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Moreover, we are going to cowl each recreation in our weblog, with annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea for video games 1-6 and WGM Petra Papp for video games 7-12.
The annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea for Sport 2 might be discovered on the backside of the article.
Lichess has additionally run participant profiles on GM Ju Wenjun and GM Tan Zhongyi, and printed a Match Preview forward of the match.
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Match Rating
Recap
After yesterday’s tame begin to the match, GM Tan Zhongyi confirmed that she was able to struggle as she selected a combative but stable opening within the English Opening, 1. c4. A topical line of the 4 Knights Variation of the English Opening was quickly reached, as GM Ju Wenjun responded with the liquidating and direct 4…d5 to Tan’s 4. g3:
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Tan will get prepared for the struggle forward.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Play proceeded usually as each side developed their items to logical squares. On transfer 8, Ju went for the energetic and widespread 8…h6, retaining White’s items away from the g5 sq. and sustaining the strain.
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Ju appears to be like up on the large display.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
The knight pressure within the heart was then clarified and Ju’s prophylactic 10…Qd6 confirmed, as commentator WIM Jesse February famous, a core characteristic of Ju’s fashion: her solidity.
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The handshake
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
After the conventional repositioning transfer, 11. Bc3, Ju hit again with a novelty, 11…Qe7. Tan continued to play shortly, responding with 12. Nd2, and after about ten minutes of thought, Ju replied with 12…Nd4. Tan once more performed quickly, choosing 13. e3; nonetheless, at that juncture, 13. Nc4, making ready 14. e3 with profitable the e5-pawn, was maybe the higher choice:
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An thrilling positional opening was on the playing cards.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Following 13. e3, the primary main imbalance was on the board as Tan misplaced her bishop pair however gained an open b-file and bolstered her heart.
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Tan pondering – most likely in regards to the subsequent transfer.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Tan then grabbed more room with 16. a5 and put her queen on b3 with 17. Qb3. She then pressured Ju’s dark-squared bishop off the board and, with 20. d4, gave the impression to be urgent a small positional benefit.
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Tan gave the impression to be urgent for a small positional benefit.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Ju responded appropriately and with alacrity, although, breaking the place open with 20…b6!, after which she developed her rook and bishop to c8 and e6. Nevertheless, by that time, she was fairly down on time, so clock stress was a big think about right this moment’s recreation.
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Ju takes a more in-depth have a look at the place.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
On transfer 25, nonetheless, there didn’t appear to be a lot of a plan for White — Tan didn’t discover one, no less than — so Tan determined to commerce items with 25. dxe5 and 26. Qd4. Ju was more than pleased to acquiesce to trades, and, quickly, the ensuing double rook endgame reworked right into a single rook endgame.
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The place appeared to have calmed down.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
A draw appeared all however sure, however the engine’s evaluations might be very misleading in these positions. Black’s pawn on b5 was weaker than White’s on d4, and as Tan improved her items, Ju couldn’t do the identical. Only one slip, 40…Ke8, sealed Ju’s destiny as she misplaced her pawn and Tan’s pawn, escorted by her king, marched ahead to queen-land.
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After Ju’s blunder, Tan solely needed to convert the endgame.
Photograph: Anna Shtourman / FIDE
Annotations by WIM Silvia Raluca Sgîrcea
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