WWCC 2020 Game 1: Goryachkina puts Ju on notice
The first game of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2020 (WWCC), held in Shanghai, China, ended with a hard-fought draw. Ye Jiangchuan, President of the Chinese Chess Federation, and Alexandr Shmanevskiy, Consul General of the Russian Federation in Shanghai, made the first symbolic moves in the game. The opening was as cautious as it gets: Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia), […]