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An interesting chessgames.com stat is that Natalija Pogonina has neither beaten nor lost to a Muzychuk in 6 career opportunities, 5 draws with Anna (including a 154-mover!) and 1 with Mariya. Being strictly a 1.e4 player, at least Natalija won't have to contend with Mariya's wont Dutch Defence. Harika Dronavalli opened with 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 today but Mariya replied in both cases with 1. ...f5, heading to her beloved Dutch Defence (with a win and a draw).
Nalalija has White in game 1 of 4 (on Thursday) and is the slight betting favourite for the opening game at 9/4. Mariya is 4/1 with Black, with 5/6 draw odds. No match odds as yet but Mariya will clearly be the betting favourite.
Last edited by Jack Maguire; Tuesday, 31st March, 2015, 03:38 PM.
An interesting chessgames.com stat is that Natalija Pogonina has neither beaten nor lost to a Muzychuk in 6 career opportunities, 5 draws with Anna (including a 154-mover!) and 1 with Mariya. Being strictly a 1.e4 player, at least Natalija won't have to contend with Mariya's wont Dutch Defence. Harika Dronavalli opened with 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 today but Mariya replied in both cases with 1. ...f5, heading to her beloved Dutch Defence (with a win and a draw).
Nalalija has White in game 1 of 4 (on Thursday) and is the slight betting favourite for the opening game at 9/4. Mariya is 4/1 with Black, with 5/6 draw odds. No match odds as yet but Mariya will clearly be the betting favourite.
In an article on Susan Polgar's blog, http://www.susanpolgar.blogspot.ca/2...r-spot-in.html
there is this statement:
"In the recent years, Natalia Pogonina plays 1.d4 more frequently, however,
today she needed to win on demand, and went for the more aggressive 1.е4."
so perhaps only Natalia knows what she will play in the final round...
She seems to have better control over her nerves and has demonstrated tremendous tenacity so
I would have to think she is the favourite over Muzychuk. I'm afraid neither player stands much
of a chance against Hou Yifan. [all of this my opinion of course]
Funny, 2 players I played in Gibraltar 2 months ago, lost in semi-finals (Harika and Cramling).
For some reason, players from Russia and Ukraine do very well in this kind of tournament (Open and Women). I remember finals Kramnik-Andreikin, Svidler-Grischuk last 2 World Cups. It was Ivanchuk-Ponomarev final 15 years ago. Uchenina won the previous women event.
There have been some instructive endgames in the event. I will list a couple of them here.
One is the Rook and pawn endgame played by the Swedish GM Pia Cramling, in a winning effort against WGM Natalija Pogonina. GM Cramling eventually lost the match but was smiling even in defeat. Good on her.
On the first day of the Semifinals we saw one of the best games of the championship. The level of play demonstrated by Cramling in a rook ending with Pogonina meets the highest standards. This game can easily be included into endgame manuals, and studying it will benefit chess players of any level.
Pia followed the "don't rush!" principle rigorously. Natalia did not commit any major mistakes, she just made a couple of inaccurate moves after the opening. She thought passive defense can bring her the desired draw, but underestimated the resources and craftiness of her skilled opponent. Pia's victory was absolutely logical.
78.Qg6+ [Better is 78.h6 which is just winning outright. 78...Qd1+ 79.Kh2 Qf3 80.h7 Qxf2+ 81.Kh3 Qf1+ 82.Kh4 Qh1+ 83.Kg5 Qc1+ 84.Kg6 Qc6+ 85.Qf6 ... and no more checks.]
The game continued: 78...Ke7 79.Qg5+ Kf7 80.h6 Qd1+ 81.Kg2 Qd5+ 82.Kh2 Qf3
83.Qe3?? White has the win in her back pocket to this point. Now Black miraculously saves the draw. [Better by far was 83.Qg7+ Ke6 84.h7 Qxf2+ 85.Kh3 Qe1 86.Qg6+ Ke7 87.Qxf5; Even 83.Qd2 Kg6 84.Qd6+ Kh7 85.Kg1 Qg4 86.Qf6 looks winning]
Despite the fact that Nalalija is the slight betting favourite with White in game one tomorrow, Mariya is a rather solid favourite to win the match, 63/100 vs 6/5.
Looks like Natalija Pogonina (the comeback kid) vs Marija Muzychuk (the little sister) in the finals!
It appears Pogonina has lost the final match with the black pieces. She played a Ruy Lopez Breyer and was defeated by her opponent whose name escapes me at the moment. I don't really follow women's chess all that much.
The R.L. Breyer is probably not the best variation to use for such an important game. Readers are probably rolling their eyes and thinking: There he goes again. I found some info on a weakness on the net and have some information around here somewhere. Anyhow here's the link to what's on the net.
Can the comeback kid do it again when she absolutely has to?!!
While it certainly is still within the realm of possibility, Hans, only an idiot would bet Natalija to win the World Championship. I say that only because Marathon is currently offering 7/2 odds on Natalija becoming World Champion (vs 9/50 on Mariya) while giving 49/10 odds on her winning the game 4 tomorrow. Given she absolutely MUST win tomorrow's game to get to the playoffs on Monday and have any kind of chance of becoming World Champion, one should of course take the 49/10 odds and pass on those 7/2 odds (:
Kudos to Mariya for playing a piece down both yesterday (early) and today (late) and ultimately having the only winning chances in both games. Imho, we now have the 2nd best possible matchup against Yifan Hou - the only better matchup being Mariya's sister, Anna (who's dead even with Yifan in their lifetime score). Mariya couldn't have a better 2nd in her corner than Anna (:
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