Four decisive games in Round 6 of the women's Candidates - 6
Aleksandra Goryachkina kept second place after grinding out a win against Nurgyul Salimova in a Catalan. Rameshbabu Vaishali got into trouble quite soon after the opening against Kateryna Lagno and when she didn't find the difficult but only move 21.Re3 she was just lost. Humpy Koneru has had a difficult start to the event and is almost certainly out of contention. She struggled to maintain equality out of the opening with white against Lei Tingjie and then after the sequence 36.Nf5?! Nb5 37 c4? Nc3! she was busted and lost a few moves later.
Round 6 Standings: 1st Tan Zhongyi 4pts, 2nd Goryachkina 4pts, 3rd Lagno 3.5pts 4th Lei Tingjie 3pts, 5th= Salimova, Vaishali 2.5pts 7th= Koneru, Muzychuk 2pts
Round 7 11th April at 19:30BST: Lagno-Salimova, Goryachkina-Tan, Muzychuk-Koneru, Lei-Vaishali.