Miraculous MVL

International Chess Festival in Biel

Round Seven

Video Recap

The start of an exciting round

Hou Yifan certainly played a fantastic game against Radoslaw Wojtaszek, finding many important and unusual resources. Tactically sound and strategically backed White's position began steam-rolling her opponent's. Unfortunately for the Chinese she started slipping in time trouble and was unable to finish off the job, only getting half a point

Hou Yifan missed a chance to move to clear second

By the skin of his teeth: Radoslaw Wojtaszek salvaged a draw

Anish Giri had a queen sacrifice in the opening (!) against Pentala Harikrishna but somehow the game ended in an early repetition.

Anish Giri wonders why his preparation left him down a queen

At -1 Anish Giri certainly wants more than this from the tournament

The miracle of the day was certainly by Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. In a very, very unpleasant position his opponent simply started making bad move after bad move, turning a position that was clearly better for White to a position that was simply lost. MVL will be thanking the chess goddess today!

With a gift from Caissa MVL moves to 5.0/7

MVL leads the tournament, but the race for second is very, very tight

Daniel King shows the highlights of round 7

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