Four decisive games in Round 6 of the women's Candidates - 6

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Tan Zhongyi leads the women's Candidates on 4.5/6 after a round where all the games finished decisively. Tan played the Colle system against Anna Muzychuk and hit a bullseye as black drifted into trouble. Objectively there weren't early problems but Carlsen won with black playing 9...cxd4 against Bluebaum, you have to take that as a serious recommendation. After 9...Be7 10.Ne5 cxd4 11.exd4 Nxe5 12.dxe5 white was already better and following 12...Nd7? Tan was close to winning. Tan made some inaccuracies along the way but Muzychuk never equalised and lost in 37 moves. Aleksandra Goryachkina kept second place after grinding out a win against Nurgyul Salimova in a Catalan. Rameshbabu Vaishali got into trouble quite soon after the opening against Kateryna Lagno and when she didn't find the difficult but only move 21.Re3 she was just lost. Humpy Koneru has had a difficult start to the event and is almost certainly out of contention. She struggled to maintain equality out of the opening with white against Lei Tingjie and then after the sequence 36.Nf5?! Nb5 37 c4? Nc3! she was busted and lost a few moves later. Round 6 Standings: 1st Tan Zhongyi 4pts, 2nd Goryachkina 4pts, 3rd Lagno 3.5pts 4th Lei Tingjie 3pts, 5th= Salimova, Vaishali 2.5pts 7th= Koneru, Muzychuk 2pts Round 7 11th April at 19:30BST: Lagno-Salimova, Goryachkina-Tan, Muzychuk-Koneru, Lei-Vaishali.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/ev ... candidates