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How interesting. Not the first high-level rook and flank pawn v rook ending to go haywire this week. Strictly speaking she was plus eleven, but those assessments are so misleading in endgames like that.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 21, 2019 6:20 pm

Strictly speaking she was plus eleven, but those assessments are so misleading in endgames like that.

In a five man tablebase position, an assessment of +11 is not so much misleading as absurd. It is either winning or not.

I was not at all surprised when Goryachkina went wrong in a seven man tablebase ending, which was very difficult. I was surprised that Ju Wenjun herself went wrong in an apparently simpler position later on, but it just goes to show...

I've amended the thread title so as save trouble later on.

Invisible mending?

Ah, I see it now.

Banner advertising the venue.

https://amp.theguardian.com/cities/2015 ... con-valley

An early draw, as I expected: but not the early draw I expected.

The other one arrives though: Ju takes a perpetual, and Koneru wins the tournament.

Finished are Koneru (8), Ju (7.5) and Lagno (6.5)

Goryachkina (6.5) still playing

She made a bit of a meal of beating Cramling, not that it matters, but she won in the end to join Ju in second.

So presumably in the GP that's Koneru 160 points, Ju & Goryachkina 120 points

Gunina gives up after trying for 52 moves to win R+N v R, so Lagno gets 90 GP points in 4th