There is another big women’s tournament taking place in North Ural at the same time as the Women’s Grand Prix in Montreal. After 2 rounds, here are the standings:
1-4. Ushenina, Anna m UKR 2502 1.5
1-4. Stefanova, Antoaneta g BUL 2481 1.5
1-4. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 1.5
1-4. Lahno, Kateryna m UKR 2450 1.5
5-7. Galliamova, Alisa m RUS 2468 1.0
5-7. Zhu Chen g QAT 2522 1.0
5-7. Muzychuk, Anna wg SLO 2456 1.0
8-9. Hou Yifan wg CHN 2523 0.5
8-9. Pogonina, Natalija wg RUS 2429 0.5
10. Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2457 0.0
Official website: http://www.northuralscup.ru/2007/tournamenteng.shtml
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ushenina is awesome! I hope she’ll win.
Isn’t Lahno a ‘g’ now, not an ‘m’?
The Website for this tournament, North Urals, is very good.
It has many hi-res photos of players, interviews with players, reports after each round, live and downloadable games, and press conferences after each round.
It’s just too bad Irina Krush couldn’t be there to represent USA.