Chess News 

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

Semi-Finals -

Yifan Hou (CHN,2557) - Humpy Koneru (IND,2622) 1-0

Alexsandra Kosteniuk (RUS,2510) - Pia Cramling (SWE,2544) 1-0

Yifan Hou continued her giant killing in this World Championship ... Yesterday she defeated Humpy, who played closed Ruy Lopez, in 55 moves playing with whites ... Now top-seed Humpy having big task to win next game playing with black to give her chance in tie-break.

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At €400K Grand Slam Chess Final Masters, Bilbao, Spain

(Category XXII tournament)

Eighth Round -

Vassily Ivanchuk - Teimour Radjabov 1-0

Viswanathan Anand - Levon Aronian 0-1

Veselin Topalov - Magnus Carlsen 1-0

Anand messed a perfectly good white game with a terrible blunder immediately after the first time control and lost after a 75-move struggle to survive ... Veselin Topalov defeated Magnus Carlsen's Sicilian Modern Dragon in 48 moves ... Vassily Ivanchuk pulled of win against Teimour Radjabov after a terrible time scramble.