 Three of the world's top four players, Hou Yifan, Anna Muzychuk and Harika Dronavalli, did not play in the first round.Natalia Zhukova and Inna Gaponenko from Ukraine, playing with the White pieces on boards 2 and 4, respectively, won nicely with sacrificial combinations targeting the square g7 in Ukraine's whitewash of Portugal.The number of teams continuing their winning streak from the first round reduced to 20 with only five, China, Russia, Lithuania, Italy and France, scoring 8 of 8.