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Zhongyi Tan vs Wenjun Ju
Ju - Tan Women's World Championship Match (2025), Shanghai CHN, rd 6, Apr-10
English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. King's Knight Variation (A15)  ·  0-1

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Apr-10-25
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  Open Defence: The choice of opening seemed to play into Black's style of grinding out the win
Apr-10-25
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  offramp: I think Wenjun Ju (Black) outplayed Zhongyi Tan (White).

Zhongyi Tan is going to do something drastic during the break, before game 7 in Shanghai.

Remember that Shanghai is the name of a city and a verb.


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31. h4.
*******
When the queens were swapped off, I thought it would be a draw.


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The commentator WIM Houska at YouTube spotted the next move as an error:
35. f4?
<It's worth remembering that Black has only 3 pawns on the kingside, whereas White has 4 pawns>. What went wrong??
*******
Really, the big difference in the activity of the two kings.


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43. Nd3.
*******
Black ended up with a kingside pawn-majority:


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47. Ke5. Black has a won game.
*******
This is the end of the game.


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52...g2. 53. 0-1.
If 53. f7 Ne5
54. f8Q Ng6+.


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Apr-10-25
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  offramp: My mistake: the players are moving to Chongquing.
Apr-10-25
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  MissScarlett: The air pollution is so bad there it's colloquially known as Choquing.
Apr-10-25
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  PawnSac: < offramp: Remember that Shanghai is the name of a city and a verb. >

"remember" ? I never knew in the first place! My dear friend, you can't just drop lines like this without specificity. You hung the bait, so, Do enlighten us!

I'm expecting some strange or delightful irony. Like.. the verb means "to stir-fry a cat" or something memorable.

Apr-10-25  stone free or die: https://www.iqair.com/us/earth
Apr-10-25
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  PawnSac: <MissScarlett: The air pollution is so bad there it's colloquially known as Choquing.>

Yes, it's very difficult to pronounce that "n" in the middle of a cough.

Apr-10-25
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  perfidious: Per merriamwebster.com:

<transitive verb

1 a : to put aboard a ship by force often with the help of liquor or a drug b : to put by force or threat of force into or as if into a place of detention 2 : to put by trickery into an undesirable position>

Apr-10-25  stone free or die: The dictionary definition is missing the element of servitude originally involved. Crimping is a synonym for that usage.

I recommend the wiki article for the origin of the term and it's sorry history.

Apr-10-25  stone free or die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shang...

(Empressment is the military equivalent)

Apr-10-25  DaeWang: This was a grandmasterful positional crush. W got a slightly cramped position (bad QN) out of the opening, and B never let her find even a sniff of play (let alone counterplay).
Apr-11-25
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  sakredkow: I keep hearing US administration talking about how much coal the Chinese use as if that's something we should be emulating. Yesterday was coal day here in the states. Go, Zhongyi Tan! Make this a fight!
Apr-11-25
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  sakredkow: Exactly 100 years ago Nimzowitsch played 6. d3 against Marshall at Marienbad in what was apparently the maiden voyage of this opening (1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. b3). White lost that game too - Nimzo's only loss of the tournament. He ended up sharing first place with Rubinstein.

A Nimzowitsch vs Marshall, 1925

Apr-11-25
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  HeMateMe: You can't allow such king penetration. I think White should have kept queens on the board. Maybe 27. Q-h5 is the losing move

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