by John Bain | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
Aleksandra Climbs the Mountain What just happened? Russia’s 21-year-old Aleksandra Goryachkina played 12 Classical Chess games against China’s world chess champion Ju Wenjun–winning 3, losing 3 and drawing 6 games!With the score 6-5 in Ju... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 22, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
Aleksandra’s Mountain Game 11 saw China’s Ju Wenjun and Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina play to a 40-move draw in a Bishops of opposite colors and pawn endgame. See “Game 11” below. With 1 game remaining and the score 6-5 in Ju... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
China’s Ju Wenjun wins again–two games in a row now–and leads Russia’s Aleksandra Goryachkina 5½-4½ with 2 games remaining in the 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship 12-game match.In Game 10 with even material, Ju Wenjun created a... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 19, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
Ju Wenjun wins Game 9 to even the score (4½-4½) with only 3 games remaining in the 12-game match for the 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship!Game 9 was a wild game filled with tactics, sacrifices and plenty of swings in initiative, where the World Champion Ju... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 17, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
Aleksandra Goryachkina wins Game 8, and now leads at Women’s World Chess Championship 4½-3½ with only 4 games remaining in the 12-game match! Game 8 On Move 45, Aleksandra, ahead a pawn and playing the white pieces, moved her Rook from h1 to e1 (Re1), and Ju... Read more 
by John Bain | Jan 16, 2020 | Blog, Women World Champs 2020
The 2020 Women’s World Chess Championship between challenger Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia) and world champion Ju Wenjun (China) moved from Shanghai, China to Vladivostok, Russia for the second 6 games of the 12-game match. Game 7 Ju Wenjun playing the white... Read more 
