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Friday, July 22, 2011

Hangzhou Chess R8: Ju Wenjun set to win title

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hi everyone,


Some great chess in the eight round at the Hangzhou Women's Chess tournament in China - We had Dzagnidze and Nadezhda Kosintseva fighting down to the ropes - to end in a draw. Zhu Chen beat Tatiana Kosintseva, Sebag Marie beat Anna Zatonskih while the other games were drawn.



Rank after Round 8

1 WGM Ju Wenjun CHN 2515 6.0
2 IM Harika Dronavalli IND 2513 5.0
3 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2560 5.0 
4 GM Sebag Marie FRA 2510 4.5 
5 GM Zhao Xue CHN 2470 4.0 
6 GM Zhu Chen QAT 2485 4.0 
7 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2575 3.5 
8 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2557 3.0 
9 GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2537 3.0 
10 IM Zatonskih Anna USA 2522 2.0

The pairings for the last round are as follows:

1 GM Kosintseva Tatiana-GM Dzagnidze Nana
2 WGM Ju Wenjun-GM Zhu Chen
3 IM Zatonskih Anna-IM Harika Dronavalli
4 GM Zhao Xue-GM Sebag Marie
5 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda-GM Hou Yifan
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