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Women’s World Chess Championship Match 2013 between the current World Champion Anna Ushenina of Ukraine and her challenger, Hou Yifan of China (former World Champion 2010-2012), is being played from September 11th to 27 in the Taizhou Hotel (Taizhou, China). The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. The games start at 3 p.m. local time. That translates to 09:00 a.m. CEST, 03:00 a.m. New York, 10:00 a.m. Kiev. You can find your local time here.
Anna Ushenina employed a bizarre variation of the Najdorf, in hopes of taking Hou Yifan out of her preparation. Despite the early games giving the Ukrainian player everything she wanted from the opening, it became clear game by game that these opening advantages did not exist anymore and Ushenina started suffering in the Keres Attack of the Sicilian. Trying to avoid that she played 6...Nbd7. Yifan followed the game Ponomariov-Topalov, Thessaloniki 2013 and obtained a pleasant edge. Black's crippled pawns were simply not compensated. With precise play the Challenger was able to wrap up the game and the championship in forty moves.
Exuding confidence: the challenger: 19-year-old Hou Yifan
The reigning Champion Anna Ushenina from Ukraine
Chief arbiter Panagiotis Nikolopoulos at the start of game seven
Press and photographers have five minutes at the start of the game
No public for this final game, just arbiters, family, official photographers and TV
Ushenina plays a bizarre variation of the Najdorf with 6...Nbd7 ...
... and soon finds herself in an unpleasant position
The challenger takes advantage of Black's crippled pawns and wins the game in 40 moves
IM Elisabeth Pähtz was trained in chess from early childhood by her father, GM Thomas Pähtz. At the age of nine she won her first German championship in the under-11 age group. In 1999 she became German Women's Champion. She served as one of four advisors on the World team in the 1999 Kasparov versus The World chess match. In 2002 Elisabeth became the Youth World Champion of the Under-18 age group, and in 2004 the Junior World Champion of the Under-20 age group. Elisabeth attended the Sport High School Dresden until 2004 and is among the strongest native German chess players. She plays for the Dresdner Sport Club 1898 and other associations. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
Information and pictures by Anastasiya Karlovich, FIDE Press Officer
| Players | Rtng |
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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Total | Perf. | +/– |
| Anna Ushenina | 2500 |
0
|
½
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0
|
½
|
½
|
0
|
0
|
1.5
|
2384 |
–9
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| Hou Yifan | 2609 |
1
|
½
|
1
|
½
|
½
|
1
|
1
|
5.5
|
2725 |
+9
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