Friday, June 28, 2024

第五轮 (Round Five)

侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) – Teimour Boris oghlu Radjabov
4th Rapid “Tournament of Stars”; time control: 15 minutes plus 10 seconds per move; Moscow, June 28, 2024
Sicilian Defence B32

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nb5 d6 6. c4 Be7 7. N1c3 a6 8. Na3 f5 9. exf5 Bxf5 10. Bd3 Be6 11. Nc2 Nf6 12. Bg5 0-0 13. 0-0 Ng4 14. Bxe7 Qxe7


15. Ne3. A new try aiming to improve on 15. h3, which after 15. ... Nf6 16. Qe2 Rae8 offered White little or nothing in Erigaisi – Radjabov, 5th Tata Steel India Rapid Tournament, Kolkata 2023 (time control: 25 minutes plus 10 seconds per move).
15. ... Nxe3 16. fxe3 Rxf1+ 17. Qxf1 Rc8 18. b3 Qc7 19. Bf5 Qf7 20. Bxe6 Qxe6 21. Qf3 Rf8 22. Qd5 Qxd5 23. Nxd5 Rf7 ½–½.

Yeah, it feels like 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) put a flower in Radjabov’s Kalashnikov. Photo: Sergey Sergeevich Moiseev.

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