FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Match in Lviv has finished. World Champion of 2015 Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine) and three-time World Champion of 2010, 2011 and 2013 Hou Yifan (China) competed for world chess crown. With the final score 3:6 Hou Yifan became the Women’s World Chess Champion for the fourth time. Georgios Makropoulos, FIDE Deputy…
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The ninth game of the Women’s World Chess Championship Match finished with a victory of Hou Yifan and with the final score 3:6 she became the Women’s World Champion for the fourth time. It was the last and decisive game of the Match. Maria Muzychuk chose to play Sicilian Defence and managed to get playable…
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The eighth game of the Women’s World Championship Match was drawn after 44 moves and 4 hours of play. Maria Muzychuk, who had white pieces today, managed to get slight edge after the opening and even though Black had to play passively, it was not enough to put too much pressure on her opponent. Women’s…
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In the 6th round of the Women’s World Championship Match Maria Muzychuk lost a game with white pieces and let her opponent Hou Yifan to increase the lead in the Women’s World Championship Match. The score in the Match is 4:2 and Chinese player has 2 points lead. Maria Muzychuk came back to Italian Game…
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The fifth game of the Women’s World Championship Match has finished in a draw after 3 hours of play. The score in the Match is 2-3 in a favor of the Challenger. Hou Yifan had white pieces for the second time. The measure of changing the colors after the fourth game had a aim to…
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Before the beginning of the 5th round they greeted the chess players with International Women’s Day and presented them flowers, tickets to the football match and souvenirs. A football player Volodymyr Kostevych made the first symbolic move with white pieces instead of Hou Yifan and one of the sponsors of the Match Nazar Palidovych with…
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The fourth game of the Women’s World Championship Match finished in a draw after 22 moves. Maria Muzychuk didn’t avoid repeating the central variation of the Spanish Game, despite her lose in the second round. As Hou Yifan mentioned at the press conference, there were many different lines in this sharp variation and she had…
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According to a good tradition every round of the Match starts with a symbolic first move made by honorable guests. Today it was a turn for Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, the lead vokalist of ‘Okean Elzy’, the most successful rock band in Ukraine, and his father Ivan Vakarchuk, a professor of physics at Lviv University and the…
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The third game of the Women’s World Championship Match finished in a draw after 3 hours of play and Hou Yifan keeps on leading in the Match with 2:1 score. Playing White Maria Muzychuk, switched from her main move 1.e4 to 1.d4, which is relatively rare guest in her games. She went for the Catalan…
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On March 4th, the first free day at the Women’s World Chess Championship Match, a giant chess board with pieces was installed right opposite Ratusha – City Council building. A dozen of children, who are the members of chess in school clubs, performed a master class at a giant board. ‘Every day we are trying…
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