Women's Grand Prix Austria - Live!

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5/15/2025 – The sixth and final leg of the 2024/25 Women's Grand Prix series is taking place in Grosslobming, Austria, on 6-15 May. A 10-player single round-robin, the event will decide who wins the series and who gets the two spots in the next edition of the Women's Candidates Tournament. Among the participants, Zhu Jiner, Anna Muzychuk and Tan Zhongyi have the best chances to fight for the coveted top spots in the series. | Follow the action live with expert commentary starting at 15.00 CEST (9.00 ET, 18.30 IST)
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Round 9

The Austria stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix is the sixth and final tournament in the two-year series. The top two finishers in the series will qualify for the next edition of the Women's Candidates Tournament.

The event is a 10-player single round-robin. The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with a 30-second increment per move starting from move 1.

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In a total of 6 chapters, we look at the following aspects: the right decision based on tactical factors, decisions in exchanges and moves, complex and psychological decisions in longer games and in defence.

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60m English Anti-Bayonet

King’s Indian fans who choose the Mar del Plata attack (7...Nc6) against White’s classical system (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 0-0 6.Be2 e5 7.0-0) usually aim for a complex position with mutual attacks on open wings, requiring long-term strategic planning and tactical sharpness in critical moments. Computers often do not know how to handle the arising complex strategic positions, which suits players who like to think on their own instead of memorizing long variations. However, the fashionable Bayonet Attack (9.b4) interferes with Black’s ideas. After Black’s main move 9...Nh5 the positions opens, the lines get forced and computer analysis is important again. But this DVD offers an antidote against White’s Bayonet Attack, namely 9...a5! This move leads to sound positions with very few concrete lines, in which the focus is on strategy not on tactics. Objectively chances are equal but if Black knows what to do things might quickly become dangerous for White.