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1/6/2020 – The competition for the World Cup for women has officially opened in Shanghai. Chinese defending champion Ju Wenjun and her challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina from Russia will play a twelve-game match against each other at locations Shanghai and Vladivostok over the next three weeks. There was a press conference Saturday. The first game, played Sunday, ended in a draw. Ju will take the white pieces in Game 2 on Monday starting at 7:30 UTC (8:30 CET, 2:30 AM EST). | Photos: Zhang Yanhong (FIDE / official site)
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Game 2
The first game of the Women's World Chess Championship 2020, held in Shanghai, China, was a hard-fought draw.
Match standings
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The games are slated to start at 15:30 local time, which is 8:30 CET and 2:30 AM EST. When the match moves to Vladivostok, games will start two hours earlier.
The time control is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per move, starting from with move one. Agreed draws before move 40 are not allowed.
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Game 1: ½-½
The first game of the Women's World Chess Championship 2020, held in Shanghai, China, ended with a hard-fought draw.
Ye Jiangchuan, President of the Chinese Chess Federation, and Alexandr Shmanevskiy, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Shanghai, made the first symbolic move in the game.
The opening was as cautious as it gets: Alexandra Gorychkina (Russia), playing White, chose 1.d4 as her first move. Instead of her usual Ragozin defense, defending champion Ju Wenjun (China) surprised with 4.♗e7. The challenger decided to go then for a solid Catalan with 5.g3:
The Catalan: A complete repertoire for White!
The Catalan is one of the most solid openings for White. It forms part of the large and strong fianchetto family in which White builds his strategy mainly around the bishop on g2. Grandmaster Victor Bologan covers all of Black’s replies to the Catalan, some of which can even transpose to other openings such as the Tarrasch System and the Queen’s Indian. Suffice it to say that the Catalan rules!
The impression is that Goryachkina tried to take the game out of the book as soon as she could, and despite the symmetrical and equal position, she managed to put some pressure on the champion. In fact, an inaccuracy by Ju Wenjun gave the Russian the opportunity to gain an advantage, and for a while, the challenger seemed to be playing cat and mouse with the Champion, only to squander it with an untimely rook exchange on move 44. After this scuffle, Ju stoically defended for the next 50-plus moves, before the draw was agreed right before they reached the sixth hour of play.
In the press conference held after the game, Ju complimented Goryachkina's fighting style, looking to exploit even the minuscule of chances. On her part, Goryachkina was content with opening the match by putting the world champion on the ropes for 97 moves and close to 6 hours.
Game Two is tomorrow, January 6, and Ju Wenjun will have White.
Photo: Zhang Yanhong / FIDE
Text: Michael Friedman
Contact: press@fide.com
All games
Commentary by GM Nigel Short & WGM Zhang Xiaowen (Part 1)
Commentary by GM Nigel Short & WGM Zhang Xiaowen (Part 2)
Setting the stage
The first major chess event of 2020 is in fact a world championship. Women's World Champion Ju Wenjun (China) plays against her challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) from January 5th to 26th.
The competition will be held half in Shanghai, China, and half in Vladivostok, Russia. Six games will be played in each of the two locations. If the score is 6:6 at the end of twelve games, a rapid (and if necessary blitz) playoff will decide the match.
The first game takes place on Sunday. Two games are then played followed by a rest day. After game six, players travel to Vladivostok, where the seventh game is scheduled to commence on January 17th.
The prize fund is EUR 500,000 and will be divided 60:40 between the winner and loser after the end of the competition. If the there is a playoff, the ratio is 55:45.
Schedule
All games begin at 15:30 local time in Shanghai and then Vladivostok. Therefore, games 1-6 start at 7:30 UTC (8:30 CET, 2:30 AM EST) and games 7-12 will begin at 5:30 UTC (6:30 CET, 12:30 AM EST).
| Date | Venue | Event |
| January 4 | Shanghai | Opening ceremony |
| January 5 | Game 1 | |
| January 6 | Game 2 | |
| January 7 | Rest day | |
| January 8 | Game 3 | |
| January 9 | Game 4 | |
| January 10 | Rest day | |
| January 11 | Game 5 | |
| January 12 | Game 6 | |
| January 13 | Rest day | |
| January 14 | Vladivostok | Arrival |
| January 15 | Opening ceremony | |
| January 16 | Game 7 | |
| January 17 | Game 8 | |
| January 18 | Rest day | |
| January 19 | Game 9 | |
| January 20 | Game 10 | |
| January 21 | Rest day | |
| January 22 | Game 11 | |
| January 23 | Game 12 | |
| January 24 | Playoff (if necessary) or closing |
Aleksandra Goryachkina has white in the first game
Ju Wenjun would certainly like to defend her title
IA Shoreh Bayat is the chief arbiter
GM Nigel Short heads the appeals committee
Press conference
Group photo with the players
Links
https://en.chessbase.com/post/womens-world-championship-2020-ju-goryachkina-live
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