http://www.chessvibes.com/coverstor...

In the group stage(swiss),
1.HouYifan 9.5/11,wherein she beat Crowned Kosteniuk in the 6th round,with 89 moves,and only lost to XuYuhua in the10th round,drawed with JuWenjun in the 7th round. 2.Kosteniuk8.5/11
the current world champion only lost to HouYifan and Zhaoxue,and drawed with Krush.Still keeps in a fine form. 3.ZhaoXue7.5/11 4.Stefanova7.5/11(another 7.5 score,HuangQian was somehow in fifth place,so had to say byebye) BTW,Stefanova beat Zhaoxue in the last round to finally make her qualification.

Men:
i dont know their english names(so i will write down the similar pronunciations)... First one is Paraguay?8.5/11,from Philippines.
Second-Fouth place.8/11
Banicas(Greece)
Kravzv(Ukraine)
Derotzdofusky(Ukraine)

And very disappointing,Chinese Men failed on the whole.Among them,WangYue,Buxiangzhi scored4.5/7,but the last four rounds,WangYue was all defeated,and Buxiangzhi managed to get one victory only,so both of them was knocked out.And WangHao won the last three rounds,but previously performed badly,NiHua didnt draw for once,but lost too much....So they are all out.

And tomorrow would be the semifinals and finals for rapid games.

Paragua Mark (PHI) 8.5/11
Banikas Hristos (GRE) 8
Drozdovskij Yuri (UKR) 8
Kravtsiv Martyn (UKR) 8
Gurevich Mikhail (TUR) 7.5

Men:
Kravtsiv from Ukrain is the champion,while his compatriot Yuri ranked second,and the bronze medal finally went to Banikas of Greece.

In the subconsequent interview,HouYifan said she was satisfied with the results,and would continue her endeaver in the later games,but another chinese ZhaoXue seemed very frustrated,and repeated"i'm really not content with my performance,its really really bad". She must have learnt a lot of ambition in Beijing University,since she commenced her study together with her chess career.But,ZhaoXue,sometimes a pure concentration is more effective.See you are just falling all the time during these years.

True, still surprising that Ecuador's on average more than 200 points lower rated players could beat China and some other quite strong teams. The (first) decisive Armageddon game in the final against India ended in this position:

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It's Sasikiran's (white) move and he has to win but the position is an obvious draw. Here Matamoros accidentally swept a piece off the board. According to the tournament rules he wasn't allowed to replace the piece on the board on the opponent's time, so Sasikiran was given the win by the Arbiter. This decision was confirmed by the Appeal's Committee, but the game was replayed anyway and this time Matamoros won.

http://reports.chessdom.com/ecuador...