The Twenty-Fifth Hour

And so, in the end, 14th Women’s World Chess Champion Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina is the absolute winner of the 1st Online Women’s Speed Chess Championship, jointly organised by FIDE and chess.com. In today’s super-final she beat 12th Women’s World Chess Champion Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk 14½–13½ after a fight to the last bullet.

Anna Yuriyivna Ushenina – Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk

1st Online Women’s Speed Chess Championship Super-Final; match game 16; time control: 3 minutes plus 1 second per move; chess.com, July 20, 2020

Queen’s Pawn Game D02

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. Bf4 c5 4. e3 Nc6 5. Nbd2 cxd4 6. exd4 Bf5 7. Bb5 e6 8. Ne5 Qb6 9. c4 dxc4 10. Bxc6+ bxc6 11. Ndxc4 Qa6 12. 0-0 (12. Qe2 Bb4+ 13. Bd2 Bxd2+ 14. Nxd2 Qb5 15. Nb3 0-0 16. Rc1 Rfc8 17. Rxc6 Qa4 18. Rxc8+ Rxc8 19. 0-0 Qxa2= Aronian – Inarkiev, 8th World Blitz Chess Championship, Moscow 2019) 12. ... Be7 13. Rc1 0-0 14. Ne3 Be4 15. f3 Bd5 16. Nxd5 cxd5 17. Nc6 Rfe8 18. a4 Bf8 19. b4

19. ... Nd7?? (19. ... Qb7 Δ 20. b5 a6!=) 20. b5+− Qb7 (20. ... Qb6 21. Bc7!+−) 21. Na5 1 : 0.