Among the VIP spectators at the World Chess Championship Match in Astana, Kazakhstan, was three-time Russian Women’s Champion Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina, who is taking a holiday after her very recent victory in the third stage of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2022–23 in New Delhi, India. She got here in a flash, from Delhi to Astana via Moscow. But will she stay till the end of the match? “I’ll see how it goes”, she told Матч ТВ (Match TV). “Now, I planned for a week. If I like it, I’ll stay longer. If I get bored, I’ll fly back to Moscow”.
As for the match, Goryachkina noticed something at once from day one: “I’d say that 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) was a little nervous from the first game”, Goryachkina told TASS correspondents. “I can tell by his running around from the stage to his lounge he was nervous — he did not sit at the board at all. Ian Alexandrovich [Nepomniachtchi] behaved in much the same way in his match against Magnus Carlsen in Dubai”.
Goryachkina herself, indeed, knows how does it feel to sit on such a hard chair as 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) and Nepomniachtchi are sitting on. But this time she can enjoy it. “I’m delighted”, she said. “It’s the first time I’m in it as a tourist. I feel so much relaxed: I must not play, nor must I think. I visited the auditorium — I never saw such an organisation in all my life. You sit literally three meters from the stage. It’s grandiose”.
As for the match, Goryachkina noticed something at once from day one: “I’d say that 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) was a little nervous from the first game”, Goryachkina told TASS correspondents. “I can tell by his running around from the stage to his lounge he was nervous — he did not sit at the board at all. Ian Alexandrovich [Nepomniachtchi] behaved in much the same way in his match against Magnus Carlsen in Dubai”.
Goryachkina herself, indeed, knows how does it feel to sit on such a hard chair as 丁立人 (Dīng Lìrén) and Nepomniachtchi are sitting on. But this time she can enjoy it. “I’m delighted”, she said. “It’s the first time I’m in it as a tourist. I feel so much relaxed: I must not play, nor must I think. I visited the auditorium — I never saw such an organisation in all my life. You sit literally three meters from the stage. It’s grandiose”.
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