 25.Bg3 22.Rd3 Rfe8 23.Bg5 A positional trap here was 23.Rxd6 Bd4 24.Rxd8 Rxd8 25.Bxd4 Rxd4 26.Qe1 Qd6 and although a pawn down Black creates huge pressure on the open file. 23...Rb8 White keeps a serious advantage after 23...f6 24.Bf4 Nd4 25.b4 24.Rxd6 Nd4 Another way did not work either 24...Bd4+ 25.Rxd4 Nxd4 26.Bf6 Qd6 27.Qh6 Qf8 28.Qxf8+ Rxf8 29.b4 Rfe8 30.Bxd4 cxd4 31.Rxd4 and White would have total control over most important files for the sacrificed exchange. 25.Rd7 Qc6 26.Ra7 Rxb6 After the game Hou Yifan said that she did not see any other way, as activity does not help: 26...f5 27.b4 fxe4 28.bxc5 Qxc5 29.Rxg7+ 27.axb6 Qxb6 28.Rd7 Qb3 29.Kh1 There was possible a sharper way of cashing in on the material advantage. 29.Qd3 Qxb2 30.Rb1 Qa2 31.Rbb7 29...Qxc4 30.Qf4 Rf8 Slightly better was 30...e5 31.Qc1 Qb5 32.Ra7 Rb8 33.Qa1 31.Rb7 Qa4 32.Re1 Nc2? Bad move, but the World Champion said she has not seen anything else to continue serious resistance. 33.Rc1 Nb4 34.Qd2 Nc6 35.Qd7 h6 36.Be7 Ra8 37.Bxc5 Kh7 38.Bg1 1–0
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Muzychuk,A-Hou,Y-1–02013B52Fondation Neva Women's Grand Prix5.5

Struggling in this tournament: Former Women's World Champion Hou Yifan

Adrian Bogdanovich Mikhalchishin – also spelled Mihalcisin or Mihalčišin, was born on November 11 1954 in Lvov and has been a Grandmaster since 1978. He is currently among the top five world trainers and the Chairman of the FIDE Trainers' Commission. Mikhalchishin trained the team of USSR in the 1980s, the national teams of Slovenia, Poland and the Netherlands. He also Maya Tchiburdanidze 1978, Nana Aleksandria -1983, Anatoly Karpov 1980-1986, Aleksandr Beliavsky 1986-1995, Vasyl Ivanchuk 1990, the Polgar sisters 1992-1994, Alisa Marich 1994-2000, Zhaoqin Peng 2002-2007, Mateusz Bartel 2000-2009, Ilya Nyzhnyk 2009, Richard Rapport 2010, Arkady Naidich -2005-2006. He is currently coaching the Women's Team in Turkey.

Adrian sent us this enchanting picture showing two of his young chess students in
Ukraine from over a decade ago. You figure out who the two future GMs are.

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1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 0-0 5.Nf3 c5 6.dxc5 Na6 7.g3 Qa5 8.Bg2 Bxc3+ 9.Qxc3 Qxc3+ 10.bxc3 Nxc5 11.Ba3 b6 12.Nd4 Rb8 13.Nb5 Ba6 14.Rb1 Bxb5 15.Bxc5 Bxc4 16.Bxf8 Kxf8 17.Kd2 d5 18.Rhe1 Rc8 19.a4 Ng4 20.f3 Ne5 21.f4 Nd7 22.a5 b5 23.e4 Nc5 24.exd5 exd5 25.Re5 a6 26.Rh5 g6 27.Rxh7 Kg8 28.Rh4 Nb3+ 29.Rxb3 Bxb3 30.f5 Re8 31.Rf4 Bc4 32.Bf3 Kg7 33.f6+ Kh6 34.Bd1 g5 35.Rf2 Rb8 36.Bc2 b4 37.cxb4 Rxb4 38.Kc3 Rb5 39.Rf5 Rxa5 40.Kd4 Ra2 41.Kc3 a5 42.Re5 Ra3+ 43.Kd4 Rf3 44.Bf5 g4 45.Bxg4 Rxf6 46.Bd7 Rf2 47.Re8 Kg7 48.h4 Rf3 49.Ra8 Rxg3 50.Rxa5 Rf3 51.Ra7 Rf4+ 52.Kc5 Rxh4 53.Be6 Rf4 54.Bxd5 Bxd5 55.Kxd5 Kf6 56.Ra1 Kf5 57.Rg1 Rf3 58.Kd6 Ke4 59.Re1+ Kf4 60.Ke7 Kg3 61.Rg1+ Kh2 62.Rg7 f5 63.Kf6 Rf1 64.Ke5 f4 65.Rg4 f3 66.Kf4 Kh1 67.Rg3 f2 68.Kf3 Ra1 69.Kxf2 Ra2+ 70.Kf3 Ra3+ 71.Kg4 Rxg3+ 72.Kxg3 ½–½
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Cmilyte,V2522Dzagnidze,N2545½–½2013E32Geneva WGP 20135.1
Lagno,K2548Ushenina,A2491½–½2013D11Geneva WGP 20135.2
Girya,O2463Ju,W25440–12013E81Geneva WGP 20135.3
Khotenashvili,B2505Kosteniuk,A24911–02013E04Geneva WGP 20135.4
Muzychuk,A2585Hou,Y26171–02013B52Geneva WGP 20135.5
Batchimeg,T2298Kosintseva,T2517½–½2013D38Geneva WGP 20135.6

