But they will be forced to.
Aside from needing a phone
That is a huge one for me. Yes, I have a phone. But I spend most of my waking time in front of a desktop or laptop. With Whatsapp, Telegram or Signal I can read and write messages from the computer, copy/paste text to the documents I am writing, and send and download files. SMS are more limited.
Round 7 (Semifinals) - Open Section
August 19 - August 21
Bracket
- S1: Carlsen vs Abasov
- S2: Caruana vs Pragg
- 3rd place match: Loser of S1 vs Loser of S2
- Final: Winner of S1 vs Winner of S2
Winning odds
| Seed | Player | Odds of for next round | Winning odds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Magnus Carlsen 🇳🇴 2835 | 91.92% | 64.99% |
| 3 | Fabiano Caruana 🇺🇸 2782 | 74.87% | 28.62% |
| 30 | Praggnanandhaa R 🇮🇳 2690 | 25.13% | 4.81% |
| 69 | Nijat Abasov 🇦🇿 2632 | 8.08% | 1.58% |
Classified after Tiebreaks
- Praggnanandhaa R 5/9 🇮🇳 2690
Round 7 - Women's Section
August 19 - August 21
3rd place match
Zhongyi Tan 🇨🇳 2523 vs Anna Muzychuk 🇺🇦 2504
Winning odds: 53.87% - 46.13%
Final
Aleksandra Goryachkina 🏳️ 2557 vs Nurgyul Salimova 🇧🇬 2409
Winning odds: 83.31% - 16.69%
Classified after Tiebreaks
- Nurgyul Salimova 3.5/6 🇧🇬 2409
Black could always move the rook to a1 before promoting the pawn. It forces a trade, but still leaves black with an advantage.
This is too slow. After 1... Bxf4 2. Ng2/Kh1/Kg1 Ra1, white can simply take the pawn for free with 3. Rxb2, and black loses all the advantage.
If white moves his knight to g2, check with the bishop at g3 also gets him another pawn and opens up the king’s defenses a little.
Trading a bishop for a pawn (one pawn that wasn't passed and only in the third rank) is not a very good deal, and black makes no progress towards promoting. Also, in endgames, king activity tends to be more important that king safety.
after 1... Bxf4
White can play either 2.Ng2, 2.Kh1 or 2.Kg1
which in all cases stop the threat of 2... b1=Q because now 3. Rxb1 is available
The move Bb4 has two functions: clearing the way for a possible discovered check in the second rank, and shielding the promotion square from white rook. On the other hand, the move Bxf4 only clears the way for the discovered check, but doesn't protect b1, so promotion is no longer possible.
This is the position after 1... Bb4:
after 2. Kh1:
and after 2... b1=Q#
How are you proposing that 3. Rxb1 is going to happen?
No. After 1... Bb4 2. Kh1 b1=Q#, white rook can't take the queen because its path is blocked by the bishop in b4. In fact, it is checkmate.
Holy latency!
Day 1
Final: Goryachkina vs Salimova 1/2-1/2
3rd place match: Muzychuk vs Tan 1-0