Archive for December 4th, 2010

2010 Women’s Chess Championship: Round #1

Posted in Turkey, World Championships on Dec 4th, 2010 7 Comments »

Round #1 – Game #1 Saturday, 4 December 2010 Top Seeds maul Challengers GM Koneru Humpy got off to a promising start.Photo by wwcxc2010.tsf.org.tr. In the first round of a two-game match, upsets are likely to occur. However, in the Women’s World Chess Championship, there were no major upsets and the top seeds rolled to […]

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2010 Women Chess Cup (Antakya, Turkey)

Posted in Turkey, World Championships on Dec 4th, 2010 22 Comments »

Today starts the Women’s World Championship with most of the top players in the world. Of course, Judit Polgar has eschewed playing in the gender-based tournament, but as the gap closes, there may be more entrants into the upper echelon of chess. Two possibilities are from the Asian continent in India’s Humpy Koneru and China’s […]

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