I expect to see more upsets in this round. The most interesting matches are Socko – Hoang, Paehtz – Ushenina, Matveeva – Xu, Chmilyte – N. Kosintseva, Harika – Muzychuk, and T. Konsintseva – Zatonskih. Due to the withdrawal of 11 players, Koneru and Kosteniuk will get a bye in round 2 and they will go directly to round 3.
Women’s World Championship – Round 2 – Match 01
RUS Matveeva, Svetlana 2412 – CHN Xu, Yuhua 2483
IND Koneru, Humpy 2622 2-0 Walkover (advances to round 3)
MGL Mongontuul, Bathuyang 2406 – CHN Hou, Yifan 2557
BUL Stefanova, Antoaneta 2550 – CHN Ju, Wenjun 2389
CHN Tan, Zongyi 2387 – SWE Cramling, Pia 2544
POL Gasik, Anna 2211 – ARM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2436
CHN Shen, Yang 2445 – CHN Zhao, Xue 2522
RUS Kosintseva, Tatjana 2511 – USA Zatonskih, Anna 2446
RUS Kosteniuk, Aleksandra 2510 2-0 Walkover (advances to round 3)
LTU Chmilyte, Viktorija 2508 – RUS Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2460
IND Harika, Dronavalli 2461 –SLO Muzychuk, Anna 2504
CHN Ruan, Lufei 2499 – ARG Amura, Claudia 2345
UKR Gaponenko, Inna 2468 – USA Rohonyan, Katerine 2321
VIE Nguyen, Thi Thanh An 2323 – ITA Sedina, Elena 2344
POL Socko, Monika 2473 – HUN Hoang Thanh Trang 2487
GER Paehtz, Elisabeth 2481 – UKR Ushenina, Anna 2476
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I’m looking forward to some armageddon games in this round too.
And the organizers should swap the queen and king when seting up the board. I’m sure at least one of the players wont notice it and will start playing (specially in tie-breaks). Then we will see how they know the rules that are concearning this 🙂
Again the rules are very easy and straightforward, but I’m sure at least 90% don’t know them.