Three draws
Unlike the Open event, the Women's section has an increment of 30 seconds from move no.1. However, the duration to make 40 moves is 90 minutes instead of 120. It is due to the presence of increment.
Tingjie - Zhongyi: 0-1
GM Tingjie Lei (CHN, 2550) defeated GM Zhongyi Tan (CHN, 2521) in the final stage of the previous Women's Candidates, to become the Challenger. Zhongyi obviously has not forgotten about it.
39.Bxd5 Rxh4+ 40.Kg3 Rd4 was probably the best course of action for White. Instead, White made the mistake of defending the h4-pawn with her king 40.Kg3. It allowed Black to continue her king march Ke5 41.a4 Kd4 42.Ra8 Ke3 43.Re8 g5 44.Rxe6+ a desperate attempt to save the game fxe6 45.hxg5 h4+ 46.Kg4 h3 47.g6 Kf2
Black won the game in the next few moves.
Vishy Anand tweeted on Zhongyi's king march
twitter.com/i/status/1776060275029839906
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Time control
The time control for each game is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
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Round 2 pairings
| Bo. | No. | Rtg | Name | Result | Name | Rtg | No. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8 | 2542 | GM | Lagno, Kateryna | GM | Koneru, Humpy | 2546 | 5 | ||||
| 2 | 6 | 2521 | GM | Tan, Zhongyi | IM | Vaishali, Rameshbabu | 2475 | 4 | ||||
| 3 | 7 | 2432 | IM | Salimova, Nurgyul | GM | Lei, Tingjie | 2550 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 1 | 2553 | GM | Goryachkina, Aleksandra | GM | Muzychuk, Anna | 2520 | 2 |
