IM Alina Kashlinskaya goes into the ultimate spherical of the 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix stage with IM Bibisara Assaubayeva within the lead after an extended however convincing win over IM Lela Javakhishvili. Three gamers are simply half some extent behind after a preventing spherical that additionally noticed wins for GM Anna Muzychuk over IM Sara Khadem and for GM Vaishali Rameshbabu over GM Nana Dzagnidze.Â
Spherical 9 will begin two hours earlier on Saturday, August 24, at 5 a.m. ET / 11:00 CEST / 2:30 p.m. IST.
Spherical eight was arguably essentially the most preventing but and will simply have produced 5 decisive video games. In the long run we received three.
Spherical 8 Outcomes
Kashlinskaya caught Assaubayeva within the lead, however IM Stavroula Tsolakidou and GMs Anna and Mariya Muzychuk can all nonetheless take first place.
Standings After Spherical 8
Assaubayeva might have taken an enormous step towards each Grand Prix victory and her third and last GM norm with a win over Tsolakidou, nevertheless it was a sport that quickly received out of hand.
Tsolakidou took over with the black items from the opening however then bumped into bother on the board, and particularly on the clock, as she made her thirty third transfer with 12 seconds to spare. The Greek star held on till the time management, nevertheless, and on transfer 41 Assaubayeva noticed some ghosts and gave up a chunk. After that the sport roughly logically resulted in a draw.
That left an opportunity for others to catch Assaubayeva, and it was Kashlinskaya who accepted the problem.Â
“I’ve some concepts within the opening from the earlier life,” stated Kashlinskaya, referring to giving delivery to her youngster, after getting a place within the Nimzo-Indian that was all however overwhelming by transfer 17. There have been nonetheless some twists forward, nevertheless, and it was solely after 29.e6 that the decisive mistake got here. After capturing with the knight, Black would have good probabilities of holding, whereas after taking with the pawn it was “a matter of approach” to win a place an change up, as Kashlinskaya finally did on transfer 71.
Kashlinskaya was requested if her ideas at the moment are on the ultimate spherical? “Now I’m pondering that I’ve one hour to have dinner, to relaxation a bit, and to place my child asleep!”
Anna Muzychuk is simply half some extent behind the leaders after following seven attracts in a row by her first win, in opposition to Khadem. It was a sport that escalated quick, since Black had a troublesome place, nevertheless it instantly grew to become misplaced within the house of some strikes. 38.h5!, shutting off any escape for the knight on f8, was the ultimate transfer.
Simply six strikes earlier, 32…Qa5? had given Black issues that had been too powerful to resolve.Â
Anna is now stage on factors along with her sister Mariya, who might have caught the leaders however could not punish a doubtful line of the Scotch performed by GM Alexandra Kosteniuk. She commented: “Fairly a disappointing consequence for me as a result of I used to be a lot better after the opening and I really feel I used to be profitable at some second… however I’m unsure when!
“I simply know that I’m White, and it’s fairly nice to play White!” she stated about her final-round conflict with co-leader Kashlinskaya.
The opposite chief, Assaubayeva, additionally has Black and takes on Vaishali, who will go into the final spherical with the increase of profitable a wild conflict in opposition to Dzagnidze within the penultimate spherical.
Vaishali invited a battle by going for the King’s Indian Protection, and Dzagnidze was completely happy to just accept. She then went for a curious plan of castling queenside and gave the impression to be doing nicely earlier than going astray. By the point she performed 28.Kd1!?, it was clear issues had gone mistaken for White. In mutual time bother, Vaishali broke by way of and gained.
Vaishali can nonetheless have a giant say in who wins the Tbilisi FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix, with the last-round pairings as follows.
The motion begins two hours sooner than ordinary.
The 2024 Tbilisi FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix is the primary of six legs of the 2024-2025 FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix. The ten-player round-robin runs August 15-24 in Tbilisi, Georgia. Gamers have 90 minutes per sport, plus half-hour from transfer 40, with a 30-second increment per transfer. The highest prize is €18,000 (~$20,000), with gamers additionally incomes Grand Prix factors. Every of the 20 gamers competes in three of the six occasions, with the highest two general qualifying for the 2026 FIDE Girls’s Candidates Event that decides the World Championship challenger.
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