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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
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:
Fundamentals of Chess Openings
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.
| Rank | Player | Skolkovo | Monaco | Lausanne | Sardinia | Total |
| 1 | Aleksandra Goryachkina (RUS) | 120 | 133⅓ | 145 | *** | 398⅓ |
| 2 | Humpy Koneru (IND) | 160 | 133⅓ | *** | 293⅓ | |
| 3 | Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS) | 45 | 133⅓ | 15 | *** | 193⅓ |
| 4 | Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) | *** | 35 | 145 | 180 | |
| 4 | Kateryna Lagno (RUS) | 90 | 90 | *** | 180 | |
| 4 | Dronavalli Harika (IND) | 60 | 60 | 60 | *** | 180 |
| 7 | Anna Muzychuk (UKR) | *** | 80 | 85 | 165 | |
| 8 | Ju Wenjun (CHN) | 120 | *** | 35 | 155 | |
| 9 | Alina Kashlinskaya (RUS) | 45 | *** | 85 | 130 | |
| 10 | Mariya Muzychuk (UKR) | *** | 60 | 60 | 120 | |
| 11 | Zhansaya Abdumalik (KAZ) | *** | *** | 110 | *** | 110 |
| 12 | Pia Cramling (SWE) | 10 | 60 | 35 | *** | 105 |
| 13 | Elisabeth Paehtz (GER) | 75 | 20 | *** | 95 | |
| 14 | Valentina Gunina (RUS) | 75 | 10 | *** | 85 | |
| 14 | Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL) | 25 | *** | 60 | 85 | |
| 16 | Marie Sebag (FRA) | 25 | *** | 15 | 40 | |
| 17 | Zhao Xue (CHN) | *** | 35 | *** | 35 |
