Round 8 results
| 12 | WGM | Ruan Lufei | 2479 | 1 – 0 | GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2536 | 10 |
| 11 | GM | Hou Yifan | 2575 | ½ | GM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2557 | 9 |
| 1 | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2524 | 1 – 0 | IM | Kovalevskaya Ekaterina | 2427 | 8 |
| 2 | GM | Koneru Humpy | 2614 | ½ | GM | Danielian Elina | 2521 | 7 |
| 3 | IM | Galliamova Alisa | 2492 | ½ | GM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | 2560 | 6 |
| 4 | GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2497 | ½ |
IM | Muzychuk Anna | 2538 | 5 |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
She’ll start to coast now.
Hand Hou over to Judit… the dragon slayer!