Anatoly Karpov leads in Gender Chess Match against Hou Yifan
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Scenic Sanya, Hainan, China
Hello Everyone,
We've been following the Anatoly Karpov - Hou Yifan Gender Match taking place at at Wenhua Oriental Hotel, Sanya City, Hainan in China from November 6-11, 2010.
The Match including 4 games and 2 rapid games, Time control: 90 min for the games + incremental time of 30 seconds from 1st move. Rapid games time control: 25 min for the game + incremental time of 10 seconds from 1st move.
Karpov had won the first game and all the three subsequent games were drawn. The rapid games are to be held on Thursday and we will bring you updates.
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Labels: Gender Chess Match
posted by Chess Blog Admin @ 7:50 AM
3 Comments:
At November 11, 2010 at 8:31 AM ,
Anonymous said...
golly i am still dreaming of the chess cake they cut
At November 11, 2010 at 8:53 AM ,
Anonymous said...
good chess publicity in china. :)
At November 11, 2010 at 8:56 AM ,
Sebastian Wolff, New York said...
It is nice to know that Yifan has not lost any of the subsequent games. Gutsy kid cause I doubt otherwise whether Karpov would be kind in chess to let her draw so far.
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