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Sep122013
Women's World Championship: An Easy Draw for Ushenina in Game 2
Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 8:21AM
Taking a page out of Boris Gelfand's book, Anna Ushenina played the Sveshnikov Sicilian against Hou Yifan in the second game of their world championship match and made a very easy procedural draw with the Black pieces. Hou needs to find something much more testing if she hopes to get anything with the white pieces in the match, as Ushenina was under no pressure at all in this game.
Hou can be happy to lead 1.5-.5, as she has lost the theoretical battles in both games. I think she's the clearly superior player, but if she keeps ending up worse with Black and getting nothing with White she will find troubles soon enough.
They will be off tomorrow, while the Sinquefield Cup is off today.
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