FIDE Women Grand Prix Round 6

All the games of the 6th round of the FIDE Women Grand Prix in Ankara ended with decisive results. Humpy Koneru won against the earlier co-leader Ruan Lufei in the line which already happened in the game Kosintseva-Koneru.

Anna Muzyhcuk displayed a fantastic fighting spirit and managed to win against Betul Yildiz after 130 moves of tough contest. Koneru and Muzychuk have 5 out of 6 each and keep on leading in the Grand Prix at the moment.

Monika Socko celebrated her first victory in the clash against the Turkish player Kubra Ozturk. Meanwhile, Tatiana Kosintseva defeated Viktorija Cmilyte in the rook endgame.

Ruan Lufei - Humpy Koneru

Tatiana Kosintseva and Viktorija Cmilyte talking about the game

Chinese players Ju Wenjun and Zhao Xue outplayed Antoaneta Stefanova and Munguntuul Batkhuyag respectively and share the third place in the tournament.

Replay the games with computer analysis

Round 6 results:
Ju Wenjun – Stefanova Antoaneta 1-0
Kosintseva Tatiana – Cmilyte Viktorija 1-0
Munguntuul Batkhuyag – Zhao Xue 0-1
Muzychuk Anna – Yildiz Betul Cemre 1-0
Ozturk Kubra – Socko Monika 0-1
Ruan Lufei – Koneru Humpy 0-1

The Women Grand Prix is taking place from 15th to 29th September in Ankara, Turkey.

Photos by Anastasya Karlovich

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The legendary champion Nona Gaprindashvili

The playing room at the TCF headquarters in Ankara

Zhao Xue

Munguntuul Batkhuyag interviewed

Ju Wenjun analysing the game

FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Series 2011-2012

The fourth stage of FIDE Women’s Grand Prix Series 2011-2012 is taking place from June 10th to 22nd in Kazan (Russia).

Elina Danielian defeated Nadezhda Kosinteseva and again assumed the sole lead in the tournament.

World champion Hou Yifan got better position in the middle game against Antoaneta Stefanova and later on launched a decisive attack on the black’s king.

Despite playing with black pieces, Katerina Lahno fought for the initiative from the very beginning trying to take advantage of the bad placement of white knight in the game against the local celebrity Alisa Galliamova. Being short with time, Alisa didn’t defend with precision and lost the game.

Games with computer analysis

Elina Danielian

Round 6 results:
GM Anna Muzychuk 2598 – GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2457 ½ – ½
IM Alisa Galliamova 2484 – GM Kateryna Lahno 2546 0 – 1
GM Hou Yifan 2623 – GM Antoaneta Stefanova 2518 1 – 0
GM Elina Danielian 2484 – GM Nadezhda Kosintseva 2528 1 – 0
GM Humpy Koneru 2589 – GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2508 ½ – ½
WGM Betul Cemre Yildiz 2333 – GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2532 0 – 1

Round 6 standings:
1. GM Elina Danielian ARM 2484 – 4.5
2-3. GM Kateryna Lahno UKR 2546 and GM Anna Muzychuk SLO 2598 – 4
4-5. GM Viktorija Cmilyte LTU 2508 and GM Humpy Koneru IND 2589 – 3.5
6-7. GM Hou Yifan CHN 2623 and GM Nadezhda Kosintseva RUS 2528 – 3
8-10. GM Alexandra Kosteniuk RUS 2457, GM Antoaneta Stefanova BUL 2518 and GM Tatiana Kosintseva RUS 2532 – 2.5
11. IM Alisa Galliamova RUS 2484 – 2
12. WGM Betul Cemre Yildiz TUR 2333 – 1

Round 7 pairings:
GM Tatiana Kosintseva 2532 – GM Anna Muzychuk 2598
GM Viktorija Cmilyte 2508 – WGM Betul Cemre Yildiz 2333
GM Nadezhda Kosintseva 2528 – GM Humpy Koneru 2589
GM Antoaneta Stefanova 2518 – GM Elina Danielian 2484
GM Kateryna Lahno 2546 – GM Hou Yifan 2623
GM Alexandra Kosteniuk 2457 – IM Alisa Galliamova 2484

Valentina Gunina is Women World Blitz Champion!

The Women’s World Blitz Championship 2012 took place on 4-5th June at the Sheraton Hotel in Batumi, Georgia.

The 15-round Swiss tournament was held with the time control of 4 mins + 2 sec per move and participation of 50 top female players.

The reigning European Champion Valentina Gunina took the gold medal by convincingly winning the tournament with 13/15 points and leaving the nearest followers 2.5 points behind.

Grandmasters Natalia Zhukova and Anna Muzychuk share the 2nd place with 10.5 points each. Zhukova wins the silver on better tie-break, while Muzychuk takes the bronze.

Valentina Gunina

Prizes distribution:
1st place 10000 USD
2nd place 7000 USD
3rd place 5000 USD
4th place 4000 USD
5th place 3000 USD
6th place 2000 USD
7th-10th place 1500 USD each
11th-13th place 1000 USD each
14th-15th place 500 USD each

Prior to this event, Batumi hosted the Women’s World Rapid Championship 2012 where Antoaneta Stefanova won the gold medal.

