There are some exceptional chess players, with their enormous creativity and appetite for risk, who have never been world champions in the classical format, but are as loved by fans, organisers and sponsors as if they were. For example, the Spaniard Alexei Shirov. And among women, the Russian Valentina Gunina (Murmansk, 1989), whom we are talking about for the fourth time in this collection of videos.
And with a game of great beauty and visual impact, as well as very instructive. Her strong rival, the French Marie Sebag, makes a mistake that is enough to be struck down with a very precise attack on both flanks and the center, until the checkmate.
