St. Petersburg's central Catherine Garden is occupied by chess players tonight! Vladimir Kramnik takes on young talents, while the king of blindfold play Timur Gareev gives a simultaneous exhibition.

#FIDEWomenCandidates Round 6 results:

🇺🇦 A. Muzychuk 1-0 Gunina 🇷🇺
🇺🇦 M. Muzychuk 1-0 Kosteniuk 🇷🇺
🇬🇪 Dzagnidze 0-1 Goryachkina 🇷🇺
🇨🇳 Tan Zhongyi 0-1 Lagno 🇷🇺

Aleksandra Goryachkina leads the event with 5/6, standing 1,5 ahead of Dzagnidze and Lagno.

FIDE Women Candidates Round 6

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🔹 FIDE Women's Candidates-R6
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Magnus Carlsen wins his first classical game, against Grischuk, and is now the sole leader of #NorwayChess after 3 rounds!

standings after 3 rounds in which we have seen some good chess and great comments!

A crushing win by Carlsen:
✅ Takes the lead in #NorwayChess
✅ Extends unbeaten streak to 62
✅ Scores 17th win of 2019
✅ 2019 rating performance 2936
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🔹 7th Norway Chess 2019- R3
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⚫️#231 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Popov,Iv RUS (2590)
🔸Demianjuk,A (2332)
🔸Baku Open 2018

17...h4! [Instead of castling, Black tries to open the h-file against the Black's king. On the other hand, his bishop on c5 is also well-placed and can support the attack.]

[17...0–0?! 18.Nd2 Be6 19.h4 Ne7 20.Qe2 g6³ /=; 17...Qa7 18.Nd2 h4 19.Nc4 hxg3 20.hxg3 Bh3 21.Ne3 Be6 22.Nd5 Bxd5 23.exd5 f5=/+]

18.Qxb4 hxg3 [¹18...Rb8 19.Rxc5 dxc5 20.Qc3 Ba6 21.Ba3 hxg3 22.hxg3 Nf8 23.Bxc5 Ne6 24.Be3 Qxc3 25.Nxc3 Rxb3-/+]

19.hxg3 Rb8 20.Rxc5 dxc5 21.Qc3 Bh3 22.Bxh3 Rxh3 23.Na3 Qd7 24.Nb5 Qg4 25.Qxc5 Qf3 26.Nd6+ Kf8 27.Nxf7+ Kg8

0–1

⚪️#231 (Endgame-White to Move)
🔸Grandelius,N (2678)
🔸Hector,J (2501)
🔸Bistro Stella 2018