New Delhi GP: Assaubayeva scores again

by Klaus Besenthal
3/29/2023 – The third round of the Grand Prix in New Delhi was played on Tuesday. Three of four games finished drawn for a second day in a row, and also for the second day running, Bibisara Assaubayeva was the only player to collect a full point. The 19-year-old beat Nino Batsiashvili with the white pieces. With only two games played, Assaubayeva has a half-point lead over five chasers — who have all played three games so far. | Photo: FIDE / Ismael Nieto
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Focused on the competition

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.

 
Assaubayeva, Bibisara24401–0Batsiashvili, Nino2489
FIDE Womens Grand Prix-III 2022-23
New Delhi28.03.2023[Besenthal,Klaus-Günther]
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3 e6 5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.d4 cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bc5 9.Nb3 Bb6 10.0-0 d4 11.Na4 0-0 12.Bg5 h6 13.Nxb6 axb6 14.Bxf6 Qxf6 15.Bxc6 bxc6 16.Qxd4 Rd8 17.Qxb6 Ba6 18.Rfe1 Qxb2 19.Rab1 Qe5 20.Qxc6 Bxe2 21.Qc2 Bd3 22.Rxe5 Bxc2 23.Rb2 Rd1+ 24.Kg2 Bd3 25.Nc5 Bc4 26.a4 Rc8 27.Ne4 Bf1+ 28.Kf3 Rd3+ 29.Kg4 Rc4 30.f4
Black is a pawn down, but her pieces are very active and the white king seems to be in some distress. The compensation should be sufficient here. 30...Rxa4? But this exchange sacrifice looks more like an oversight. Logical seems 30...g6 with the threat of Rxe4. 31.Nc5 f6? Another mistake with devastating effect. The white rooks get access to g7, while the f7-pawn could have been covered with the bishop. 32.Re7! Ra5 33.Nxd3 Bxd3 34.Rb8+ Kh7 35.Rbb7
This game is decided. 35...h5+ 36.Kf3 Kh6 37.Rxg7 Ra2 38.Rgd7 Bf5 39.Rd6 Kg6 40.Rbb6 Bg4+ 41.Ke3 Rxh2 42.Rxf6+ Kg7 43.f5 Rc2 44.Kf4 Rc3 45.Rfc6 Rf3+ 46.Ke4 1–0

Humpy Koneru, Kateryna Lagno

Humpy Koneru and Kateryna Lagno signed a 32-move draw in Tuesday’s round 3 | Photo: FIDE / Ismael Nieto

Harika Dronavalli

Harika Dronavalli held Nana Dzagnidze to a draw with black | Photo: FIDE / Ismael Nieto 

Results - Round 3

 

Standings - Round 3

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Klaus Besenthal is computer scientist, has followed and still follows the chess scene avidly since 1972 and since then has also regularly played in tournaments.
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