Sunday, June 19, 2011

Women's Grand Prix in August, Hou Yifan - Humpy Koneru match in November?

Alexandra Kosteniuk passes along a credible rumor from a Russian chess news site: Hou Yifan of China and Humpy Koneru of India may play their world championship match in Chicago later this year.

And look at the powerhouse lineup for the Grand Prix event to be held here in Chicago August 1-15!

When FIDE is involved and the lead time is short, I get a bit nervous. Please let us know if we can help!

Heh: see the comments for the (amusing) probable explanation!  You know, we'd be a great site for the Anand-Gelfand match....

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Apparently google translates "Rostov"
as "Chicago"...

Anonymous said...

SYSTRAN based translators are the best
for the Russin --> English translation. E.g. here is the same page translated by Babelfish:

http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chess-news.ru%2F&lp=ru_en&btnTrUrl=Translate

Bill Brock said...

Hilarious!

Thank you.