World Women Chess Championship - 2008

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World Women Chess Championship - 2008

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The pairings for the first round are released. The Indians in the draw are

1) Koneru, Humpy (IND) Vs Alaa El Din, Yorsa (EGY)
2) Harika, Dronavalli (IND) Vs Nebolsina, Vera (RUS)
3) Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) Vs Mohota, Nisha (IND)
4) Tania, Sachdev (IND) Vs Tan Zongyi (CHN)

Humpy and Harika regitered wins against their opponents in the first mini round. Each player has to play two mini rounds (against their opponents) in the first round of the competetion. Humpy has got a bye in the second round and if she can manage a draw in her next match with Alla El Din Yosra she will be in the quarterfinals. Humpy is the No.1 seed in this year's championship. Go Humpy.
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Round 1

Koneru, Humpy (IND) b Alaa El Din, Yorsa 2-0
First game 1 (Black), Second game 1 (White)

Harika, Dronavalli (IND) b Nebolsina, Vera (RUS) 2-0
1(B)+ 1(W)

Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) b Mohota, Nisha (IND) 2-0
0(B)+0(W)

Tan Zongyi (CHN) b Tania, Sachdev (IND) 1.5-.5
.5(B) + 0(W)

Round 2

Koneru, Humpy (IND) (2622 ) bye

Harika, Dronavalli(IND) (2461) Vs Muzychuk, Anna (SOL) (2504 )
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Ajay, I think Tania lost her match against (0.5-1.5). Disappointing that Tania lost to an unseeded player who is ranked below her :(

Harika has a tough match up against Anna MAzychuk. She has the talent to beat her and I hope she executes it to perfection against Mazychuk. Go Harika
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Sandeep, you are right. By mistake I put the names in wrong order. Thanks for pointing out, I've corrected my error.
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Harika, Dronavalli(IND) (2461) Vs Muzychuk, Anna (SOL) (2504 )

First match, Harika played with white and could not take advantage as she split the points. Second match with Black is yet to be settled
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Harika managed to draw her second game also and now the winner will be decided through tie breaks. A very creditable performance from the young Harika over a player with higher ELO rating. Go Harika
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Harika is through to 3rd round! :clap:
Harika, Dronavalli(IND) (2461) b. Muzychuk, Anna (SOL) (2504 ) 2.5 - 1.5

In the first tie breaker Harika played with black and it was a draw once again. But when playing the second tie-braker, Harika got a breakthrough win! So now both Koneru and Harika are in last 16.

3rd Round pairing

IND Koneru, Humpy 2622 Vs. HUN Hoang Thanh Trang 2487
IND Harika, Dronavalli 2461 vs. ARM Mkrtchian, Lilit 2436
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Very creditable win for Harika against higher ELO rated player ... Go Harika and Koneru.
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Superb performance from Harika. She never played a tie breaker in her life and that makes the victory even more special. Go Harika
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Humpy drew her first round with HUN Hoang Thanh Trang
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Harika also drew her first round against Lilit Mkrtchian. Hopefully both Humpy and Harika win their matches tomorrow and avoid tiebreaker. It is an altogather different game if you enter the tie break. It more of a rapid chess then.
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Humpy wins her 2nd game and she is through to 5th round with a score of 2.5 - .5:clap: Go Humpy!!
However, Harika hit a road block as she loses her 2nd game and the 3rd round .5 -2.5. Well done Harika to win two rounds and reach last 16 in the World Women's Championship
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Excellent win for Humpy, so far she is living upto the expectations of being favourite.

Sad to see Harika losing, but she is very young and has lots of time to get back and win this tournament.

Ajay, where are you getting the results from? None of the websites I visit has the results updated. Not even FIDE!!
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koneru wins with white woohoo . the return game with black is tomorrow, the board shown live on http://nalchik2008.fide.com/schedule/?lang=eng
it starts at 12 pm GMT.
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Sandeep wrote:Excellent win for Humpy, so far she is living upto the expectations of being favourite.

Sad to see Harika losing, but she is very young and has lots of time to get back and win this tournament.

Ajay, where are you getting the results from? None of the websites I visit has the results updated. Not even FIDE!!
Sandeep, as akmohanty also posted the link, the results are available at the official site at http://nalchik2008.fide.com/.

Good to see Humpy taking the lead. Go Humpy!!!
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