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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:
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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oh my goodness
ReplyDeleteOne Bulgarian, One French, Three Chinese, One Indian, One Ukrainian, One Russian - so don't tell me it's going to be an all-Chinese final. Sad. MARIE GO GO GO
ReplyDeleteAt least one Chinese gets eliminated in the quarters - come on Harika.
ReplyDeletewell well well (as alexander khalifman would say in the official commentary) no really - this is as crazy as it gets am totally confused whom to support
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