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Friday, December 24, 2010

Women's World Chess Championship 2010 final - 4-game Match drawn, Hou, Lufei in playoff on Friday

Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2010


Hello Everyone,

Hou Yifan - finalist in 2008 - was leading in the four-match final at the Women's World Chess Championship 2010 after three games. That is when Ruan Lufei won the fourth game after errors from both sides. Now the final match goes into tie-break that is to be played on Saturday. Interestingly Ruan Lufei has played a tie-break in every single round of this Championship.

Here is the fourth game from the match. You can run the moves through our pgnplayer or watch in flash below. Enjoy.

PGN: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 d6 6. g4 h6 7. h4 Nc6 8. Rg1 d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 Qxd5 11. Bg2 Qe5+ 12. Be3 Qh2 13. f4 Bd7 14. Qd2 Nxd4 15. O-O-O Bc5 16. Bxd4 Bxd4 17. Qxd4 O-O-O 18. Qc4+ Kb8 19. Qe4 Bc8 20. h5 Ka8 21. a4 Rd5 22. Rdf1 Qh4 23. Qc4 Rd7 24. a5 Qd8 25. a6 Qa5 26. Kb1 Kb8 27. axb7 Bxb7 28. Bxb7 Rxb7 29. Qd4 Ka8 30. Rf3 Rhb8 31. b3 f6 32. Rd1 Qb4 33. Qe3 Rb6 34. Rd4 Qe7 35. Qd3 R6b7 36. Re3 Re8 37. Rd6 e5 38. fxe5 fxe5 39. Re4 Qc7 40. Rd5 Qb8 41. Rc4 Rf8 42. Kb2 Qe8 43. Rdc5 Qe6 44. Qe4 Kb8 45. Rxe5 Qf6 46. Rc6 Qf7 47. Rf5 1-0


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3 comments:

  1. Saira Fernando, MadridDecember 24, 2010 at 4:49 AM

    Kind of boring. As a fan I wanted to see two of Chess Queen, Koneru Humpy, Harika, Skripchenko, Stefanova, Chiburdanidze in final. This looks like the Chinese National Championship.

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  2. Alexis Cochran, New ZealandDecember 24, 2010 at 4:51 AM

    Go Hou go girl. How could you lose game 4 for god sake... or draw game 3?

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  3. Chess woodpusherDecember 24, 2010 at 7:56 AM

    I love this line, g4/h4 may be quite spectacular, but not in this game. Congrats to Ruan Lufei!

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