FIDE Girls’s Candidates 2024 (13)
Tan Zhongyi on the verge of successful the Girls’s Candidates event
Mark Crowther – Sunday twenty first April 2024
Rameshbabu Vaishali received her fourth recreation in a row and virtually ended Lei Tingjie’s Candidates probabilities. Picture © | https://candidates.fide.com
Tan Zhongyi couldn’t ask for a greater probability to win the Girls’s Candidates
in Toronto going into the ultimate spherical. Tan hardly performed essentially the most
essential continuation towards Aleksandra Goryachkina however a quiet recreation
suited her and a draw by repetition was agreed on transfer 29. She now
leads the Lei Tingjie by some extent with no-one else in a position to catch her.
Tan faces Anna Muzychuk with the black items within the closing spherical, Muzychuk
hasn’t received a recreation but, though she generated sufficient probabilities to have been
in competition.
The important thing results of the day was Rameshbabu Vaishali’s fourth win in a row,
a streak that adopted 4 losses in a row and which began with
a recreation she most likely ought to have misplaced additionally. At the moment she took down
Lei Tingjie and virtually ruined her probabilities of successful the occasion.
This was a 3.Bb5+ Sicilian 12…Bf8? (12…Be7=) was too passive
and white was higher for a while, some inaccuracies from Vaishali
meant that black was again in it by transfer 25 and after first
time management black had equality. The sport was determined by a single transfer
blunder, 61…Kf7? (61…h6 was equal) when 62.g5! meant
all king an pawn endgames had been successful for white, and there actually was no escaping that.
Nurgyul Salimova had a fortunate escape towards
Kateryna Lagno who was busy changing an enormous benefit
earlier than the incorrect 42…Rc8? (42…Qd7!) undid all her
good work and a draw was quickly agreed. Two of the pre-event
favourites Humpy Koneru and Anna Muzychuk performed out a forty five
transfer draw however I feel each will simply need this to be over.
Spherical 13 Standings:
1 Tan Zhongyi 8.5pts,
2 Lei Tingjie 7.5pts,
3 Koneru, Lagno, Goryachkina, Vaishali 6.5pts
7 Salimova, Muzychuk 5pts.
Spherical 14 twenty first April at 19:30BST:
Lagno-Vaishali,
Lei-Koneru,
Muzychuk-Tan,
Goryachkina-Salimova.
| FIDE Girls’s Candidates Toronto CAN (CAN), 3-26 iv 2024 | cat. XI (2517) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Tan, Zhongyi | g | CHN | 2521 | * | * | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | . | 8½ | 2626 |
| 2. | Lei, Tingjie | g | CHN | 2550 | 0 | 1 | * | * | 1 | . | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 7½ | 2567 |
| 3. | Koneru, Humpy | g | IND | 2546 | ½ | ½ | 0 | . | * | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 6½ | 2510 |
| 4. | Lagno, Kateryna | g | RUS | 2542 | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | * | * | ½ | ½ | 1 | . | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 6½ | 2516 |
| 5. | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | g | FID | 2553 | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | * | * | ½ | 0 | 1 | . | 1 | ½ | 6½ | 2518 |
| 6. | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | m | IND | 2475 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ½ | 0 | 0 | . | ½ | 1 | * | * | 1 | 1 | ½ | 1 | 6½ | 2522 |
| 7. | Salimova, Nurgyul | m | BUL | 2432 | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | . | 0 | 0 | * | * | ½ | ½ | 5 | 2440 |
| 8. | Muzychuk, Anna | g | UKR | 2520 | 0 | . | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | 0 | ½ | ½ | * | * | 5 | 2429 |
| Spherical 13 (April 20, 2024) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tan, Zhongyi | – Goryachkina, Aleksandra | ½-½ | 29 | D50 | Queens Gambit Canal | |
| Koneru, Humpy | – Muzychuk, Anna | ½-½ | 45 | D30 | Queen’s Gambit (with out Nc3) | |
| Vaishali, Rameshbabu | – Lei, Tingjie | 1-0 | 67 | B51 | Sicilian Rossolimo | |
| Salimova, Nurgyul | – Lagno, Kateryna | ½-½ | 44 | A07 | Barcza System | |
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