Peng Zhaoqin leads in Dutch Women's Chess Championship with perfect score

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Peng Zhaoqin is cruising along in the Dutch National Women's Championship with a perfect score of 6/6. She is top seed with a rating of 2397. Anne Haast, with 2220, is following her with 3.5/6. Peng beat second seed Tia Lanchava (2364) with a nice game in the fourth round.

On the 30th move Peng played 30.Rxg7+! Kh8.

If Black takes the rook with with 30...Kxg7? then the Queen would fall to 31.Nf5+! Bxf5 32.Qxb3.

The game proceeded

31.g5 Re6 32.h6 Qxb2 33.Qf4 Rg8 34.Rxg8+ Kxg8 35.Ng4 Qxe2 36.Ra1 Bb7 37.Nf6+ Kf7 38.Ra7 Re7 39.Nd5+ Ke8 40.Nxe7 1-0 with a win for Peng.

Here is the full pgn of the game that you can run in our pgnplayer.

PGN: 1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 Ne4 6.O-O b6 7.d5 Bb7 8.Nd4 Qc8 9.Bxe4 fxe4 10.Nc3 O-O 11.Be3 c5 12.Nc2 d6 13.Qd2 Rf5 14.g4 Rf7 15.h3 Na6 16.Bg5 exd5 17.Bxe7 Rxe7 18.Nxd5 Re5 19.Nce3 Nc7 20.Nxc7 Qxc7 21.Rad1 Rd8 22.a4 Qf7 23.Qc3 Rg5 24.h4 Rg6 25.Qe5 Qd7 26.Qg3 Qxa4 27.Ra1 Qb3 28.Rxa7 Bc8 29.h5 Rf6 30.Rxg7+! Kh8 31.g5 Re6 32.h6 Qxb2 33.Qf4 Rg8 34.Rxg8+ Kxg8 35.Ng4 Qxe2 36.Ra1 Bb7 37.Nf6+ Kf7 38.Ra7 Re7 39.Nd5+ Ke8 40.Nxe7 1-0

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