by Round 9 saw a 91 move game fight between Pia and Alexandra Indian Defence or Indian Game with varying degrees hypermodern defences, where black invited white to establish an imposing presence in the centre with the plan of undermining and ultimately destroying it. Alexandra Kosteniuk stuck to her plan and won with black pieces against Pia Cramling.
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling is a Swedish chess player. In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster. Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest female players in the world as well as having been the highest rated woman in the FIDE World Rankings on three different occasions.
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk is a Russian chess grandmaster and Women’s World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010. She was European women’s champion in 2004 and a two time Russian Women’s Chess Champion.
