New Chess Event in India for Women: Elisabeth Paehtz Top Seed at AICF-KIIT Round-Robin
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Top seed Elizabeth Paehtz of Germany. Find lots of great photos of the world's best chess players at www.chesspics.com.
Former World Junior Girls’ champion Elisabeth Paehtz of Germany is the top seed at the round-robin women's chess tournament that begins in the South Indian city of Bhubaneshwar on March 17. The AICF-KIIT Chess Cup is India's strongest-ever women's closed chess tournament with a prize fund of about $15,000. Elina Danilian and Lilit Mkrtchian of Armenia, Olga Girya of Russia, Cristina Foisor of France and reigning world junior girls’ champion Guo Qi of China are the other non-Indian players in the event. The Indian players include national women’s champion Mary Ann Gomes, Padmini Rout, Kiran Manisha Mohanty, Nisha Mohota, Eesha Karavade and Swati Ghate.
The tournament will be played on a round-robin basis and the drawing of lots will be done during the opening ceremony. There will be eleven rounds in all under FIDE’s standard time control between twelve players. The AICF-KIIT cup is aimed at providing top level opposition for Indian women chess players.
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Khanty-Mansiysk Women's World Chess Championship 2012 R2: Humpy Loses to Zhukova
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Hi everyone,
Wednesday, November 14, witnessed 32 participants of the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 play the first game of the second round in Khanty-Mansiysk. There were fewer decisive games compared to the first round, and the reason is obvious – the strength gap between the players was much narrower.
Natalia Zhukova who brought down top seed Koneru Humpy.
Women's World Chess Champion Hou Yifan (China) beat Monika Socko (Poland). Another thriller produced Natalia Zhukova (Ukraine), who, also as Black, defeated the rating favorite Humpy Koneru (India). Zhao Zue (China) crushed Nino Khurtsidze (Georgia), Pia Cramling (Sweden) won against Irina Krush (USA), Harika Dronavalli (India) defeated Elina Danielian (Armenia), and Maria Muzychuk defeated the hero of the starting round Maritza Arribas Robaine (Cuba). The rest of the games were drawn.
Russian players Nadezhda Kosintseva, Tatiana Kosintseva and Olga Girya made draws against Lilit Mkrtchian (Armenia), Hoang Thanh Trang (Hungary) and Marie Sebag (France) respectively. There are two all-Russian pairs in the second round: Alisa Galliamova plays with Valentina Gunina, and Alexandra Kosteniuk faces Natalia Pogonina. These games also ended in draws, despite being the longest in the round.
Results:
Socko, Monika (POL) – Hou, Yifan (CHN) 0-1, Koneru, Humpy (IND) – Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) 0-1, Ushenina, Anna (UKR) – Muzychuk, Anna (SLO) draw, Zhao, Xue (CHN) – Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) 1-0, Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) – Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) draw, Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) – Mkrtchian, Lilit (ARM) draw, Huang, Qian (CHN) – Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) draw, Sebag, Marie (FRA) – Girya, Olga (RUS) draw, Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) – Gunina, Valentina (RUS) draw, Cramling, Pia (SWE) – Krush, Irina (USA) 1-0, Hoang, Thanh Trang (HUN) – Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) draw, Harika, Dronavalli (IND) – Danielian, Elina (ARM) 1-0, Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR) – Arribas Robaina, Maritza (CUB) 1-0, Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) – Pogonina, Natalija (RUS) draw, Zatonskih, Anna (USA) – Ju, Wenjun (CHN) draw, Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) – Zhu, Chen (QAT) draw.
The 8th Ugra Governor Cup starts on Thursday in Khanty-Mansiysk. This is a part of the Russian Cup series, the prize fund is 1 million 641 thousand roubles, which is slightly more than $50,000. More than 100 players from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan already registered for the event, including Anton Korobov (2702), Nikita Vitiugov (2700), Alexey Dreev (2654) and Igor Kurnosov (2645). Evgenia Ovod (Russia) and Madina Davletbaeva (Kazakhstan), who already busted from the World Championship, will join the field as well. The tournament will run until November 24th.
