Sep-28-12 Koneru Humpy 
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malathiswami: Congratulations to Koneru Humpy on winning the Ankara tournament and possibly challenger's rights.Hope you get another shot at the championship - and have more success this time.
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| | Jun-12-12 FIDE Women's Grand Prix Kazan (2012)
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malathiswami: The Grand Prix is a tournament cycle in itself, in addition to being used to determine the challenger. The rules allow federations that host events in the cycle to nominate a player each. TCF always hosts at least one, and nominates Yildiz. All the rules are on ...
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| | May-16-12 Anand-Gelfand World Chess Championship (2012)
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malathiswami: Solskytz: Actually, your suggestion of playing armageddon, then blitz, then rapid, then classical, and using them as tiebreaks in reverse order, is genuinely brilliant! It will lead to a very interesting build up to the match, and also to very tough tussles at each stage, since
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| | Mar-05-11 6th FIDE Women Grand Prix (2011)
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malathiswami: The SB points are the cumulative scores of all the opponents that the player has defeated, plus half the score of the opponents with whom the player has drawn: the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaker system. The comment is that Humpy won by scoring 5.5/6 over the last 6 rounds - she ...
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| | Jan-23-11 Tania Sachdev
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malathiswami: Another brilliant performance from Tania - evidently at the top of her form. Hope this represents a jump in playing level.
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| | Jan-22-11 Ganguly vs W Spoelman, 2011
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malathiswami: Nice finish by Surya Sekhar.
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| | Dec-14-10 Women's World Chess Championship (2010)
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malathiswami: The Koneru Humpy - Hou Yifan semifinal will be interesting. Wonder if it will go to tiebreaks again like the last time. This might be Humpy's best chance - Hou Yifan will probably be rated higher than her by the time they play again in the World Championship, given their ...
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