Dear Friends!
In the fourth round of the European Individual Women Chess Championship the game between two leaders Marie Sebag and Viktorija Cmilyte finished on favor of French player. After 4 rounds Marie Sebag became the sole leader as Cristina-Adela Foisor slowed down the rate and made a draw against Antoaneta Stefanova.
Valentina Gunina, Nastassia Ziazulkina, Nino Khurtsidze, Thanh Trang Hoang, Zoya Schlening managed to win today and share the second place half a point behind of Sebag. Turkish player Betul Yildiz and Armenian Elina Danielian played an attention-grabbing game. After an interesting theoretical battle in French Defense Turkish player managed to transfer the game into the winning ending but didn’t play precisely to convert her advantage into full point.
The official tournament web page: http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr/
Photos from technical meeting, opening ceremony and the first round are in attachment and in the gallery: http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr/photo-gallery
If you use our pictures please give a reference: “photos by Anastasiya Karlovich with kind permission of TCF” and put the link to official website.
The comments of the games will be provided by GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko.
Best wishes,
Anastasiya Karlovich,
Press officer
She’s beautiful, and smart too. French women are always sexy.