Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 5, 3 wins!, Chen Zhu din't loose!!!

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 5

At last, Chen Zhu holds on with a draw!!!

Results!
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Title Name Rating Result-Result Title Name Rating
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IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470 0.5-0.5 GM Chen Zhu 2548
IM Ushenina Anna 2484 0-1 IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408
WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207 1-0 IM Krush Irina 2473
GM Cramling Pia 2524 1-0 IM Dronavalli Harika 2455
WGM Yifan Hou 2527 0.5-0.5 WGM Xue Zhao 2517
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Though age doesn't matter in chess, but just the intellect,
1991 born Dronavalli Harika is crushed by the experience of 1963 born Cramling Pia!

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http://awm2008.tsf.org.tr/component/option,com_turnuva/task,show/dosya,11/Itemid,11/lang,en/

Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 4, 1 win!, all draws(?)

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 4

Chen Zhu lost 4 games in a row (??) - Nightmare tournament continues for her.
This time she lost to the youngest Yifan Hou!!
She simply fell into mating net of Yifan Hou.
Looks like, now it is playing on her mind, with loss of confidence, Chen Zhu is losing all games. A 4/4 loss is a very rare scene, at this level.
Also, Chen Zhu, with 2548, is the highest rating player in this tournaments, just adds more and more pressure with each loss.
The tournament is mostly out of her hand, lets wish her confidence be back to atleast stop losing for she would loose a lot of rating points in this 1 tournament.

Here is the game!

While all remaining games are drawn,
with this round's easy win, Yifan Hou!! has move to 1st place!!!


Results!

Title Name Rating Result-Result Title Name Rating
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GM Chen Zhu 2548 0-1 WGM Yifan Hou 2527
WGM Xue Zhao 2517 0.5-0.5 GM Cramling Pia 2524
IM Dronavalli Harika 2455 0.5-0.5 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207
IM Krush Irina 2473 0.5-0.5 IM Ushenina Anna 2484
IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408 0.5-0.5 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470
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Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 3, 3 win!

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 3

Chen Zhu lost 3 games in a row (??) - should be a Nightmare tournament, very bad game.
After Queen's were exchanged, it looked like Chen Zhu was better.
On move 52, instead of King to C3, Rook to B5 looked to have been better chances than the actually played.
Looked very passive in the end game, and costed her game.

Here is the game!

Harika looked like played very good moves in the middle game, won her game!!

Here is the game!!

Godo game by Xue Zhao!

Results!

Title Name Rating Result-Result Title Name Rating
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IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408 1-0 GM Chen Zhu 2548
IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470 0.5-0.5 IM Krush Irina 2473
IM Ushenina Anna 2484 0-1 IM Dronavalli Harika 2455
WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207 0-1 WGM Xue Zhao 2517
GM Cramling Pia 2524 0.5-0.5 WGM Yifan Hou 2527

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Ataturk Women Masters Chess, Round 2, four win!!

Ataturk Women Masters Chess

Round 2

Chen Zhu lost 2 games in a row (?)
This time too, she lost to a lower rated opponent Cramling Pia!!
The result could be foreseen in halfway of the game!
Looked as if, no real plan, just wandering (?)
Having lost already to Irina Krush, looks like lost confidence too.

What is Fork, in chess?
Here is a classic example!
Yifan Hou has won on a much low rated player Yildiz Betul Cemre, with a hidden fork!
(As the Black queen takes the new White Queen, the White Knight checks the black queen, forking black Queen! Game ends!!)

Here is the game!!


Now, here is the confident one.
Harika won! on higher rated opponent!!
Losing last round terribly dint hinder Harika, end game was played and won with extreme ease!
With this win, she is back in game! Lets wish!

Here are the results!

Title Name Rating Points - Points Title Name Rating
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GM Chen Zhu 2548 0-1 GM Cramling Pia 2524
WGM Yifan Hou 2527 1-0 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2207
WGM Xue Zhao 2517 1-0 IM Ushenina Anna 2484
IM Dronavalli Harika 2455 1-0 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2470
IM Krush Irina 2473 0.5-0.5 IM Atalik Ekaterina 2408
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Again, most won on higher rated opponents!!

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