Hou Yifan wins Atatürk International
21 March 2008 0:20 AM | Last modified: 0:22
Only three weeks ago Hou Yifan turned fourteen, and today she won the first Atatürk International.
We left the tournament after six rounds, when Ekaterina Atalik was leading with 5 out of 6. In round 7, Pia Cramling won the crucial game against Atalik while Hou Yifan defeated Irina Krush. The two players were sharing first place with 5.5 points.
In the penultimate round, Atalik lost again, to Hou Yifan who thereby secured at least shared first place, because Cramling lost to Javakhishvili. In the final round, Hou Yifan drew here game against Jakashvili and eventually won the first edition of the Atatürk International Women Masters by a full point margin to Pia Cramling.
Atatürk International Women Masters | Final Standings
| Rank | Title | Name | Rtg | FED | Pts | SB. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WGM | YIFAN Hou | 2527 | CHN | 7 | 28,00 |
| 2 | GM | CRAMLING Pia | 2524 | SWE | 6 | 25,00 |
| 3 | WGM | XUE Zhao | 2517 | CHN | 5½ | 22,50 |
| 4 | IM | ATALIK Ekaterina | 2408 | TUR | 5 | 17,50 |
| 5 | IM | JAVAKHISHVILI Lela | 2470 | GEO | 4½ | 22,75 |
| 6 | GM | CHEN Zhu | 2548 | QAT | 4 | 15,75 |
| 7 | IM | DRONAVALLI Harika | 2455 | IND | 4 | 16,75 |
| 8 | IM | KRUSH Irina | 2473 | USA | 3½ | 15,25 |
| 9 | IM | USHENINA Anna | 2484 | UKR | 3 | 11,50 |
| 10 | WIM | YILDIZ Betul Cemre | 2207 | TUR | 2½ | 10,00 |
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wow, go yifan! what a talent! maybe you will be playing magnus for the world championship in the future! : )
One thing that is missing in many of these reports is the money each of the player made. That is always of great interest to me and I don’t understand why in chess reports that is not reported.
Hello bobmutch,
Actually what you mentioned was one of the peculiarities of this tournament since there was system of appearance fee payments that were announced beforehand both in ChessBase and our web site.
You can check one version of it at “Regulations” link on our tournament web site of Isbank Atatürk International Women Masters at:
http://awm2008.tsf.org.tr/content/view/15/19/lang,tr/
So, a different report was not needed.
I became aware of the gathering strenght of the Chinese players after reading Liu Wenzhe’s book “Chinese School of Chess,” which I might add is excellent. It is very reinforcing to see the Chinese players achieving such excellent results in international chess.