"Despite the documented evidence of chess historian H.J.R. Murray, I have always thought that chess was invented by a goddess."
George Koltanowski, from Women in Chess, Players of the Modern Game
Monday, November 19, 2012
Will Dronavilli Prevail?
From The Times of India
D Harika to meet Zhao Xue in quarterfinals of World Women's Chess Championship
Having reached the last eighth stage, Harika meets the biggest challenge in the championship and if she wins this match she can prove to be a very tough competitor for the other opponents.
The match against Xue will test her real skills as the Chinese is also the highest rated player remaining in the championship.
Harika spent the day preparing against Zhao Xue and looked determined while the tiebreaker of the third round was played in the main hall. This is already the second time in a row that the Indian has reached the quarterfinal stage. In 2010 she had lost to Ruofan Li of China.
The heat rose on the chess board even as the mercury plummeted to minus 17 degrees celsius in the Ugra region. The most intense battle was fought by the Kosintseva sisters who were pitted against each other in the third round match.
After drawing two games under normal time control both Nadezhda and Tatiana shared a victory each in the rapid games. In the subsequent ten-minute tiebreaker, Nadezhda won from a difficult position in the middle game and then held on to win the match.
In other tiebreak matches, it was China all the way as Ju Wenjun ousted Natalia Zhukova of Ukraine and Huang Qian showed Irina Krush the exit door in the rapid games itself.
The USD 450000 Championship is now down to eight players from 64 in the first round. The winner here will get to play a match with Yifan Hou of China in 2013 to decide the next world champion.
Big names of the game have exited the championship already. The top three seeds -- Koneru Humpya, Yifan Hou and Anna Muzychuk -- packed their bags after the second round and fifth seed Kateryna Lahno faced a similar situation too.
Watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, an intellectual, a criminal... The Logical Song (paraphrased), Supertramp, 1979
"We are what we defend, what we stand up for." Da Vinci Code, as spoken by the character Sophie Saunier in the movie version to character Professor Robert Langdon.
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I'm one of the founders of Goddesschess, which went online May 6, 1999. I earned an under-graduate degree in history and economics going to college part-time nights, weekends and summer school while working full-time, and went on to earn a post-graduate degree (J.D.) I love the challenge of research, and spend my spare time reading and writing about my favorite subjects, travelling and working in my gardens. My family and my friends are most important in my life. For the second half of my life, I'm focusing on "doable" things to help local chess initiatives, starting in my own home town. And I'm experiencing a sort of personal "Renaissance" that is leaving me rather breathless...
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