Broadcast delay

于润荷 (Jennifer Yú) – 严锐阳 (Yán Ruìyáng)
61st U.S. Women’s Chess Championship; Saint Louis, October 6, 2022
Tarrasch Defence D32

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 c5 5. cxd5 exd5 6. d4 Nc6 7. Be2 cxd4 8. Nxd4 Bc5

9. Bf3 Ne5 10. 0-0 0-0 11. h3 Re8. 11. ... Bb6 12. b3 Re8 is also fine for Black, Bautista Sánchez – Striković, 51st Spanish Team Chess Championship — Primera División, Sabadell 2007.
12. Nb3 Nxf3+ 13. Qxf3 Bb6 14. Rd1 Be6 15. Nd4 Rc8 16. Nde2 Ne4 17. Nf4 Nxc3 18. bxc3 Qf6 19. Bb2 Rc4. The object of Black is to sacrifice her d-Pawn for dynamic compensation.
20. Qh5 Rc5

21. Nxd5. “于 (Yú) bravely captures the extra Pawn despite landing her Knight in a pin”, Vanessa West wrote in her recap of day 2.
21. ... Bxd5 22. Rxd5 g6 23. Qd1 Rxd5 24. Qxd5 Rd8 25. Qb5 Rd2 26. Rf1 Qc6 27. Qb3

27. ... Qf6?! Obviously not 27. ... Bxe3?? because of 28. Bc1 winning at once, but stronger was 27. ... Re2! (actually threatening ... Bb6xe3) 28. c4 (28. Bc1 Qe4) 28. ... Bxe3! 29. Qc3 f6! with a perfectly playable game for Black.
28. Bc1 Rd3? Again Black should have played 28. ... Re2 29. Qc4 Rc2 30. Qc8+ Qd8 31. Qxb7 Rxa2 32. c4 when White has an extra Pawn, but a very hard technical challenge in order to make something of it.
29. Qb5 Rd8 30. c4 Rc8 31. Bb2 Qe6 32. Rc1 Rd8 33. c5. Finally White wins a second Pawn and the game.
33. ... Rd5 34. Qb4 Bc7 35. Qxb7 Qd7 36. Qa8+ Qd8 37. Qxd8+ Rxd8 38. Bd4 Rb8 39. g3 h5 40. Kg2 Rb5 41. g4 hxg4 42. hxg4 Kf8 43. Bf6 Ke8 44. c6 Rb6 45. g5 Ra6 46. Rc4 1 : 0.

Not by chance Tartakower defined a chess game as “a fairy tale of 1,001 mistakes”. Photo © Lennart Ootes/Saint Louis Chess Club.