Knockout format nerve When players get to the tiebreak playoff phase in a knockout event, nerve becomes a major issue. In this game, both players, who are grandmasters, made a series of serious blunders. Sebag should have won...
Sebag out in front in Khanty Mansiysk
Quarterfinal game 1 results Marie Sebag – Antoaneta Stefanova 1-0 Xue Zhao – Dronavalli Harika ½-½ Nadezhda Kosintseva – Anna Ushenina ½-½ Wenjun Ju – Qian Huang ½-½ Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Sebag leads European Women’s Championship
Dear Friends! In the fourth round of the European Individual Women Chess Championship the game between two leaders Marie Sebag and Viktorija Cmilyte finished on favor of French player. After 4 rounds Marie Sebag became the sole leader as...
Hou Yifan is top seed at Hangzhou Women’s Tournament
Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess TournamentTen-player round robin on 13th-24th July The 1st Hangzhou Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament will take place on 13th – 24th July 2011 in Hangzhou, China. Ten top women players compete in the round robin event...
Women’s GP Final Round Report
Final round reportOn 5th of March the Grand Prix of Qatar has ended. Humpy Koneru became a winner of Women Grand Prix in Qatar and also got the right to play the match against Hou Yifan. Round eleven was...
Clutch time, one game for everything
There is one round left at the Doha Women’s Grand Prix and three players are within 1/2 point from each other! It will come down to a battle of nerve. Standings after 10 rounds Rk Name Rtg FED 1...
Trio narrow Danielian lead in Doha
Things are getting a lot tighter at the top at the Doha Women’s Grand Prix. Koneru and Sebag have pulled within 1 point from Danielian with 3 rounds to go. Dzagnidze, the only player with no draw so far...
Sebag leads Nanjing Women’s GP
Round 8 results: Sebag, Marie – Zhu Chen 1-0 Xu Yuhua – Yildiz, Betul Cemre 1-0 Mkrtchian, Lilit – Dzagnidze, Nana ½-½ Shen Yang – Ju Wenjun 0-1 Fierro Baquero, Martha – Munguntuul, Batkhuyag 0-1 Standings after 8 rounds:...
Game analysis
Zhao Xue (2508) – Marie Sebag (2529)FIDE Women’s Grand Prix, Istanbul 18.03.2009 [D43]www.chesscafe.comhttp://www.chesscafe.com/archives/archives.htm#Susan Polgar on Chess 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 Until recently it was considered unsound to give up the c4-pawn in...
Explanation about Marie Sebag
Here is an excerpt of the letter from Mr. Stephen Boyd to Chess Today about why GM-elect Marie Sebag, French #1 female player, and one of the top seeds in the Women’s World Championship, did not attend. “Dear Alexander,...