![](/Portals/all/thumbs/033/33747.jpeg)
ChessBase 17 - Mega package - Edition 2024
It is the program of choice for anyone who loves the game and wants to know more about it. Start your personal success story with ChessBase and enjoy the game even more.
The European Individual Women Chess Championships are being held from 2 to 13 March, 2012, in the Anatolian Hotel in Gaziantep, Turkey. The event will be followed by the European Rapid Championship and European Blitz Championship (15-18 of March). The EIWCC consists of eleven games. The rate of is 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. Games start at 16:00h local time.
Organizers and prize fund: The Turkish Chess Federation, with the sponsorship and support of the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality, under the auspices of the City of Gaziantep and the European Chess Union, provided a prize fund of 150,000 Euro for all three events. This is the biggest prize fund in the history of European Women's Chess events. For the first time in the chess history the European Women's Champion will get a higher prize sum, 20,500 Euros, than the Champion of the (Open or "Men's") European Individual Championship, which will be held in Plovdiv after this event.
Players at the opening ceremony in the Zeugma Museum watching...
... the colorful Turkish dance presentation
Afterwards round one is under way
The first round of the EIWCC started with a number of surprises for the favourites. The rating favorite IM Anna Muzychuk could have easily lost her game against a Russian IM rated over 250 points lower than her.
The start of Anastasia Savina vs Anna Muzychuk on board one
Wandering on the edge: top seed IM Anna Muzychuk
Anastasia Savina got a winning position but let her advantage slip away in time trouble. Anna's sister IM Mariya Muzychuk, as well as top Ukrainian GM, Katerina Lahno, played against Mamedjarova sisters from Azerbaijan, but could not take more than 50% as well.
The biggest upset was the white loss by second seed GM Nana Dzagnidze of Georgia to WIM Gulnar Mammadova, rated 235 points below her.
Another top player, IM Bela Khotenashvili, rated 2490, lost her white game to WIM Inna Ivakhinova, rated 2285. The most of other rating favorites managed to win in the first round, of which we today bring you the full results.
Addendum: Can Gurses drew our attention to an upset in the bottom part of the table: Russian WIM Aleksandra Goryachkina, 2341, lost to Hilal Ozturk, rated 1784. There are over 550 points between the two. "You guys never miss it when a Ukrainian or an Indian kid does anything extraordinary," Can writes. We apologise for missing this one, which was the only win by a Turkish player in round one. We discovered another upset at the bottom of the table:
Many-time Turkish Champion and top seed WGM Betul Cemre Yildiz, 2341, was only able to draw her first-round game against compatriot Yesim Patel, rated 1839, i.e. over 500 points below Betul.
Title | Name | Rtng | FED | Res. |
Title | Name | Rtng | FED |
IM | Savina Anastasia | 2325 | RUS | ½-½ |
IM | Muzychuk Anna | 2583 | SLO |
GM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2559 | GEO | 0-1 |
WIM | Mammadova Gulnar | 2324 | AZE |
WGM | Mamedjarova Zeinab | 2321 | AZE | ½-½ |
GM | Lahno Kateryna | 2546 | UKR |
GM | Kosintseva Nadezhda | 2535 | RUS | 1-0 |
WGM | Manakova Maria | 2315 | SRB |
WGM | Ozturk Kubra | 2314 | TUR | 0-1 |
GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2531 | BUL |
GM | Kosintseva Tatiana | 2513 | RUS | 1-0 |
WIM | Bulmaga Irina | 2307 | ROU |
IM | Dworakowska Joanna | 2304 | POL | 0-1 |
GM | Sebag Marie | 2512 | FRA |
IM | Gunina Valentina | 2511 | RUS | 1-0 |
WGM | Borosova Zuzana | 2302 | SVK |
WGM | Videnova Iva | 2301 | BUL | 0-1 |
GM | Cmilyte Viktorija | 2497 | LTU |
IM | Khotenashvili Bela | 2490 | GEO | 0-1 |
WIM | Ivakhinova Inna | 2285 | RUS |
