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Kateryna Lahno Vs Yifan Hou, Round 9 Women’s Grand Prix 2011 in Rostov, Russia: Ukrainian GM Kateryna Lahno played a great tournament, eventually finishing in clear 2nd place with 7/11 to Yifan Hou’s unstoppable performance with 8/11. This round 9 match-up made things interesting as Lahno gave the Chinese phenom her only loss of the tournament to try to catch up late. Hou’s opening led her to a difficult position as she was unable to achieve the dynamic compensation necessary for her inferior pawn structure. It’s tough to say exactly where black went wrong, although the forced complications after 17. …h4!? certainly did not work out well. Maybe a better plan for black would have been to double the rooks on the e-file, however white would be able to force through with e4 and achieve a dangerous space advantage and attack. Instead of the greedy 21. h3?! to hold on to the extra pawn, Lahno chose the aggressive 21. e4! and achieved a decisive kingside attack due to black’s lack of coordination. A great game and tournament by GM Lahno, although she was unable to catch up to Hou at the end.
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE WITH INTERACTIVE PGN AND TONS OF INFORMATION: http://www.iChess.net/2011/08/16/2011-womens-chess-grand-prix-rostov
[Event “2011 Women’s Grand Prix”]
[Site “Rostov, Russia”]
[Date “2011.08.12”]
[Round “9”]
[White “Kateryna Lahno”]
[Black “Yifan Hou”]
[Result “1-0”]
[Opening “QGD: 3.Nc3”]
[ECO “D31”]
[NIC “EO.64”]
1. c4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. d4 Bb4 4. e3 Nf6 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 O-O 7. cxd5 exd5
8. Bd3 b6 9. Ne2 c5 10. O-O Ba6 11. f3 Bxd3 12. Qxd3 Re8 13. Ng3 Nc6 14. Bb2
c4 15. Qd2 h5 16. Rae1 Re6 17. Qc2 h4 18. Nf5 g6 19. Nxh4 Ng4 20. fxg4 Qxh4
21. e4 Rae8 22. e5 Qxg4 23. Re3 f5 24. Rg3 Qe4 25. Qc1 Qh4 26. Rxf5 Qxg3 27.
hxg3 gxf5 28. Qg5+ Kf7 29. Qxf5+ Ke7 30. Qf3 Rg8 31. Bc1 Nd8 32. Bf4 Reg6
33. Qxd5 Ne6 34. Qe4 a5 35. d5 Nxf4 36. gxf4 b5 37. d6+ Kd7 38. Qb7+ Ke6 39.
Qe7+ Kd5 40. d7 Rxg2+ 41. Kh1 {Black resigned}
