Humpy Koneru (2600) – Hou Yifan (2578)
[D38]
Game 6
Koneru: “It was a normal opening, I prepared some line. I’ve got very decent position after the opening. I had two bishops. I wanted to press for a win. At the beginning I had a lot of time but then I was trying to find the best line. I was afraid that some variations would lead to draw”.
1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.Qa4+ Nc6 6.e3 0–0 7.Bd2 dxc4 8.Bxc4 Bd6 9.Qc2 a6 10.a3 e5 11.dxe5
Koneru: “This move is not a novelty, there were few games played in this variation before”.
11…Nxe5 12.Nxe5 Bxe5 13.f4 Bxc3 14.Bxc3 Qe7 15.0–0 Qxe3+ 16.Kh1
Hou Yifan: “I was spending a lot of time here as I knew White has a better position so I tried to find some plan”.
16…Qb6 17.f5 Bd7 18.Bb4 Rfe8
18…Ng4 was advised at the press-conference. Hou Yifan: “Already at this moment in the game I had a little time. I saw this move, but decided to simply move the rook”.
19.Rad1 Qc6 20.Qb3
Both players calculated also 20.Bxf7+ Kxf7 21.Qb3+ Be6 22.fxe6+ Rxe6. Koneru: “In this position I did not see a proper plan for White”. Although, the Indian admitted that White has a small edge in this position.
20…Kh8 21.Rc1 Qb6
Black could use a tiny trick: 21…Re5 and if 22.Bxf7 then 22…Rxf5
22.Bxf7 Re5 23.Bc3 Qxb3 24.Bxb3 Re3 25.Bc4 Rae8 26.Bd4 R3e7 27.Ba2 Re2 28.Bf7 R8e7 29.Bc4 R2e4
Koneru: “After this move I had already bad position”.
30.Bc5
Koneru: “I saw the move 30.Bxf6 before, but I missed it in this position!” White has the initiative after 30…gxf6 31.Bd5
30…Re8 31.Bf7 R8e5 32.Ba2 Bc6 33.Rg1 Re2 34.Bd4 Rxf5 35.Bc4 Rd2 36.Bc3 Ne4 37.Rge1 Ng3+ 38.hxg3 Rh5+ 0–1
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Such a pity.
Humpy will never win. Give it up, Indian peoples.
Don’t h8, elev8
Hey Realist ‘Humpy will never win….’ are u chinese peoples? :-)) If so there will never be a Chinese World Champion in Chess – I mean the real World Championships!
No, I am not Chinese. I am from Russia!
What’s wrong with Humpy?. She usually ends up with the better position after the opening phase,then screws up! Yifan with stomach cramps. have they implanted a chip there? :-). They need to play in an atmosphere where signals cannot be received!
China will never stop producing good players like most things they do, unlike the one world champion produced by India and I’m not from China too!