Reykjavik Open 2008, Wang Hao, Stefansson Hannes and Wang Yue tie for the 1st place!!!

Reykjavik Open 2008 

Round 9

Halkias Stelios fell into a forced mate in 4 moves, after an overlook, in the endgame, against Wang Yue!. Wang Yue  duely won and became top 3!!

Standings!
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Rank Title Name Rating Flags Points
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1. GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 7.0
2. GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 7.0
3. GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 7.0
4. GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2521 LTU 6.5
5. GM Caruana Fabiano 2598 ITA 6.5
6. GM Meier Georg 2580 GRE 6.5
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Indians 
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Rank Title Name Rating Points 
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13 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 6.0
24 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 5.0
56 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 4.0
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As can be seen Grover Sahaj is going great in this tournament!!

Link:
http://www.skaksamband.is/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=5855&Itemid=464

Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 1, All results!

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 1

It started yesterday.
Round 1 had seen all results! No draws!

Here are the results!

Rank Title Name Rating Points - Points Title Name Rating Rank
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1 IM Krush Irina 2473 1 - 0 GM Chen Zhu 2548 10
2 IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408 1 - 0 IM Dronavalli Harika 2455 9
3 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470 1 - 0 WGM Xue Zhao 2517 8
4 IM Ushenina Anna 2484 0 - 1 WGM Yifan Hou 2527 7
5 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207 0 - 1 GM Cramling Pia 2524 6

In the 1st 3 games, lower rated players won!! on higher rated players.

All results! Good games. Some obvious poor play & blunders.

However, worth mentioning good lesson game here:

Looked like, Harika dint have a good day. It all seemed as if her plan was to get a Rook for the opponent's Bishop, by loosing all the pawns, for the end game.
Looked like, this is classic example of a wrong plan, by "over extending" pawns, 13th & 16th moves ?. This kind of plans are seen in very high rated players, but are calculated. May be she isn't ready to take on Vishy Anand! yet.
She was defeated by lower rated opponent, and this defeat Harika wont be forgetting in the near furure.

Here is the game!!