 The quickest game to end was the one played on the fourth board, where Kateřina Němcová beat Olga Girya in a game that was opened with the French Defence and later reached a critical position in which Girya failed to implement the right plan.However, the Russians evened up the result in the match as Valentina Gunina scored a crushing win over Nazi Paikidze as Black on the second board.On the third board, Natalija Pogonina and Anna Zatonskih seemed to make little progress, despite the fact that Zatonskih had hanging pawns, and the game was drawn.