Today was a day of the tie-breaks and those who have qualified after them are: GMs Kosteniuk, Lahno, Cmilyte, Zhu Chen, IM Skripchenko, WGMs Ruan Lufei and Huang Qian.
You can check out my comments on games I have played as well as different articles on www.chessdom.com, chess-news.ru, soloscacchi.net and of course, the official website of the event wwcc2010.tsf.org.tr .
I have won vs T.Kosintseva with Black pieces today. The game went in a wild way – at first, I got a promising position after a opened the center up, then I made a couple of mistakes and got myself into a lost position. She could have gained decisive advantage by playing 21.h5 instead of Qe4. Then she did some more mistakes and we got into a R+n vs R+B endgame, where I was still worse (could be losing an isolated pawn) but she decided to win two more pawns (after I have given one for counterplay) and got her Knight out of play on h8. So, I managed to win it and the game.
Tomorrow I am white against her.
I drew the second game as well, so playing tie-breaks today! They will be broadcasted live at the usual time.
The game was very tough, she has a strong pressure for a while, but i managed to neutralize it and then she started moving the pieces around with no plan and later we agreed to a draw.
Here is a selection of photos from 2nd round –