Official website

Final Top 20 standings:

1. IM Gunina Valentina RUS 2530 – 13
2. GM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2442 – 10.5
3. GM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2598 – 10.5
4. GM Kosteniuk Alexandra RUS 2457 – 10
5. GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2518 – 9.5
6. GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2547 – 9.5
7. WGM Ding Yixin CHN 2353 – 9.5
8. GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2546 – 9
9. GM Chiburdanidze Maia GEO 2500 – 9
10. WGM Tan Zhongyi CHN 2430 – 9
11. IM Lomineishvili Maia GEO 2366 – 9
12. IM Melia Salome GEO 2410 – 9
13. IM Ushenina Anna UKR 2454 – 9
14. WGM Batsiashvili Nino GEO 2436 – 8.5
15. IM Matnadze Ana ESP 2446 – 8.5
16. IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2500 – 8.5
17. IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2456 – 8
18. WGM Cori T Deysi PER 2386 – 8
19. GM Zhao Xue CHN 2549 – 8
20. GM Koneru Humpy IND 2589 – 8

Women's World Team Chess Championship 2011 Round 1 results

The first round of the WWTC appeared to be not an easy one for the favorites. A clear rating favorite in the match, China could overcome the ambitious Turkish squad only by a least margin. Kubra Ozturk on the second board took an upper hand on Zhao Xue and the first board game Betul Cemre Yildiz vs. Ju Wenjun ended in a draw. Chine managed to win the match only due to the victories on the lower boards. 

The closest battle by rating was the Ukraine – India match. Here the teams exchanged the punches – Humpy Koneru won against Anna Ushenina on the first board and Rout Padmini lost to Natalia Zhukova on the last. Hard fought draw.

The last board was a good help for Russia to win against Vietnam – Valentina Gunina made her opponent Hoang Thi Nhu Y resign. The other games were drawn – Russian “sbornaya” won with the least margin. 

Georgia and Armenia showed the best result in the round 1 – not even half a point did give both teams to their opponents, RSA and Greece accordingly. 

After the first round four teams are in the lead – these are Armenia, Georgia, Russia and China. 

Official Website:http://wwct2011.tsf.org.tr/

Sasikiran & Humpy in 23rd Petroleum Sports promotion Board Tournament

India’s top chess players, including Grandmasters Koneru Humpy and Krishnan Sasikaran, would vie for team as well as individual honours in the 23rd Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) Inter-Unit tournament starting on Saturday.

Besides Humpy and Sasikiran, leading players like RB Ramesh, Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Deepak Chakravorty, Nilotpal Das, A Kunte, P Konguvel and V Saravanan – among men – and Nisha Mohota and Anupama Gokhale – among women – will be taking part in the tournament to be held at hosts Hindustan Petroleum’s housing complex in suburban Chembur, it was announced at a media conference on Friday.

“This is virtually a national as most of the top players would be taking part in it. Indian Oil Corporation won the team championships last year, while ONGC and Bharat Petroleum Corporation finished second and third in that order,” said PSPB’s Delhi-based Member Secretary R S Jadeja.

Humpy and Sasikiran will be defending their individual titles too in the five-day tournament in which the teams would play over five rounds and the individuals eight to nine rounds.

“Hindustan Petroleum conducts two inter-unit events in different sports annually and this time we are conducting chess in Mumbai and badminton at Jaipur from January 27-31,” said HPCL GM (Industrial Relations) Sandeep Joseph. Though the top performing players would not receive any cash prizes, they would be given gift vouchers and trophies, the organisers said.

The team championship would be fought among the PSPB’s 11 members belonging to public sector organisations from the oil, gas and related sectors.

Source:http://sports.ndtv.com

WGM Koneru Humpy

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omen Grand Master Koneru Humpy was born in the year march 31^st 1987 Gudivada Andhra Pradesh.  She stared learned chess at the age of 5 from his father Ashok Koneru.

She won the U-8 national championship in 1995. After that her performance graph gets elevated by clinching U-10, U-12 and U-14 World championship titles. Humpy got her International Master title in the year 1999 at the age of 12 years. She got her Grand Master title at the age of 15 years.

Proud of the Nation

At Doha Asian Games 2006, Koneru Humpy made the nation proud by bagging two Gold Medals in the Individual as well as Team event of Chess. She also won the International Open Chess Tournament 2007 held at Kaupthing, Luxembourg. In October 2007, Humpy scored a FIDE Elo rating of 2606 points, which lagged her behind only the World No. 1 Female Chess Player, Judit Polgar. Humpy has broken the world record set by Susan Polgar who had a rating of 2577 points while she was at the World No. 2 spot. Humpy has also been the second woman ever in the history of Chess who has crossed the 2600 points mark, Judit being the first one to do so. 

Awards

Arjuna award 2003

Padma Shri award 2007

Raja-Lakshmi award 2008