8/13/2024 – An eventful third day of action ended in Dortmund with the second draw between Elisabeth Paehtz and Dinara Wagner. In the A-Open, nine players are sharing the lead with perfect scores. The leading group includes the five highest-rated players in the field: Anton Korobov, Frederik Svane, Christopher Yoo, Krishnan Sasikiran and Luis Quesada. | Pictured: Star commentator Artur Yusupov | Photos: Official website
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A second draw in the Paehtz v. Wagner match
The second game was opened for Elisabeth Paehtz by Christian Oecking, President of Haus und Grund and Chairman of the Huckarde Trade Association. Afterwards, Dinara Wagner was surprised by her opponent's opening choice.
Visually, Paehtz achieved a small advantage by securing the bishop pair. But Wagner was then able to take control of the centre, while Paehtz penetrated with his queen via h7. Paehtz assessed the position correctly and was content with a repetition of moves in the middlegame rather than taking risks.
Paehtz v. Wagner
The game soon ended with a repetition: Qh8-h7-h8, ...Ke7-Kf8-Ke7
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In the Alte Schmiede, Artur Yusupov led through the top games with whimsical explanations. He will be a guest all week and will commentate on all rounds for spectators from Wednesday.
In the A-Open, Artur saw two favourites win on stage: Frederik Svane was able to make better use of his bishop pair against GM Thanh Trang Hoang and outplay his opponent nicely. Top seed Anton Korobov also won seemingly effortlessly today by winning IM Nicola Altini's isolated pawn early on.
Italian FM Fulvio Zamengo will be annoyed: he unnecessarily lost a rook ending against GM Christopher Yoo, who has struggled in the event so far, but won them all thanks to his great fighting spirit.
Yoo v. Zamengo
Yoo managed to convert his extra pawn from this (objectively equal) position
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There were respectable successes for the outsiders at the following boards: super talent Christian Glöckler achieved a draw from the position of strength against GM Evgeny Romanov and Michael Green drew with Black against IM Gerlef Meins. Green has played an outstanding tournament so far, and he was awarded the prize for the best game of the second round.
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