The dynamic duo – Photo by chessdom
Upper bracket (bold = higher rating)
Ushenina (2476) vs. Kosteniuk (2510)
Stefanova (2550) vs. Cramling (2544)
Lower bracket
Koneru (2622) vs. Shen Yang (2445)
Yifan Hou (2557) vs. Mkrtchian (2436)
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Nice Attacking Victory Of Koneru !
Well, Koneru is getting near… her attack is crystal clear! 🙂
Yes! Sheng resigned just now… no defense anyhow!
The others games seem to be balanced as far as I can see… meaning, two or three moves ahead… and that ain’t bad! 😀
You know the chess-results.com website? Not perfect at all, but not bad either.
How about someone sponsoring a chess-photos.com website, where we can upload photos from our tournaments for free, for all to see, free of charge to use for magazines and other promotional stuff?
P.S. Go MKRTCHIAN!!!
Koneru will probably win the whole thing- she is the strongest player in it clearly- like her compatriot Anand could overcome the randomness and won 2 out of 3 attempts at the world cup.
Things are getting interesting now… Cramling is winning, what a blow!
While Kosteniuk is a pawn up… but that probably ain’t enough!
Let’s see, the end is near… all is rolling in high gear! 🙂
This will be the semifinals:
Kosteniuk vs. Cramling
and
Koneru vs. Yifan Hou