The Swiss women’s team

Number 1 on the team list

• Round 2 against WGM Shahenda Wafa A Richter-Rauzer with Black: 20...Rh5 builds the threat against g2, and 22.Rdg1 decides the game. 0-1
• Round 3 against IM Mai Narva A Najdorf with White: 10.f5 wins the space, 11.O-O gives it back, and 42.c5 saves the half point. ½-½
• Round 4 against WGM Joanna Worek A Queen’s Pawn game with Black: 8.g4 attacks two pieces, 8...fxe5 counts correctly, and 43.d5 hands the half point back. ½-½
• Round 5 against IM Eline Roebers A Caro-Kann with Black: 22...Be7 restores the balance, and 23...Bb5 invites the white queen home from the edge. 1-0
• Round 6 against IM Marina Brunello A Moscow Variation with White: 22.Bxh6 opens the black king, and 30.Kh2 instead of 30.Nd5 hands the won position back. ½-½
• Round 7 against IM Carissa Yip A Petroff with Black: 13...O-O-O is a move almost nobody finds, 24.e6 wins a rook and hands the game back, and 43...f3 comes three moves too late. 1-0
• Round 9 against WFM Milana Babic A Caro-Kann with White: six best moves from 15.f4 to 20.Bf2, then 24.Bg3 breaks the advantage, and 34...b5 with thirty-two seconds left clears the road for the h pawn. 1-0
• Round 10 against IM Olga Badelka A Queen’s Pawn game with Black: 12...Bc2 and 13...e5 invite White’s central break, 32.Re8?? with under a minute leaves the c6 knight undefended, and 32...f5 levels the game. ½-½
• Round 11 against IM Deysi Cori T. A Classical French with White: 17...h6 is the tactical error, 18.Rc1 after fifteen minutes leaves 18.Bxb4 on the board twice in a row, and 30.Bxh6 uses the pin on the g7 pawn. 1-0

Number 2 on the team list

• Round 1 against WFM Sarocha Chuemsakul A Scotch with White over sixty-two moves, decided on move 49 when only three moves were legal. 1-0
• Round 3 against WIM Margareth Olde An endgame with Black: between moves 34 and 40, 34...exf4 was the best move five times over and never came. 0-1
• Round 4 against WIM Natasa Richterova An Open Catalan with White: 11.Qxb7 fetches the gambit pawn back, and after 36...Be8 the rook takes the open file with 37.Re4. 1-0
• Round 5 against GM Zhaoqin Peng A Catalan with White: 20.Nxf7 counts the liquidation to the end, and 22.Bxb8 takes the knight that never moved. 1-0
• Round 6 against IM Olga Zimina A London System with Black: 14...Kg7 is one of two legal moves, and in White’s time trouble 29.Ng3 takes the guard off the f4 pawn. 0-1
• Round 7 against GM Irina Krush A Queen’s Gambit Accepted with White: 7.e4 gives a pawn away, two declined queen trades keep the pressure, and 20.Bxg7 fetches it back. ½-½
• Round 8 against WIM Laysa Latifah A Rossolimo with Black: 14.Bxh7+ keeps a pawn, 29...axb5?? gives most of it back, and 30.b4?? brings the full point on board 1. 0-1
• Round 9 against WFM Masa Maksimovic A Kalashnikov with Black: 19...Re5 leaves the a5 pawn standing, 30...Kg8 misses 30...Bxg2, and twelve minutes past the time control 41...Qf7 takes the queen off the e4 pawn. 1-0
• Round 10 against WIM Jasmin-Denise Schloffer A Caro-Kann Exchange with White: an advantage builds up to move 21, 22.Neg5?! and 23.Qd3?? leave the d4-d5 break twice, and in time trouble 35.Be5?? loses the game. 0-1

