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Aleksandra Goryachkina vs Wenjun Ju
Ju - Goryachkina Women's World Championship Match (2020), Vladivostok RUS, rd 10, Jan-20
Queen's Gambit Declined: Exchange. Positional Variation (D35)  ·  0-1

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Jan-20-20  SChesshevsky: A tough loss for Goryachkina. In the last couple of games, seems like she felt the need to play more actively or optimistically. Was it necessary? Wouldn't be a surprise if some nerves crept in.

Appears a relatively rare line for Black. Some interesting games:

Workman like win for white

Aronian vs Harikrishna, 2016

Sacrifice with fireworks

Kramnik vs A G Aleksandrov, 2018

Jan-20-20
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  tamar: GM Romanishin clued in Short and Hou Yifan that both players were following Ganguly vs L'Ami, 2020 played the day before in the Challengers at Wijk aan Zee.

After 18...h5 a nearly identical position is reached with the only difference that Kd7 instead of Ke7 was played by L'Ami

It is hard to see what attracted either player to this position, other than it was fresh in their memory from the previous day.

Jan-20-20
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  woldsmandriffield: The stem game is Carlsen-Kramnik 2016. Big Vlad tried ..Nb6 and lost. Hence the ugly pawn structure approach:

Carlsen vs Kramnik, 2016

Jan-20-20
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  OhioChessFan: Odd that for the second game in a row, AG stuck a Knight on the rim for no particular reason.
Jan-20-20  dumbgai: That pawn structure after 17. exf4 hurts to look at.
Jan-20-20  rcs784: Funny that CG calls this the "Positional Variation." LOL!
Jan-20-20
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  HeMateMe: White lost this game when she allowed herself to be stuck with a static pawn majority on the kingside? Seems to have given black enough to win.
Jan-20-20
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  moronovich: Black is stuck with an awful bishop in this variation.White is better but has to work for the win.24.b4 is a positional bummer which shows no real understanding of the position.The rookmanouver g1-g5 would have tied black further up.
Jan-21-20  James J. Henderson: Much respect to the very talented Goryachkina, but I can't help thinking this game represents a sort of poetic justice after what she did in game 6.

Ju Wenjun defended like a true champion.

Jul-22-20  issakhalid: i just started studying this wc match and i have to say,the games are superb . they tend to deviate from theory early on , the middlegames have all had some sort of major instructive imbalance(poor structure for one side , bad minor piece good minor piece etc) and they almost always enter an interesting endgame . of course this is heavily biased as i started by studying the decisive games first,still a great match overall
Dec-29-21  DouglasGomes: Bxh5 is hardly ever an real threat, so Rg5 does almost nothing

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