 The last game of the match was the one on the top board between Alexandra Kosteniuk and Irina Krush.Krush sacrificed a pawn on move 12, which she later said was not envisioned to be a pawn sacrifice but elimination of her bad pieces, and managed to get an equal compensation with her two knights.As the game reached the time control, Krush claimed a three-fold repetition, which Kosteniuk balked and the arbiters had to move the claim on a side table to confirm that the same position occurred two times and that the game could continue.