Super Mom Squirrel Rescues Her Baby

The Daily Treat: Mama Squirrel Saves the Day

UPDATED05/09/2013 at 03:45 PM EDT• Originally published 05/09/2013 at 03:30 PM EDT

 

It's a bird. It's a plane – actually, it's a squirrel!

After her baby became stuck in a Pittsburgh, Pa., tree, a mama squirrel sprung into action to rescue her little one.

The youngster, thought to be about 8 weeks old, fell about 20 feet from a woodpecker's nest it had been snoozing in, according to photographer Carla Brandon. Before the baby could fall 25 more feet to the ground, its mother saved its fall, plucking the little ball of fur by the tail.

With Mother's Day right around the corner, we think it's safe to say she's more than deserving of a nice gift.

2013 FIDE Women's Grand Prix: Geneva

Some extremely interesting developments in this Grand Prix.  Hou Yifan standing currently in 7th place?  And Cmilyte and Kosteniuk in 10th and 11th places?  But, there is a lot of chess left to lay - 5 more games!  Here are the standings after Round 6:

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	RUS	2517	4.0	1.0	2	10.75
2	GM	Anna Muzychuk	SLO	2585	4.0	0.5	2	11.50
3	GM	Kateryna Lagno	UKR	2548	4.0	0.5	2	9.50
4	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	GEO	2505	4.0	0.0	4	10.00
5	WGM	Wenjun Ju	CHN	2544	3.5	0.0	2	8.50
6	GM	Anna Ushenina	UKR	2491	3.5	0.0	1	8.25
7	GM	Yifan HOU	CHN	2617	3.0	0.0	2	8.75
8	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	GEO	2545	3.0	0.0	1	7.75
9	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	MGL	2298	2.0	0.0	1	6.75
10	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2522	2.0	0.0	0	7.00
11	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	RUS	2491	1.5	0.5	0	4.25
12	WGM	Olga Girya	RUS	2463	1.5	0.5	0	4.00

Round 6 action from the official website:

Tatiana Kosintseva and Bela Khotenashvili outplayed Viktorija Cmilyte and Batchimeg Tuvshintugs respectively and joined the group of leaders. Katerina Lagno and Anna Muzychuk finished their games in draws and also share the first place with 4 out of 6. After 5 draws in the previous rounds World Champion Anna Ushenina won the first game in the tournament and is half a point behind of the leaders. Her opponent Alexandra Kosteniuk lost the third game in a row. Olga Girya played very confidently against former world champion Hou Yifan and made a draw after 70 moves. (I wonder if GM Maurice Ashley has seen this game...see my comments in the post below about Game 6 in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship. Note also that there have been other long drawn out games among the players in Geneva, and no one seems to implied that any of the players should have resigned when it appeared she was in a losing position and not doing so was a sign of "disrespect" for the opponent!)

Round 5 action from the official website:

The key game of the round five was the encounter between number one and number two in the tournament Hou Yifan and Anna Muzychuk. Slovenian player outplayed Hou Yifan and shares the first place with Ukrainian Katerina Lagno who drew her game against Anna Ushenina. Two Russian players Alexandra Kosteniuk and Olga Girya lost their games against Bela Khotenashvili and Ju Wenjun respectively. Another Russian Tatiana Kosintseva had winning position against Tuvshintugs Batchimeg but missed her chances a few times today. Viktorija Cmilyte and Nana Dzagnidze were the last to finish their game in a draw after 72 moves.

Not unexpectedly, Muzychuk's game with Hou Yifan was the game of the day in R5 and extensively analyzed by GM Mikhal Chishin. 

Here are the pairings for Round 7 tomorrow:

SNo.		Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg	SNo.
4	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	2298	-	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2491	12
5	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	2522	-	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	2505	3
6	GM	Anna Muzychuk	2585	-	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	2517	2
7	WGM	Olga Girya	2463	-	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	2545	1
8	GM	Kateryna Lagno	2548	-	GM	Yifan Hou	2617	11
9	GM	Anna Ushenina	2491	-	WGM	Wenjun Ju	2544	10

2013 U.S. Women's Chess Championship: R6

Play resumed today with R6, and the ladies wasted no time (or some of the gents, either, for that matter), mixing things up and adding some exciting possibilities for grand denouements a few rounds from now!  Too tired to cut and paste out of this shot from the live coverage, so here are all of the players' match-ups and results:

Here are the women's standings after R6:

Rank	Name	Score	M/F	Rating	TPR	W-We	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	IM Krush, Irina	5.5	F	2470	2657	+0.95	1	1	1	1	1	½
2	WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev	5.0	F	2280	2555	+2.02	1	1	½	1	½	1
3	IM Zatonskih, Anna	4.5	F	2466	2471	+0.12	1	1	0	1	½	1
4	WIM Zenyuk, Iryna	3.0	F	2243	2255	+0.09	1	0	1	0	½	½
5	WGM Foisor, Sabina	2.5	F	2300	2199	-0.86	0	0	0	1	1	½
6	WGM Baginskaite, Camilla	2.5	F	2278	2226	-0.48	½	0	1	½	½	0
7	WGM Belakovskaia, Anjelina	2.0	F	2263	2188	-0.62	0	1	1	0	0	0
8	WIM Ni, Viktorija	2.0	F	2262	2124	-1.13	½	½	0	0	1	0
9	WFM Kats, Alena	2.0	F	2144	2181	+0.24	0	½	½	½	0	½
10	WFM Chiang, Sarah	1.0	F	2098	2054	-0.33	0	0	0	0	0	1

I'll leave it to the chess pros to analyze Irina Krush drawing Sabina Foisor in 31 moves in their game today when she has Tatev Abrahamyan breathing down her neck.  Abrahamyan, meanwhile, had a long game on her hands with Anjelina Belakovskaia because Anjelina doesn't resign easily (more on this in a few moments).  In the end though, Belakovskaia resigned and Tatev took the full point.  She is now within half a point of Krush.  The round 8 match between Krush and Abrahamyan now looms large but, as Tatev pointed out in her post-game interview with GM Maurice Ashley, she could lose her game tomorrow. 

Tomorrow Tatev plays Sarah Chiang, who scored her first point today, a victory with black against Viktorija Ni.  Anna Zatonskih also had a victory today with the black pieces against Camilla Baginskaite to pull within half a point of second place and one point away from Krush.  Alena Kats' game against Iryna Zenyuk ended in a draw, despite Kats having an earlier large time advantage, but coming up with a winning strategy was not going to be easy according to some commentary I was able to listen to shortly after 4 p.m. while still at the office. 

What I've found most interesting about this championship is what appears to be the total lack of intimidation factor on the part of the newcomers to the championship.  Earlier today, GM Maurice Ashley made a point of talking about the high percentage of decisive games played by the women -- it was in the high 70's percentage wise, higher than the 60's percentage of men's decisive games which he had previously noted as being higher than normal, and particularly noting the fighting spirit and take-no-prisoners attitude of the young players like Sevian and Troff!  He also made a point in earlier commentary (it was either in this past Saturday or Sunday's live online coverage) about how he approved of the Sofia rules in place for the U.S. Championships (no draw before move 30 unless an arbiter agrees it's a drawn position) because implementation of the rule has sent a strong message to the higher-rated players that "grandmaster draws" are frowned upon and will actively be discouraged, and he indicated he had seen a sort of "sea change" in player attitudes toward draws at the top levels of chess as a result of more high-powered tournaments adopting the Sofia rule to discourage quick draws.

But then today he turned around and made what I consider a totally out of line comment during his post-game interview with Tatev Abrahamyan (who defeated Belakovskaia about whether Belakovskaia's continuing to play on after she was "down a major piece and a pawn" instead of resigning was a sign of disrespect!  Of course Tatev refused to answer such a ridiculous question.  Has Ashley forgotten that Belakovskaia is a three-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion?  A player doesn't achieve three national champion titles without having a strong fighting spirit, and he should know all about fighting spirit, after all, as he was the very first black chessplayer in the United States to earn a GM title.

