The Women's World Chess Championship of 2012

how can it be pdela's fault?

 Shame there is a complete lack of British players.... still there is one european doing well.   

I didn't even realise there was any commentary, I just picked a couple of games to flick between. Good coverage I thought. Easy to work out what was happening. 

The tail, horns, and pitchfork perhaps?

Hi Ruby-Fischer

Hi Trysts, welcome back

The Kosintseva sisters have now played each other 11 times. All games have been draws. They may have to play an "armageddon game" to decide this match

Their game was a bit boring. I feel a bit sorry for them, having to play each other, still I suppose they both entered so it was going to happen...

True. Out of the eleven games they played against each other, today's game was the longest, by far. All ten games previous to this one, were agreed draw in 15 moves or less, w/ three games drawn in 9 moves or less!

I don't really get it, I wouldn't take it easy on my brother, and vice versa.

Hello Ruby-Fischer!!

Hi Pdela, nice to see your taking an interest in the womens chess championships.

It kind of reminds me of Serena versus Venus in tennis. Each time they played each other it seemed like the matches were filled with errors, probably because of nerves. They never seemed to play really good tennis whenever they played each other. 

Draws under 15 moves sounds like collusion, not nerves.

Draws in 9 moves sounds very dubious.. 

I agree that collusion cannot be overlooked. Makes ya' wonder what is going to happen in that match

Here is their most recent game, before today. Tatiana and Nadezhda are grandmasters. Is the game below an example of collusion? 

bd6 at move 9 looks like playing for a draw to me, clever draw though :)

Grandmaster draw, no question. What is their situation in the tournament? Maybe they have some tough games ahead agreed to take a game off.

In the 2010 superfinal, the exact fourteen moves of the above game were played by the sisters. In fact they played this opening 7 times against each other for draws. They weren't even hiding the collusion!

They are matched against each other in the third round, which started today. This is a "knockout tournament", so one of them is going to have to win their mini-match.