2/20/2012 – There were three rounds on the second day of the ACP Womens Cup Rapid taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia. Top seed Anna Muzychuk, who had won both her games in the first two rounds, continued with two more wins and a draw. She is being chased by Kateryna Lahno and Pia Cramling. We bring you an illustrated report which features four women's world champions.
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The ACP Womens Cup Rapid is taking place in Tbilisi, Georgia, from February 17th to 21st February, 2012. Top seeds are Anna Muzychuk (2580), Kateryna Lahno (2557) and Nadezhda (2537) and Tatiana Kosintseva (2513), Nana Dzagnidze (2535) and former women's world champion Maia Chiburdanidze (2500). The event is a twelve player all-play-all. The official website and Playchess are providing live broadcast of the games, the former has in addition streaming video, interviews and live commentary by Mark Dvoretsky.
After two days and five rounds of play GM Anna Muzychuk is in the lead, with just one draw and a 2861 performance. Anna, who celebrates her 22nd birthday in a week (Feb. 28th) is originally from Ukraine but has played for Slovenia since 2004.
We got to know Anna as a talented 13-year-old playing at the Chess Olympiad in Calvia, 2004. We did a story about her and her sister Mariya in the same year.
Results
Round three
GM
Muzychuk Anna
1-0
GM
Dzagnidze Nana
WGM
Mamedjarova Zeinab
0-1
GM
Kosintseva Nadezhda
GM
Cmilyte Viktorija
1-0
IM
Zatonskih Anna
GM
Lahno Kateryna
½-½
GM
Chiburdanidze Maia
GM
Kosintseva Tatiana
1-0
GM
Stefanova Antoaneta
GM
Cramling Pia
½-½
GM
Kosteniuk Alexandra
Round four
GM
Dzagnidze Nana
1-0
GM
Kosteniuk Alexandra
GM
Stefanova Antoaneta
0-1
GM
Cramling Pia
GM
Chiburdanidze Maia
½-½
GM
Kosintseva Tatiana
IM
Zatonskih Anna
0-1
GM
Lahno Kateryna
GM
Kosintseva Nadezhda
1-0
GM
Cmilyte Viktorija
GM
Muzychuk Anna
1-0
WGM
Mamedjarova Zeinab
Round five
WGM
Mamedjarova Zeinab
0-1
GM
Dzagnidze Nana
GM
Cmilyte Viktorija
½-½
GM
Muzychuk Anna
GM
Lahno Kateryna
½-½
GM
Kosintseva Nadezhda
GM
Kosintseva Tatiana
0-1
IM
Zatonskih Anna
GM
Cramling Pia
½-½
GM
Chiburdanidze Maia
GM
Kosteniuk Alexandra
½-½
GM
Stefanova Antoaneta
Viktorija Cmilyte pondering her 13th move against IM Anna Zatonskih in round three
Former world champion Maia Chiburdanidze (1978 to 1991) in equal second
Viktorija Čmilytė, Lithuanian GM with 1.5/5 (+1, =1, –3) and a 2383 performance
Former women's world champion Alexandra Kosteniuk with 2.0/5 and a 2453 performance
GM Pia Cramling of Sweden at 4.0/5 with a 2744 performance
We are going to assume that is not high proof vodka, Katya! Kateryna Lahno is in second place with a 2743 performance
IM Anna Zatonskih of the US in eighth place with 2.0/5
Russian GM Tatiana Kosintseva stands to lose eleven rating points
Down in the dumps: Zeinab Mamedjarova has lost all games so far. Incidentally that is a full fox skin the Azeri WGM is wearing.
26 years later: Maia Chiburdanidze playing on the same table she defended her women's world championship title against Elena Akhmilovskaya in Sofia in 1986, winning the match by 8½–5½. Chiburdanidze was world champion from 1978 to 1991 and defended her title four times (in 1981 she drew a tough match 8–8 against Nana Alexandria but kept the title as champion). In the above game she drew Kateryna Lahno in 32 moves.
The great Nana Alexandria of Georgia, twice women's world championship challenger (in 1975 and 1981, when she drew Maia Chiburdanidze +4 =8 –4) and one of the contributing players of the USSR team that dominated the women's Olympiads of the 1980s. Alexandria has been called a Pillar of Women's Chess and has done more for women's chess than anyone we could name offhand. She is conducting video interviews in Tbilisi, as you can see below.
Reflections: official tournament commentator Mark Dvoretsky
Photos by Anastasiya Karlovich for the official web site
The opening ceremony – with beautiful music and dance presentation by children
Interview with Alexandra Kosteniuk, conducted by Nana Alexandria
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