Anna Zatonskih won round 2, beating GM Marie Sebag.
Zatonskih - Sebag:
- d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Qb3 dxc4 5. Qxc4 Bf5 6. g3 e6 7. Bg2 Nbd7 8. O-O Be7 9. e3 O-O 10. Rd1 Ne4 11. Qe2 Qc7 12. Ne1 e5 13. Nd3 exd4 14. g4 dxe3 15. gxf5 Nxf2 16. Nxf2 exf2+ 17. Qxf2 Bc5 18. Be3 Bxe3 19. Qxe3 Nf6 20. Qg3 Qa5 21. Rf1 Qb4 22. Nc3 Rfe8 23. Rab1 Rad8 24. a3 Qc4 25. Rbe1 Qd4+ 26. Kh1 Qd2 27. Ne4 Nxe4 28. Bxe4 Qxb2 29. f6 g6 30. Qf4 Qxa3 31. Bg2 a5 32. Re7 Qxe7 33. fxe7 Rxe7 34. Qg5 Rde8 35. Qxa5 Re2 36. Qb6 R8e7 37. Qd4 h5 38. Bf3 R2e5 39. Rb1 Kh7 40. Kg2 Rg5+ 41. Kf2 Rf5 42. Qd8 Re4 43. Rxb7 Ref4 44. Rb3 c5 45. Re3 Kg7 46. Qd2 g5 47. Kg2 g4 48. Be4 Rf6 49. h3 Re6 50. Bd3 Ref6 51. hxg4 hxg4 52. Re4 1-0
In the opening White retreated all her pieces, tempting Black to play 13…exd4 which is probably an error. After 14.g4, Bg6 White gets a knight on e5 and trades that bishop, so Black is stuck defending a weak structure around e4. Instead Black sacked a piece, White gave her some chances to get back in the game, but Black missed 32.Re7 which blocks Black’s defense of Qf8 against mate on g7.
Way to go Anna! Get a GM norm. Heck for that matter win the tournament and become a GM right away! 
Anna beat Marie Sebag again today as Black, winning the match 2-0. It could have been a draw but Sebag deviated from a draw by repetition in a worse position because she needed to win to stay in the match. I don’t know if Anna turned down any draw offers.
For the GM norm I suppose 2-0 is better than 1.5 - 0.5. On to round 3!
In other news, defending champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk of Russia (and Miami) has been held to two draws by second round opponent IM Sopiko Khukhashvili of Georgia. She’ll have to win the playoffs to survive the round and have a chance to defend her title as Women’s World Champion.
In round 3, Anna has to play Humpy Koneru, highest rated in the tournament at 2600. (Hou Yifan is very close at 2591 and is under age 16.) In game 1 she played a promising pawn sac and had Koneru under pressure for a long time, but eventually Koneru kept the pawn, escaped the pressure and won with a counterattack.
Kosteniuk won the tiebreak for round 2, 2-0, and moved on to round 3. Kosteniuk is a strong fast-chess player, you can see links to many games from the 2009 World Blitz (not just women) Championship on her website. In round 3 game 1, she drew with White against Chinese WGM (but rated 2480) Ruan Lufei, and should have been happy to get the draw at the end. So it’s looking like another tough round for Kosteniuk. Tomorrow she has Black.
Hou Yifan won surprisingly smoothly against former WWC Zhu Chen.
Nobody mentions that China has 5 of the final 16…that’s amazing!