Here are some nice chess games from the second round at the Khanty-Mansiysk Women's World Chess Championship 2012 with Chess King:
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Aronian Advises Lilit, Danielian: Stay Cool During Women's World Chess Championship!
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Hi everyone,
Chess is big time in Armenia what with the Armenians winning the gold at the Istanbul Chess Olympiad recently. Now, here comes chess advice for the Armenia women's chess team from World No. 2. The Armenia Press has reported that Aronian advises: The attitude of the Armenian women chess players to each game in the Women's World Chess Championship must be cool.
Aronian said: "Usually we get ready for such championships with all due seriousness. Each game in the tournament resembles to the final match. I would suggest our girls to be cool during the games."
Elina Danielian and Lilit Mkrtchian will represent Armenia in the Women's World Chess Championship, which will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk city of the Russian Federation from November 10 to December 2. 64 chess players from 33 different countries will participate in the championship. The Championship has a total prize fund of USD 450,000.
The world chess champions, the leaders of the FIDE ranking, the candidates from the chess federations and the winners of the continental and regional tournaments will struggle for the champion's title.
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Chess Queen™ gets Gold on 1st Board in Eilat ChessEuro Cup ahead of Hou Yifan
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Hi everyone,
We are delighted to inform you about another gold just won by Chess Queen™ Alexandra Kosteniuk at the European Club Cup Chess Championship in Israel! Click here to read the full post by the 12th Women's World Chess Champion.
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Congrats to Hou Yifan for Winning Jermuk Women's Chess Grand Prix and Overall Grand Prix As Well!
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Winners: Nadezhda Kosintseva (joint second), Hou Yifan (first), Kateryna Lahno (joint second)
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Women's world chess champion, China's Hou Yifan has won the Jermuk Women's Chess Grand Prix in Armenia with a solid performance. She won a clear first despite a last-round loss to Kateryna Lahno tallying a score of 7 out of 11 points. Incidentally, Hou Yifan has also won the overall Grand Prix as well!
All the three Chinese players - Yifan, Ju Wenjun and Ruan Lufei - at the top of the table lost their last round game to Lahno, Koneru Humpy and Nadezhda Kosintseva respectively. all suffered defeats against Lahno, Humpy Koneru and Nadezhda Kosintseva, respectively.
Check the following games with Chess King
Kateryna Lahno-Hou Yifan 1-0
Ju Wenjun-Koneru Humpy 0-1
Nadezhda Kosintseva-Ruan Lufei 1-0
Final standings:
1. GM Hou Yifan CHN 2617 – 7
2-4. GM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2516, GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2537 and GM Koneru Humpy IND 2598 – 6.5
5-6. WGM Ju Wenjun CHN 2518 and WGM Ruan Lufei CHN 2483 – 6
7. GM Zhao Xue CHN 2556 – 5.5
8-9. GM Danielian Elina ARM 2480 and IM Mkrtchian Lilit ARM 2450 – 5
10. IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina RUS 2417 – 4.5
11. IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag MGL 2447 – 4
12. IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2456 – 3.5
Hou Yifan had also won the first and second editions of the Grand Prix in Rostov and Shenzhen. Chinese Zhao Xue had won the next Grand Prix in Nalchik. The fourth Grand Prix was won by Anna Muzychuk and Koneru Humpy jointly in Kazan.
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Can You Spot Chess Queen's Winning Move?
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2012
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Here is a position from the Alexandra Kosteniuk-Elina Danielian game played in Round 9 at the Kazan Chess Grand Prix on Wednesday. Can you guess what the Chess Queen played as her 23rd move?
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Kosteniuk-Danielian 22... a5
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News Flash: Koneru Humpy wins Doha Women's Chess Grand Prix
Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011
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. |
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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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