| Round 9 on 2009/03/17 at 15:00 | ||||||||
| SNo. | Name | Rtg | Res. | Name | Rtg | SNo. | ||
| 5 | GM | ZHAO Xue | 2508 | ½ – ½ | GM | KONERU Humpy | 2621 | 12 |
| 6 | GM | SEBAG Marie | 2529 | ½ – ½ | GM | HOU Yifan | 2571 | 4 |
| 7 | IM | DANIELIAN Elina | 2496 | 1 – 0 | IM | FIERRO Baquero Martha L. | 2403 | 3 |
| 8 | WGM | SHEN Yang | 2448 | 0 – 1 | WIM | YILDIZ Betul Cemre | 2214 | 2 |
| 9 | GM | CHIBURDANIDZE Maia | 2516 | 0 – 1 | GM | CRAMLING Pia | 2548 | 1 |
| 10 | WGM | MAMEDJAROVA Zeinab | 2362 | 0 – 1 | GM | STEFANOVA Antoaneta | 2557 | 11 |
Standings after 9 rounds:
| Rank | SNo. | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts | Res. | SB. | Koya | |
| 1 | 5 | GM | ZHAO Xue | 2508 | CHN | 7½ | 0 | 27,25 | 2 |
| 2 | 4 | GM | HOU Yifan | 2571 | CHN | 7 | 0 | 26,50 | 2½ |
| 3 | 12 | GM | KONERU Humpy | 2621 | IND | 6½ | 1 | 25,00 | 1½ |
| 4 | 7 | IM | DANIELIAN Elina | 2496 | ARM | 6½ | 0 | 22,75 | 2 |
| 5 | 11 | GM | STEFANOVA Antoaneta | 2557 | BUL | 5 | 1 | 16,50 | 1½ |
| 6 | 6 | GM | SEBAG Marie | 2529 | FRA | 5 | 0 | 15,00 | ½ |
| 7 | 1 | GM | CRAMLING Pia | 2548 | SWE | 4 | 1 | 13,25 | 1 |
| 8 | 9 | GM | CHIBURDANIDZE Maia | 2516 | GEO | 4 | 0 | 15,75 | 2 |
| 9 | 3 | IM | FIERRO Baquero Martha L. | 2403 | ECU | 3½ | 0 | 9,50 | ½ |
| 10 | 8 | WGM | SHEN Yang | 2448 | CHN | 2 | 0 | 11,50 | 2 |
| 11 | 2 | WIM | YILDIZ Betul Cemre | 2214 | TUR | 1½ | 0 | 5,25 | ½ |
| 10 | WGM | MAMEDJAROVA Zeinab | 2362 | AZE | 1½ | 0 | 5,25 | ½ |
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
She’s hot.
The moves from Round 5’s Fierro vs. Koneru have been corrected at the official website that Susan has posted. The original, misquoted (and bizarre) moves are still given on chessgames.com. (It goes awry at Koneru’s 36. … Rc8.)
Sure, I would have liked to find a killer move that both of these players had missed, but since the moves as originally posted were absurd, I’m glad those moves proved to be erroneous.
Martha has now lost 5 straight after scoring 3.5/4. What a U-turn! She needs a coach badly.