Round 3 results:
- Iryna Zenyuk 0-1 Sabina-Francesca Foisor
- Battsetseg Tsagaan 1-0 Yun Fan
- Irina Krush 0-1 Anna Zatonskih
- Camilla Baginskaite ½-½ Rusudan Goletiani
- Tatev Abrahamyan 0-1 Alisa Melekhina
Standings after 3 rounds:
| 1 | Anna Zatonskih | 2492 | 2462 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | |
| 2 | Sabina Foisor | 2279 | 2320 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | ½ | 1 | 2½ | |
| 3 | Camilla Baginskaite | 2356 | 2317 | – | – | ½ | – | ½ | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | |
| 4 | Alisa Melekhina | 2253 | 2220 | – | – | ½ | ½ | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | |
| 5 | Irina Krush | 2490 | 2458 | 0 | – | – | ½ | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1½ | |
| 6 | Rusudan Goletiani | 2437 | 2391 | – | – | ½ | – | 0 | – | 1 | – | – | 1½ | |
| 7 | Iryna Zenyuk | 2271 | 2285 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
| 8 | Battsetseg Tsagaan | 2265 | 2258 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
| 9 | Tatev Abrahamyan | 2342 | 2275 | – | ½ | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | ½ | |
| 10 | Yun Fan | 2134 | 1935 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | – | 0 |
Official website: http://www.saintlouischessclub.org/US-Womens-Championship-2009
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
There is a lot happening that will allow me to compare Mrs. Anna Zatonskih with Mr. Magnus Carlen.
What is the second set of ratings meaning?
“Still perfect after 3”
She will always be perfect.
I understand Irina Crush’s loss in round three. It is difficult to play against such bombastic players.
I thought Sabina was in US to study? How come she has time to play chess?
Hope you do not mind:
Women’s Chess in the U.S. Facts:
The first unoffcial U.S. women’s champion was crowned in 1857.
The first published game by an U.S. woman player appeared in an 8-page brochure in 1830.
A Texas man in 1885 publicly offered a $100 bet that his wife could beat any man in chess.
Mona May Karff won seven titles, topped only by Gisela Kahn Gresser’s nine wins.
Irina Krush holds the record as the youngest player to win the U.S. Women’s Chess Championship. She won it in 1998 at age 14.
In 1909 Eliza Foot “placed on the market a series of chess puzzles”, making her the first female U.S. chess author.
They should have special chess tables for players like Anna.
This was the first ever inexplicable game by Irina Krush.
http://saintlouischessclub.org/US-Womens-Championship-2009
History of Women’s Chess in the U.S
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Susan Polgar, another repeat title-holder and Grandmaster, crossed the boundary and became the First woman to qualify for the Men’s World Championship in 1986.
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? I think Hungary, not USA, should be credited for this incredible feat.
Why isn’t Jenny Shahade playing? I watch her videos regularly and she understands chess very well still.
I am looking for a free collection of well analyzed games to show in my class of 6-7 year olds. Does anyone help me?
Can we hope to see one day a mach on one hundred woman boards against China?
Chess and grammar:
We learn the basic grammar of our native language, along with its basic vocabulary, at a very early age and without conscious effort.
Then as we get older, the adults in our lives become increasingly insistent that we learn correct grammar, which seems to be made up of a lot of troublesome details that must be learned consciously.
When we get to school, we study
grammar more systematically and are exposed to special terms—conjunction, gerund, predicate, and so on—used to discuss it. We do learn quite a lot about grammar, but the special terms give many of us difficulty, and almost all of us let them fade from our minds when we leave school behind.
Alisa is very beautiful. Please have us more pictures.
Go Yun Fan!! Mate Somebody!!!
The second set of ratings is their FIDE ratings.