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The Rostov Chess Federation in collaboration with FIDE and Global Chess is organising the first event for the 2011/2012 Women's Grand Prix series. The tournament is being held in the Don-Plaza Hotel and runs from August 1st (arrival, opening) until August 15 (departure). The eleven rounds are between August 2nd and 14, with rest days on the 6th and 11th. The start of the games from of rounds 1-10 is 3:00 p.m. local time, round 11 at starts at noon local time. The winner receives 6,500 Euros out of a total prize fund of 40,000 Euros, and the overall winner of the Women's Grand Prix will win a further 15,000 Euros at the end of the series.
Round six: Monday August 08 at 15:00 | ||
Ruan Lufei |
0-1 |
Kosintseva Tatiana |
Lahno Kateryna |
½-½ |
Kovalevskaya Ekat. |
Hou Yifan |
1-0 |
Danielian Elina |
Stefanova Antoaneta |
½-½ |
Kosintseva Nadezhda |
Koneru Humpy |
½-½ |
Muzychuk Anna |
Galliamova Alisa |
½-½ |
Kosteniuk Alexandra |
Lufei Ruan-Tatiana Kosintseva 0:1
The game was a Scheveningen in which White played the thematic e5 push on move
19 but found herself clearly worse after the exchanges that followed. Black
was able to focus on a debilitating weakness in her opponent's camp, the weak
pawn on d3, which she was able to capture on move 31, gaining an essentially
winning position. The endgame took Tatiana all the way to move 63, but she had
a forced mate when her opponent at last resigned.
Lufei Ruan and Tatiana Kosintseva in their press conference after the game
Kateryna Lahno-Ekaterina Kovalevskaya ½:½
A Tarrasch in the QGD in which Black played an interesting line with
6...cxd4 7.Nxd4 Qb6. A clearly well prepared Ekaterina Kovalevskaya had everything
under control and after some heavy exchanges was able to force a draw by repetition.
It was her third half-point in this tournament.
Kateryna and Ekaterina – in the press conference after their game
Chinese GM Hou Yifan, now with 5.5/6 and a 2953 performance
Opponent Elina Danielian in the press conference after the game
Hou Yifan-Elina Danielian 1-0
The reigning women's world champion chose the 6.c3 line in the Caro-Kann
Advance Variation and forced her opponent to play with double pawns in the f-file.
Black's attempt to brake up the white position with 19...c5 was ill-fated and
gave Yifan a full pawn and a winning edge. The game is well worth replaying,
especially with a chess engine explaining the tactical nuances.
Antoaneta Stefanova-Nadezhda Kosintseva ½-½
A Queen's Gambit Ragozin saw Black temporarily sacrifice a pawn for an advantage
in the development, but then lose heart and simplify the position by exchanging
queens and returning the pawn. The resulting rooks + knight endgame did not
give either of the players real winning chances, and a draw by repetition was
the result after 44 moves.
Flowers in the hair – something you rarely see in men's events
Humpy Koneru-Anna Muzychuk ½-½
The Ukraining GM Anna Muzychuk, who now plays for Slovenia, chose the Leningrad
Variation of the Dutch Defence. Humpy Koneru played a double bishop fianchetto
and disrupted the centre with 13.e4. Black went for the thematic counterattack
a7-a5-a4, transferring her knight from a6 to b3 and playing 19...e5. By move
36 Humpy had a clearly better position with a rook for bishop and pawn, but
she was not able to make headway and the game ended with the obligatory repetition
after 48 moves.
The second strongest female player in history: Humpy Koneru
Alisa Galliamova-Alexandra Kosteniuk ½-½
The game was a classical Nimzo-Indian with 4.Qc2 d5 5.cxd5 exd5, which the former
women's world champion messed up in the opening. "I could have resigned
by move ten," said Alexandra Kosteniuk. We think that is exaggerated, but
certainly by move 16 Alisa Galliamova had a winning advantage. However an error
on move 22 turned everything around. GM Vitaly Kiselev, whose daily game summaries
are very useful, has promised detailed analysis of this game on the official
site on Tuesday.
Analyst in Rostov: GM Vitaly Kiselev
Anastasiya Karlovich, Alexandra Kosteniuk and Alisa Galliamova in the press
conference
Pictures by Anastasiya Karlovich and
Kema Goryaeva with kind permission of FIDE
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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. |