China, India, Russia and Ukraine head into women’s championship semi-final
By Errol Tiwari On
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Four nations, China, India, Russia and Ukraine, chess behemoths of the 21st century that impacted the world in their distinctive ways, have qualified to contest the semi-final of the elite Women’s World Championship in Tehran, Iran. The qualifiers, all grandmasters, are Tan Zhongyi, 2502 (China), Harika Dronavalli, 2539 (India), Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2549 (Russia) and Anna Muzychuk, 2558 (Ukraine). Zhongyi will oppose Dronavalli,