Hou and Lahno (Women’s World Champion and Women’s World Blitz Champion)

After a strong start, the reigning WWC Yifan Hou was able to fend off Lahno and T. Kosinstseva the rest of the way to win the Rostov Women’s Grand Prix.

Here are some interesting statistic:

– No player was undefeated. T. Kosintseva was undefeated until the final round when she lost to Galliamova.

– Every player scored at least 2 wins except for Kosteniuk who did not win any game.

– As usual, there are a lot of decisive results and fighting games.

Final standings

1. Hou, Yifan g CHN 2575 8 2697
2. Lahno, Kateryna g UKR 2536 7 2627
3. Muzychuk, Anna m SLO 2538 2590
4. Kosintseva, Tatiana g RUS 2557 2588
5. Kosintseva, Nadezhda g RUS 2560 6 2559
6. Koneru, Humpy g IND 2614 2518
7. Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2492 2529
8. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2524 5 2490
9. Danielian, Elina g ARM 2521 5 2491
10. Ruan, Lufei wg CHN 2479 2466
11. Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2427 2402
12. Kosteniuk, Alexandra g RUS 2497 3 2354

Official website: http://rostov2011.fide.com

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