Above is IM Cmilyte, Viktorija. She soundly defeated Kosteniuk in the round of 16.
Below are the matchups for the final 8. The ratings in ( ) are the players’ highest rating since January 2000.
1 Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2467 (2554) * Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 2430 (2464)
2 Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2428 (2502) * Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2415 (2438)
3 Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) 2458 (2507) * Xu, Yuhua (CHN) 2502 (2507)
4 Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2511 (2550) * Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2475 (2480)
Who will make it to the final 4? 
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Galliamova
Matveeva
Chiburdanidze
Xu, Yu Hua
Is there a resource to find out how to properly pronounce names like “Cmilyte, Viktorija” …?
I recall similar problems with “Alekhine” – is it AL-ECK-INE or AL-YEH-KIN… etc.
Perhaps FIDE should take a hint from online dictionaries that have a small .wav file recording of a person speaking the word(s)…
Cmilyte is beautiful, much more than Kosteniuk. She’s apparently a better player as well. Good to see another beauty and brain.
kerry liles,
Great question! It would be great if there were. I know I’m destroying many, if not all, of these names.
http://www.womenchess.com/images/gallery/r3_3/DSC02773.jpg
Who’s the person sitting do close to the players and distracting them with his closeness and his diary placed almost on the board?? Is this some kind of new chess?
http://www.womenchess.com/images/gallery/r3_3/PICT0043.jpg
Or this guy? Sleeping and holding on to the table during maybe a blitz play-off??
Where are the arbiters to kick’em out?
Sitting behind GM Cramling is her husband. He is GM Juan Bellon.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
http://www.SusanPolgar.blogspot.com
All girls are beautiful, I’d skip Cmilyte, though. Too tall.
OK, you can have Chibu then.
They unfortunately have no captions at the official website, thank you for the info on the husband. From different countries they married? Very nice!
Who’s Chibu? What’s her elo?
Playing the final World Championship must be a good feeling?
Are there any Hungarian girls who had qualified or almost qualified? What happened to the one who played with the Polgar sisters in the team, forgot her name now? Hungary has good chess players since forever.