Dancing Horses got Crazy & Final Standings | Koneru vs Kosteniuk | Cairns Cup 2020
Channel: Mordimer's Chess Channel
Date: 19/02/2020

Incredible game and tough fight for the first place of Cairns Cup 2020. Koneru Humpy won in completely drawn knight endgame during the event organized by Saint Louis Chess Club. It was the strongest women chess tournament in the history. We had Nimzo Indian Defense and the players exchanged most of the pieces quite fast. So it could become one of the most boring chess games 2020. Then it turned into the exciting knight endgame with chances for both sides. If you want to improve chess skills we highly recommend to watch chess games with commentary and as Mordimer Chess aspires to become the best youtube chess channel, it should be natural choice to watch the material we present. In this case it's one of the best chess videos for intermediate players, understanding the endgame is very crucial for improve chess strategy overall. Enjoying chess games analyzed by others will help you to understand learn chess better.

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Humpy Koneru vs Aleksandra Kosteniuk,  Cairns Cup 2020 
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Normal Variation, Ragozin Variation [E51] 
1. Nf3 d5 2. d4 Nf6 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd2 b6
7. Rc1 Ba6 8. Qa4 Qe7 9. a3 Bxc3 10. Bxc3 Ne4 11. Be2 Nxc3
12. Rxc3 dxc4 13. Bxc4 Bb7 14. Be2 Rc8 15. Qc2 c5 16. dxc5
Rxc5 17. Rxc5 Qxc5 18. Qxc5 bxc5 19. Bb5 Na6 20. Ke2 Nc7
21. Bd3 Nd5 22. Rc1 Rc8 23. Nd2 Nb6 24. f3 Kf8 25. Nc4 Bd5
26. Na5 c4 27. Bb1 e5 28. e4 Be6 29. Ba2 Ke7 30. b3 cxb3
31. Rxc8 Nxc8 32. Bxb3 Bxb3 33. Nxb3 Kd6 34. Kd3 Nb6 35. Kc3
Na4+ 36. Kb4 Nb2 37. Kb5 Nd1 38. Nd2 Nc3+ 39. Kb4 Ne2 40. Nc4+
Ke6 41. Kb5 g6 42. Ka6 f5 43. Kxa7 fxe4 44. fxe4 Nc3 45. Kb6
Nxe4 46. Ne3 Nc3 47. Kc5 Ne4+ 48. Kb5 Nd6+ 49. Kc5 Ne4+
50. Kb4 Nd6 51. Nc4 Nf5 52. Kc5 h5 53. Nd2 Nd6 54. a4 Nb7+
55. Kc6 Nd8+ 56. Kc7 Ke7 57. a5 Ne6+ 58. Kc6 Kd8 59. a6 Kc8
60. a7 Nd4+ 61. Kb6 1-0

Link to Study created of this game: 
https://lichess.org/study/CsMjpwNV/6U3crghI#0

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0:07 Introduction of Humpy Koneru vs Alexandra Kosteniuk
2:25 The chess game begins here

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