There are endless discussions about women's chess, and how women's exclusive tournaments hold them back in their rating. A strong advocate Against women's tournaments is none other than Judit Polgar, arguing that segragated events hold women back by depriving them of chances to play against elite competition. Still, despite tournaments being open and never men-only (even the world chess championship plus all qualifying tournaments, for example) most women focus on the women's sections. Therefore its very exciting to see Kazakh GM Bibisara Assaubayeva and Indian GM Vaishali Rameshbabu at the Total Chess World Championship Tour Pilot 2026 in the open field against the male top players! And what can we say, with the black pieces Bibisara grinded down Indian Super GM Arjun Erigaisi in an exciting King's Indian today. Beautiful piece coordination there, preventing all kinds of attacks from whites infiltrating queen, later forcing an exchange of whites F-pawn and just advancing the two resulting free passers on h and g. Despite almost balanced material the position is -4 with a clear game plan for black. Nothing really to do for Arjun here.