Hottest Checkmate At Women’s Russian Championship

Anastasia Bodnaruk (2255) vs Valentina Gunina (2392)
ch-RUS w (2006), Gorodets RUS, rd 1
Sicilian Defense: Closed Variation (B23)
1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. f4 Nc6 4. Bb5 Bd7 5. Nf3 e6 6. O-O Nge7 7. a4 g6 8. d4 cxd4 9. Nxd4 Bg7 10. Be3 O-O 11. Qd2 Qc7 12. Rad1 Rfd8 13. Qf2 b6 14. Bxc6 Bxc6 15. Qh4 Qd7 16. f5 exf5 17. Nxc6 Nxc6 18. exf5 Re8 19. Bh6 Be5 20. Nd5 Qd8 21.Bg5 Qc8 22. Qh6 Bg7 23. Nf6+ Kf8 24. Qxh7 Ne7 25. Qg8+
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Video Thumbnail Attribution: By Andreas Kontokanis from Piraeus, Greece (IM Bodnaruk Anastasia) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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