The Edge

侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) – Ernesto Kazbekovich Inarkiev

3rd Russia–China Junior Friendship Match; rapid match game 3; time control: 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move; Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, September 17, 2016

Réti Opening A07

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 g6 4. c4 c6 5. b3 Bg7 6. Bb2 0–0 7. 0–0 b6 8. d3. 9. d4 would transpose to a Grünfeld (D78).
8. ... Bb7 9. Nbd2 c5 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Bxg7 Kxg7 12. Qc2 Nc6 13. Qb2+ f6

14. d4. No more promising is 14. Ng5 Nc7 15. b4 e5 (if 15. ... cxb4 then 16. Rac1 with obvious compensation) 16. b5 Na5= Pantsulaia – Láznička, 12th European Individual Chess Championship, Aix-les-Bains 2011.
14. ... cxd4 15. Nxd4 Nxd4 16. Qxd4 e5 17. Qb2 Qe7 18. Rfd1 Rad8 19. Nc4

19. ... b5 20. Na5 Ba8 21. a3 e4 22. e3 b4 23. Nc4 Kh6 24. Rd4 f5 25. h3 Rf7? This is a grave tactical mistake, as White immediately demonstrates. 25. ... bxa3 26. Rxa3 Nb4 was quite playable.
26. axb4 Nxb4

27. Rxa7! Qxa7 28. Rxd8 Rd7. “If 28. ... Nd3 29. Qh8 Bb7 30. Nd6 Rc7 31. Qf8+ Kg5 32. h4+ Kg4 33. Qxf5+!! gxf5 34. Rg8+ Kh5 35. Rg5+ Kh6 36. Nxf5#”, Francisco Hernanz Martos wrote in El Correo de Andalucía, September 21, 2016.
29. Rxd7 Qxd7 30. Qf6 Qc8 31. Nd6 1 : 0.

The pitiless woman caught her chivalrous opponent in a perfidious trap. Photo courtesy of Chess Federation of Russia.