Rests: Ju Wenjun was not able to get out of the concept of an early defeat at the chess World Cup.
Photo: Image/NTB/Carina Johansen
Ju Wenjun rarely seems impressed. This applies to their media appearance as well as to their playing style. The chess player interests little about what is fabricated around her. There is a factuality of the events and to react, unmoved and with the necessary stability.
With this style of play, Ju defended the world championship title in chess for the fourth time this week, this time against Tan Zonghyi. If this were a wrestling match, the contrast would be: fire against ice. Tan Zonghyi was given opportunities precisely because she is able to play into a intoxication, she has repeatedly proven in past games. If she gets rolling, she doesn’t stop anymore.
In short it looked as if Ju Wenjun could also be victims of this fire roller. In game two of the World Cup, she got bad under the bikes. But Ju Wenjun is not impressed by defeats. In the further course of the match, she deteriorated her opponent with defensive stability, which must not be confused with passivity. If Ju Wenjun offered the opportunity to counterattack, she used it mercilessly. Again and again she let Tan Zonghyi run into counterattack and simply put her opponent off with this style of play, which is more a basic system of her game than a concrete strategy. After the second game, Tan no longer won a game. Ju not only dominated her, but disenchanted it.
It would not be a surprise if Ju Wenjun ceded now. In the chess of women there is nobody at their level, and cocks fights like the men would distract them too much from what she was actually about: about chess.
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