Women are doing well in Gibraltar

From the organizer’s photo album

Dear fans of women’s chess!

I am pleased to report that after 3 rounds in the very strong Gibraltar Masters, there are 7 women with 2.5 points out of 3:

Humpy Koneru
Antoaneta Stefanova
Pia Cramling
Lela Javakhishvili
Viktorija Cmilyte
Natalia Zhukova
and myself

Only 3 (men) participants have 3/3:
Michael Adams
Laurent Fressinet
Jan Gustafsson

The full results can be seen on the organizer’s web site.

Today I drew GM Gata Kamsky (2707 live rating) from the USA, the game was very interesting, you can see it below.



Posted by Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women’s World Chess Champion