(1) Kosteniuk-Ruan result:draw This game was a Ruy Lopez Opening. Ruan's 11th move of 11...Re8 was a theoretical novelty. Kosteniuk went up a pawn, however Ruan was able to win back the pawn and the two players agreed to a draw after 26 moves.
You can play through the moves of this game below:
(2) Zatonskih-Koneru: The two players played a Catalan Opening:Open variation. According to the Chessbase online database, Zatonskih's move of 11.Bxh7+ was a theoretical novelty for the position.Koneru won a pawn on move 17 in this game.However the chess program Deep Rybka 3 evaluated that Zatonskih had sufficient compensation for the pawn. On move 25 Koneru was able to gain a protected-passed pawn on the 5th-rank of the d-file. Koneru was able to gain a 2-1 pawn majority on the queenside, which eventually allowed the Indian GM to gain a second protected passed pawn on the 4th rank of her a-file on move 35. Zatonskih was able to block one of Koneru's passed pawns (the d-pawn) with her queen, however Koneru was able to advance her a-pawn up the board (where it was protected on the a3-square). On move 43 Koneru set a trap by leaving her passed a-pawn enprise. Zatonskih mistakenly captured the pawn on move 44. Koneru was able to end the game by creating a double-attack against Zatonskih's bishop on the white back rank, which Zatonskih could not defend against,so she resigned. Here are the moves from this game:
Here are the moves from the other games which were played today:
These results mean the following standings exist after one game in these round 3 matches:The second game of these matches will be played tommorrow. Best wishes to all the players in your second game!
| Round 3 | |||||||||||||
| Name | FED | T | Rtg | G1 | G2 | Rp1 | Rp2 | Bz1 | Bz2 | SD | Total | ||
| Round 3 Match 01 | |||||||||||||
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | GM | 2507 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| Ruan, Lufei | CHN | WGM | 2480 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 02 | |||||||||||||
| Koneru, Humpy | IND | GM | 2600 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Zatonskih, Anna | USA | IM | 2478 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 03 | |||||||||||||
| Hou, Yifan | CHN | GM | 2591 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Zhu, Chen | QAT | GM | 2477 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 04 | |||||||||||||
| Zhao, Xue | CHN | GM | 2474 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Dembo, Yelena | GRE | IM | 2454 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 05 | |||||||||||||
| Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU | GM | 2514 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| Skripchenko, Almira | FRA | IM | 2460 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 06 | |||||||||||||
| Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | GM | 2522 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Huang, Qian | CHN | WGM | 2402 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 07 | |||||||||||||
| Muzychuk, Anna | SLO | IM | 2530 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Ju, Wenjun | CHN | WGM | 2524 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Round 3 Match 08 | |||||||||||||
| Harika, Dronavalli | IND | IM | 2525 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
| Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | IM | 2462 | ½ | ½ | ||||||||
