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Schedule
Day 3, Round 1, Game 1 (July 12) Day 4, Round 1, Game 2 (July 13) Day 5, Round 1 Tie-break (July 14) Day 6, Round 2, Game 1 (July 15) Day 7, Round 2, Game 2 (July 16) Day 8, Round 2, Tie-break (July 17) Day 9, Round 3, Game 1 (July 18) Day 10, Round 3, Game 2 (July 19) Day 11, Round 3, Tie-break (July 20) Day 12 Free Day (July 21) Day 13, Round 4, Game 1 (July 22) Day 14, Round 4, Game 2 (July 23) Day 15, Round 4, Tie-break (July 24) Day 16, Round 5, Game 1 (July 25) Day 17, Round 5, Game 2 (July 26) Day 18, Round 5, Tie-break (July 27) Day 19 Free Day (July 28) Day 20, Round 6, Game 1 (July 29) Day 21, Round 6, Game 2 (July 30) Day 22 Round 6, Tie-break (July 31) Day 23, Final, Game 1 (August 1) Day 24, Final, Game 2 (August 2) Day 25, Final, Tie-break (August 3)
Games start at 3 PM Sochi time or 8 AM Montreal/Toronto time
Last edited by Wayne Komer; Monday, 12th July, 2021, 12:02 AM.
Valentina Gunina wins a miniature in one of the first games of the Women's #FIDEWorldCup to finish. Jesse will have a chance to hit back tomorrow to force a playoff on Wednesday:
Game 1, July 12 Moaataz, Ayah – Ushenina, Anna A13 English Opening, Agincourt variation
Jesse February needed to defeat 500+ points higher rated Valentina Gunina on demand. An impossible task? Well, in this position, where she took a draw (?!) the computer gives White a +3 advantage!
Game 2, July 13 Ouellet, Maili-Jade – Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra D11 QGD Slav
In the Women’s Cup most of the clear favourites are advancing to the second round in good fashion, where again they will be joined by the 25 top seeds including several world-class female players.
One of the most memorable matches, and a very close win for the favourite, was the tie-break between WGM Shahenda Wafa (2106) from Egypt against French WGM and top-player Almira Skripchenko (2411).
The match went back and forth for both players and actually Wafa had some great opportunities to advance to the second round but finally it will be Skripchenko who will face her Olympic colleague Marie Sebag tomorrow.
Game 3, July 14 Wafa, Shahenda – Skripchenko, Almira C75 Ruy Lopez, Modern Steinitz Defence
One of the candidates to win the women’s world cup outright is India’s top female grand master Harika Dronavalli (2515). Seeded straight into the second round, she was paired today with WIM Medina Warda Aulia (2360) from Indonesia.
After an offbeat Ruy Lopez variation with Black, Harika played the strong pawn advance 13.e5 opening up the position, and went on to win a nice technical game.
Game 1, July 15 Harika, Dronavalli – Aulia, Medina Warda C70 Ruy Lopez, Taimanov variation
The game that caught mu eye this round (rd 2, game 2) is Abdumalik-Assaubayeva. After an exchange of witty tactics White enters a nice combo where she sheds her b pawn in front of her king position in order to force a win of bishop and knight for the rook and enter a winning endgame.
In rd 2 game 3 Carissa Yip readjusted herself and used her avalanche of extra pawns to break thru against Buksa. This turned out to be the decisive game of the match as her opponent blundered horribly in an equal position in game 4. Do or die in the Sicilian.
Last edited by Hans Jung; Saturday, 17th July, 2021, 12:10 PM.
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