19 November 2012

Khanty-Mansiysk Women’s World Chess Championship 2012 Quarter-finals: Stefanova, Sebag, Xue, Dronavalli, Wenjun, Qian, Ushenina, N Kosintseva
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Hi everyone,

Women’s World Chess Championship 2012 in Khanty Mansiysk gets as unpredictable as possible: Underdogs who had upset big stars in Round 2 got knocked out themselves in Round 3 now!

Round 3 results:
М. Socko (Poland) – А. Stefanova (Bulgaria) 0-2
Ju Wenjun (China) – N. Zhukova (Ukraine) 1-1
А. Ushenina (Ukraine) – N. Pogonina (Russia) 1.5-0.5
М. Muzychuk (Ukraine) – Zhao Xue (China) 0.5-1.5
L. Javakhishvili (Georgia) – H. Dronavalli (India) 0.5-1.5
T. Kosintseva (Russia) – N. Kosintseva (Russia) 1-1
Huang Qian (China) – I. Krush (USA) 1-1
А. Galliamova (Russia) – М. Sebag (France) 0-2

(Click on the links to see some nice game with Chess King)

On Monday, the four tiebreaks were held and the results were as follows:

Ju Wenjun (China) – N. Zhukova (Ukraine) 1.5-0.5
Huang Qian (China) – I. Krush (USA) 1.5-0.5
T. Kosintseva (Russia) – N. Kosintseva (Russia) 0.5-1.5

Round 4 (the quarter finals) will be played on Tuesday according to the following pairings:

– Antoaneta Stefanova – Marie Sebag
– Zhao Xue – Harika Dronavalli
– Ju Wenjun – Huang Qian
– Anna Ushenina – Nadezhda Kosintseva

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