India's Koneru Humpy |
India's Koneru Humpy |
Armenia's Elina Danielian - Set to win Kazan? |
India's Koneru Humpy (right) on her way to beating former women's world chess champion and current women's world rapid chess champion. |
Kateryna Lahno watching the Hou Yifan-Alexandra Kosteniuk match |
The one and only Magnus Carlsen |
"I think it has been a very interesting tournament. There have been twists and turns that noone could foresee. As for myself, I thing I played, well I stared slowly. My first three games were not impressive to say the least.
I think after that my play was good. I mean, the game with Grischuk, although I didn't win, it was an energizer to play such an interesting game. I thought after that I was in the driving seat in most of my games.
Obviously if it turns out that Aronian wins [looks to one of the screens], which in fact he did, I'm actually the winner of the tournament. That is nice but, I mean, like last year there were a lot of fortunate circumstances for me in the last round to be able to win it but that's the way it goes sometimes. Today I had to win myself and I did. That's all I can do."
7th Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial 2012 winners (from left) Teimour Radjabov, third; Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, second. |
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