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Anna Muzychuk vs Yifan Hou
Women Grand Prix Geneva (2013), Geneva SUI, rd 5, May-08
Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack. Main Line (B52)  ·  1-0

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May-09-13  mike1: Black did not get a foot on the ground. 11.. a6 and 12...e6 look suspicious to me.22... Re8 needs to be replaced by Bd4. 23Bg5 is already killing.
May-09-13  xanadu: I agree with mike1. 12...e6 was played several time before but seems yo introduce a weakness in the pawn structure that looks remarked after 13Nxc6.13Nxc6 is the novelty by White according to CG; Nakamura and Tiviakov played 13Ne2. White illustrates the way for playing against Hou Yifan, avoiding tactical complications, waiting till finding structural weakness in Hou position.
May-09-13  Nerwal: This type of Maroczy bind made me sceptical about the setup with ♕xd7 and ♘c6. Black gets a passive position, and this is it. Actually the best idea might be 12... ♕d8 (!) as first played by Tigran Petrosian in a similar position.

Still it's pessimistic to call black lost after 23. ♗g5 (maybe with Carlsen as white, but not Anna Muzychuk). Throughout the game Hou refuses to make her bishop bad by playing 23... f6, or 30... e5, or 32... e5. I am not sure this is the correct strategy as the activity of the ♗g7 is not the main feature of the position; the main battleground is white's fight to control open files for her major pieces to make the advantage of the exchange felt. Cementing the ♘ outpost at d4 plays a bigger role in this.

Black loses the game for good no sooner than when she played this strange manoeuver ♘d4-c2-b4-c6; what did this accomplish ? this looks like some typical time trouble panic in an inferior position.

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