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Nana Dzagnidze handed out a very attractive beating to Antoaneta Stefanova. A few early inaccurate moves left black a bit better. What followed was drastic punishment after a further error.

6th Women GP Doha QAT 1st March 2011 Rd7

White Stefanova, Antoaneta

Black Dzagnidze, Nana

Result 0-1

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. b3 d4 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bg2 e5 7. O-O Bg4 8. h3 Bh5 9. g4

9. d3 has been played before.

9... Bg6 10. exd4 e4 11. Nh4

(11. Re1 Nxd4 12. Ng5)

11... Qxd4 12. Nc3 O-O-O 13. Nxg6 hxg6 14. g5 Nh5 15. Rb1

(15. Qg4+ Kb8 16. Qxe4 Nf4 17. Qxd4 Nxd4 18. Bb2 Rh5 19. Ne4 Nde2+)

15... Kb8 16. Bb2 Nf4 17. Nd5?

(17. Qg4 holds on in the short term.)

17... Rxd5!! 18. Bxd4?

a bit naive. Now its forced mate. 18. cxd5 Qxd5 19. Qg4 Nxg2 20. Kxg2 e3+ is thoroughly unpleasant.

18... Rxg5!! 0-1

Xu Yuhua misplayed an attack against Lilit Mkrtchian and her piece sacrifice was totally unsound. Instead of 17.Bb5 she should have played 17. Qc2. When she played 18.Qc2 she was already totally busted.

Pia Cramling had an opening catastrophe against Marie Sebag in the battle of the players in joint second place.

Black's development is so restricted there cannot be any chance of saving this. Marie Sebag was sure footed in making Cramling pay.

21...Kd7 22. b5 g6 23. Ra7 Kc8 24. Ra8+ Kd7 25. Rb8 Bg7 26. Rxb7+ Ke6 27. Bc5 Re8 28. b4 e4 29. Kf1 Be5 30. Ke2 Bd6 31. Ke3 Kd5 32. Bxd6 exd6 33. Rxh7 Rc8 34. Rg7 Rc3+ 35. Kd2 Rb3 36. Rxg6 Rxb4 37. h4 Ke5 38. h5 Rb2+ 39. Kc3 Rxf2 40. h6 Rf8 41. h7 Rh8 42. Rh6 d5 43. b6 d4+ 44. Kd2 e3+ 45. Kd3 1-0

Elina Danielian certainly entertains risk in the pursuit of victory. She was never really better early on against Zhu Chen and then she stood a lot worse. In this position black had just played 37...Bg7 (37...Rxe1 would have been the easiest position to play) and clearly missed the response 38.Be5. Not to worry black is still much better if black finds the correct next move.

38. Be5 Qe6??

(38... Re6 39. Bxg7 Rxe1+ 40. Qxe1 Kxg7 41. Qa1+ f6 is advantage to black.)

(38... Rxe5 is also fine but complicated.)

39. Rdd1!

{The only move to win for white but now black is without defence.}

39...Qg6 40. Bxg7 Rxe1+ 41. Rxe1 f5 42. Nf6+ Kxg7 43. Re7+ Kf8 44. Qe5 f4 45. Rh7 Re8 46.Qe7+!! 1-0

A nice finish, it is forced mate in 1 46.... Rxe7 47. dxe7#

Humpy Koneru won the game she had to when she gradually outplayed Batkhuyag Munguntuul on the black side of an unsual variation of the Ruy Lopez Anti-Marshall. Now Koneru has white against Elina Danielian in Round 8 and can move to within a point with a victory.

