News Flash: Koneru Humpy wins Doha Women's Chess Grand Prix

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Hello everyone,

Congratulations to Koneru Humpy and Elina Danielian for jointly winning the sixth Women's Chess Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar today. Another congratulations to Humpy for scoring overall high enough in the Grand Prix scores to earn a chance to challenge Hou Yifan of China for the Women's World Chess title later this year.

It was imperative that Danielian should either draw or lose to Stefanova and Munguntuul not lose to Sebag while Humpy must beat Chen for Humpy to make it to the top of the Grand Prix list behind Hou Yifan. Everything fell in place for the talented Indian Grandmaster. Meanwhile, Maia-Dzagnidze, Danielian-Stefanova and Lilit-Fierro matches were drawn. Munguntuul beat Marie, Yuhua beat Cramling and of course Chen lost to Humpy.

Final standings after Round 11

Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pts	Res.	SB
1	1	GM	Koneru Humpy	2607	IND	*	1	½	½	1	0	½	1	1	1	½	1	8	1	41.75
2	8	GM	Danielian Elina	2454	ARM	0	*	1	0	1	1	1	1	½	1	½	1	8	0	40.25
3	5	GM	Sebag Marie	2489	FRA	½	0	*	1	½	1	1	0	½	1	½	1	7	0	35.00
4	3	GM	Cramling Pia	2516	SWE	½	1	0	*	½	1	0	0	½	½	1	½	5½	1½	30.50
5	6	GM	Chiburdanidze Maia	2502	GEO	0	0	½	½	*	½	1	0	1	1	½	½	5½	1	26.75
6	12	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550	GEO	1	0	0	0	½	*	1	1	1	0	1	0	5½	½	29.25
7	9	GM	Xu Yuhua	2484	CHN	½	0	0	1	0	0	*	1	0	1	1	½	5	1	24.75
8	7	IM	Munguntuul Batkhuyag	2410	MGL	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	*	½	0	½	1	5	0	25.75
9	10	IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	2475	ARM	0	½	½	½	0	0	1	½	*	½	0	1	4½	½	23.50
10	2	IM	Fierro Baquero Martha L	2363	ECU	0	0	0	½	0	1	0	1	½	*	½	1	4½	½	21.00
11	4	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2546	BUL	½	½	½	0	½	0	0	½	1	½	*	0	4	0	23.50
12	11	GM	Zhu Chen	2495	QAT	0	0	0	½	½	1	½	0	0	0	1	*	3½	0	17.50

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