
Neva Women's Grand Prix in Geneva
The Neva Foundation in partnership with the Internation Chess Federation
(FIDE) has organised the first leg of the official Women's Grand Prix series
for the first time in Geneva. From May 3 to May 15, twelve of the best women
players featuring current Women World Champion Anna Ushenina from Ukraine,
will confront each other at the N'vY
Manotel. The tournament is an eleven-round all-play-all at classical
time controls.
Round three report
Round 3 on Sunday, May 5th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
½-½
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
1-0
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
1-0
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
½-½
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
½-½
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
0-1
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |

The Georgian derby between Bela Khotenashvili
(above in a butterfly blouse)
and Nana Dzagnidze finished in favor of Bela Khotenashvili.

Katerina Lahno (above) outplayed Olga Girya
in Grunfeld after 72 moves

Three other games, Tatiana Kosintseva (above)
vs Alexandra Kosteniuk ...

Viktorija Cmilyte (above) vs Ju Wenjun ...

... and Anna Muzychuk vs Anna Ushenina all
finished in draws.
Summaries of all games are available on
the official web site, which also provides analysis of key games by
GM Adrian Mikhalchishin. Adrian sent us his analysis of the dramatically
unexpected encounter between the top and bottom seed:

WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs, rated 2298, playing
GM Hou Yifan, rated 2617

[Event "Fondation Neva Women's Grand Prix"] [Site "Geneva"] [Date "2013.05.05"]
[Round "3.1"] [White "Batchimeg, Tuvshintugs"] [Black "Hou, Yifan"] [Result
"1-0"] [ECO "A46"] [Annotator "Mikhalchishin"] [PlyCount "83"] [EventDate
"2013.??.??"] [WhiteClock "0:41:23"] [BlackClock "0:30:34"] {The biggest
sensation of the tournament - the bottom seed beats the top seed! Hou
Yifan successfully finished the very strong Chinese mens Championship
just few days before Geneva. We can remember that in similar situation
last year in Kazan she played very inconvincigly on the start. But later
showed her real power.} 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. e3 b6 4. Bd3 Bb7 5. O-O
d5 ({Theory prefers a different path} 5... c5 6. c4 Be7 7. Nc3 cxd4 8.
exd4 d5 9. cxd5 Nxd5 {with a very sharp middlegame. But many players in
modern times hate to play with or against an isolated pawn.}) 6. c4 Bd6
7. b3 ({Another way is} 7. Nc3 O-O 8. Qe2 Ne4 9. Rd1) 7... O-O 8. Bb2
Nbd7 9. Nc3 a6 10. Rc1 ({White cannot prepare the e3-e4 break immediately}
10. Qc2 dxc4 11. bxc4 Bxf3 12. gxf3 c5 {with serious counterplay.}) ({But
the classical plan in the center looks like this: } 10. Qe2 Ne4 11. Rac1
({very logical is another rook setup} 11. Rad1 Qe7 12. Bb1 Nxc3 13. Bxc3
Nf6 14. Ne5 $14 dxc4 15. Nxc4 Be4 16. Bxe4 Nxe4 17. Bb2 b5 18. Ne5 c5
$5 19. Qc2 $1 f5 20. dxc5 Nxc5 {with a small positional advantage, Keres,P-Furman,S/Tallinn
1971}) 11... Qe7 (11... f5) 12. Rfd1 (12. Na4 $5 f5 13. Ne5 Bxe5 14. dxe5
dxc4 15. Rxc4 $1 $14 (15. bxc4 Qb4 $1)) 12... f5 (12... c5 $5 13. cxd5
exd5 14. dxc5 Nxc3 $1 15. Bxc3 bxc5 $132) 13. Na4 $1 f4 $6 $146 (13...
Rf6 $5 14. c5 bxc5 15. dxc5 Nexc5 $1 16. Nxc5 Bxc5 17. Bxf6 Nxf6 18. Qc2
Bb6 $44) 14. Rc2 $1 Rf7 $6 15. exf4 Bxf4 16. Bc1 $1 $16 {White exchanges
the most dangerous black piece and is prepared to open the c-file, Kacheishvili,G
(2593)-Sokolov,A (2584)/Plovdiv 2003}) 10... Qe7 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Ne2
$1 {This knight transfer allowes White to limit opponents attacking possibilities
on the king's flank.} Ne4 13. Ng3 f5 14. Qc2 ({More logical would be the
immediate} 14. Qe2) 14... Rf7 15. Qe2 $1 {The Mongolian players admits
her small mistake} g5 $6 {A very sharp and direct way of attack.} 16.
Rc2 g4 17. Bxe4 $5 fxe4 $6 ({Here the Mongolian player said in the press
conference another capture would be much better:} 17... dxe4 18. Nd2 b5
19. a4 Nb6) 18. Ne5 $1 Bxe5 19. dxe5 Nxe5 20. Bxe5 Qxe5 21. Qxg4+ Rg7
$2 ({Clearly better was to concentrate on pressure on the f-file} 21...
Kh8 22. b4 Raf8) {White is speculating with a queens exchange, forcing
her opponent's queen to leave its strong position.} 22. Qf5 $1 Qd6 23.
Rd1 ({A very interesting try was to close the f-file} 23. f4 exf3 $2 24.
Qxf3 {with very unpleasant threats.}) 23... Rf8 24. Qh5 Qe6 25. b4 $1
{The Mongolian player stops the c5 move.} c6 26. Ne2 $1 {It is impressive
how the Mongolian, mow living in Oakland, California transfers her knight.
On f4 it will be very strong.} Qe7 27. Nf4 Qf6 28. Qe2 ({More direct was}
28. a4 {trying to play a5, destroying black's pawn structure.} ) 28...
Rg5 ({After} 28... Qg5 29. g3 {The white knight on f4 is very strong.
Black has many holes in the position, and it is not clear how to defend
and repair her position.}) 29. h4 Re5 30. g3 Qd6 31. a3 ({Very strong
was to stop c5 after} 31. Qc4 $1 Rc8 32. Qc3 c5 33. bxc5 bxc5 34. Rb2
Ba8 35. Rb6 $1) { Sooner or later Black will try to open her bishop} 31...
c5 32. bxc5 bxc5 33. Rb2 $1 {The white rooks start to control the b-file.}
Ba8 34. Rdb1 d4 35. Rb6 Qd7 36. Qc4+ Kh8 37. Rb8 {Now Black has no defence,
as her pieces on the eighth rank are very badly placed.} Rd8 38. Ne6 $1
{Nice, but a simpler solution was possible:} (38. Qxa6) 38... Bd5 39.
Nxd8 $1 Re8 ({Or} 39... Bxc4 40. Ne6+ {with mate.}) 40. Qxc5 d3 41. Qd4+
Kg8 42. R1b7 1-0