So maybe Belakovskaia could have - should have? - resigned somewhat earlier?  Maybe, but when, then?  Would a majority of players agree as to WHEN she "should have" resigned?  Then, I took a look at her games thus far in this championship, and few of them are 36-move decisive games.  Speaking of which, many of the other players' games aren't either!  What about Kats v. Krush in Round 1, which went 82 moves before Krush received the point?  Also in Round 1, Abrahamyan v. Foisor went 87 moves before Abrahamyan won with white.  In Round 2 Foisor v. Belakovskaia resulted in victor to Belakovskaia in 63 moves.  In Round 4 Baginskaite v. Kats was 79 moves that ended in a draw.  And in R5 Belakovskaia v. Ni lasted 73 moves before Ni won the point.  It's not just one particular player in this Women's Championship who is playing long drawn out games!

So where does GM Ashley get off suggesting that Belakovskaia should have rolled over and played dead long before she resigned in her Round 6 game against Abrahamyan?  Badly done, sir, badly done. 

Here are the pairings for R7:

Table	White	Score	Rating	Black	Score	Rating	Result
1	WIM Zenyuk, Iryna	3.0	2243	WGM Foisor, Sabina	2.5	2300
2	IM Zatonskih, Anna	4.5	2466	WFM Kats, Alena	2.0	2144
3	WGM Belakovskaia, Anjelina	2.0	2263	WGM Baginskaite, Camilla	2.5	2278
4	WFM Chiang, Sarah	1.0	2098	WGM Abrahamyan, Tatev	5.0	2280
5	IM Krush, Irina	5.5	2470	WIM Ni, Viktorija	2.0	2262

Milwaukee Summer Challenge II

It is back, darlings!  Mark your calendars for June 15 - 16, 2013 in Milwaukee!

Last year, my adopted chess club, Southwest Chess Club, went out on a limb and hosted the first ever Milwaukee Summer Challenge in July, 2012.  Five rounds, taking place over two days, as far as I am aware this was the first tournament of its kind to be hosted in the Milwaukee area for many a year!

And - it was a success! 

Response was overwhelming.  And so this, year, once again, it's baaaaacccccckkkkkkk...

Last year Goddesschess sponsored separate prizes for the female chessplayers as well as a $25 Best Game Prize open to both female and male players.

I'm happy to say that this year I'm sponsoring the same prizes for the chess femmes, and also the $25 Best Game Prize, open to all players who wish to submit their games per rules set by Southwest Chess Club and judged by - not me!  LOL!  My chess knowledge wouldn't fit in a thimble, so I leave it in the capable hands of others to determine the best game prize.

Tournament flyer and registration form.

In addition to the $25 Best Game Prize, these are the Goddesschess prizes for the chess femmes:

(1) In Master/Expert, $100 to top scoring female finisher provided at least 2 females play;

(2) In U2000, $75, to top scoring female finisher provided at least 2 females play;

(3) In U1500, $50, to top scoring female finisher provided at least 3 females play;

(4) In U1000, $25, to top scoring female finisher provided at least 3 females play,

 

There are no tie-breaks; if tie score the prize money is split; and must score a draw or win in any section to qualify for prize.

Anjana Murali to Host 2013 Milwaukee Area Chess Summer Camps

Got this info from the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Federation as part of their monthly email:

2nd Free All Girls Chess Camp June 18 - 20

Anjana Murali Hosts All Girls Chess Camp Anjana will once again host a free all girls chess camp. This camp will be for players with ratings less than 300 and for players just beginning. This camp will be held over three days at Washington Dubois Christian Leadership Academy at 53rd and Hampton in Milwaukee. Each camper will receive a chess set, WSCF All Girls T-shirt and lunch each day. The camp begins at 9:00 am and ends each day at 3:00, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. This camp will be limited to 50 participants and will be taught once again by scholastic chess veterans from Milwaukee. James Madison High School chess coach, Michael Moore will also help to lead and instruct at the camp. To provide the free camp WSCF must raise $2000. You can help with funding the camp by going to WSCF's First Giving site. REGISTRATION       Donate

As you can see, this Chess Camp is for females only, for those young ladies who want to learn the basics of how to play chess, and for players with a rating of 300 or lower.  Darn it, I don't qualify with my rating of five hundred something...

Anjana Murali is a wonderful young lady and a very good chess player.  I do hope she will play in the October, 2013 Hales Corners Chess Challenge or in the June, 2013 Milwaukee Summer Challenge also hosted by the Southwest Chess Club (formerly known as the Hales Corners Chess Club, or something like that - my memory - ach!)  The Milwaukee Summer Challenge will take place June 15-16, 2013, so it does not conflict with the scheduled All Girls Chess Camp.

Funds are needed, if you can see it in your heart to contribute.  Every little bit helps, no matter how small.

Astronomical Alignment Found in Conjunction with Peruvian Pyramid

A great discovery, but perhaps not a surprising one, given what we already know.  Let's hope that it will now be preserved for posterity.

LiveScience.com | Photo By Image by Laura Griffin

Stunning Astronomical Alignment Found at Peru Pyramid

By Owen Jarus, LiveScience Contributor | LiveScience.com – Mon, May 6, 2013

An ancient astronomical alignment in southern Peru has been discovered by researchers between a pyramid, two stone lines and the setting sun during the winter solstice. During the solstice, hundreds of years ago, the three would have lined up to frame the pyramid in light.

The two stone lines, called geoglyphs, are located about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) east-southeast from the pyramid. They run for about 1,640 feet (500 meters), and researchers say the lines were "positioned in such a way as to frame the pyramid as one descended down the valley from the highlands."

Using astronomical software and 3D modeling, the researchers determined that a remarkable event would have occurred during the time of the winter solstice. [See Images of the Pyramid and Solstice Alignment]

"When viewed in 3D models, these lines appear to converge at a point beyond the horizon and frame not only the site of Cerro del Gentil [where the pyramid is], but also the setting sun during the time of the winter solstice," the research team wrote in a poster presentation given recently at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting in Honolulu.

"Thus someone viewing the sunset from these lines during the winter solstice would have seen the sun setting directly behind, or sinking into, the adobe pyramid," they write. "Thus the pyramid and the linear geoglyph constitute part of a single architectural complex, with potential cosmological significance, that ritualized the entire pampa landscape." (The word "pampa" stands for plain.)

The flattop pyramid is 16 feet (5 m) high and was built sometime between 600 B.C. and 50 B.C., being reoccupied somewhere between A.D. 200 and 400. Finds near the pyramid include textiles, shells and ceramics. The stone lines were constructed at some point between 500 B.C. and A.D. 400.

Lines, settlements and pyramids

But this discovery is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Researchers have found about 50 of these stone lines so far in a flat, dry area near the pyramid. The longest of the lines runs for nearly a mile (about 1,500 m). These lines are straight and made out of rock, unlike the Nazca Lines in southern Peru which were etched into the earth by removing the topsoil and include depictions of animals and plants.

Interspersed with these lines, researchers have also found more than 200 cairns (rock piles). The biggest of these cairns is about 50 feet (15 m) in diameter. Cairns can be found throughout the world and sometimes contain human burials, the examples found here, however, do not.

The stone lines and cairns appear to be connected with nearby settlements and their pyramids. There are four ancient settlements close to them, two of which have large pyramids and one that has a mound. The settlements would have supported populations in the high hundreds or just over 1,000.

"Many of the lines do lead to the pyramids; most lead to within the area of the pyramid," said Charles Stanish, a professor at UCLA's Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, in an interview with LiveScience.

"We did a statistical analysis, and it is statistically significant— it couldn't have been by random chance that they do cluster on these settlements," he said, noting that there are a few lines that don't lead to settlements.

Stanish said that the discovery of ancient lines leading to pyramids in Peru is important. "We have lines that run to pyramid complexes, and that's significant, because in the big Nazca pampa and in the Palpa pampa, we don't find that pattern as obvious." These two areas, Nazca and Palpa, contain lines, etched in earth, that depict various motifs, including animals and plants.

