GM Anna Muzychuk defeated GM Humpy Koneru on demand in Saturday’s fourth sport of their Women’s Candidates quarterfinal, thus forcing a tiebreak to be performed on Sunday. The winner will face GM Lei Tingjie, who reached the draw she wanted in opposition to GM Mariya Muzychuk. The quarterfinals tiebreak begins on Sunday, October 30 at 7 a.m. PT / 15:00 CEST.
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After the 2 attracts on Thursday, coated in our final report, it was the identical story on the third day of play: attracts in each video games. We’ll take a look at Koneru vs. Anna Muzychuk to begin with, a sport that adopted Sevian-Niemann from the latest U.S. Championship for 18 strikes! Unsurprisingly, the women have come very nicely ready to Monaco.
Lei vs. Mariya Muzychuk additionally noticed a queenless middlegame, with extra pawns on the board and extra quiet maneuvering happening. Ukraine’s former world champion was doing very nicely, however missed her probability to stage the rating within the match:
Like on the second day, the Muzychuk sisters each confronted the Petroff with the white items on Saturday. The distinction was that each needed to win on demand, and solely Anna succeeded.
“This match was fairly robust,” mentioned Lei, after one other strong draw vs. Mariya. “Yesterday I used to be very fortunate, and at this time’s sport was additionally very sophisticated.”
In her first white sport, Anna Muzychuk was misplaced for one transfer however the Ukrainian GM should have discovered an enchancment earlier on, as she repeated the identical line anyway. It was Koneru who deviated first, however she obtained beneath stress anyway after White ran her h-pawn all the best way to h6.
The Indian GM sacrificed her c-pawn with a purpose to get some counterplay on the queenside, however that type of backfired. White grew to become lively on each wings, obtained a monster bishop on f6, after which sacrificed an alternate to get a successful place.
The notorious fortieth transfer might have modified all the pieces: Muzychuk allowed an on the spot equalizer, however with solely seconds on her clock, Koneru missed her probability on a ticket to the semifinals.
Muzychuk mentioned she was “exhausted” after a sophisticated sport: “I’m unsure what was happening in time-trouble. Quite a tough sport.”
The 2022-23 Women’s Candidates Tournament is an elite occasion that includes eight high feminine gamers, who compete in a knockout format for his or her share of the €250,000 prize fund and the correct to play the Women’s World Championship match in opposition to Women’s World Champion Ju Wenjun. The match’s first quarterfinals started October 25, with the ultimate taking place within the first quarter of 2023. The time management is 90 minutes for the primary 40 strikes, adopted by half-hour for the remainder of the sport with an increment of 30 seconds per transfer ranging from transfer one. A draw supply earlier than transfer 40 just isn’t allowed.
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