In the early morning of November 8 (UTC+8), the 2021 FIDE Chess.com Grand Swiss in Riga, the capital of Latvia, came to an end. SUFEr Lei Tingjie and Zhu Jiner won the championship and the third place in the women's group respectively. They won not only the rich bonuses prepared by the event organizers, but also the admission ticket to the women's world champion candidate competition in 2022.
Lei Tingjie, a senior in our school's chess team, and Zhu Jiner, a freshman, both performed well and won the first and third places respectively.
On the top board, Zhu Jiner was White against compatriot Lei Tingjie, who had already secured first place the day before. In the Morphy Defence of the Ruy Lopez, for quite a long time did the opponents follow the game Bologan - Kosteniuk (2015), which was won by White. The winner of the tournament deviated on the move 16 but also ended up in a considerably worse position. Most likely, Zhu could have achieved much more than an equal bishop ending with a doubled extra pawn she ended up with. Both players tried their luck by advancing their pawns on the kingside but had to give their bishops for the other's pawn, ending in a drawn pawn endgame. With 7.5/11, Jiner ended on the shared 2-3rd places and qualified for the women's Grand Prix.
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