Rd 10 All four games in the women's were endgames! A delight!
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Rd 10 Vaishali held a key draw vs Muzychuk as Zhu lost and Vaishali now has the clear lead.Comment
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Assaubeyeva broke through with the extra queen for checkmate and knocked Zhu out of the lead.Comment
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Rd 10 Goryachkina won with the bishop over the knight in the endgame pushing Deshmukh further back in the pack.Comment
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Rd 10 Lahno's pawn up against Tan wasn't enough to win.Comment
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Sindarov's win was his sixth - a record in the modern Candidates. That's domination!Comment
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Rest day tomorrow.Comment
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https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=3126039 Sindarov's win against Pragga in rd 10. What an opening!Comment
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Rd 11 Tomorrow Carauna as White last chance against Sindarov. Put on the pressure. I'm curious what opening will be played.Comment
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After their Thursday games in the candidates both GM Caruana and GM Bluebaum played in the 30 Thursday tournament on chess.com. They didnt do so well.Comment
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Rd 11. Caruana opened Nf3 but soon transposed to the Catalan. Sindarov immediately captured dxc4 and then played 7...Nc6 provocative and psychological (but mainline theory) and Caruana immediately played 8.Bxc6 So much for the Catalan bishop, its gone. Its a game of prep. The position left on the board at move 17 has White with better developed pieces, Qe3, Nc3 and Rb1 controlling the open B file. Black's pieces are basically undeveloped - Qe7, Rf8 (having just castled) and a problem of where to develop the Bc8. Black's pawns on the queenside are shattered and a mess but he is temporarily a pawn up.
Unique position. We, as fans, await developments.Comment
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Rd 11 Giri has played Bf4 in the QGD and has a comfortable position against Esipenko.
Giri has maintained an edge throughout the middlegame.Last edited by Hans Jung; Saturday, 11 April, 2026, 10:04 AM.Comment
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