
The third stage of FIDE Women's Grand Prix cycle 2011-2012 is being staged
from 8th to 23rd of October in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in
the Hotel Sindika. The playing days are October 9-12, 14-17, 19-21, the rounds
start at 15.00h Moscow time (13:00h CEST, 7 a.m. New York)..

There are with twelve titled GM participating. Women's world champion Hou Yifan
is not one of them, nor is her challenger Koneru Humpy – the two will
play the title match in November. The following are the participants in Nalchik
(in rating order and with Wiki links):
Round three: Zhao Xue becomes the sole leader
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Ti. |
Name |
Rtng |
Ti. |
Name |
Rtng |
Res. |
GM |
Lahno Kateryna |
2554 |
IM |
Kovalevskaya Ekaterina |
2421 |
½-½ |
GM |
Zhu Chen |
2490 |
IM |
Munguntuul Batkhuyag |
2467 |
1-0 |
GM |
Zhao Xue |
2497 |
IM |
Galliamova Alisa |
2498 |
1-0 |
GM |
Kosintseva Nadezhda |
2560 |
GM |
Kosteniuk Alexandra |
2469 |
1-0 |
GM |
Stefanova Antoaneta |
2528 |
GM |
Cmilyte Viktorija |
2525 |
½-½ |
GM |
Kosintseva Tatiana |
2536 |
WGM |
Ju Wenjun |
2536 |
½-½ |
Chinese GM Zhao Xue climbed to absolute first place, having managed to win
all three initial games. On Tuesday in the third round she defeated Alisa Galliamova
with the white pieces.
The Russian IM managed to equalize the game after the opening, but then started
to play desperately, and on the 30 move she made a mistake and lost a pawn.
Zhao took a good advantage of her opponent’s mistake and in the endgame
she confidently realized her extra material.

Zhao Xue (2497) - Galliamova,A (2498) [D45]
Nalchik WGP 2011 Nalchik RUS (3), 11.10.2011
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0-0
Be7 9.Rd1 0-0 10.b3 Rc8 11.Bb2 c5 12.cxd5 exd5 13.dxc5 bxc5 14.Ne2 g6 15.Qc3
Qb6 16.Rac1 Rfd8 17.Ne5 Nxe5 18.Qxe5 Qe6 19.Qg3 Nh5 20.Qf3 Bf6 21.Bxf6 Nxf6
22.Qf4 Kg7 23.h3 a5 24.Rd2 Nd7 25.Bb5 Ne5 26.a4 h6 27.h4 Qe7 28.Rcd1 Rd6 29.Qg3
Rcd8 30.Rc1 Rf6 31.Rdc2
31...Rc8? 32.f4 Nd7 33.Bxd7. Deflecting the queen. 33...Qxd7
34.Rxc5 Rxc5 35.Rxc5 Qe7 36.Rc3 Qb4 37.Qe1 Re6 38.Qd2 Rc6 39.Kf2 Rxc3 40.Qxc3+
1-0.
Two more games ended decisively: former women's world champion Zhu Chen (above)
was stronger than Munguntuul Batkhuyag: the Mongolian IM played an unfortunate
opening and lost a piece at move 20. Top seed Nadezhda Kosintseva defeated Alexandra
Kosteniuk, who missed a tactical shot on move 38.

Kosintseva,N (2560) - Kosteniuk,A (2469) [C42]
Nalchik WGP 2011 Nalchik RUS (3), 11.10.2011
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0-0 0-0
8.c4 c6 9.Qc2 Na6 10.a3 f5 11.Nc3 Nc7 12.b4 Qe8 13.Bb2 Kh8 14.c5 Be7 15.Ne5
Bf6 16.Ne2 a5 17.f3 axb4 18.axb4 Rxa1 19.Rxa1 Qh5 20.Rf1 Qh6 21.Bc1 Ng5 22.Nf4
g6 23.Re1 Qg7 24.Bf1 Nf7 25.Nfd3 Nd8 26.Nf4 Nf7 27.Bb2 Kg8 28.b5 Nxe5 29.dxe5
Bg5 30.Bc1 Bxf4 31.Bxf4 Ne6 32.Bd2 f4 33.Bb4 Rf5 34.Qa2 Qc7 35.Qb2 b6 36.cxb6
Qxb6+ 37.Qf2 Qxf2+ 38.Kxf2
38...c5? 39.Bxc5 Nxc5 40.Rc1 Bb7 41.Rxc5 Rf8 42.b6 Rc8 43.Rxc8+ Bxc8
44.Ke2 Kf7 45.Kd3 g5 46.Kd4 Ke6 47.Bd3 h6 48.Bh7 1-0.
Round four: Zhao Xue still on maximum score
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Ti. |
Name |
Rtng |
Ti. |
Name |
Rtng |
Res. |
IM |
Kovalevskaya Ekaterina |
2421 |
WGM |
Ju Wenjun |
2536 |
½-½ |
GM |
Cmilyte Viktorija |
2525 |
GM |
Kosintseva Tatiana |
2536 |
1-0 |
GM |
Kosteniuk Alexandra |
2469 |
GM |
Stefanova Antoaneta |
2528 |
0-1 |
IM |
Galliamova Alisa |
2498 |
GM |
Kosintseva Nadezhda |
2560 |
½-½ |
IM |
Munguntuul Batkhuyag |
2467 |
GM |
Zhao Xue |
2497 |
0-1 |
GM |
Lahno Kateryna |
2554 |
GM |
Zhu Chen |
2490 |
½-½ |
Chinese GM Zhao Xue won her fourth game in a row, this time with the black
pieces against a Worrall Attack in the Closed Ruy Lopez played by her opponent
IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul from Mongolia. This give Huao Xue a perfect score and
an astronomical performance rating of 3289.
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Qe2 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.c3 d5 9.d3 Bb7 10.Nbd2 Re8 11.a3 Bf8 12.Re1 h6 13.Ba2 Nb8 14.b4 Nbd7 15.Bb2 c5 16.exd5 Nxd5 17.Ne4 Qb6 18.Qd2 Qg6 19.c4? bxc4 20.dxc4 Nf4 21.Nh4 Qg4 22.f3 Nh3+ 23.Kf1 Qxh4 24.Qxd7 Bxe4 25.Qxh3 Qxh3 26.gxh3 Bxf3 27.b5 e4 28.a4 Re6 29.Bb1 Be7 30.Ra3 Rd8 31.Rxf3 exf3 32.Rxe6 fxe6 33.bxa6 Ra8 34.Kf2 Rxa6 35.Bc2 Rb6 36.Ba3 Rd6 37.Kxf3 Rd2 38.Be4 Rxh2 39.Bc1 Rxh3+ 40.Ke2 Rc3 41.Bd2 Rxc4 42.Bc6 Rc2 43.Kd3 Ra2 44.Bc3 Bf6 45.Bxf6 gxf6 46.Kc4 Kf7 47.Kxc5 Ke7 0–1
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Munguntuul,B | 2465 | Zhao Xue | 2497 | 0–1 | 2011 | C86 | Nalchik WGP 2011 | 4 |
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Two losses in two rounds: Mongolian IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul

In second place with a 2702 performance: WGM Ju Wenjun

In the above picture we see two former world champions: Russian GM Alexandra
Kosteniuk lost her third game in a row (after winning game one), against Bulgarian
GM Antoneta Stefanova, who had the black pieces.

Another Russian GM, Tatiana Kosintseva (above in blue), was defeated by...

... GM Victoria Cmilyte from Lithuania

Fifty percent with four draws: GM Kateryna Lahno of Ukraine
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