Hou, Yifan  –   Muminova, Nafisa

4th WGP   Khanty-Mansiysk   2014.4.14
 

1.c4 e6 2.g3 d5 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg2 a6 5.d4 dxc4 6.O-O Nc6 7.Nbd2  Nxd4 8.Nxc4 Bc5 9.Nfe5 O-O 10.Be3 Ba7 11.Rc1 c5 12.Bd2 Nd5 13.e3  Nb5 14.Qe2 Nd6 15.Rfd1 Nxc4 16.Nxc4 b5 17.Ba5 Qe7 18.e4 Nb4 19.Bxb4  cxb4 20.Ne5 Qg5 21.Nc6 e5 22.h4 Qf6 23.b3 a5 24.Rc2 Bb7 25.Nxa7  Rxa7 26.Rc7 Qb6 27.Rdd7 a4 28.Kh2 h6 29.Qe3 Qa6 30.Qc5 axb3

WGM Muminova,Nafisa

GM Hou, Yifan

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!

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( This is easy!  31.Qxf8+ 1-0)

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”Not just a pretty face: Yifan Hou, from Beijing, China, is the youngest person ever to win the World Chess Championship The chess prodigy, who started playing tournaments at the age of 11, says she was teased as a young girl for not knowing a lot about fashion, but eventually ‘learned from the older players’. Miss Hou, who first beat her father in a game of chess at the age of three, was announced an ‘exceptional genius’ by the chief of China’s national chess team when she was only nine years old.She was ranked as one of the top ten women in the world by the age of 12 and has remained part of that elite ever since. ”   LINK

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Jimenez Almeida, Luis

IM  Santos Latasa, Jaime

San Sebastian Open. Position after 17 moves of play.  Black has unsuspectingly walked into a well known trap…do you see it?

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!

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GM  Akesson, Ralf

Pastor Pons, Pedro Maria

Also from San Sebastian.  White has been greedy in the opening and taken a hot pawn.  Now , with his King still in the centre, it is time to pay the price!

BLACK TO PLAY AND WIN!

GM  Frolyanov, Dmitry

GM  Dominguez Perez, Leinier

Russian team championship. Position after 43 moves of play.  After a long series of manoeuvres, the Cuban grandmaster is now ready for the decisive breakthru…do you see it?

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!

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BEAUTIFUL GAME!

Shirov, Alexei–Maletin, Pavel:

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nxc3 7.Bxc3 O-O 8.h4! c5 9.d5 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 e6 11.d6! Qf6 12.Qd2 Nc6 13.h5 Rd8 14.Rd1 e5 15.hxg6 hxg6 16.Nf3 Bg4 17.Qh6! Rab8 18.Bc4 Rd7 19.Rd3! b5 20.Bd5 Nd8 21.Ng5 b4

GM  Maletin,Pavel

GM  Shirov, Alexei

After beautifully outplaying his adversary, Alexei here played–probably under time pressure– the inaccurate 22.c4, which, however, was good enough to eventually win.  However, in the position above, White has a much simpler way to win the game. Do you see it?

WHITE TO PLAY AND WIN!

Solutions

37 Open Donostia 2014.4.13 Santos Latasa, Jaime–Jimenez Almeida, Luis David: 18.Nxe4 Nxe4 19.Bxe4 dxe4 20.Nh6+ 1-0

37 Open Donostia 2014.4.13 Pastor Pons, Pedro Maria–Akesson, Ralf: 13…Nd4! Not just threatening the check on c2, but if now 14.Rc1 Be6! Is immediately decisive. The game ended quickly after 14.Ne4 Qxe4 15.O-O-O Bf5 16.Bd3 Ne2+ 0-1

TCh-RUS Loo 2014.4.13 Dominguez Perez, Leinier–Frolyanov, Dmitry: 44.Rxc5! dxc5 45.Qg6 1-0 It is mate.

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