6/2/2021 – After an exciting ninth round and a quieter tenth day of action, 21-year-old Zhansaya Abdumalik secured first place at the Women’s Grand Prix in Gibraltar. Follow the games live with commentary starting at 14.00 CEST (08.00 ET, 12.00 UTC). | Pictured: Gunay Mammadzada | Photo: John Saunders
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Round 11
The tournament is a 12-player single round robin with a time control of 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.
Rounds 1 to 6 will be played on May 22-27. Friday, May 28 will be a rest day, before the last five rounds are played from May 29 until June 2.
Nigel Short takes us on an electrifying journey through a very rich chess career, which saw him beat no less than twelve world champions. His experience in tournaments and matches all over the world – Short has visited a total of 89 countries – can be seen in the narratives that precede the games which he annotates with humour and instructive insights.
Commentary by Veselin Topalov and Fiona Steil-Antoni
Current standings
The race to the Candidates
In the race to get the qualifying spots to the Candidates, only a miracle would leave Humpy Koneru out of the top two (Goryachkina is already qualified as the latest World Championship challenger), while Nana Dzagnidze and Kateryna Lagno became the front-runners in the struggle to get the second ticket — notice that Kosteniuk will not play the fourth leg.
Overall standings of the Women's Grand Prix series:
Starting out in chess is difficult, and this DVD aims to reduce that stress. Designed for beginner levels in openings, a brief introduction to the reasons we play some of the most common moves in popular openings like the Spanish and Sicilian is given.
@ ChrisHolmes: That would have been Lagno. The first tiebreak criterion is: no. of actual game result points scored in the three tournaments. If they had tied for 3rd-5th place in Gibraltar, Lagno would have had one more game point than Dzagnidze. In her other two tournaments, Skolkovo and Monaco, Lagno collected 13 points (6,5+6,5). Dzagnidze scored 7 points in Lausanne and 5 in Monaco, which amounts to “only” 12.
ChrisHolmes 6/2/2021 05:51
So who gets the Candidates place if Lagno & Dzagnidze tie for 3-5th place ?
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