2008 Women's World Chess Championship

From Chessdom.com, Round 3, Game 2: 11:25 CET The trend from the previous days continues - Stefanova, Yifan Hou, and Pia Cramling have not lost a single game. What's more, Yifan Hou has a perfect score until now, not letting any chance to her opponents. Many wonder how she reached this high performance level in the past months. The key is surely in the multiple tournaments she is playing. Especially valuable was the World Junior Chess Championship, where she played in the junior section. 14:25 CET Very untypical situation in the game Sedina - Hou Yifan. Sedina has always been in time trouble during this tournament. However, now she has 1 hour and 11 minutes, for only 37 minutes of Yifan Hou. Can this game be the surprise of the day? 15:30 CET Harika and Mkrtchian have opposite color bishops on the board. However, Mkrtchian is 2 healthy pawns up, andd adding the rooks into the picture Harika might have chances for saving the game. 15:50 CET As Harika's king got blocked, there was no way to stop the white pawns. Mkrtchian qualifies for the next round! Harika played very well and she will surely be an important factor in women chess in the next years. 16:15 CET Koneru has launched a dangerous attack against the king of Hoang Thanh Trang. 16:24 CET Opposite color bishops draw in Ruan Lufei - Pia Cramling. Cramling has qualified to the next round! Good performance by Ruan Lufei as well. 16:25 CET No way to stop Koneru's attack and India will have a representative in the next round! Good games by the Hungarian player as well. 16:30 CET 3P + Queen for Hou Yifan vs 5P + Queen for Elena Sedina. 16:47 CET The "b" pawn is unstoppable and Kosteniuk qualifies to the next round by winning the Russian derby. 17:00 CET Stefanova wins against Gaponenko and with full 2-0 progresses to the next round. 17:03 CET Elena Sedina brings the surprise of the day! The much lower rated Italian player scores a full point and goes to tiebreaks with Yifan Hou. 17:15 CET Very heavy battling in Ushenina - Mateeva and N. Kosintseva - Shen Yang. 17:25 CET Anna Ushenina wins convincingly the match 2-0 and goes on to the next round. At the same time Shen Yang and Naddezhda Kosintseva draw again and will see each other in tomorrow's tiebreaks. 17:50 CET Tomorrow's tiebreak: Yifan Hou - Elena Sedina and Shen Yang - Nadezhda Kosintseva. Live results Anna Ushenina - Svetlana Matveeva 1-0 - Ushenina advances Humpy Koneru - Hoang Than Trang 1-0 - Koneru advances Elena Sedina - Hou Yifan 1-0 - tie breaks Antoaneta Stefanova - Inna Gaponenko * - Stefanova advances Ruan Lufei - Pia Cramling 1/2 -1/2 - Cramling advances Lilit Mkrtchian - Harika Dronavalli 1-0 - Mkrtchian advances Nadezhda Kosintseva - Shen Yang 1/2-1/2 - tie breaks Tatiana Kosintseva - Alexandra Kosteniuk 0-1 - Kosteniuk advances