Arrivals & Departures

Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina – Romain Édouard
20th European Individual Chess Championship; Skopje, March 21, 2019
Queen’s Pawn Game A40

1. d4 e6 2. c4 Bb4+ 3. Bd2 a5 4. e4 d5 5. a3 Bxd2+ 6. Nxd2 dxe4 7. Nxe4 Nf6 8. Nc3 0-0 9. Be2 Na6 10. Nf3 c5 11. 0-0 Qb6

12. Na4 Qc7 13. Nxc5 Nxc5 14. dxc5 Qxc5 15. Qd4 Qxd4 16. Nxd4 a4 17. f4 Bd7 18. Bf3 Rac8 19. Rac1 Rc7 ½ : ½. Bravo to Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina for the authority with which she yielded a draw in Round 4 of the 20th European Individual Chess Championship to French Grandmaster Romain Édouard, who recently authored the book “My Magic Years with Topalov” (Thinkers Publishing, Landegem, 2019).

Two-time Russian Women’s Chess Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina on her way back from the 7th World Women’s Team Chess Championship in Kazakhstan, where she finished undefeated with 8 out of 9. Photo © RIA Novosti/Valery Melnikov.