Future exploration

The team has only completed one field season at the site and will be heading back this summer to continue their work. They plan to excavate at the Cerro del Gentil pyramid and search for more stone lines.

"We're also going to do a systematic survey of a fairly large area to find all the other lines and all the other settlements and features," Stanish said. They also plan to dig test pits in structures associated with the lines to try to determine precisely when they were built.

One problem the team faces is that time is against them. "A lot of them [the stone lines] are being destroyed by construction," said Stanish, explaining that modern-day power and gas lines are being built in the area, jeopardizing the ancient stone lines that have stood for well over a millennia.

Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’

Yes, yes, YES!  (Si is just yes backwards...)  See related post from May 6, 2013.

From the Washington Post online, and please check out the wonderful interactive graphic of some of the "conserved" words.

Language families studied:

Altaic

Chukchi-Kamchatkan

Dravidian

Inuit-Yupik

Indo-European

Kartvelian

Uralic

By David Brown,

May 06, 2013 07:00 PM EDT

The Washington PostPublished: May 6

You, hear me! Give this fire to that old man. Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother. And no spitting in the ashes!

It’s an odd little speech. But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words to hunter-gatherers in Asia in any one of hundreds of modern languages, there is a chance they would understand at least some of what you were saying.

That’s because all of the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the four sentences are words that have descended largely unchanged from a language that died out as the glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. Those few words mean the same thing, and sound almost the same, as they did then.

The traditional view is that words can’t survive for more than 8,000 to 9,000 years. Evolution, linguistic “weathering” and the adoption of replacements from other languages eventually drive ancient words to extinction, just like the dinosaurs of the Jurassic era.

A new study, however, suggests that’s not always true. A team of researchers has come up with a list of two dozen “ultraconserved words” that have survived 150 centuries. It includes some predictable entries: “mother,” “not,” “what,” “to hear” and “man.” It also contains surprises: “to flow,” “ashes” and “worm.”

The existence of the long-lived words suggests there was a “proto-Eurasiatic” language that was the common ancestor to about 700 contemporary languages that are the native tongues of more than half the world’s people.

“We’ve never heard this language, and it’s not written down anywhere,” said Mark Pagel, an evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England who headed the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “But this ancestral language was spoken and heard. People sitting around campfires used it to talk to each other.”

In all, “proto-Eurasiatic” gave birth to seven language families. Several of the world’s important language families, however, fall outside that lineage, such as the one that includes Chinese and Tibetan; several African language families, and those of American Indians and Australian aborigines.
That a spoken sound carrying a specific meaning could remain unchanged over 15,000 years is a controversial idea for most historical linguists.

“Their general view is pessimistic,” said William Croft, a professor of linguistics at the University of New Mexico who studies the evolution of language and was not involved in the study. “They basically think there’s too little evidence to even propose a family like Eurasiatic.” In Croft’s view, however, the new study supports the plausibility of an ancestral language whose audible relics cross tongues today.

Pagel and three collaborators studied “cognates,” which are words that have the same meaning and a similar sound in different languages. Father (English), padre (Italian), pere (French), pater (Latin) and pitar (Sanskrit) are cognates. Those words, however, are from languages in one family, the Indo-European. The researchers looked much further afield, examining seven language families in all.

In addition to Indo-European, the language families included Altaic (whose modern members include Turkish, Uzbek and Mongolian); Chukchi-Kamchatkan (languages of far northeastern Siberia); Dravidian (languages of south India); Inuit-Yupik (Arctic languages); Kartvelian (Georgian and three related languages) and Uralic (Finnish, Hungarian and a few others).

They make up a diverse group. Some don’t use the Roman alphabet. Some had no written form until modern times. They sound different to the untrained ear. Their speakers live thousands of miles apart. In short, they seem unlikely candidates to share cognates.

Pagel’s team used as its starting material 200 words that linguists know to be the core vocabulary of all languages.

Other researchers had searched for cognates of those words in members of each of the seven Eurasiatic language families. They looked, for example, for similar-sounding words for “fish” or “to drink” in the Altaic family of languages or in the Indo-European languages. When they found cognates, they constructed what they imagined were the cognates’ ancestral words — a task that requires knowing how sounds change between languages, such as “f” in Germanic languages becoming “p” in Romance languages.

Those made-up words are called “proto-words.” Pagel’s team compared them among language families. They made thousands of comparisons, asking such questions as: Do the proto-word for “hand” in the Inuit-Yupik language family and the proto-word for “hand” in the Indo-European language family sound similar?

Surprisingly, the answer to that question and many others was yes.

The 23 entries on the list of ultraconserved words are cognates in four or more language families. Could they sound the same purely by chance? Pagel and his colleagues think not.

Linguists have calculated the rate at which words are replaced in a language. Common ones disappear the slowest. It’s those words that Pagel’s team found were most likely to have cognates among the seven families.  In fact, they calculated that words uttered at least 16 times per day by an average speaker had the greatest chance of being cognates in at least three language families. If chance had been the explanation, some rarely used words would have ended up on the list. But they didn’t.

As a group, the ultraconserved words give a hint of what has been important to people over the millennia.

“I was really delighted to see ‘to give’ there,” Pagel said. “Human society is characterized by a degree of cooperation and reciprocity that you simply don’t see in any other animal. Verbs tend to change fairly quickly, but that one hasn’t.”

Of course, one has to explain the presence of “bark.”

“I have spoken to some anthropologists about that, and they say that bark played a very significant role in the lives of forest-dwelling hunter-gatherers,” Pagel said. Bark was woven into baskets, stripped and braided into rope, burned as fuel, stuffed in empty spaces for insulation and consumed as medicine. [In addition, perhaps being part of a roof/covering over a structure, a sort of primitive shingle, when "stitched" together using early sewing techniques that were in place perhaps as early as 20,000 years ago.]

“To spit” is also a surprising survivor. It may be that the sound of that word is just so expressive of the sound of the activity — what linguists call “onomatopoeia” [could they possibly have come up with a more difficult word to pronounce?] — that it simply couldn’t be improved on over 15,000 years. [Think about it:  we've probably all spit at one time or other, such as during brushing one's teeth.  The sound is distinct...]

As to the origin of the sound of the other ultraconserved words, and who made them up, that’s a question best left to the poets.[Women would probably be better sources...].

2013 U.S. Women's Chess Championship

Games through R5 in PGN:

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kats, Alena"]
[Black "Krush, Irina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WFM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2144"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "B44"]
[Opening "Sicilian defence"]
[WhiteFideId "2007843"]
[BlackFideId "2012782"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. Nd2 Be7 7. g3 d6 8. Bg2
Bd7 9. c4 Ne5 10. Qb3 Nfg4 11. O-O Nxe3 12. Qxe3 Qb6 13. a4 Qc5 14. Nc2 Bf6 15.
a5 Qc7 16. Na3 a6 17. Rfc1 Rc8 18. Nb3 Be7 19. Qd2 O-O 20. Nd4 b6 21. axb6 Qxb6
22. b3 Rb8 23. Nac2 Bd8 24. Kh1 a5 25. f4 Ng4 26. h3 Nf6 27. Ra3 Qc5 28. Rca1
Bb6 29. Rxa5 Bxa5 30. Rxa5 Qc7 31. e5 dxe5 32. Rxe5 Rfd8 33. Qe3 Be8 34. f5 Nd7
35. Re4 e5 36. Ne2 Nf6 37. Rxe5 Rxb3 38. Qf4 Rb2 39. Ncd4 Qxc4 40. g4 Rb4 41. g5
Nh5 42. Qe3 Rb1+ 43. Kh2 Rbb8 44. Bf3 Qc7 45. Kg2 f6 46. Re7 Qd6 47. Re6 Qc5 48.
Re7 Kh8 49. gxf6 Nxf6 50. Re5 Qc4 51. Ne6 Rd7 52. Qg5 Rb5 53. Re3 h6 54. Qf4
Qxf4 55. N6xf4 Rxf5 56. Ne6 Bf7 57. N6d4 Ra5 58. Nc6 Rc5 59. Ne5 Ra7 60. Nf4 g5
61. Nfd3 Rc2+ 62. Kg3 Be8 63. Bd1 Rd2 64. Bb3 Kg7 65. Nc5 h5 66. h4 gxh4+ 67.
Kxh4 Ra1 68. Nf3 Rh1+ 69. Kg5 Rg2+ 70. Kf4 Rg4+ 71. Kf5 Bg6+ 72. Ke5 Nh7 73.
Ne6+ Kh6 74. Bd5 Rc1 75. Nf4 Nf8 76. Nd4 Nd7+ 77. Kd6 Rxf4 78. Ne2 Rf6+ 79. Kxd7
Re1 80. Bc4 h4 81. Ke7 Rf2 82. Ke6 Bf7+ 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Abrahamyan, Tatev"]
[Black "Foisor, Sabina-Francesca"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[ECO "C09"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "Tarrasch, open variation, main line"]
[WhiteFideId "13301918"]
[BlackFideId "1212915"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. Ngf3 Nc6 5. exd5 exd5 6. Bb5 a6 7. Bxc6+ bxc6 8.
O-O Nf6 9. Re1+ Be6 10. Ng5 Qd7 11. Ndf3 Be7 12. Ne5 Qc8 13. dxc5 O-O 14. Nxe6
fxe6 15. Be3 Rb8 16. Bd4 Ne4 17. Nd3 Bf6 18. Bxf6 Rxf6 19. f3 Ng5 20. Qd2 h6 21.
Ne5 Rxb2 22. Qc3 Rb7 23. Rab1 Nf7 24. Rb6 Nxe5 25. Qxe5 Qc7 26. Qxc7 Rxc7 27.
Rxa6 Kf7 28. Ra4 Rb7 29. Re3 Rb5 30. Ra7+ Kg6 31. Rc3 Rf4 32. Ra6 d4 33. Rc4 Kf6
34. Rxc6 Ke5 35. Rd6 d3 36. Rc3 dxc2 37. Rxc2 Rf7 38. Rd3 Rc7 39. c6 Rb6 40.
Rdc3 Kd6 41. Kf2 Ra6 42. Ke3 Ra5 43. Rc4 Ra3+ 44. Ke4 Ke7 45. Ke5 Ra5+ 46. Rc5
Rxc6 47. Rxa5 Rxc2 48. Ra7+ Kf8 49. Kxe6 Re2+ 50. Kf5 Rxg2 51. h4 Rh2 52. Kg4
Rg2+ 53. Kh3 Rc2 54. a4 Rc4 55. a5 Ra4 56. h5 Kg8 57. Kg3 Kh7 58. f4 Ra1 59. a6
Ra5 60. Kg4 Kg8 61. f5 Ra4+ 62. Kf3 Kf8 63. Ke3 Kg8 64. Kd3 Ra5 65. Ke4 Kh8 66.
Ra8+ Kh7 67. Kf4 Ra1 68. Ke5 Ra5+ 69. Ke6 Ra1 70. Kd6 Ra5 71. Kc6 Rxf5 72. Rc8
Rxh5 73. a7 Ra5 74. a8=Q Rxa8 75. Rxa8 Kg6 76. Kd5 Kf5 77. Rf8+ Kg4 78. Ke4 g5
79. Ke3 h5 80. Kf2 Kh3 81. Rf3+ Kg4 82. Kg2 h4 83. Ra3 Kh5 84. Ra4 g4 85. Ra8
Kg5 86. Rh8 g3 87. Kf3 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Baginskaite, Camilla"]
[Black "Ni, Viktorija"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WIM"]
[WhiteElo "2278"]
[BlackElo "2262"]
[ECO "E46"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Reshevsky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2014599"]
[BlackFideId "11602252"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Ne2 Re8 6. a3 Bf8 7. e4 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. e5 Nfd7 10. Be3 c5 11. f4 Nc6 12. g3 cxd4 13. Nxd4 Ndxe5 14. fxe5 Rxe5
15. Qd2 Qg5 16. Kf2 Qf6+ 17. Kg2 Rxe3 18. Qxe3 Nxd4 19. Nxd5 Bh3+ 20. Kxh3 Qf5+
21. g4 Qxd5 22. Bg2 Qd7 23. Rad1 Rd8 24. Rhf1 h5 25. Qf4 Ne6 26. Qf5 hxg4+ 27.
Qxg4 Nf4+ 28. Rxf4 Qxg4+ 29. Kxg4 Rxd1 30. Bxb7 Rd2 31. h4 Bd6 32. Rf3 Rd4+ 33.
Kh3 Be7 34. Re3 Kf8 35. Re4 Rd2 36. Ra4 Rxb2 37. Rxa7 Rb3+ 38. Kg4 Rxa3 39. Rxa3
Bxa3 40. h5 Ke7 41. Bd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Zenyuk, Iryna"]
[Black "Chiang, Sarah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "WFM"]
[WhiteElo "2243"]
[BlackElo "2098"]
[ECO "E53"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3, main line with ...c5"]
[WhiteFideId "2022966"]
[BlackFideId "2010810"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4
dxc4 9. Bxc4 b6 10. Ne5 Bb7 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bh4 Nbd7 13. Qe2 Rc8 14. Rac1 Nxe5
15. dxe5 Qd4 16. exf6 Rxc4 17. fxg7 Qxg7 18. Bg3 Rg4 19. Nd1 Bc5 20. Ne3 Rg6 21.
a3 a5 22. b4 axb4 23. axb4 Bxb4 24. Qb5 Bd6 25. Qxb6 Bxg3 26. hxg3 Ba8 27. Rfd1
Qf6 28. Rc7 h5 29. Rd4 Qg5 30. Rcd7 Kh8 31. Rd8 Rgg8 32. Rxf8 Rxf8 33. Rf4 Kg8
34. Qc7 Qb5 35. Qe7 Qb1+ 36. Kh2 Qg6 37. Rf6 Qg7 38. Rf4 Qg6 39. Nc4 Bd5 40. Ne5
Qg7 41. Nd7 Ra8 42. Nf6+ Kh8 43. Rh4 Qf8 44. Rxh5+ Kg7 45. Rg5+ Kh8 46. Qxf8+
Rxf8 47. Nxd5 exd5 48. Rxd5 Kg7 49. g4 Rb8 50. Kg3 Kg6 51. Rd6+ Kg7 52. g5 Rb4
53. f4 Rb2 54. Kf3 Rb4 55. Kg4 Rb2 56. g3 Rb3 57. Rd7 Rb4 58. Kh5 Rb5 59. g4 Rb6
60. f5 Kg8 61. f6 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Zatonskih, Anna"]
[Black "Belakovskaia, Anjelina"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2263"]
[ECO "D08"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Albin counter-gambit"]
[WhiteFideId "14101572"]
[BlackFideId "2008599"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. e3 exd4 4. exd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bb4 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 Nf6 8. c5
O-O 9. Be2 Ne4 10. Qb3 Re8 11. Rd1 Bxc3+ 12. bxc3 Na5 13. Qb4 Nc4 14. O-O Nxf2
15. Bg5 Nxd1 16. Bxd8 Rxe2 17. Qxb7 Rxd8 18. Rxd1 Bxf3 19. gxf3 Nd2 20. Qxc7
Nxf3+ 21. Kf1 Rde8 22. Qf4 Nxh2+ 23. Kg1 h5 24. c6 R8e4 25. Qxe4 dxe4 26. c7
Nf3+ 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Foisor, Sabina-Francesca"]
[Black "Belakovskaia, Anjelina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2263"]
[ECO "D09"]
[Opening "QGD"]
[Variation "Albin counter-gambit, 5.g3"]
[WhiteFideId "1212915"]
[BlackFideId "2008599"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e5 3. dxe5 d4 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. g3 Nge7 6. Bg2 Ng6 7. a3 Ngxe5 8.
Nbd2 a5 9. b3 Be7 10. O-O O-O 11. Bb2 Nxf3+ 12. Nxf3 Bf6 13. Qd3 Re8 14. Rfe1
Bg4 15. Rad1 Qd7 16. Nxd4 Nxd4 17. Bxd4 Rad8 18. Be3 Qe7 19. Qc2 Qxa3 20. Bxb7
Rxd1 21. Rxd1 Rb8 22. Be4 Qxb3 23. Bxh7+ Kh8 24. Rd5 g6 25. Bxg6 fxg6 26. Qxg6
Qb1+ 27. Qxb1 Rxb1+ 28. Kg2 a4 29. Ra5 Rb4 30. f3 Bd7 31. c5 Bb2 32. Ra8+ Kg7
33. Ra7 Bb5 34. c6 Be5 35. f4 Bd6 36. h4 Bxc6+ 37. Kf2 Rb7 38. Ra6 Bb5 39. Bd4+
Kf7 40. Ra8 c5 41. Bc3 Bd7 42. e4 Rb3 43. Bh8 c4 44. Ra6 Bc5+ 45. Ke2 Rxg3 46.
f5 Re3+ 47. Kd2 Rxe4 48. Kc3 Rxh4 49. Be5 Re4 50. Bh8 Bb5 51. Ra5 Re3+ 52. Kc2
Rb3 53. Bc3 Bb4 54. Ra7+ Ke8 55. Ra8+ Ke7 56. f6+ Ke6 57. Bd4 c3 58. Rc8 Rb2+
59. Kc1 Bd3 60. Rc6+ Kd5 61. Bxc3 Rc2+ 62. Kd1 Rxc3 63. Rb6 Rb3 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Chiang, Sarah"]
[Black "Zatonskih, Anna"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WFM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2098"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "D11"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "3.Nf3"]
[WhiteFideId "2010810"]
[BlackFideId "14101572"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 4. e3 f5 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bd3 Bd6 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc2 Ne4
9. Ne5 Nd7 10. f3 Nef6 11. Nxd7 Bxd7 12. e4 fxe4 13. fxe4 e5 14. exd5 exd4 15.
Ne4 Nxe4 16. Rxf8+ Qxf8 17. Bxe4 h6 18. Bd2 Re8 19. Re1 Kh8 20. Qd3 Qf6 21. Qf3
Qe5 22. g3 Rf8 23. Qg2 Qh5 24. Rf1 Rxf1+ 25. Qxf1 c5 26. Bc2 Kg8 27. Qd3 Kf7 28.
Qe4 Qg4 29. Qxg4 Bxg4 30. Kf2 Kf6 31. Bd3 g5 32. Bf1 Bf5 33. Be2 Be4 34. h3 b5
35. b3 b4 36. Bd1 Bb1 37. Bc1 Bxa2 38. Bc2 a5 39. Bb2 Be5 40. Bd1 a4 41. bxa4
Bxc4 42. Bf3 d3 43. Bc1 b3 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Abrahamyan, Tatev"]
[Black "Baginskaite, Camilla"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2278"]
[ECO "C50"]
[Opening "Giuoco Piano"]
[WhiteFideId "13301918"]
[BlackFideId "2014599"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. O-O Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. c3 O-O 7. Nbd2 a6 8. Bb3
h6 9. Re1 Re8 10. Nf1 Ba7 11. Ng3 d5 12. exd5 Na5 13. Nxe5 Nxb3 14. Qxb3 Ng4 15.
d4 Qh4 16. Bf4 Qxh2+ 17. Kf1 Bf5 18. c4 Bxd4 19. Nf3 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Krush, Irina"]
[Black "Zenyuk, Iryna"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[WhiteElo "2470"]
[BlackElo "2243"]
[ECO "E92"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "Petrosian system, Stein variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2012782"]
[BlackFideId "2022966"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 h6
9. Bh4 Na6 10. O-O Bd7 11. Nd2 Qe8 12. b3 Nh7 13. a3 h5 14. f3 Bh6 15. Qc2 Be3+
16. Kh1 f5 17. exf5 gxf5 18. Bf2 Bxf2 19. Rxf2 Nf6 20. Rg1 Kh8 21. Qb2 Nc5 22.
b4 axb4 23. axb4 Na4 24. Nxa4 Rxa4 25. Bd1 Ra8 26. f4 e4 27. Nf1 Kh7 28. Ne3 Qf7
29. h3 Rg8 30. g3 Rg7 31. Kh2 Rag8 32. Rgg2 Ra8 33. Bb3 Ne8 34. c5 Qf6 35. c6
bxc6 36. dxc6 Bxc6 37. Qe2 Bd7 38. Qxh5+ Qh6 39. Qxh6+ Kxh6 40. g4 Rb8 41. gxf5
Rxg2+ 42. Rxg2 Rxb4 43. Bg8 Rb8 44. Rg6+ Kh5 45. Rg5+ 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.04"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ni, Viktorija"]
[Black "Kats, Alena"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "WIM"]
[BlackTitle "WFM"]
[WhiteElo "2262"]
[BlackElo "2144"]
[ECO "D48"]
[Opening "QGD semi-Slav"]
[Variation "Meran, Reynolds' variation"]
[WhiteFideId "11602252"]
[BlackFideId "2007843"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3
a6 9. e4 c5 10. d5 Bb7 11. O-O Qc7 12. Bg5 c4 13. Bc2 O-O-O 14. Re1 Bd6 15. b3
Bb4 16. Bd2 Qa5 17. a3 Bxc3 18. b4 Qc7 19. Bxc3 exd5 20. e5 Ne4 21. Bd4 f6 22.
exf6 gxf6 23. a4 Rhg8 24. axb5 axb5 25. Ra7 Ne5 26. Ra5 Bc6 27. Ra7 Bb7 28. Ra5
Bc6 29. Ra7 Bb7 30. Ra5 Bc6 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Zatonskih, Anna"]
[Black "Krush, Irina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "E98"]
[Opening "King's Indian"]
[Variation "orthodox, Aronin-Taimanov, 9.Ne1"]
[WhiteFideId "14101572"]
[BlackFideId "2012782"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. d4 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5 Ne7
9. Ne1 Nd7 10. Nd3 f5 11. f3 f4 12. Bd2 h5 13. Rc1 g5 14. Be1 Ng6 15. c5 Nf6 16.
Nb5 Rf7 17. Qc2 a6 18. Na3 g4 19. Nc4 gxf3 20. Bxf3 Bg4 21. Qf2 Bf8 22. cxd6
cxd6 23. Kh1 Nh7 24. Bb4 Qf6 25. Rc2 Ng5 26. Rfc1 Rg7 27. Nb6 Re8 28. Rc7 Ree7
29. Rxe7 Bxe7 30. Rc7 Nxf3 31. gxf3 Bh3 32. Nc8 Bf8 33. Rxg7+ Kxg7 34. Nb6 Be7
35. Qg1 Bd8 36. Nc4 Bc7 37. Be1 Kf7 38. Bf2 Nh4 39. Ne1 b5 40. Nb6 Qd8 41. b4
Ng6 42. a4 Bxb6 43. Bxb6 Qc8 44. axb5 axb5 45. Qf2 Qc4 46. Ba5 Nf8 47. Qa7+ Nd7
48. Qf2 Nf6 49. Qa7+ Kg6 50. Qg1+ Ng4 51. fxg4 Qxe4+ 52. Ng2 hxg4 53. Qf2 Qxd5
54. Qc2+ Kg7 55. Bc7 f3 56. Kg1 Bxg2 57. Kf2 Qd4+ 58. Kg3 Qf4+ 59. Kf2 Qxh2 60.
Qf5 Bh3+ 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kats, Alena"]
[Black "Abrahamyan, Tatev"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "WFM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2144"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "C00"]
[Opening "French"]
[Variation "King's Indian attack"]
[WhiteFideId "2007843"]
[BlackFideId "13301918"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 e6 2. d3 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. g3 dxe4 5. dxe4 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bc5 7. Ngf3 e5 8. O-O
O-O 9. c3 a5 10. Qc2 b6 11. Nb3 Bd6 12. a4 Bb7 13. Nh4 Ne8 14. Nf5 Ne7 15. Ne3
Nf6 16. f4 Qc8 17. fxe5 Bxe5 18. Nc4 Ng6 19. Nxe5 Nxe5 20. Bf4 Re8 21. Rad1 c5
22. c4 Bc6 23. Nd2 Qb7 24. Bg5 Nfd7 25. b3 Ng6 26. Nb1 h6 27. Bc1 Nf6 28. Nc3
Nxe4 29. Nd5 Ng5 30. h4 Ne6 31. Qf2 Nd4 32. Be3 Ne6 33. Bc1 Nd4 34. Be3 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Baginskaite, Camilla"]
[Black "Foisor, Sabina-Francesca"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2278"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Modern defence"]
[WhiteFideId "2014599"]
[BlackFideId "1212915"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 g6 2. c4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Nc3 Nd7 5. g3 e5 6. Bg2 Ne7 7. O-O O-O 8. e4
exd4 9. Nxd4 a6 10. f4 Nb6 11. b3 c5 12. Nde2 Bg4 13. Bb2 f5 14. Qd2 Qc7 15.
Rae1 Rae8 16. h3 Bh5 17. Kh2 Kh8 18. Ng1 Nc6 19. Bf3 Nd4 20. Bxh5 gxh5 21. exf5
Nxf5 22. Nf3 Qf7 23. Rxe8 Qxe8 24. Re1 Qg6 25. Ne4 h6 26. Bxg7+ Qxg7 27. Qc3 Re8
28. Qxg7+ Kxg7 29. Kg2 Nc8 30. g4 hxg4 31. hxg4 Nfe7 32. Ng3 Kf7 33. Nh4 Rg8 34.
Kf3 Rh8 35. Rh1 b5 36. Rd1 bxc4 37. bxc4 a5 38. Rb1 d5 39. cxd5 Nd6 40. Ne4 Nxe4
41. Kxe4 Re8 42. Nf3 Nc8+ 43. Ne5+ Kf6 44. Kf3 Nd6 45. Nd7+ Kf7 46. Rb6 Nc4 47.
Rb7 Nd2+ 48. Kg3 c4 49. Rc7 c3 50. Ne5+ Kg8 51. Kh4 Ne4 52. Nf7 Rf8 53. Nxh6+
Kh8 54. Nf5 Rf6 55. d6 Nxd6 56. Nxd6 Rxd6 57. Rxc3 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Belakovskaia, Anjelina"]
[Black "Chiang, Sarah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WFM"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2098"]
[ECO "B19"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "classical, Spassky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "2008599"]
[BlackFideId "2010810"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Bf5 5. Ng3 Bg6 6. Nf3 Nd7 7. h4 h6 8. h5
Bh7 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 e6 11. Bf4 Qa5+ 12. Bd2 Bb4 13. c3 Be7 14. c4 Qc7 15.
O-O-O Ngf6 16. Rde1 O-O-O 17. Qe2 Rhe8 18. Kb1 Bd6 19. Rh4 c5 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21.
Qxe4 Nf6 22. Qc2 cxd4 23. Nxd4 Bc5 24. Nb5 Qc6 25. Be3 Bxe3 26. fxe3 Qc5 27. a3
a6 28. Nc3 Qg5 29. Rh3 Nxh5 30. Ne4 Qe5 31. c5 Re7 32. Nd6+ Kb8 33. b4 Nf6 34.
e4 Rc7 35. Rd3 Rdd7 36. Nc4 Qg5 37. Nb6 Ka7 38. Nxd7 Nxd7 39. Qd2 Qe7 40. Qf4 e5
41. Qg4 f6 42. Red1 Qf7 43. Kb2 Nf8 44. Rd6 g6 45. Rf1 h5 46. Qh3 Nh7 47. Qe3
Rc6 48. Rxc6 bxc6 49. Qd2 Kb7 50. Qd8 Qc7 51. Qe8 Qc8 52. Qxg6 Qd7 53. Kc2 h4
54. Rd1 Qe7 55. Rd6 Kc7 56. Kd3 Kb7 57. Qg4 Nf8 58. Qf5 Qf7 59. Qxf6 Qb3+ 60.
Ke2 Qc4+ 61. Kf2 Qc2+ 62. Kg1 Qc1+ 63. Kh2 Qf4+ 64. Qxf4 exf4 65. Rf6 Nd7 66.
Rf7 Kc8 67. Rxf4 Ne5 68. Rxh4 Nc4 69. Rh3 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Zenyuk, Iryna"]
[Black "Ni, Viktorija"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "WIM"]
[WhiteElo "2243"]
[BlackElo "2262"]
[ECO "E47"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3 O-O, 5.Bd3"]
[WhiteFideId "2022966"]
[BlackFideId "11602252"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nf3 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 d6 8. O-O
Nc6 9. e4 e5 10. d5 Ne7 11. Nh4 Kh8 12. g3 Bh3 13. Re1 Nfg8 14. f3 g6 15. Rb1 b6
16. Rb2 h6 17. Rf2 Kg7 18. Qc2 Qd7 19. g4 Nf6 20. Kh1 h5 21. g5 Nh7 22. f4 exf4
23. Bxf4 f6 24. gxf6+ Nxf6 25. e5 Ng4 26. exd6 Ng8 27. Bxg6 Qd8 28. Nf5+ Rxf5
29. Bxf5 Nxf2+ 30. Qxf2 Bxf5 31. Be5+ Kg6 32. Rg1+ Bg4 33. h3 Nh6 34. hxg4 Nxg4
35. Qc2+ Kh6 36. Qd2+ Kg6 37. Qd3+ Kh6 38. Bf4+ Kg7 39. Qe2 Qh4+ 40. Kg2 Re8 41.
Qxe8 Qf2+ 42. Kh3 Qxg1 43. Qe7+ Kg8 44. Qe6+ Kg7 45. Be5+ Nxe5 46. Qxe5+ Kh7 47.
Qxh5+ 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Krush, Irina"]
[Black "Belakovskaia, Anjelina"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2470"]
[BlackElo "2263"]
[ECO "A21"]
[Opening "English opening"]
[WhiteFideId "2012782"]
[BlackFideId "2008599"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 f5 5. d3 Be7 6. Bg2 Nf6 7. O-O O-O 8. a3 Rb8
9. Rb1 Qe8 10. Nd5 Bd6 11. e4 b5 12. Nxf6+ Rxf6 13. exf5 Rxf5 14. Ng5 Be7 15.
Ne4 Ba6 16. Nc3 Kh8 17. cxb5 Bxb5 18. Nxb5 Rxb5 19. Bxc6 dxc6 20. Bd2 Qd7 21.
Bc3 Rb8 22. Qe2 Qd5 23. f3 Bd6 24. Kg2 Kg8 25. Qe4 Rbf8 26. Rbe1 h5 27. h4 Qxe4
28. dxe4 R5f7 29. Rd1 Bc7 30. Rd3 c4 31. Rd2 a5 32. a4 Kh7 33. Rc2 Rb8 34. Rff2
Bb6 35. Rfe2 Rbf8 36. Bxe5 Rxf3 37. Bf4 Rb3 38. Rxc4 Rf6 39. Be5 Rg6 40. Bc3 Bc7
41. Re3 Be5 42. Rc5 Bxc3 43. bxc3 Rb2+ 44. Kh3 Kh6 45. e5 Re6 46. Rxa5 Ra2 47.
Ra8 Kg6 48. a5 c5 49. a6 Raxa6 50. Rxa6 Rxa6 51. e6 Ra8 52. g4 hxg4+ 53. Kxg4
Re8 54. c4 Kf6 55. e7 Rxe7 56. Rxe7 Kxe7 57. Kf5 Kf7 58. h5 Kg8 59. Ke5 Kh7 60.
Kd5 Kh6 61. Kxc5 Kxh5 62. Kd5 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ni, Viktorija"]
[Black "Zatonskih, Anna"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WIM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2262"]
[BlackElo "2466"]
[ECO "D10"]
[Opening "QGD Slav defence"]
[Variation "exchange variation"]
[WhiteFideId "11602252"]
[BlackFideId "14101572"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Bf4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. e3 Be7 7. Bd3 O-O 8. h3
a6 9. Nf3 b5 10. O-O Bb7 11. Rc1 Nbd7 12. Ne5 Nb6 13. Bb1 Rc8 14. g4 b4 15. Ne2
Nc4 16. b3 Na3 17. Bd3 Ne4 18. Bxe4 dxe4 19. Nc4 Nxc4 20. bxc4 a5 21. Qb3 Ba6
22. Rfe1 a4 23. Qxa4 Bxc4 24. Qc2 Bd5 25. Qd2 Ra8 26. Rc2 Ra3 27. Nc1 Qa5 28.
Rc7 Re8 29. Re2 Rc3 30. Rxc3 bxc3 31. Qc2 Qb4 32. Re1 Rc8 33. Ne2 Qc4 34. Rb1 g5
35. Be5 f6 36. Bg3 Qxa2 37. Qxa2 Bxa2 38. Rb7 Kf8 39. Bc7 Bd5 40. Ra7 c2 41. Nc1
Ra8 42. Rxa8+ Bxa8 43. Ba5 Bd5 44. Kf1 Ba3 45. Bd2 Ke8 46. Kg2 Kd7 47. Kg3 Kc6
48. h4 h6 49. hxg5 hxg5 50. Kg2 Bb2 51. Kf1 Kb5 52. Ke1 Bc4 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Foisor, Sabina-Francesca"]
[Black "Chiang, Sarah"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WFM"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2098"]
[ECO "E32"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "classical variation"]
[WhiteFideId "1212915"]
[BlackFideId "2010810"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. Nf3 b6 6. e4 Bb7 7. Bd3 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. e5 Ne4 10. O-O f5 11. exf6 Nxf6 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 Nbd7 14. Bf5 Re8 15.
Rfe1 Nf8 16. a3 Be7 17. Bg3 Nh5 18. Be5 Bf6 19. Bg4 g6 20. Bxh5 gxh5 21. Qf5
Bxe5 22. Nxe5 Re7 23. Qxh5 Qd6 24. Re3 Rg7 25. Rg3 Qe6 26. Ne2 c5 27. Nf4 Qe8
28. Qxh6 Rxg3 29. hxg3 Qe7 30. Nh5 Nh7 31. Qg6+ Kf8 32. Nf4 Re8 33. Ne6+ Qxe6
34. Qxh7 Re7 35. Qh8+ Qg8 36. Ng6+ 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Baginskaite, Camilla"]
[Black "Kats, Alena"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WFM"]
[WhiteElo "2278"]
[BlackElo "2144"]
[ECO "D11"]
[Opening "QGD Slav"]
[Variation "4.e3"]
[WhiteFideId "2014599"]
[BlackFideId "2007843"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 dxc4 6. Bxc4 b5 7. Bd3 a6 8. a4 Bb7
9. O-O Nbd7 10. e4 Be7 11. Bg5 h6 12. Bd2 g5 13. Nc3 b4 14. e5 bxc3 15. exf6
Nxf6 16. Bxc3 Qd5 17. Qe2 g4 18. Ne1 h5 19. Bc4 Qe4 20. f3 Qxe2 21. Bxe2 Nd5 22.
fxg4 hxg4 23. Nd3 Bg5 24. Bxg4 Ne3 25. Bf3 Nxf1 26. Rxf1 Rh6 27. Nc5 Be3+ 28.
Kh1 O-O-O 29. Rd1 Rdh8 30. h3 Rg8 31. Rd3 Bf4 32. Ba5 Bc7 33. Bd2 Rf6 34. Rb3
Ba8 35. Nxa6 Rf5 36. Nxc7 Kxc7 37. Be4 Rf1+ 38. Kh2 Rf2 39. Be3 Rf1 40. Bd3 Ra1
41. Bh7 Rg7 42. Be4 f5 43. Bf3 Rxa4 44. Bf4+ Kd7 45. Rb8 Re7 46. Be5 Re8 47. Rb6
Rc8 48. b4 Ra7 49. h4 Ke8 50. Kg3 Kf7 51. Kf4 Rb7 52. Rxb7+ Bxb7 53. Bh5+ Ke7
54. Bg6 Rg8 55. h5 Bc8 56. Kg5 Bd7 57. Bf6+ Kf8 58. Kh6 Be8 59. Kh7 Bf7 60. g3
Ke8 61. Kh6 Kf8 62. Kh7 Ke8 63. Kh6 Kf8 64. Be5 Ke7 65. Kg5 Bxg6 66. hxg6 Ra8
67. Kh6 Rg8 68. Kg5 Rb8 69. Kh6 Rc8 70. Kh7 Re8 71. Kg7 Ra8 72. Bf6+ Ke8 73. Kh7
Rb8 74. Be5 Rc8 75. Kh6 Kf8 76. Kg5 Ke7 77. Kf4 Ra8 78. g7 Kf7 79. Ke3 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Abrahamyan, Tatev"]
[Black "Zenyuk, Iryna"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "CM"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2243"]
[ECO "B35"]
[Opening "Sicilian"]
[Variation "accelerated fianchetto, modern variation with Bc4"]
[WhiteFideId "13301918"]
[BlackFideId "2022966"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 d6 8. f3
O-O 9. Bb3 Bd7 10. h4 h5 11. Qd2 Rc8 12. O-O-O Ne5 13. Bg5 Rc5 14. Kb1 b5 15. g4
a5 16. gxh5 a4 17. h6 Bh8 18. h7+ Nxh7 19. Bd5 Bg7 20. f4 Nxg5 21. hxg5 Ng4 22.
f5 b4 23. Nce2 Rxd5 24. exd5 Nf2 25. Qf4 Nxd1 26. Qh4 Re8 27. fxg6 Ne3 28. gxf7+
Kxf7 29. Qh5+ Kg8 30. Ne6 1-0

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chiang, Sarah"]
[Black "Krush, Irina"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WFM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2098"]
[BlackElo "2470"]
[ECO "E44"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Fischer variation, 5.Ne2"]
[WhiteFideId "2010810"]
[BlackFideId "2012782"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Ne2 c5 6. a3 Ba5 7. Rb1 Na6 8. g3 Bb7
9. d5 b5 10. Bg2 bxc4 11. O-O O-O 12. e4 exd5 13. exd5 d6 14. Qa4 h6 15. Bf4 Re8
16. Rfd1 Nb8 17. Qxc4 Ba6 18. Nb5 Nbd7 19. Nec3 Ne5 20. Qa4 Bxb5 21. Qxb5 a6 22.
Qa4 Bb6 23. Ne4 Nxe4 24. Bxe4 Qf6 25. Re1 c4 26. Re2 Ng6 27. Qxc4 Nxf4 28. gxf4
Kf8 29. Qb3 Rxe4 30. Rxe4 Qg6+ 31. Qg3 Qxe4 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kats, Alena"]
[Black "Foisor, Sabina-Francesca"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WFM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2144"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[ECO "B15"]
[Opening "Caro-Kann"]
[Variation "Gurgenidze system"]
[WhiteFideId "2007843"]
[BlackFideId "1212915"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. exd5 cxd5 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Bb5+ Kf8 7. O-O Bg4 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Qxf3 Nc6 10. Ne2 e6 11. c4 Nf6 12. Bf4 Kg8 13. Rac1 Ne7 14. Bg5 Ne4 15.
Bf4 Nd6 16. Qa3 Nef5 17. g4 Nxb5 18. cxb5 Nxd4 19. Nxd4 Bxd4 20. Rc2 Kg7 21.
Rfc1 Qf6 22. Be3 Be5 23. Qd3 g5 24. Qd2 h6 25. h4 Qf3 26. Qd1 Qh3 27. f3 Rad8
28. Bd4 Qg3+ 29. Rg2 Qf4 30. Bxe5+ Qxe5 31. h5 Qe3+ 32. Kf1 d4 33. Rf2 Rd5 34.
a4 Rhd8 35. Qd2 Qb3 36. Qc2 Qb4 37. Rd2 b6 38. Rd3 Rc5 39. Qb1 Qxa4 40. Ra3
Qxb5+ 41. Kf2 a5 0-1

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Zenyuk, Iryna"]
[Black "Baginskaite, Camilla"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "CM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2243"]
[BlackElo "2278"]
[ECO "E58"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "4.e3, main line with 8...Bxc3"]
[WhiteFideId "2022966"]
[BlackFideId "2014599"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nf3 d5 7. O-O Nc6 8. a3
Bxc3 9. bxc3 Qc7 10. Bb2 dxc4 11. Bxc4 e5 12. h3 Bf5 13. Qe2 a6 14. a4 Rfe8 15.
Rfd1 Rad8 16. Nh4 Bd7 17. Nf3 Bf5 18. Nh4 Bd7 19. Nf3 Bf5 20. Nh4 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Zatonskih, Anna"]
[Black "Abrahamyan, Tatev"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "WGM"]
[WhiteElo "2466"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[ECO "E46"]
[Opening "Nimzo-Indian"]
[Variation "Reshevsky variation"]
[WhiteFideId "14101572"]
[BlackFideId "13301918"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Ne2 d5 6. a3 Be7 7. Nf4 dxc4 8. Bxc4
c5 9. dxc5 Qxd1+ 10. Kxd1 Bxc5 11. Ke2 Nc6 12. Rd1 a6 13. b4 Be7 14. Bb2 b5 15.
Bb3 Bb7 16. Rd2 Rfb8 17. Nd3 a5 18. Nxb5 axb4 19. axb4 Rxa1 20. Bxa1 Nxb4 21.
Be5 Rd8 22. f3 Ba6 23. Ba4 Rxd3 24. Rxd3 Nxd3 25. Kxd3 Nd7 26. Bd4 e5 27. Ba7
Bc5 28. Kd2 Bxb5 29. Bxb5 Bxa7 30. Bxd7 Kf8 1/2-1/2

