RUS SuperFinal 06: Leaders cement positions

The Russian Super Final and the Russian Women's Super Finals, are taking place in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. The time control of the event is 90 minutes for 40 moves, 30 minutes until the end of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. Participants are not allowed to offer a draw until move 40.

Round Six

A fantastic round for Lysyj! Khismatullin's aggressive approach included a pawn sacrifice, and it seemed that he managed to obtain enough compensation, but a serious error landed him with less than adequate play for his missing exchange and he ended up losing the game.

Lysyj's latest victim: Denis Khismatullin

Nepo saw himself in a difficult position against Morozevich who was pressing for the win, but on move 40 he was unable to keep the pressure and the game petered out to a draw.

Nepomniachtchi suffered a bit but he held the draw against Morozevich

Jakovenko and Grachev played a crazy tactical French that is better seen with a real board! Meanwhile you can check out some variations below.

Unafraid of big complications and a fantastic blitz player: Boris Grachev

Vitiugov and Svidler drew without playing while Karjakin crushed Zvjaginsev when the latter somehow forgot how to handle the Pirc pawn structure.

A much needed breather for the #1 seed

This leaves Lysyj a full point ahead of the competition with a fantastic 2900+ performance.

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Women's Section

Another bloody round, but this one saw at least one draw. Over the past three rounds a massive 14/15 games have been decisive in the Women's section!

Pogonina tried hard against Goryachkina but without success

Goryachkina saw herself in a difficult position against Pogonina, who was up a pawn in a rook endgame. However the pawn was blockaded and it was too hard to make progress, so Goryachkina was able to hold the half point.

Kosteniuk was outplaying Galliamova but she suddenly stopped attacking. Her initiative on the kingside faded and her position became a series of weaknesses. Further mistakes allowed Galliamova to mop up easily after a panicked Kosteniuk sacrificed two pieces for no compensation.

Alisa Galliamova turned the game from a bad position into a win against...

The highest rated Russian woman: Alexandra Kosteniuk

Kovalevskaya played a very nice White version of the early Qf3 Paulsen Sicilians and beat Bodnaruk, no questions asked. Gunina took advantage of a serious mistake by Gritsayeva to gain the initiative and a decisive material advantage thanks to the awkward placement of some of Black's pieces around move 22.

Kashlinskaya had a pride and joy: her pawn on c7. This compensated her missing pawn and some of her positional weaknesses. Later in the game a mistake allowed tactics that gave Girya the opportunity to pick off this pawn, after which all of White's position fell apart!

Round Six Games

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Information and pictures provided by Etery Kublashvili

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