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From The New York Times
Chess
At Title Event, Asian Women Pursue World Domination
By DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
Published: December 25, 2010
The Women’s World Chess Championship has provided more evidence of a shift in the balance of power in the women’s game to Asia from Eastern Europe.

When the tournament began early this month in southern Turkey, 24 of the 64 players in the field were from Eastern Europe, which has long dominated women’s chess. By the quarterfinals, only one of the Eastern Europeans, Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine, was left in the competition.

Four of the quarterfinalists were from China, and two were from India. The last quarterfinalist, Almira Skripchenko, is French, although she was born in Moldova.

Lahno and Skripchenko were eliminated in the quarterfinals, and the semifinalists were three Chinese players and Humpy Koneru of India. . . .

2010 Arab Women's Chess Classic
December 22 - 30, 2010
Organized by the Royal Jordan Chess Federation
 7 Rounds - here are the standings after R6

Rank after Round 6

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	WIM	Mezioud Amina	ALG	2029	4,5	1,5	15,0	15,75
2	WCM	Latreche Khadidja	ALG	1855	4,5	0,5	13,5	15,00
3	WGM	Mona Khaled	EGY	2093	4,5	0,0	12,5	12,75
4	WFM	Jalloul Maya M	LIB	1879	4,0	0,0	16,0	15,25
5	WIM	Mouradian Knarik	LIB	2218	3,5	0,0	14,0	9,75
6	WFM	Alattar Ghayda M	JOR	1900	3,5	0,0	12,0	8,75
7		Nouali Djouher	ALG	0	3,0	0,0	12,0	7,50
8	WIM	Algildah Nibal	SYR	1920	3,0	0,0	12,0	7,00
9	WFM	Al-Khelaifi Salama	QAT	1761	3,0	0,0	10,0	6,25
10		Al Khateeb Nagham	SYR	0	3,0	0,0	10,0	6,00
11		Dahdal Lougain	JOR	1868	2,5	0,0	14,5	6,75
12		Al-Khelaifi Kholoud	QAT	1493	2,5	0,0	14,0	5,75
13	WFM	Ghazala Zena Basil	IRQ	1791	2,0	0,5	10,0	2,75
14		Boshra Alshaeby	JOR	1807	2,0	0,5	9,5	3,00
15		Jaradat Shadia Z	PLE	0	1,5	0,0	9,5	3,00
16		Salem Amna	UAE	1705	1,0	0,0	9,5	1,75

Annotation:
Tie Break1: The results of the players in the same point group#results against
Tie Break2: Buchholz Tie-Breaks (variabel with parameter)
Tie Break3: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable