2011 Women's World Chess Championship: Humpy Koneru vs Hou Yifan - Game 1

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This is game 1 from the 2011 Women's World Chess Championship match between the challenger Humpy Koneru of India and the reigning Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan of China. This match is being held in Tirana, Albania and has time controls set as follows:
Each game shall be 90 minutes for first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.

Opening: Catalan
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Qc2 a6 8. Qxc4 b5 9. Qc2 Bb7 10. Bd2 Be4 11. Qc1 Bb7 12. a4 b4 13. Bf4 Nd5 14. Bg5 Nd7 15. Bxe7 Qxe7 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 a5 18. Nd2 Ba6 19. Nc4 Qc5 20. Ne3 Qe7 21. Rd1 Rad8 22. Nxd5 exd5 23. Qc6 Bxe2 24. Rxd5 Rxd5 25. Qxd5 c5 26. Re1 Bg4 27. Rc1 Rc8 28. Qc4 h5 29. Bd5 Qd7 30. Re1 Rd8 31. e6 fxe6 32. Bxe6+ Bxe6 33. Rxe6 Qf7 34. h4 Rf8 35. Qe2 Qf3 36. Qxf3 Rxf3 37. Re5 c4 38. Rxa5 Rb3 39. Rc5 Rxb2 40. Rxc4 Kf7 41. Kg2 b3 42. Rb4 g6 43. Kf3 Ra2 44. Rxb3 Rxa4 45. Re3 Kf6 46. Re4 Ra3+ 47. Kf4 Ra2 48. f3 Ra5 49. Rc4 Rf5+ 50. Ke3 Re5+ 51. Re4 Ra5 52. Rf4+ Kg7 53. Rc4 Ra6 54. Rc5 Kf6 55. Rd5 Ra3+ 56. Ke4 Ra6 57. Rd4 Re6+ 58. Kf4 Ra6 59. Rb4 Rc6 60. g4 hxg4 61. Kxg4 Rc5 62. Rb6+ Kg7 63. Re6 Kf7 64. Re4 Ra5 65. f4 Ra1 66. Re3 Kf6 67. Rb3 Rg1+ 68. Rg3 Ra1 69. Rg2 Rb1 70. Rh2 Rg1+ 71. Kf3 Kf5 72. h5 gxh5 73. Rxh5+ Kf6 74. Ra5 Rf1+ 75. Ke3 Re1+ 76. Kf2 Rb1 77. Kg3 Rg1+ 78. Kf3 Rf1+ 79. Kg4 Rg1+ 80. Kf3 1/2-1/2

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[wilsonwangvuisoon]

TQ. This is a beautiful work of art! Great comments, excellent animation. I'm going to recommend my students watch thru' the coverage.

Looking forward to your coming LCC coverage. I learn so much that I felt blessed.

[ChessNetwork]

@wilsonwangvuisoon Thank you very much. It's appreciated. :)

[DynamicDeclan]

i really enjoyed watching this, not your every day chess tournament match thank you jerry :)

[ChessNetwork]

@DynamicDeclan Thanks!

[WfireH]

will you be covering all the matches?

[ChessNetwork]

@WfireH I hope to cover all games yes. :)

[Nimzowitz]

nice new term, "healthy pawn" :)

[heruilin]

Fantastic commentary .. especially identification of weakened squares.

[babykevinxoxo]

kOSTINIUK has really lost ratings 2448 is her ratng now only 3 women could compete with the men.

[mrhowardvalencia]

Thank you for the great commentary.

[babykevinxoxo]

December and January is a new months Hou could get on a roll! How many games has Hou lost since she has been champion? Anand lost to Kosteniuk and Hou Yifan beat her bad in 2010.

[classicmusic05]

@babykevinxoxo I never said it would be too easy for man... this isn't about that, male chess players don't have some sort of ability that females don't; I said it would be too easy for the players in the top 10. Also I don't see why you playing Judit Polgar is relevant to this argument.

Go look at chessgames . com and look at Hou Yifan's games, she's good but she looses too often to players that are not even in the top 10. In the other hand, you have no reason to believe Judit Polgar sucks.

[babykevinxoxo]

@classicmusic05 write Judit a fan letter and ask her to play me. If I dont last at least 30 moves I will bow at Judits feet.

[babykevinxoxo]

@classicmusic05 um she will be the second woman to reach 2700. She is only 17. What the heck are you talking about of coarse I know a lot about Chess. If you want Sir you can ask Judit to play me a 2 game match. I just ask Judit to give me 30 days to prepare for the match. I will make her Work for the win! It would be to easy for the men you say? There is no proof of your theory. The only way to proof is to PLAY!