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Of course, if you are stuck playing this strange tournament with ten participants and eleven rounds, you might as well just focus on chess and try to get the best possible result. In the end, the winner will have collected a triumph to add to her CV, while few will ask about the circumstances surrounding the last-minute withdrawals as time goes by.
Maybe this is how Kazakhstan’s Bibisara Assaubayeva is approaching the matter. However, if things go as easily as they did today against Georgia’s Nino Batsiashvili, it would be premature to derive many conclusions regarding the eventual outcome of the tournament.
Making the right decisions in chess - Fundamentals
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.
Humpy Koneru and Kateryna Lagno signed a 32-move draw in Tuesday’s round 3 | Photo: FIDE / Ismael Nieto
Harika Dronavalli held Nana Dzagnidze to a draw with black | Photo: FIDE / Ismael Nieto
