Summarized by Dennis Monokroussos:
Hóu Yìfán and Jū Wénjūn finished with identical scores of 8½/11 in the Sharjah Women’s Grand Prix, allowing the former to win the overall series ahead of Humpy Koneru. Humpy needed to finish this event tied or better with Hóu, but had a disappointing tournament and finished three full points behind.
This means that Hóu Yìfán will be in a world championship match in 2015, either as the champion (if she wins the women’s knockout world championship this October, in which case Humpy Koneru will be the challenger thanks to her second place in the Grand Prix series) or as the challenger (in which case Humpy is out of luck, unless she happened to win the KO). [Read more]. |
居文君 (Jū Wénjūn), 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) and Dronavalli Harika
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