World Women Chess Championship day 8

Friday, 05 September 2008 21:51

After the convincing victories of the top seeded Hou Yifan, Antoaneta Stefanova, and Pia Cramling, they need only a draw to go on in the next round. Anna Ushenina is also close to qualifying after defeating Svetlana Mateeva with black. All the other games finished draw and an exciting day awaits us.

Results day 7

Svetlana Matveeva - Anna Ushenina 0-1
Hoang Than Trang - Humpy Koneru draw
Hou Yifan - Elena Sedina 1-0
Inna Gaponenko - Antoaneta Stefanova 0-1
Pia Cramling - Ruan Lufei 1-0
Harika Dronavalli - Lilit Mkrtchian draw
Shen Yang - Nadezhda Kosintseva draw
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Tatiana Kosintseva draw

Pairings day 8

Anna Ushenina - Svetlana Matveeva
Humpy Koneru - Hoang Than Trang
Elena Sedina - Hou Yifan
Antoaneta Stefanova - Inna Gaponenko
Ruan Lufei - Pia Cramling
Lilit Mkrtchian - Harika Dronavalli
Nadezhda Kosintseva - Shen Yang
Tatiana Kosintseva - Alexandra Kosteniuk

Information about the World Women Chess Championship

Official website

General information / Results Round 1

Venue

Live day 1 / Live day 2 / Live day 3 / Live day 4 / Live day 5 / Live day 6 / Live day 7

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