Sunday, September 07, 2008

Who will advance to the semifinal?


The dynamic duo - Photo by chessdom

Upper bracket (bold = higher rating)

Ushenina (2476) vs. Kosteniuk (2510)
Stefanova (2550)
vs. Cramling (2544)

Lower bracket

Koneru (2622) vs. Shen Yang (2445)
Yifan Hou (2557) vs. Mkrtchian (2436)

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nice Attacking Victory Of Koneru !

leprechaun said...

Well, Koneru is getting near... her attack is crystal clear! :)

Yes! Sheng resigned just now... no defense anyhow!

The others games seem to be balanced as far as I can see... meaning, two or three moves ahead... and that ain't bad! :D

Anonymous said...

You know the chess-results.com website? Not perfect at all, but not bad either.

How about someone sponsoring a chess-photos.com website, where we can upload photos from our tournaments for free, for all to see, free of charge to use for magazines and other promotional stuff?

P.S. Go MKRTCHIAN!!!

Anonymous said...

Koneru will probably win the whole thing- she is the strongest player in it clearly- like her compatriot Anand could overcome the randomness and won 2 out of 3 attempts at the world cup.

leprechaun said...

Things are getting interesting now... Cramling is winning, what a blow!

While Kosteniuk is a pawn up... but that probably ain't enough!

Let's see, the end is near... all is rolling in high gear! :)

Anonymous said...

This will be the semifinals:

Kosteniuk vs. Cramling

and

Koneru vs. Yifan Hou