[Event "ch-USA w 2013"]
[Site "Saint Louis USA"]
[Date "2013.05.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Belakovskaia, Anjelina"]
[Black "Ni, Viktorija"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteTitle "WGM"]
[BlackTitle "WIM"]
[WhiteElo "2263"]
[BlackElo "2262"]
[ECO "A46"]
[Opening "Queen's pawn"]
[Variation "Torre attack"]
[WhiteFideId "2008599"]
[BlackFideId "11602252"]
[EventDate "2013.05.03"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. e3 Qa5+ 5. c3 Be7 6. Nbd2 cxd4 7. exd4 d6 8.
Bd3 Nbd7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qe2 Re8 11. a4 Nf8 12. Nc4 Qc7 13. Rfc1 Bd7 14. a5 Bc6
15. a6 b6 16. Na3 Nd5 17. Bd2 Ng6 18. Bxg6 hxg6 19. b4 Nf6 20. c4 Rad8 21. d5
Bd7 22. Nd4 Bf8 23. Nab5 Bxb5 24. cxb5 Qd7 25. dxe6 fxe6 26. Bg5 Qf7 27. Nc6 Rd7
28. Re1 e5 29. Qc2 Rc7 30. Qd3 Kh7 31. Rad1 Qe6 32. Re3 e4 33. Qd4 Ng4 34. Rh3+
Kg8 35. Bf4 Rf7 36. Bg3 e3 37. fxe3 Nxe3 38. Bf2 Nxd1 39. Qxd1 Qa2 40. Rf3 Rxf3
41. gxf3 Re2 42. Qd4 Be7 43. Nxe7+ Rxe7 44. Qxd6 Qe6 45. Qb8+ Kh7 46. Qf4 Rf7
47. Qh4+ Kg8 48. Qd8+ Rf8 49. Qc7 Qf7 50. Qxf7+ Kxf7 51. Bd4 Ke6 52. Kf2 Kd5 53.
Bxg7 Rf7 54. Bc3 Kc4 55. Bd2 Kxb5 56. Ke3 Kxa6 57. f4 Rh7 58. Bc3 Rxh2 59. Be5
Kb5 60. Bd6 Kc4 61. Kf3 Ra2 62. Ke4 a5 63. bxa5 bxa5 64. Ke5 a4 65. Ke6 Kb3 66.
Kf7 Rg2 67. Be7 a3 68. Bg5 a2 69. Kxg6 a1=Q 70. Kf5 Kc4 71. Bf6 Qb1+ 72. Ke6
Qe4+ 73. Be5 Rg6+ 0-1