Former Women's World Champion Hou Yifan unexpectedly
in trouble against ...
... Mongolian WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs in
round three
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Schedule and results
Round 1 on Friday, May 3rd 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
½-½
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
½-½
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
1-0
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
½-½
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
½-½
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
1-0
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
Round 2 on Saturday, May 4th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
½-½
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
½-½ |
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
½-½
|
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
1-0 |
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
½-½
|
GM |
1-0 |
2522 |
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
1-0
|
WGM |
½-½ |
2298 |
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
1-0
|
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
½-½ |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
½-½
|
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
0-1 |
Round 3 on Sunday, May 5th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
½-½
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
1-0
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
1-0
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
½-½
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
½-½
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
0-1
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
Round 4 on Monday, May 6th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
|
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
|
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
|
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
|
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
Round 5 on Wednesday, May 8th 2013 at 14:00 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
|
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
Round 6 on Thursday, May 9th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
|
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
|
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
|
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
Round 7 on Friday, May 10th 2013 at 14:00 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
|
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
|
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
Round 8 on Saturday, May 11th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
|
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
|
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
Round 9 on Monday, May 13th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
|
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
|
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
|
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
Round 10 on Tuesday, May 14th 2013 at 14:00 |
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
|
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |
|
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
|
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
|
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
|
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
|
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
Round 11 on Wednesday, May 15th 2013 at 12:00 |
GM |
Anna Muzychuk |
2585 |
|
GM |
Alexandra Kosteniuk |
2491 |
WGM |
Olga Girya |
2463 |
|
GM |
Viktorija Cmilyte |
2522 |
GM |
Kateryna Lagno |
2548 |
|
WGM |
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg |
2298 |
GM |
Anna Ushenina |
2491 |
|
IM |
Bela Khotenashvili |
2505 |
WGM |
Wenjun Ju |
2544 |
|
GM |
Tatiana Kosintseva |
2517 |
GM |
Yifan Hou |
2617 |
|
GM |
Nana Dzagnidze |
2545 |