World Championships
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #8
Goryachkina 1-0 Ju17th January 2020 Aleksandra Goryachkina ??wins the 8th game and leads the Women's World Chess Championship by one point: 4½-3½. The World Champion Ju Wenjun ?? only has four games left to overturn the score and retain her title. #WomenChessMatch ?: Ivan Kurinnoy pic.twitter.com/rtqlmPrrCm — International Chess Federation…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #7
Ju ½-½ Goryachkina16th January 2020 When we say that Ju Wenjun and Aleksandra Goryachkina fought almost to the bare king, we really mean it… Look at the empty board! #WomenChessMatch pic.twitter.com/M68wDnQCsR — International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) January 16, 2020 Play resumed today in Vladivostok where British commentator Nigel Short reported…
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Ju-Goryachkina even 3-3 in title match
2020 Women’s World Chess ChampionshipJanuary 3rd-11th, 2020 (Shanghai, China & Vladivostok, Russia) Flag 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 pts. Ju Wenjun ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ – – – – – – 3 Goryachkina ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ –…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #6
Ju ½-½ Goryachkina11th January 2020 The sixth game of the match, the last one to be played in Shanghai, ends in a draw. This leaves the score in 3-3 before the championship takes a short break and moves to the next host city: Vladivostok. Play will be resumed on Thursday,…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #5
Goryachkina 1-0 Ju10th January 2020 Goryachkina strikes back in the fifth game of the match, and leaves the score in 2½ – 2½ after 5 games #WomenChessMatch pic.twitter.com/OipoY2ievn — International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) January 11, 2020 Aleksandra Goryachkina leveled the score just after falling behind after yesterday’s loss. This gives…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #4
Ju 1-0 Goryachkina8th January 2020 The reigning champion Ju Wenjun ?? takes the lead in the Women's World Championship Match winning the fourth game with White against the challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina ??. The score is 2½ to 1½. https://t.co/06SR3zxdO6#WomenChessMatch #chess pic.twitter.com/QVRI1zfNgY — International Chess Federation (@FIDE_chess) January 9, 2020 Goryachkina…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship: Game #2
Ju Wenjun ½-½ Goryachkina5th January 2020 International Arbiter Shohreh Bayat of Iran starts the proceeding for Game 2 Photo by Zhang Yanhong There was a surprise in today’s second game of the championship match. While we didn’t see 1.h3 or 1.a3, Ju Wenjun tried to catch her Russian challenger off…
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2020 Women’s Chess Championship (Ju vs. Goryachkina)
2020 Women’s World Chess ChampionshipJanuary 3rd-11th, 2020 (Shanghai, China & Vladivostok, Russia) Flag 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 pts. Ju Wenjun ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 0 6 Goryachkina ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½…
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Who will challenge Carlsen in 2020?
The 2018 World Rapid and Blitz Championships ended a couple of weeks ago. World Champion Magnus Carlsen was in the field facing many of the elite players. It is his first event since successfully defending his title against Fabiano Caruana. While he lost his rapid title, he totally dominated the…
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2018 World Rapid & Blitz (St. Petersburg, RUS)
Only a month after the World Championship (classical) was decided, the 2018 Rapid & Blitz was held in St. Petersburg to determine the world championship in the two disciplines. Indeed the raging debate on how to determine a classical World Champion to include rapid and blitz tiebreakers has its merits,…
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