Saturday, September 06, 2008

Chess News
At the Women's World Championship 2008, Nalchik, Russia

Round 3 -
Humpy Koneru (IND,2622) bt Hoang Thanh Trang (HUN,2487) 1½-½
Dronavalli Harika (IND,2461) l Lilit Mkrtchian (2436,ARM) ½-1½

Humpy scored victory with whites to reach in final 8 but Harika lost with blacks.
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At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Fourth Round -
Magnus Carlsen - Teimour Radjabov 1-0
Veselin Topalov - Viswanathan Anand 1-0
Levon Aronian - Vassily Ivanchuk

Vishy lost playing blacks against Topalov ... I shocked to see Anand resign in 25 moves ... When the last time Anand resign game in 25 moves?

Anand is also in the spot of bother as he will be losing more ELO points ... Carlsen and Topalov scored their 2nd victory playing with whites ... This is not turning into right preparation for Anand to his World Championship match against Kramnik.

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