Friday, September 12, 2008

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

Semi-Finals -
Humpy Koneru (IND,2622) l Yifan Hou (CHN,2557) 2-4

In first game Yifan Hou won in 39 moves playing with whites ... But in second game tie-break Humpy again showed her resistance to beat Hou ... But 14 yrs old Hou Yifan won both Blitz games to gave heart-breaking loss to Humpy.
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At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain
(Category XXII tournament)

Ninth Round -
Vassily Ivanchuk - Levon Aronian ½-½
Teimour Radjabov - Magnus Carlsen ½-½
Viswanathan Anand - Veselin Topalov ½-½

Another disappointing result for Anand ... Topalov managed draw with blacks with Anand.

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