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"Good afternoon to the viewers from Giovanniland and elsewhere! We are just starting our Chess Report that happens every three days, and today we will cover the results of the Giovannilandian Chess Championship's Semifinals. I am your host Vanessa Desniana and together with my colleague Ottavio Volseno-Edrensi, I'll present the match results and brackets, as well as some highlights from the weekend." GM Karlo Neurino-Sousa, 2675 2 (1/2) - 2 (1 1/2) GM Guillermo Urido-Amorino, 2541 GM Raffella Quadrigaro, 2787 3 - 0 Amanda Gilvano Trinelli, 2301 "Here are the results from the two the matches played yesterday and today!" said Vanessa. "We can see that they have pretty different results. On one side of the bracket, there was a duel of Grandmasters between Karlo Neurino-Sousa and Guillermo Urido-Amorino. Karlo won the first two, a point at which spectators said it was unlikely for Guillermo to come back. However, he managed to come back, draw the match, and then win the tiebreakers. She then commented on the other game: "In the other side of the bracket, a match between Grandmaster Raffella Quadrigaro and Amanda Gilvano Trinelli was played, with a ELO rating difference of nearly 500 points. Therefore, it was unsurprising to see that Raffella easily won the match and didn't need to play all the games. Raffella earned the other spot on the finals, while Amanda will play the 3rd place match." Ottavio showed the updated bracket: "After the semifinals, we await for the last set of matches starting in two days. Two Grandmasters out of the three competing in the semifinals won their matches and thus earned a spot on the grand final. These two players are Guillermo Urido-Amorino, a seventeen year old rising star in Giovannilandian chess that managed to defeat the defending champion Lavinia Pasquale-Arbone during the group stage; and Raffella Quadrigaro, multiple-time former champion and the player with the highest rating in this tournament." "Meanwhile, on the battle for the 3rd place, Grandmaster Karlo Neurino-Sousa and Amanda Gilvano Trinelli will have a chance to rebound from their semifinal losses, in a match that has a fair ELO rating advantage for Karlo, but still one worth seeing, given the fact that Amanda has achieved some upsets during this tournament. Both matches will contain 8 classical-style games and then rapid game tiebreakers if needed."