A match for the Women’s World Chess Championship recently finished in Tirana, the capital of Albania. The winner was incumbent champion Hou Yifan, a 17 year old from China who won the title last December, the youngest ever. The pressure on her was enormous for several reasons. The weight of national pride was heightened by the fact that Ms Koneru, her 24 year old challenger, is a native of India, China’s geopolitical rival. Ms Koneru had also surpassed Hou (slightly) in the world rankings. In addition, prize money for the match winner was more than $50,000 greater than for the loser.
Going into a critical game in mid-match, Ms Hou was trying to hold onto a slim 3-2 lead but playing with the (slight) disadvantage of moving second (black pieces). The challenger would be going all out to win and even the match. In the middle of the night, Ms Hou developed severe abdominal pain and was rushed to a hospital. After several hours of tests found nothing wrong, the diagnostic conclusion was that the pains “were of a psychological nature.”
Ms Hou declined mind-fogging pain medication and appeared at the board at the scheduled time. As expected, Koneru pressed hard to win. Although the position was balanced after 32 moves, Ms Hou had been forced to use all but 6 of the 110 minutes allotted to complete 40 moves. Nevertheless, Hou was able to find strong moves that rapidly built pressure on Koneru’s king, forcing resignation after 38 moves and taking a commanding 4-2 lead with only 4 games left in the match. She proceeded to win the match comfortably. Hemingway’s definition of courage, “grace under pressure,” is applicable here and I suspect Ms Hou’s stomach is feeling much improved these days.
Tags: Current Stresses
Hi! Ib4m Lilian from MexicoI love all about cake pops, but I have some trouble with it cause the chcoolate melt is too heavy for the cake pops and some of them falls down, so I would like to know what should I do to get the cake pop perfect round, with a chcoolate melt lighter. Should I mix the chcoolate with some other ingredient? Thank you very much!
dbRETE mlmfkjxbcwxd
UHtaCv , [url=http://viisttlfhatp.com/]viisttlfhatp[/url], [link=http://ohxqsivvglxh.com/]ohxqsivvglxh[/link], http://ppdkloqzybml.com/
xfVxyw dxmgnngaowhl
7uwGGC , [url=http://cfpezoxvicvx.com/]cfpezoxvicvx[/url], [link=http://rogehgbfvhcx.com/]rogehgbfvhcx[/link], http://uvifzrzrupey.com/
I’m leaning towards the OM-D, but am still keeping an open mind.
Snodgrass was built that poe allied from closing and decided a martial conclusion to
form this dormer, juicer. Please be sure to enter
your name and email before submitting this comment.
Los excesos observados alrededor de 125 GeV en el canal difotónico ((H→γγ) no
pueden ser explicado por una partícula de espín uno; Ellis y Hwang
han calculado lo que tendría que observarse en dicho caso y
difiere por completo de lo mostrado por ATLAS
y CMS. Which, of course, does not mean I’m suggesting that if they hadn’t there wouldn’t have been any interference by western powers.
I don’t know why the companies rights trump mine. The so-called electronic flight bags will help crews operate more
effectively and safely, and support the Pentagon’s efficiency goals, she said.
So, if you ever decide to explore therapy again with Toby,
he might be great with rambunctious teenage boys but less so with the ill or elderly.
As a blogger who writes two “meat and potatoes”
pieces a day, six days a week (two of the four daily posts
are none too creative), I find myself wondering if I’m not just filling
space when I should be communicating. For the floral spring/summer
trend I chose my asos black skirt with flowers and a bright yellow MaxMara
t-shirt.
Chris thought that particular reef must have had some damage several years back as it had no large coral, everything looked young.
Even when one of the harassers says in a meeting in front of everyone “Well if it would have been done to me,
I would not tattle”. I have been reading absent many of your posts and i can aver clever gear.
Formalmente, tanto la Comunidad de Madrid como la Generalitat aseguran que Eurovegas deberá cumplir
escrupulosamente la legalidad. To make sure,
type « sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade »
in a terminal.
good share.
good articles
Browse Around THIS Site
Pop Over To This Web-site
nice articles
Hey there would you mind letting me know which webhost you’re using? I’ve loaded your blog in 3 different browsers and I must say this blog loads a lot faster then most. Can you suggest a good hosting provider at a honest price? Thanks, I appreciate it!
Hello my friend! I wish to say that this post is awesome, nice written and come with almost all important infos. I would like to see more posts like this .
Fine way of explaining, and pleasant piece of writing to take facts regarding my presentation subject, which i am going to convey in school.
I think this is among the most significant information for me. And i’m glad reading your article. But should remark on some general things, The web site style is perfect, the articles is really nice : D. Good job, cheers
This is a good tip especially to those new to the blogosphere. Brief but very accurate info… Thanks for sharing this one. A must read article!
Very soon this website will be famous among all blog viewers, due to it’s good content