On the women side, the most significant results are Stefanova defeating Kosteniuk and Kovalevskaya defeating Muzychuk.
Round 2 results:
| 1 |
6 | [2.0] | ShSM | 2.0 – 2.0 | AVS | [1.5] | 4 | ||
| 1 | [0.5] | 2524 | Kosteniuk, Alexandra | 0 – 1 | Stefanova, Antoaneta | 2555 | [0.0] | 1 | |
| 2 | [0.5] | 2438 | Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina | 1 – 0 | Muzychuk, Anna | 2533 | [0.5] | 2 | |
| 3 | [0.5] | 2457 | Gunina, Valentina | 0.5 – 0.5 | Pogonina, Natalija | 2501 | [0.0] | 3 | |
| 5 | [0.0] | 2362 | Girya, Olga | 0.5 – 0.5 | Savina, Anastasia | 2391 | [1.0] | 5 | |
2 |
7 | [2.5] | Giprorechtrans | 2.0 – 2.0 | Economist-SGSEU | [2.0] | 3 | ||
| 1 | [0.5] | 2492 | Zhukova, Natalia | 0.5 – 0.5 | Zhao, Xue | 2490 | [0.5] | 1 | |
| 2 | [1.0] | 2428 | Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | 0 – 1 | Ushenina, Anna | 2452 | [0.5] | 2 | |
| 3 | [0.5] | 2391 | Zaiatz, Elena | 0.5 – 0.5 | Iljushina, Olga | 2356 | [0.5] | 4 | |
| 4 | [0.0] | 2324 | Vasilevich, Irina | 1 – 0 | Kovanova, Baira | 2385 | [0.5] | 5 | |
3 |
1 | [0.0] | SPb Chess Fed | 3.0 – 1.0 | M.Chigorin Chess Club | [1.5] | 2 | ||
| 1 | [0.0] | 2485 | Cmilyte, Viktorija | 1 – 0 | Molchanova, Tatjana | 2369 | [0.5] | 1 | |
| 2 | [0.0] | 2465 | Socko, Monika | 1 – 0 | Akatova, Ekaterina | 2275 | [0.0] | 2 | |
| 4 | [0.0] | 2445 | Atalik, Ekaterina | 1 – 0 | Bronnikova, Elizaveta | 2271 | [0.0] | 3 | |
| 6 | [0.0] | 2339 | Demina, Julia | 0 – 1 | Ivkina, Olga | 2268 | [0.0] | 4 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I guess Stefanova is the new chess queen and not Kosteniuk. Jejeje.
I thought wc is supposed to be best? Then how can Kosteniuk keep on losing?