Results for round 3 – Game 2 (bold = advance to the final 8)
Humpy Koneru – Hoang Than Trang 1-0
Elena Sedina – Hou Yifan 1-0 (Playoff tomorrow)
Antoaneta Stefanova – Inna Gaponenko 1-0
Ruan Lufei – Pia Cramling 1/2
Tatiana Kosintseva – Alexandra Kosteniuk 0-1
Anna Ushenina – Svetlana Matveeva 1-0
Lilit Mkrtchian – Harika Dronavalli 1-0
Nadezhda Kosintseva – Shen Yang 1/2 (Playoff tomorrow)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Ushenina-Matveeva moves after White’s 48th are surely wrong!
Anybody know what they actually were?
Winning position for black, Shen Yang misplayed it:
8/8/p2n1p2/2pP4/P3PK2/2P4k/8/8 b – – 0 1
52…Nf4!
8/8/p2n1p2/2pP4/P3PK2/2P4k/8/8 b – – 0 1
1…Nc4
2.Kf5 Kg3 3.Kxf6 Kf4 4.e5 Nxe5 5.Ke6 Ke4 6.Kd6 c4 7.Kc5 Kd3 8.Kb4 Nf7 9.a5 Ne5 10.d6 Nd7
2.d6 Ne5 3.Kf5 Kg3 4.Kxf6 Kf4 5.Ke6 Kxe4 6.c4 a5 7.Ke7 Kd3 8.Ke6 Kd4 9.Kf6 Nd7+ 10.Ke6 Nb6