Women's World Championship, Round 1 Tiebreaks
Monday, December 6, 2010 at 6:02PM
Dennis Monokroussos

More info, videos, etc. here. I'll note only a couple of today's results. In the upset category, Lilit Mkrtchian lost to Xiaowen Zhang, 140 points lower-rated than her. Then again, when a Chinese woman wins a match, it probably isn't all that surprising given their prominence in women's chess the past 15 years or so. In the non-upset category, Camilla Baginskaite lost to the heavily favored Lufei Ruan. Not a surprise, but it means that the U.S. contingent has been reduced by 50%. (For those who like counting things, Russia and China have six remaining participants apiece.)

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