2019 Women's Candidates. Round 9. Interview with Lagno and Kosteniuk.

🔹 FIDE Women's Candidates-R9
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4 rounds are played at #Asian Continental Championships in Xingtai, #China.

Alireza Firouzja, Murali Karthikeyan & Sethuraman S.P. lead the open with 3,5.
Bhakti Kulkarni, Dinara Saduakassova & Irine Kharisma Sukandar lead the women's section.

Results:
http://chess-results.com/tnr442666.aspx?lan=1&art=40&turdet=YES&flag=30

🔹 Asian Continental Open Championships 2019
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🔹 Asian Continental Women Championships 2019
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🔹 Karpov Poikovsky Tournament 2019-R5
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Going into the final rest day Magnus Carlsen still leads by 1.5 points, after both he and Yu Yangyi won in Armageddon today!

🔹 7th Norway Chess 2019- R6
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🔹 7th Norway Armageddon- R6
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⚫️#234 (Strategy-Black to Move)
🔸Gasimov,Parviz (2303)
🔸Fier,A (2553)
🔸Baku Open 2018

23...b5?! [23...Rd3! Black intends to kick the d4– knight away from the center and then by ...f6, undermine the position of another White's knight on d6. 24.Nf3 f6 25.f5 Nxe5 26.Nxe5 fxe5 27.Qe4 Nxb4 28.axb4 (28.Qxb4 Qxd6 29.Qxb7?? Qd4+ 30.Kh1 Rd2–+) 28...Rxd6 29.Qxe5 Rf6 30.fxe6 Rfxe6-/+; 23...Rd8?! 24.Qd1 h6 25.Qd2 Qd7 26.Rf1 Re3 27.N4f5 Rb3 28.Nd4=]

24.Kh1 [24.Qd1 Qd7 25.Qd2 Rd8 26.Ne4 Rc4 27.Nb3 Qc7 28.Qf2„]

24...Rd3!-/+

1–0

⚫️#234 (Endgame-Black to Move)
🔸Jafarli,Babak (2132)
🔸Sevdimaliev,U (2386)
🔸Baku Open 2018

27...Ne7! [27...Ra4! 28.a3 Ne7 29.c4 Ra5 30.Rg5³; 27...Na5!? 28.Rag1 Kc8 29.Nd2 Rxf2+ 30.Ke3 Rh2 31.Rg8 Rh3+ 32.Ke2 Rh8 33.Rxh8 Rxh8 34.Rg7 b6 35.Ke3 Bc6 36.Nb3 Rh3+ 37.Kd2 Rh2+ 38.Ke3 Rh5 39.Rg8+ Kb7 40.Nxa5+ bxa5 41.Kd4 Rh4+ 42.Kc5³ /=]

28.c4 Bc6? [28...c5! 29.Rag1 Nc6 30.Ke3 Nd4 31.Nd2 Rxf2-/+]

29.Ng5„

½–½

🔸ch-RUS Rapid GP Final 2018
🔸Round 3
⚪️Ponkratov,P (2630)
⚫️Shuvalova,Polina (2441)
🔸1-0

40.Ra4! [By attacking the black bishop, Ponkratov prepares the pawn break c4–c5.]

40...Bc3? [Black makes White's task easier.]

[¹40...Rf1+ 41.Ke2 Re1+ 42.Kf2 Bc3 43.c5! bxc5 44.Bxc5 Ra1!±]

41.c5! bxc5 42.Bxc5 [△Ra3]

42...Rf1+ 43.Ke3+– [43.Kg3!? Re1 44.b6+! Kc8 45.Bd6! △R×a5 45...Kd7 46.Be5+–]