Number 3 on the team list

• Round 1 against Sirin Bootsumran A Queen’s Indian with Black: 14.Bf1 hands over the c4 pawn, and two connected passed pawns finish the game. 0-1
• Round 2 against WIM Jana Mohamed Zaki A French Defence with White: 11.h3 gives the centre away, 17...g4 hands it back, and 21.Bxd6+ finds the only order. 1-0
• Round 4 against WFM Anna Lhotska A Najdorf with Black in the women’s event: 8...h5 outlaws the storm, 20...hxg3 punishes it. 0-1
• Round 5 against WGM Machteld van Foreest An English Opening with Black: 16...Nxf2 wins rook and two pawns for two knights, and in the end the bishop on c4 pins the f7 pawn. 1-0
• Round 6 against WIM Tea Gueci A Taimanov Sicilian with White: the knight stands on a4 from move 13 to move 32, and 38.Nd6 clears away the last passed pawn. ½-½
• Round 8 against WIM Shafira Devi Herfesa An English Opening with White: 16.Na4?! invites 16...cxd4, 25.Bf4?? leaves 25.fxg6 on the board, and in time trouble 35.Qxe4?? and 36.Qxb7?? hand the point away. 0-1
• Round 9 against WFM Sara Jacimovic A King’s Indian Attack with White: 4.b4 costs eight minutes with nothing to show, 19.Na5 starts the walk via b7 and c5, and 35.Rxe6 wins the rook for a pawn. 1-0
• Round 10 against WFM Chiara Polterauer A Najdorf with Black, Adams Attack: 19...e4 after twenty minutes hands the small edge back, 22...Bxb2 and 24...Bc3 fetch a pawn, and 32.f4 puts both bishop and rook in the fire at once. 0-1
• Round 11 against WIM Maria Teresa Jimenez Salas A Najdorf with Black, English Attack: 32.d7? goes one square too far, 33...Qc7?? after nine minutes hands the winning position away, 38.Rd4? gives it back, and 44.d8=Q?? walks into the bishop on g5. 0-1

Number 4 on the team list

• Round 1 against Natrada Kaewwattha A Ruy Lopez with White: a knight walks to f5 in four moves, and the a6 rook decides it on f6 on move 29. 1-0
• Round 2 against WCM Dema Alaa An Alapin with Black: 10...Nxc3 leaves the isolated c3 pawn behind, and 37...Bb4 takes the last guard off the white king. 0-1
• Round 3 against WFM Sofia Blokhin A Dragon with White: 21...cxd5 takes the guard off b5, and 36.Kb1 and 37.Ka1 are each the only move that holds. 1-0
• Round 5 against WIM Robin Duson A Ruy Lopez Exchange with White: 15.Nxd6+ takes the bishop first, and 24...Kb7 leaves the d6 pawn without a guard. 1-0
• Round 6 against WFM Kamilla Rubinshtein A Kan Sicilian with Black: 20.f5 leaves the c4 pawn hanging, and 33...Bc6 attacks both white knights at once. 0-1
• Round 7 against IM Tatev Abrahamyan A Kan Sicilian with Black: 17...Na4 collects the b2 pawn, and 19...Nd7 takes the b2 knight’s way home away. 1-0
• Round 8 against WIM Ummi Fisabilillah An Alapin with Black: 14...g6 is the inaccuracy, 15.h4 goes unfound by the opponent, and a same-colour bishop endgame shares the point. ½-½
• Round 10 against WFM Emilia Deak-Sala A Sicilian Kupreichik with White: 22.Bf2?! gives the half pawn back, 25.Na2?! opens the wrong wing, and 47...Rb8?? in eight seconds throws away 47...f5 and the win. ½-½
• Round 11 against FM Fiorella Contreras Huaman A Caro-Kann Tartakower with White: 13.Qg3? misses 13.Nf4, 35.Qb5?? throws the winning position away, and the opponent’s 57...Kf3?? opens the perpetual that saves the half point. ½-½

Number 5 on the team list

• Round 1 against Purichaya Chinkulkitniwat A Nimzowitsch Defence with Black: a knight retreats with 11...Nb8 and captures on f2 ten moves later. 0-1
• Round 2 against WIM Joy Romany A Ruy Lopez with White: in mutual time trouble 32.Rxc7 is left on the board, and 35...a4 vacates the square where the rook attacks the queen. 1-0
• Round 3 against WCM Grete Olde A delayed Alapin with Black: 33...Qc6 would have won, the clock read forty seconds, and the rook on c3 saved the draw. ½-½
• Round 4 against WFM Lucie Rybackova A Caro-Kann with White: 39...Ke5 gives up the e4 pawn, and 46.Kc3 is the only move in the bishop against knight ending. ½-½
• Round 7 against IM Rose Atwell A French Defence with White: 10.b4 gives two pawns away, 19.Rxb7 fetches them back, and 27.Rxa7 takes the one pawn too many. ½-½
• Round 8 against WIM Chelsie Monica Ignesias Sihite A Ruy Lopez Anderssen with White: 18.Bd1?! instead of 18.d4 gives up the centre, 36.Nd2?? with forty seconds throws away the draw, and 49.Rc5?? instead of 49.e6 lets the last chance slip. 0-1
• Round 9 against Sofija Mimic A Taimanov Sicilian with Black: 22...Bd8?! misses 22...e5, 25.Ndxb5?? gives the piece away, and the closing chain from Nd5 to Qd5+ holds every move under two minutes. 0-1
• Round 11 against Flor De Maria Zarate Oyague A Nimzo-Indian Kmoch with Black: 19...Kh8 waits after two long thinks, 20.f5 is missed by the opponent, and 23...Nc7 instead of 23...exf4 pulls the knight off the g4 to e6 diagonal. 1-0