May 2010 Women's Chess News
Hello everybody!
While preparing several cool videos and photo albums of my recent trip to Peru I decided to let you know about the recent news about the women's chess world.
is in the clear first place with 3,5 out of 4. Hou Yifan is playing in the men's championship and after 4 rounds has 2 points.
From May 24 to June 3, 2010 the Maya Chiburdanidze Cup is taking place in Georgia. After 3 rounds 3 players have 100% - Anna Muzychuk (on the photo below),
Meri Arabidze and Sopiko Guramishvili, the full table can be found here.
The Hungarian Women's Chess Championship 2010 which took place from May 15 to May 23, 2010 was won by Anna Rudolf. The full standings can be found here.
The winners of the Hungarian women's chess championship 2010 (from left to right - Tóth, Rudolf, Göcző)
The Moscow Women's Chess Championship is taking place right now in Moscow, Russia and with 2 rounds to go Nazi Paikidze is in the clear first place with 6,5 out of 7.
And finally IM Maxim Notkin published on chesspro.ru the results of the voting for the best game of 2009. The victory by Judith Polgar over Boris Gelfand took 12th place:
[Event "World Cup"] [Site "Khanty-Mansiysk RUS"] [Date "2009.11.28"] [Round "3.2"] [White "Polgar,Ju"] [Black "Gelfand,B"] [Result "1-0"] [Eco "C24"]
1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d3 c6 4.Qe2 Be7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bb3 d6 7.O-O Nbd7 8.c3 a5 9.a4 b5 10.Bc2 Ba6 11.axb5 cxb5 12.Nbd2 Qc7 13.d4 a4 14.Bd3 Rfb8 15.Nh4 g6 16.f4 exf4 17.Ndf3 Nh5 18.Bd2 Nb6 19.g4 fxg3 20.Ng5 Nc4 21.Nf5 Bxg5 22.Bxg5 f6 23.Bh4 gxh2+ 24.Qxh2 Rf8 25.Be2 gxf5 26.Bxh5 fxe4 27.Qf4 f5 28.Kh1 Kh8 29.Rg1 Rf7 30.Bxf7 Qxf7 31.Qh6 Rf8 32.Rg6 1-0
the complete table of voting and the games that were nominated to take part in this voting can be found here.
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion
Labels: Anna Muzychuk, Anna Rudolf, ju wenjun, Nazi Paikidze
Winter and Women Playing Chess
Hello everybody!
While I was traveling all around Europe many interesting women's events have been played. The national championships in Georgia, Armenia and Romania have been finished during January. The women's tournament of the Moscow open was very strong, as well as women showed many great results in strong open and closed tournaments.
Anna Muzychuk finished the Corus B tournament with a respectful 5,5 out of 13 in a very strong field. The final standings of the B-tournament can be seen here.
Salome Melia became the Georgian champion 2010 with a nice result - 10 out of 13, followed by Nino Khurtsidze (9,5 points) and Maia Lomineishvili (8,5 points). The final table can be seenhere.
Anahit Kharatyan is the Armenian champion 2010. She took 6 points out of 9 and the clear first place. The full table is here.
Elena-Luminita Cosma is the new Romanian champion 2010. She shared the first place with 7 points out of 9 with Iozefina Paulet but was better on tie-breaks. The bronze medal with 6,5 points out of 9 won Cristina-Adelina Foisor. The final standings can be seen here.
The game between Valentina Gunina and Anastasia Bodnaruk from the Russian Superfinal 2009 was voted among the best 10 games of December on the Russian web-site www.chesspro.ru . You might have already seen this game with my comments on one of the previous posts, here.
Only the photo-finish was able to determine the winners of the exciting Moscow-open. Before the last round Zhao Xue was leading the event with 7 points out of 8 and was followed by 3 strong chess-players - Valentina Gunina, Salome Melia and Nazi Paikidze. Salome Melia with the white pieces was able to win against Zhao Xue, while Nazi Paikidze won also with white against Gunina. So Melia and Paikidze shared the first place with 7,5 out of 9 but the tie-break was better for Nazi Paikidze who became the winner of the Moscow-open 2010. The final table can be seen here.
From February 9 to February 18, 2010 the very strong Aeroflot-open takes place. There are 5 ladies who decided to take part in the strongest A1 tournament: the Kosintseva's sisters, Hou Yifan, Lela Javakhishvili and Marie Sebag. After 3 rounds Nadezhda and Tatiana both have 2 points out of 3, winning in the first round and making 2 draws in the 2nd and 3rd round.
From February 10 to February 18 in Bucarest, Romania a strong women's closed tournament takes place. The participants are: Beta Khotenashvili (Georgia, 2461), Maria Muzychuk (Ukraine, 2447), Cristina Foisor (Romania, 2440), Eva Repkova (Slovakia, 2434), Salome Melia (Georgia, 2431), Corina Peptan (Romania, 2411), Irina Turova (Russia, 2386), Anita Gara (Hungary, 2370), Szidonia Vajda (Hungary, 2369) and the new Romanian champion 2010 Elena-Luminita Cosma (2332). The official web-site is here.
Even though we are right now in the middle of winter, chess battles are heating all around the world. Don't you think it's because chess should be named a winter olympic sport? ;) By the way,the Winter Olympic Games is starting tomorrow in Vancouver, Canada. What are your favorite winter sports (beside chess, of course) and what are the athletes and countries you will be routing for?
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Champion Labels: armenia, georgia, Melia Salome, moscow-open, Nazi Paikidze, romania
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