In a match in which the two players struggled to gain the tiniest of advantages, GM Ju Wenjun took a chance in the biggest-stakes game of them all.
The result: Ju won the 12th and final game of her women’s world championship clash in Chongqing, China, against compatriot GM Lei Tingjie, taking the overall match by a score of 6½-5½ and successfully defending the title she has held now since 2018.
The gamble pays off on 20 … Qxc3?! 21. Bxc3 Rcb8 22. Nd4, and now 22…e5? may have cost Lei her chance at the crown. The advance fatally weakens the Black d-pawn and gives Ju’s nimble knights some beautiful blockading squares after 23. Nf5! Bf8 24. Bxe5! Rxb5 25. g4 g6 26. Nd4 Rb2 27. Nb1!, and the redeployed White pieces will soon lock down and target Black’s fatally weak center.
Minnesota IM-elect Alice Lee, still just 13, confirmed her place as one of the country’s most promising young talents, clinching the 10-player invitational with a round to spare over the weekend. Black takes a positional trump on 26. b3 Rad8 27. Bf2?! Nc3 28. Nxa5 28. Ne2+, getting one of the bishops off the board. In the tricky play that follows, White manages to eliminate all of Black’s queenside pawns but Lee gets her rooks in position to escort her kingside pawns down the board.
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