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The Women’s World Chess Championship Match 2016 between the current World Champion Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine and Challenger Hou Yifan of China (former World Champion 2010-2012, 2013-2015) takes place in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 1-18, 2016. The first game is scheduled to start at 3 pm local time on 2nd of March 2016. You can watch the games live in our broadcast window at the bottom of this page.
Photos by Vitaliy Hrabar for the official site
Hou Yifan arrives in good spirits
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, the lead vokalist of ‘Okean Elzy’, the most successful rock band in Ukraine
poses with Mariya Muzychuk. He was also present for the symbolic first move with his father, a
famous intellectual and former Minister.
The start of game four
The fourth game of the Women’s World Championship Match finished in a draw after 22 moves. Maria Muzychuk didn’t avoid repeating the Open Spanish, despite her loss in the second game. As Hou Yifan mentioned at the press conference, there were many different lines in this sharp variation and she had to know them quite well as the position of her king was weak after she played g4. Maria Muzychuk spent 30 minutes in the opening, remembering all the complications, and chose the right way to reach a forced draw.
The English commentators of the day: GM Oleksiyanko and WGM Natalia Buksa. In
between them is Ivan Vakarchuk, a professor of physics at Lviv University and the
former
Minister
of Education and Science in Ukraine.
Radiant smiles
Game four annotated by GM Adrian Mikhalchishin
The winner's trophy?
On the first free day at the Women’s World Chess Championship Match, a giant chess board with
pieces was installed right opposite Ratusha – City Council building.
A dozen of children, who are the members of chess in school clubs, performed a master class at a giant board.
| Player | Fed | Rtg | G1 | G2 | G3 | G4 | G5 | G6 | G7 | G8 | G9 | G10 | Pts |
| Mariya Muzychuk | UKR |
2563 |
½ |
0 |
½ |
½ |
1.5 |
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| Hou Yifan | CHN |
2667 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
2.5 |
| March 6 | Sunday | 15:00 | Game 4 |
| March 7 | Monday | Day Off | |
| March 8 | Tuesday | 15:00 | Game 5 |
| March 9 | Wednesday | 15:00 | Game 6 |
| March 10 | Thursday | Day Off | |
| March 11 | Friday | 15:00 | Game 7 |
| March 12 | Saturday | 15:00 | Game 8 |
| March 13 | Sunday | Day Off | |
| March 14 | Monday | 15:00 | Game 9 |
| March 15 | Tuesday | Day Off | |
| March 16 | Wednesday | 15:00 | Game 10 |
| March 17 | Thursday | Day Off | |
| March 18 | Friday | 15:00 | Tie-break games |
| March 18 | Friday | 18:00 | Closing Ceremony |
All games start at 3 p.m. local time, which is an hour ahead of European time, two ahead of Britain, and seven ahead of New York. You can find the starting time at your location here.
When the games are running, clicking on the above link will take you to our live broadcast. It is free and open to all – as a Premium Account member you have access to the Live Book, Chat, chess engine analysis – all in your browser, on a notebook, tablet or even your smartphone. And the Let's Check function will show you what the most powerful computers in the world think of the current position, as each move is being played.
In the live broadcast below, on the side of each board is an evaluation meter, showing you which side is better. The small "x" button on the top right of each board will remove it from the broadcast. If you remove two games you will have four larger boards. Removing four will give you two even larger boards, and removing five will give you just one very large board. Refresh the page (Ctrl-R) to return to the six most popular boards.
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You can also click the "+" and "–" icons at the bottom right of the broadcast window to increase and decrease the number of boards. There are other functions: you can download PGNs of the running games and even start an engine by clicking the robot button (third from left). Note that you can view moves and statistics in the opening (with the Live Book switched on) and even analyse on the boards while the games are being broadcast, by moving pieces and using the engine – best in multiple line mode. Is there a better way to follow the games? |
It may interest you to know that you can use the same broadcast service above on your blog or web site.
It is simply a matter of copying and pasting a line or two of code. Try it out: instructions are here.
LinksThe games will be broadcast live on the official web site and on the server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |
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