2009 U.S. Women's Chess Championship

Unofficial standings after R6 - just my rough adding up points: Clear first: Zatonskih - 5.5 Clear second: Baginsakite - 4.5 On 3.5: Melekhina, Krush, Foisor On 2.5: Goletiani, Tsagaan Zenyuk: 2.0 Yun Fan: 1.5 Abrahamyan: 1.0 All games were decisive today - no draws. Yun Fan takes the point from Abrahamyan! My head is spinning. I was listening to the live commentary by Jen Shahade and Ben Finegold but also dashing in and out doing yard work, cooking, doing laundry and miscellaneous cleaning - and then the live commentary stopped at 5:00 p.m. Damn! Earlier today the commentators mentioned that norms were up for grabs: 6.0 for a WGM and 6.5 for an IM. Norm watch: Baginskaite needs 2.0 out of 3 for an IM norm; Foisor would need to go 3.0 out of 3 to get an IM norm. Melekhina needs to go 2.5 out of 3 to score a WGM norm. I've got lots of other things to do this evening, so I'm signing off for now. Round 7 tomorrow at noon CST. Here are the R 7 match-ups: Krush vs Foisor Baginskaite vs Tsagaan Abrahamyan vs Zenyuk Melekhina vs Fan Goletiani vs Zatonskih Updated 8:36 p.m. -- official standings: # Name USCF FIDE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Score 1 Anna Zatonskih 2492 2462 ½ 1 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 5½ 2 Camilla Baginskaite 2356 2317 ½ - ½ - - ½ 1 1 1 4½ 3 Irina Krush 2490 2458 0 - ½ - 1 1 ½ ½ - 3½ 4 Alisa Melekhina 2253 2220 0 ½ ½ 1 - ½ - - 1 3½ 5 Sabina Foisor 2379 2320 - - - 0 0 1 1 1 ½ 3½ 6 Battsetseg Tsagaan 2265 2258 0 - 0 - 1 0 ½ 1 - 2½ 7 Rusudan Goletiani 2437 2391 - ½ 0 ½ 0 1 - - ½ 2½ 8 Iryna Zenyuk 2271 2285 0 0 ½ - 0 ½ - 1 - 2 9 Yun Fan 2134 1935 - 0 ½ - 0 0 - 0 1 1½ 10 Tatev Abrahamyan 2342 2275 0 0 - 0 ½ - ½ - 0 1