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Schedule and results

Round 1 on Friday, May 3rd 2013 at 14:00
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
½-½
 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
½-½
 GM Yifan Hou 2617
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
1-0
 WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
½-½
 GM Anna Ushenina 2491
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
½-½
 GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
1-0
 WGM Olga Girya 2463
Round 2 on Saturday, May 4th 2013 at 14:00
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
½-½
 WGM Olga Girya ½-½
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
½-½
 GM Anna Muzychuk 1-0
GM Anna Ushenina 2491
½-½
 GM 1-0 2522
WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
1-0
 WGM ½-½ 2298
GM Yifan Hou 2617
1-0
 IM Bela Khotenashvili ½-½
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
½-½
 GM Tatiana Kosintseva 0-1
Round 3 on Sunday, May 5th 2013 at 14:00
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
½-½
 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
1-0
 GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
1-0
 GM Yifan Hou 2617
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
½-½
 WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
½-½
 GM Anna Ushenina 2491
WGM Olga Girya 2463
0-1
 GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
Round 4 on Monday, May 6th 2013 at 14:00
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
0-1
 GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
GM Anna Ushenina 2491
½-½
 WGM Olga Girya 2463
WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
½-½
 GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
GM Yifan Hou 2617
1-0
 GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
1-0
 WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
1-0
 IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
Round 5 on Wednesday, May 8th 2013 at 14:00
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
1-0
 GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
½-½
 GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
½-½
 GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
1-0
 GM Yifan Hou 2617
WGM Olga Girya 2463
0-1
 WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
½-½
 GM Anna Ushenina 2491
Round 6 on Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 14:00
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491   GM Anna Ushenina 2491
WGM Wenjun Ju 2544   GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
GM Yifan Hou 2617   WGM Olga Girya 2463
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545   GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517   GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505   WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
Round 7 on Friday, May 10th 2013 at 14:00
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298   GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522   IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585   GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
WGM Olga Girya 2463   GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548   GM Yifan Hou 2617
GM Anna Ushenina 2491   WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
Round 8 on Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 14:00
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491   WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
GM Yifan Hou 2617   GM Anna Ushenina 2491
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545   GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517   WGM Olga Girya 2463
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505   GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298   GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
Round 9 on Monday, May 13th 2013 at 14:00
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522   GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585   WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
WGM Olga Girya 2463   IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548   GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
GM Anna Ushenina 2491   GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545
WGM Wenjun Ju 2544   GM Yifan Hou 2617
Round 10 on Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 14:00
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491   GM Yifan Hou 2617
GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545   WGM Wenjun Ju 2544
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517   GM Anna Ushenina 2491
IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505   GM Kateryna Lagno 2548
WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298   WGM Olga Girya 2463
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522   GM Anna Muzychuk 2585
Round 11 on Wednesday, May 15th 2013 at 12:00
GM Anna Muzychuk 2585   GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2491
WGM Olga Girya 2463   GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2522
GM Kateryna Lagno 2548   WGM Tuvshintugs Batchimeg 2298
GM Anna Ushenina 2491   IM Bela Khotenashvili 2505
WGM Wenjun Ju 2544   GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2517
GM Yifan Hou 2617   GM Nana Dzagnidze 2545

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