Munguntuul, Batkhuyag - Koneru, Humpy

6th Women GP Doha QAT (7), 2011.03.01

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 b4 9.d4 exd4 10.Nxd4 Na5 11.Bd5 Nxd5 12.exd5 O-O 13.Nd2 Re8 14.Ne4 Qd7 15.c3 bxc3 16.b4 c5 17.dxc6 Nxc6 18.Ba3 Bb7 19.Nf3 d5 20.Nxc3 Nxb4 21.a5 Bf8 22.Rb1 Rxe1+ 23.Nxe1 Nc6 24.Bxf8 Rxf8 25.Nxd5 Rd8 26.Qh5 Nxa5 27.Nf6+ gxf6 28.Qxa5 Re8 29.Qc3 Qc6 30.Qxc6 Bxc6 31.f3 Bb5 32.Nc2 Bd3 33.Rb2 a5 34.Nd4 Rd8 35.Nc6 Ra8 36.Ra2 a4 37.Ra3 Bb5 38.Ne7+ Kg7 39.Nd5 Bc6 40.Nc3 Rb8 41.Ra2 Rb4 42.Kf2 f5 43.Ke3 Kf6 44.Rd2 Ke5 45.g3 f4+ 46.gxf4+ Rxf4 47.Rf2 a3 48.Rf1 h5 49.Rf2 h4 50.h3 Kf5 51.Ne4 Ke5 52.Nc3 Rb4 53.Ra2 Rb3 54.f4+ Kf5 55.Kd4 Bd7 56.Re2 Be6 57.Re5+ Kxf4 58.Rh5 Kg3 59.Ne4+ Kxh3 60.Nf2+ Kg2 0-1

Maia Chiburdanidze got a nice positional advantage against Martha Fierro Baquero and maintained right through to this winning ending.

In this position black had been suffering for some time. Fierro Baquero attacks white's bishop but it turns out this move allows the final winning breakthrough.

49. h6 Kg6

It turns out that the bishop is immune 49... Nxd2 50. h7 and the pawn can't be caught.

50. Nxe7+ Kh7 51. Bf4 N3a5 52. Kf5 Nxc4 53. Kxf6 Nb6 54. Ng6 Nd7+ 55. Ke7 Kxg6 56. Kxd7 c4 57. Kc6 Nc5 58. e5 dxe5 59. Kxc5 1-0

6th Women GP Doha (QAT), 22 ii-5 iii 2011															cat. X (2490)
					1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	0	1	2
1.	Danielian, Elina	g	ARM	2454	*	1	.	.	1	1	½	.	1	.	1	1	6½	2908
2.	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2489	0	*	½	1	.	.	½	1	.	.	1	1	5	2641
3.	Koneru, Humpy	g	IND	2607	.	½	*	½	0	1	.	1	1	½	.	.	4½	2582
4.	Cramling, Pia	g	SWE	2516	.	0	½	*	1	.	½	½	.	1	½	.	4	2552
5.	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2550	0	.	1	0	*	.	.	0	1	1	.	1	4	2531
6.	Chiburdanidze, Maia	g	GEO	2502	0	.	0	.	.	*	1	1	0	.	½	1	3½	2468
7.	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2475	½	½	.	½	.	0	*	.	½	0	.	1	3	2435
8.	Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	m	ECU	2353	.	0	0	½	1	0	.	*	.	½	1	.	3	2479
9.	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	m	MGL	2410	0	.	0	.	0	1	½	.	*	.	1	0	2½	2407
10.	Stefanova, Antoaneta	g	BUL	2546	.	.	½	0	0	.	1	½	.	*	0	0	2	2339
11.	Zhu, Chen	g	QAT	2495	0	0	.	½	.	½	.	0	0	1	*	.	2	2309
12.	Xu, Yuhua	g	CHN	2484	0	0	.	.	0	0	0	.	1	1	.	*	2	2331

Round 7 (March 1, 2011)
Danielian, Elina	- Zhu, Chen	1-0	46	E61	King's Indian Defence
Sebag, Marie	- Cramling, Pia	1-0	45	B22	Sicilian Alapin
Chiburdanidze, Maia	- Fierro Baquero, Martha L.	1-0	59	E62	King's Indian 6...Nc6
Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	- Koneru, Humpy	0-1	60	C88	Ruy Lopez Closed
Stefanova, Antoaneta	- Dzagnidze, Nana	0-1	18	A13	Reti Opening
Xu, Yuhua	- Mkrtchian, Lilit	0-1	35	C04	French Tarrasch

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