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It seems that whenever I criticize Nana Dzagnidze, the Georgian GM gets angry and decides to go back to her elements, this time by beating the in-shape Chinese Shen Yang from the white side of an Exchange Slav. The Georgian got almost nothing out of her opening but the position after opening remained comfortable and simple for white.
Where did I go wrong? Must be what Shen Yang was wondering. Tomorrow she needs to go all in against
Dazgnidze’s moves were effective and in accordance to what the position demanded. On the other hand, Shen Yang started to make moves without following a concrete plan and gradually started to run out of resources, and eventually, she went down at the hands of a cute pseudo-rook sacrifice by Nana.
A difficult day for Pham but tomorrow never dies!
Pham Thanh Nguyen from Vietnam has had a stellar performance so far. She has managed to eliminate two much higher-rated opponents in the competition and her resilience and hard work over the board has given her a fantastic run. Unfortunately for her, today’s opponent was no one but GM Anna Muzychuk, whose consistent results in recent months make her a perfect candidate for the title.
On the black side of Alapin Sicilian (2.c3) Anna Chose the rather risky 2…g6 set-up and managed to comfortably equalize. Pham played too passively and lost too many tempi with her knight on f3 which gave Anna a huge developmental advantage, Muzychuk did not disappoint her fans and seized the initiative to get the better of her opponent and took step toward quarter-finals.
The other victorious face was the ex-world champion Antoaneta Stefanova who got the better of the resilient and resourceful Nino Khurtsideze.
Stefanova played it all till the end until….
Nino Khurtsidze ran out of steam and made several consecutive blunders.
Padmini Rout defended tenaciously under pressure and held Tan Zhongyi to a draw.
While Sopiko held Harika Dronavalli. Check out the ChessBase India report with master analysis by Asian Champ. Bhakti Kulkarni and Sagar Shah. (Don't miss the 'move of the maestro' pointed out by Bhakti in her analysis.
Another ex-world champion, Kosteniuk, did not have a good day at the office...
...but despite her hard work and press, Pia did not manage to break her.
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