WGM | Mamedjarova Turkan | 2284 | AZE | ½-½ |
IM | Muzychuk Mariya | 2490 | UKR |
GM | Danielian Elina | 2478 | ARM | 1-0 |
WIM | Drljevic Ljilja | 2278 | SRB |
WIM | Rakic Marija | 2270 | SRB | ½-½ |
IM | Skripchenko Almira | 2468 | FRA |
IM | Paehtz Elisabeth | 2459 | GER | 1-0 |
WGM | Chelushkina Irina | 2263 | SRB |
WGM | Sandu Mihaela | 2253 | ROU | 0-1 |
IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2458 | ARM |
IM | Ushenina Anna | 2458 | UKR | 1-0 |
WIM | Kazimova Narmin | 2253 | AZE |
WIM | Bronnikova Elizaveta | 2252 | RUS | 0-1 |
WGM | Pogonina Natalija | 2449 | RUS |
GM | Kosteniuk Alexandra | 2448 | RUS | 1-0 |
WIM | Abdulla Khayala | 2246 | AZE |
WFM | Foisor Mihaela-Veronica | 2242 | ROU | ½-½ |
IM | Javakhishvili Lela | 2448 | GEO |
IM | Khurtsidze Nino | 2447 | GEO | 1-0 |
WIM | Hairapetian Anna | 2227 | ARM |
WGM | Makropoulou Marina | 2224 | GRE | 0-1 |
GM | Hoang Thanh Trang | 2438 | HUN |
WGM | Batsiashvili Nino | 2438 | GEO | 1-0 |
WIM | Umudova Nargiz | 2220 | AZE |
WIM | Seps Monika | 2204 | SUI | ½-½ |
GM | Zhukova Natalia | 2435 | UKR |
IM | Romanko Marina | 2417 | RUS | ½-½ |
WIM | Isgandarova Khayala | 2203 | AZE |
WIM | Bezgodova Maria | 2200 | RUS | 0-1 |
IM | Gaponenko Inna | 2416 | UKR |
IM | Repkova Eva | 2416 | SVK | 1-0 |
WGM | Shaydullina Sandugach | 2197 | RUS |
WIM | Kharmunova Nadejda | 2191 | RUS | 1-0 |
IM | Bodnaruk Anastasia | 2412 | RUS |
WGM | Girya Olga | 2406 | RUS | 1-0 |
WIM | Olsarova Karolina | 2189 | CZE |
WIM | Tsiganova Monika | 2185 | EST | ½-½ |
WGM | Paikidze Nazi | 2406 | GEO |
IM | Melia Salome | 2400 | GEO | 1-0 |
WFM | Coimbra Margarida | 2156 | POR |
WFM | Cherednichenko Elena | 2130 | UKR | 0-1 |
IM | Foisor Cristina-Adela | 2398 | ROU |
IM | Bojkovic Natasa | 2395 | SRB | 1-0 |
WFM | Kineva Ekaterina | 2126 | RUS |
WFM | De Seroux Camille | 2122 | SUI | 0-1 |
WGM | Guramishvili Sopiko | 2395 | GEO |
WGM | Kovanova Baira | 2392 | RUS | 0-1 |
WIM | Alexanian Nelli | 2114 | RUS |
WFM | Mareckova Martina | 2114 | CZE | 0-1 |
WGM | Michna Marta | 2383 | GER |
WGM | Kashlinskaya Alina | 2377 | RUS | 1-0 |
WIM | Bezgodova Svetlana | 2109 | RUS |
WFM | Uta Adeline-Ramona | 2098 | ROU | 0-1 |
WGM | Charochkina Daria | 2371 | RUS |
WGM | Szczepkowska Karina | 2369 | POL | 1-0 |
WFM | Motycakova Monika | 2087 | SVK |
WCM | Kaya Emel | 1997 | TUR | 0-1 |
IM | Galojan Lilit | 2364 | ARM |
WGM | Zawadzka Jolanta | 2358 | POL | 1-0 |
Messina Roberta | 1957 | ITA | |
WCM | Cemhan Kardelen | 1952 | TUR | 0-1 |
WGM | Vojinovic Jovana | 2356 | MNE |
IM | Sedina Elena | 2353 | ITA | 1-0 |
Menzi Nezihe Ezgi | 1900 | TUR | |
Soyunlu Narmin | 1842 | AZE | 0-1 |
WGM | Molchanova Tatjana | 2346 | RUS | |
WIM | Ziaziulkina Nastassia | 2343 | BLR | 1-0 |
Arig Busra | 1839 | TUR | |
Patel Yesim | 1839 | TUR | ½-½ |
WGM | Yildiz Betul Cemre | 2341 | TUR | |
WIM | Goryachkina Aleksandra | 2341 | RUS | 0-1 |
Ozturk Hilal | 1784 | TUR | |
Martynkova Olena | 1689 | UKR | 0-1 |
WIM | Arabidze Meri | 2337 | GEO | |
IM | Gvetadze Sofio | 2334 | GEO | 1-0 |
Alev Gonulden Seda | 1612 | TUR | |
Dai Irmak | 1592 | TUR | 0-1 |
WIM | Mikadze Miranda | 2329 | GEO | |
WGM | Kursova Maria | 2328 | ARM | 1-0 |
Bozkurt Hatice Mislina | TUR | ||
Durmus Aslihan | TUR | 0-1 |
WGM | Schleining Zoya | 2326 | GER | ||
Sahin Hayrun Nisa | TUR | 1 - - |
Bye |
German IM Elisabeth Pähtz, 2459, won her round one game against WGM
Irina Chelushkina 2263
IM Almira Skripchenko (2468) FRA drew with black against WIM Marija Rakic
(2270) SRB
IM Lilit Mkrtchian (2458) ARM beat WGM Mihaela Sandu (2253) ROU
Freshly crown Romanian champion IM Cristina-Adela Foisor,
2398 ROU beat WFM Elena Cherednichenko 2130 of Ukraine
The youngest participant: Sahin Hayrun Nisa, who had a bye
All photos by WGM Anastasiya Karlovich, with kind permission of the TCF
LinksThe games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |