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2016 Women's World Chess Championship

The Women’s World Chess Championship Match 2016 between the current World Champion Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine and Challenger Hou Yifan of China (former World Champion 2010-2012, 2013-2015) takes place in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 1-18, 2016. The first game is scheduled to start at 3 pm local time on 2nd of March 2016. You can watch the games live in our broadcast window at the bottom of this page.

Game six

Photos by Vitaliy Hrabar for the official site

It was about as dramatic a game as could be, and tragic… for Ukrainians and Mariya Muzychuk’s fans. It was generally agreed that the time for solid play and wait-and-see chess was past, and if the title holder wished to defend her crown, she would need to take far more energetic measures than she had until now. She was behind the score by a point, and the Chinese challenger did not seem as if she were about to ease up.

The opening choice was a repeat of game one, the Giuoco Piano AKA Italian game, but this time the Ukrainian quickly eschewed the cautious 7.h3 for the sharper 7.Bg5. The choice soon paid off as she built a significant advantage just begging to unleash hell on her opponent. The opportunity arose when she reached this position:

White has built an excellent position, and the time has come to take
advantage of it. White to play and increase her advantage.

Unfortunately she missed the window of opportunity, and as so often happens in such cases, she began to waffle on how to proceed. Five moves later, at a loss on how to progress, she began to go seriously astray, first by removing her strongest piece, the bishop on c4, from its attacking outpost, and then with a king move that just wasted a tempo. Her knight that had seemed a piece to cause trouble, was now a castaway on the island square of h5, with no hope of rescue.

When the tide had turned decisively, Hou Yifan did not waste time as she found and executed the winning blow.

Things have gone all wrong for White, and now Black has the means to
end White's resistance. White to play and win. Solutions in the game notes.

Game six annotated by GM Adrian Mikhalchishin

 

 

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Muzychuk, Mariya2563–Hou , Yifan26670–1C54Women's World Championship609.03.2016Adrian Mikhalchishin

1.e4 e5 2.f3 c6 3.c4 c5 4.0-0 f6 5.d3 d6 6.c3 0-07.g5 Choosing the sharpest line and not the cautious 7.h3 from game one. h6 8.h4 g5 9.g3Of course, here one mus always be attentive to the typical piece sacrifice 9.xg5 hxg5 10.xg5 g7 11.f3Much more useful is 11.b4! to avoid Bc5xa3 after the white knight starts it maneuver Na3-c2-e3-d5. b6 12.f3 h8 13.a3 11...e6?!Better is 11...a5 12.d212.a3!? xa3 13.bxa3 h8 14.ab1∞ 12...h8 13.h4 e7 14.a4 d8 12.d212.b4 b6 13.d2 h8 14.d5 12...h8 13.h413.b4 13...e7 14.d5 xd5?! 15.xe7 dxe7 16.b4 b6 17.b5?17.g3!? h6 18.c4 17...a517...xh4 18.g3 g4 19.g2 h3 20.h2 h6 21.bxc6 xf1 18.g3 ag8 with unsufficient compensation for the queen, Vajda,L (2511)-Sutovsky,E (2628)/ Turin 2006 9...g4 A very sharp line.More usual is 9...g4 10.h310.bd2 h510...a6 11.a4 a7 12.e1 h5 13.h3 c8 14.f1 f6 15.e3e7 15...xg3 16.fxg3 h5 16.d4 exd4 17.cxd4 xg3 18.fxg3c6 with strong pressure, Lie,K (2509)-Khairullin,I (2657)/Yerevan 2014 11.h1 f6 12.h3 d7 13.d4 exd4 14.xd4 f4 15.xc6 xc616.g4 ae8 17.b4 b6 18.a4 a6 equality, Ponkratov,P (2582)-Khismatullin,D (2656)/Tomsk 2011 10...h5 11.b4 b6 12.bd2 e7 13.e1 g6 14.c2 g415.hxg4 xg4 16.d4 f6 17.

e2 f4 18.c4 with better play, Yudasin,L (2505)-Tukmakov,V (2590)/Simferopol 1988 10.h4 h5 11.a4 a6 12.a3 g5 13.c2 a7 14.e3!?Here there are two options 14.d4 d7 15.d3 ae8 16.b4 e717.f3 g6 18.xg6 xg6 19.fxg4 xg3 20.xg3 exd4 21.xd4xe4 22.f4 e3+ 23.h1 xg3 24.hxg3 e3 Black has good chances,Jakovenko,D (2733)-Bok,B (2572)/Caleta 2015 14.b4 xg3 15.hxg3 e6 16.e2 14...e7Black also had to calculate the pawn sacrifice tendered by White after14...xe3 15.fxe3 xg3 16.hxg3 xe3+ 17.h2 g5 18.b3 g719.f5 with a strong inititiative . 15.d415.b3 was also interesting. Ex: xe3 16.fxe3 xe3+ 17.f2 g518.g3 g7 19.ae1 e6 20.e3 with excellent compensation. 15...g7? At first sight, this appears to be a strange move, but the underlying idea in a different move order could have caused problems for White.Instead of the immediate 15... Qg7 as in the game, Black would have cause White trouble had she instead first played 15...xg3 16.hxg3exd4 17.cxd4 and only now g7! 16.dxe5 dxe517.ef5? Possibly Maria was trying to strike quickly, but it would have been better for her to prepare this maneuver first.17.d2 first was better, with the idea xg3 18.hxg3 h5 19.ad1 17...xf5 18.exf5 c5 Black tries to transfer the bishop to d6However, better was to bring the knight to d6 instead with 18...xg319.hxg3 c8! 19.e1?!White misses an opportunity to gain a significant upperhand with 19.f6!xf619...xf6 20.xe5 20.xg4+ g5 21.f3 ab8 22.fe1 with much better play. 19...xg3 20.hxg3 h8 21.e2!?I was commenting this game together with GM Andrei Volokitin and he offered here 21.e4 h5 22.e2 d6 23.f423.d1! 23...exf4 24.xe7 f6 25.xf7 xf7 26.xf7 xf7 27.gxf4 21...d6 22.e4 ab823.e2? An incomprehensible mistake. How can White consider removing the bishop from its powerful attacking outpost on c4??White still kept huge initiative on White squares after 23.f6 xf624.xg4 bd8 25.e4 23...h5 24.ad1 g8 25.h2?It was possible to still improve the position with 25.a5 f6 26.e3bd8 27.c4 or 25.e3 f6 26.b4 25...g5 26.c4It is psychologically very difficult to to start playing for a draw with the pawn sacrifice 26.f6 xf6 27.f5 26...f6 27.e3 White simplifies the game into a clearly worse endgame. Not better is 27.c2 e4 27...xe3 28.xe3 e4 29.e2 bd8Very good was Volokitin's proposal 29...g7 30.b3 d7 31.f3 e8 32.de1 de7 33.c2After some thinking Hou Yifan finds the winning sequence. exf3! 34.xe7xe7 35.xe7 f2! 36.xf736.d3 xe7 36...f1 37.g6+ g8 38.xf6Immediately losing was 38.b3 xg3+ 39.xg3 e4+ 40.h2 g3+41.h3 h1# 38...c5!0–1

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