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!!

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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!!

Reykjavik Open 2008, Round 8, Wang Hao & Stefansson Hannes leads!! four others follow!

Reykjavik Open 2008 

Round 8

Standings!
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Rank Title Name Rating Flags Points
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1. GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 6.5
2. GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 6.5
3. GM Caruana Fabiano 2598 ITA 6.0 
4. GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 6.0
5. GM Halkias Stelios 2580 GRE 6.0
6. GM Kveinys Aloyzas 2521 LTU 6.0 
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Indians 
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Rank Title Name Rating Points 
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21 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 5.0 
26 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 4.5 
56 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 3.5 
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Grover Sahaj won on a much higher rated opponent. Tania & Narayanan lost their games to higher rated opponents.

Link:

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Reykjavik Open 2008, Round 7, Wang Hao leads!! Stefansson Hannes & Wang Yue follow!

Reykjavik Open 2008

Round 7

In the recent times, I haven't heard Caruana Fabiano being defeated.

Surprisingly, Wang Hao deafeated Caruana Fabiano with ease in just 27 moves!!!! Must watch attacking game!

Excellent learning given by Wang Hao, to Caruana Fabiano, on what happens if you attack by compromising your own king safety (??) without castling the King.

With this loss, Caruna is now pushed to 5.0 points, out of top 3 positions! 

Standings!
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Rank Title Name Rating Flags Points
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1 GM Wang Hao 2665 CHN 6.0
2 GM Stefansson Hannes 2564 ISL 5.5
3 GM Wang Yue 2698 CHN 20s0 5.5
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Indians
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Rank Title Name Rating Points
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21 IM Tania Sachdev 2417 4.5
38 FM Grover Sahaj 2242 4.0
46 FM Narayanan Srinath 2210 3.0
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