Surprise winners of the Asian Women’s Championship

There was no need for tiebreaks at the top of the women’s event, with gold, silver and bronze all separated by half a point. Who could have predicted that those places would be occupied by the 8th, 9th and 17th seeds?

2nd placed Guliskhan Nakhbayeva had a lot to do with that as she beat 2nd seed Sarasadat Khademalsharieh and 4th seed Padmini Rout in Rounds 7 and 8 on the way to an unbeaten +5.

See also:

• Official website
• All the games with computer analysis on chess24: Open | Women
• Asian Championships 1: Wei Yi shines as rivals struggle
• Asian Championships 2-5: Wang Hao leads at halfway