Maya the Honey Bee

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7th Women’s World Chess Champion Maia Grigorievna Chiburdanidze, interviewed by Evgeny Surov for Chess-News.ru, speaks about her new “Maia’s Chess” which, just like Fischerandom Chess, is aimed to set to zero any theoretical preparation and “let’s chess talent run free”. See http://chess-news.ru/node/21653.

Maia Grigorievna Chiburdanidze
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Notes by International Master Malcom Pein

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侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) & Nigel David Short – Majja G. Čiburdanidze & Artur Jussupow
成都 (Chéngdū), July 6, 2014
French Defence C10

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Be3 Bd6 8. Bd3 0-0 9. c4 Bb4+ 10. Ke2!? c5 11. Qc2 cxd4 12. Bxd4 e5 (12. ... Qe7 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Bxh7+ Kh8 15. Bd3 e5 was a better way to give up a Pawn and try to exploit the centralised white King) 13. Bxe5 Re8 14. Kf1 Bg4 15. Bg3 (Short and Hóu Yìfán gradually get their King to safety) 15. ... Qa5 16. h3 Bh5 17. a3 Rad8 18. Rd1 Bf8 19. Kg1 Ne4 20. Kh2 Nxg3 21. fxg3 Bxf3 22. gxf3 h5 23. h4 Bd6 24. Bh7+ Kf8 25. Be4 (White has consolidated) 25. ... Qc7 26. Rhg1 b5? [26. ... g5! 27. Kh3! (27. hxg5 Bxg3+!)] 27. cxb5 Bc5 28. Rgf1 Rxd1 29. Rxd1 Qe7 30. Rd5 Rc8 31. Rxh5 Kg8 32. Bc6 1 : 0. (Notes by Malcom Pein, The Telegraph, July 10, 2014).

侯逸凡的亲笔签名
成都 (Chéngdū), July 6, 2014
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侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) & Nigel David Short – Majja G. Čiburdanidze & Artur Jussupow
成都 (Chéngdū), July 6, 2014
French Defence C10

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Be3 Bd6 8. Bd3 0-0. For 8. ... Nd5 9. Bg5 see Short – Kosic, 37th Chess Olympiad, Turin 2006, whilst for 8. ... b6 9. Ne5 see 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) – Tiviakov, Hoogeveen 2012. 9. c4. An unsophisticated treatment of the opening. For 9. Qe2 b6 10. 0-0-0 see Ivanchuk – Pelletier, Cap d’Agde 2013. 9. ... Bb4+ 10. Ke2. Short’s sense of humour? 10. ... c5 11. Qc2 cxd4 12. Bxd4 e5. Possibly finding the right moment for a Pawn sacrifice to catch the enemy King. 13. Bxe5 Re8 14. Kf1 Bg4 15. Bg3 Qa5 16. h3 Bh5. On 16. ... Qh5 17. Ne5 White consolidates. 17. a3 Rad8 18. Rd1 Bf8 19. Kg1 Ne4 20. Kh2 Nxg3 21. fxg3 Bxf3 22. gxf3 h5 23. h4 Bd6 24. Bh7+ Kf8 25. Be4 Qc7 26. Rhg1

26. ... b5? A blunder which cedes a second Pawn without compensation. We would have preferred 26. ... g5!? in order to meet 22. hxg5? by 22. ... Bxg3+!. 27. cxb5 Bc5? Consistent and catastrophic. 28. Rgf1 Rxd1 29. Rxd1 Qe7 30. Rd5 Rc8 31. Rxh5 Kg8 32. Bc6 1 : 0. For if 32. ... g6 then 33. Rxc5.

Nigel David Short & 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán)

• Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Alvarez, Coincidence in Chéngdū: Part One, Chess News, 7 luglio 2014