Gibraltar: Hou Yifan and Adams Lead After Round 8

After 8 of 10 rounds, Michael Adams and women's world champion Hou Yifan are tied for first in the Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival. Hou managed to beat Le Quang Liem in a tactical slugfest, while Adams drew second-seed Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Hou and Adams are half a point ahead of 14 other players, including Alexei Shirov, the winner of a spectacular game against Artur Yusupov that may well be my ChessVideos show this week.

Comments

[Kajetan Wandowicz]

Go Hou! As to the games, also very interesting was Laznicka-Howell, a Slav turned kind of Catalan featuring, among many other things, a queen sacrifice by Howell.

[Ishan]

Going into R10 Hou will take at least join 1st if she gets a draw against Mamedyarov. I'm currently in China and how this girl developed is beyond me. There is no club system to speak of!

[aussie]

shirov already covered the game here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7KFA1yOqWE&feature=player_embedded