12 December 2010
Chess news and chess trivia blog (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2010
Hello Everyone,
After a fantastic game with Black yesterday in the second match of Round 3 Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk settled for a draw under time pressure despite having a win for several moves on. You can watch her on course to the title at the Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 in Hatay, Turkey, live today at the official website here. Games start 14.00 hours Central European Time.
All the other games were a draw too in the second set of matches in Round 3 except for GM Zhu Chen beating Hou Yifan and setting up another set of tie-breaks today.
Another draw between Koneru Humpy and Anna Zatonskih saw the latter being knocked out as Humpy had won the first game in Round 3 (Round 3a results at our earlier post with games are here).
GM Kateryna Lahno also knocked out WGM Huang Qian and GM Xue Zhao knocked out IM Dembo Yelena. IM Anna Muzychuk was also knocked out by WGM Ju Wenjun.
Here are the results of Round 3b (Games in next post)
- GM Cmilyte, Viktorija LTU 2514-IM Skripchenko, Almira FRA 2460 ½-½
- GM Koneru, Humpy IND 2600-IM Zatonskih, Anna USA 2478 ½-½
- GM Zhu, Chen QAT 2477-GM Hou, Yifan CHN 2591 1-0
- IM Dembo, Yelena GRE 2454-GM Zhao, Xue CHN 2474 ½-½
- IM Muzychuk, Mariya UKR 2462-IM Harika, Dronavalli IND 2525 ½-½
- WGM Huang, Qian CHN 2402-GM Lahno, Kateryna UKR 2522 ½-½
- WGM Ju, Wenjun CHN 2524-IM Muzychuk, Anna SLO 2530 ½-½
- WGM Ruan, Lufei CHN 2480-GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 2507 ½-½
The tie-breaks lined up for Sunday are:
- Chess Queen Alexandra Kosteniuk – Lufei Ruan
- Harika Dronavalli – Mariya Muzychuk
- Almira Skripchenko – Cmilyte, Viktorija
- Hou Yifan – Zhu Chen
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