2013 FIDE Women's Grand Prix: Geneva

Going on right now, May 3 - 15, 2013.  Website. 

Let me tell you, if half the male chessplayers in the world were as attractive as this group of ladies, chess would turn instantly into a spectator sport with a majority of female fans :)  I am not so sure of the identities of some of the ladies just from visual, but I'll take a crack at naming this line-up, from L to R: Anna Muzychuk, Viktorija Cmilyte, Hou Yifan sans glasses (looks cute without them), not sure, Anna Ushenina, Fearless Leader Who Speaketh With Aliens, not sure but she resembles Kim Cattrall(!), the always lovely Alexandra Kosteniuk, Nana Dzagnidze(?), Kateryna Lahno, Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, Ju Wenjun, not sure, and Tatiana Kosintseva. 

Standings after R4:

Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pts	Res.	vict
1	8	GM	Kateryna Lagno	2548	UKR	*			½						½	1	1	3	0	2
2	11	GM	Yifan Hou	2617	CHN		*	½		1				0	1			2½	0	2
3	2	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	2517	RUS		½	*		1	½					½		2½	0	1
4	6	GM	Anna Muzychuk	2585	SLO	½			*			½	½				1	2½	0	1
5	3	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	2505	GEO		0	0		*	1	1						2	0	2
6	1	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	2545	GEO			½		0	*			1		½		2	0	1
	10	WGM	Wenjun Ju	2544	CHN				½	0		*		1	½			2	0	1
8	9	GM	Anna Ushenina	2491	UKR				½				*	½	½		½	2	0	0
9	4	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	2298	MGL		1				0	0	½	*				1½	0	1
10	5	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	2522	LTU	½	0					½	½		*			1½	0	0
11	12	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2491	RUS	0		½			½					*	½	1½	0	0
12	7	WGM	Olga Girya	2463	RUS	0			0				½			½	*	1	0	0

This is a stellar line-up and includes a few "surprise" players (Batchimeg and Girya) who can be dangerous in their own right. 

GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (W) lost her R4 game yesterday to GM Kateryna Lahno (B) and that win put Lahno into clear first place.

In R3, Hou Yifan proved she's not a robot after all and got "spanked" by Mama Hou for dropping a game to the much lower rated Tuvshintugs Batchimeg.  Their game was the featured "Game of the Day" for R3, with extensive analysis.

In R4, Hou Yifan rebounded to defeat Viktorija Cmilyte, but not without some difficulty.  I found this comment by the GM providing analysis for the tournament,  Adrian Mikhalchishin, interesting:  Viktoria used the same approach, playing the former World Champion, as I taught my pupil Betul Yildiz in the last few years. It is simple -Hou Yifan is fantastic, a fine technical player, and the only way to play successfully against her is to challenge her from the start. It means to attack as soon as possible, hmm, but it is tremendousely difficult. You have to show her ,that you are not afraid of her.
 
I can't imagine Cmilyte being afraid of any player, but it's good advice nonetheless. 

Here are the match-ups for today's round:

Round 5 on 2013/05/08 at 14:00
SNo.		Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg	SNo.
3	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	2505	-	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2491	12
4	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	2298	-	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	2517	2
5	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	2522	-	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	2545	1
6	GM	Anna Muzychuk	2585	-	GM	Yifan Hou	2617	11
7	WGM	Olga Girya	2463	-	WGM	Wenjun Ju	2544	10
8	GM	Kateryna Lagno	2548	-	GM	Anna Ushenina	2491	9

Some strong pairings, well-matched pairings for this round.  Should be interesting!