Ushenina won the first game of the tie-break.
Second game
Thus Ushenina is in the final and will be playing ex-world champion Stefanova!
Second game will start shortly. Follow it on-line on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html
Photos of the remaining players
Today we have the 2nd game and the pairs are:
Harika-Stefanova (Stefanova leads 1-0, so Harika has to win by force in order to get to tie-breaks) – the game ended in a draw, so Stefanova is in the final.
Ju Wenjun-Ushenina (1/2 in the first round, so all is possible :)) 1/2 again, proceeding to tie-breaks tomorrow.
Watch live games on http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/houdini.html and on Playchess.
While looking at various games you often remember similar ideas you have seen sometimes years ago. Exactly this happened to me some days ago while going over the game Luther-Ftacnik, Germany 2007!
Which game came to my mind once I saw Rxf7 followed by Rxg7? The first game from my first book!
Today my mum discovered one more such idea:
Looks like it is not so rare after all 😀