Wednesday, December 15, 2010

All-Asian affair

Now, it's all Asians. From the initial 64 contenders from different parts of the world, the number is reduced to four - and they all come from Asia. To be specific, three come from China and one, from India.

It's indeed a total Asian domination in the 2010 Women's World Chess Championship.

Let's meet the semi-finalists:
WGM Ruan, Lufei (China)
GM Zhao, Xue (China)
GM Koneru, Humpy (India)
GM Hou, Yifan (China)

May this trend - that is, Asian women's chess global domination - inspire our local chess leaders to provide more focus on Philippine women's chess development.

These are the games that made the semi-finals of the 2010 WCCC an all-Asian affair:
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