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Still a teenager, but already the World Women's Champion, the Chinese star Hou Yifan leads with none other than Michael Adams at the Gibraltar Chess Tournament. Behind her are several International stars including former World Championship contenders! She beat Le Qiang Leim in the previous round, but what caught the whole World's attention was her win against Judit Polgar. We have to go back decades to find a loss by Judit against another female player! Rankings after Round 8 (From Chess-results) 1 GM Hou Yifan CHN 2605 6.5 2859.0 2 GM Adams Michael ENG 2724 6.5 2843.0 3 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2677 6.0 2790.0 4 GM Mamedyarov Shakhriyar AZE 2747 6.0 2778.0 5 GM Sasikiran Krishnan IND 2700 6.0 2750.0 6 GM Almasi Zoltan HUN 2717 6.0 2748.0 7 GM Howell David W L ENG 2603 6.0 2737.0 8 GM Movsesian Sergei ARM 2700 6.0 2726.0 9 GM Gopal G N IND 2566 6.0 2720.0 10 GM Svidler Peter RUS 2749 6.0 2714.0

There are four leaders now at the top at the Reggio Emilia chess tournament 2007 - 2008. Harikrishna beat everybody's favorite whipping boy in this tournament, Navara. One suspects Navara is a bit lacking in confidence in this tournament. Hope he soon starts fighting back as he is capable of. Harikrisha's comeback after his first round loss to Almasi is already impressive. It bodes well for him for the near future where he will play in the GM Group B section of the Corus Chess Championship at Wijk aan Zee, which starts after Reggio Emilia. Tiviakov beat another favorite whipping boy, Godena while Ni Hua held Korchnoi to a draw. Godena obviously walked into Tiviakov's preparation in a French Defence game. He was slowly ground to his defeat. Standings after Round 4: Zoltan Almasi, Vugar Gashimov, Konstantin Landa, P Harikrishna - 2.5 Ni Hua, Mihail Marin, Sergei Tiviakov, Godena, David Navara - 2