Women’s European Individual Championship 2011

This very strong event took place in Tbilisi. Congratulations to the winners and those who qualified for the Women’s World Championship of 2012!

Here are the final standings:

1 GM Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2504 9.0 2692 64.5 78.0 11 9 6.57 2.43 10 24.3
2 GM Stefanova Anto BUL 2506 8.5 2637 64.5 79.5 11 8.5 6.66 1.84 10 18.4
3 GM Danielian Elina ARM 2506 8.0 2629 64.5 79.5 11 8 6.25 1.75 10 17.5
4 IM Matveeva Svetla RUS 2380 8.0 2413 48.5 60.5 11 8 7.17 0.83 10 8.3
5 IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2470 7.5 2580 66.0 79.5 11 7.5 5.81 1.69 10 16.9
6 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2530 7.5 2565 63.5 76.5 11 7.5 6.92 0.58 10 5.8
7 IM Javakhishvili Lela GEO 2454 7.5 2553 60.5 74.5 11 7.5 5.98 1.52 10 15.2
8 GM Kosintseva Tatian RUS 2559 7.5 2539 60.0 73.0 11 7.5 7.69 -0.19 10 -1.9
9 GM Arakhamia-Grant KSCO 2462 7.5 2535 56.0 70.0 11 7.5 6.36 1.14 10 11.4
10 IM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2537 7.5 2533 63.0 76.5 11 7.5 7.46 0.04 10 0.4
11 IM Foisor Cristina-Ad ROU 2414 7.5 2490 56.5 69.0 11 7.5 6.25 1.25 10 12.5
12 IM Bodnaruk Anastas RUS 2419 7.5 2489 55.5 68.5 11 7.5 6.33 1.17 10 11.7
13 WGM Pogonina Natalija RUS 2448 7.5 2383 51.5 63.0 11 7.5 8.10 -0.60 10 -6.0
14 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda RUS 2567 7.0 2513 61.5 76.0 11 7 7.71 -0.71 10 -7.1
15 IM Ovod Evgenija RUS 2404 7.0 2509 61.5 74.0 11 7 5.38 1.62 10 16.2
16 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2468 7.0 2506 61.0 75.0 11 7 6.45 0.55 10 5.5
17 IM Romanko Marina RUS 2387 7.0 2487 57.5 70.5 11 7 5.46 1.54 10 15.4
18 IM Khurtsidze Nino GEO 2436 7.0 2456 57.5 70.0 11 7 6.62 0.38 10 3.8
19 GM Hoang Thanh Trang HUN 2456 7.0 2452 52.0 63.5 11 7 7.02 -0.02 10 -0.2
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Semi-final, Kazan 2011

The 3rd game of the semi-final was over in just 14 moves. After sacrificing a pawn in the opening Black got an easy piece play and was definitely not worse. Here is the game with some analysis:

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Candidates Matches – Quater-finals

Kamsky and Gelfand advanced to the semi-finals after beating Topalov & Mamedyarov respectively. Kramnik won the tiebreaks match against Radjabov (after playing 8 games!) and Grischuk only needed four to knock-out Aronian.
So the semi-final pairs are Grischuk-Kramnik and Kamsky-Gelfand.
Here are the interesting games:

White found a nice tactic in this one

Amazingly white won this rooks & opposite colour B endgame

Games resume on May 12th!

Candidates Matches 2011

Candidates matches are on their way in Kazan. The first day – 5th of May only brought draws but yesterday Kamsky outplayed Topalov with Black (the only win in 8 games so far:))!

Games 3 & 4 will be played on May 7th and 8th!

Official website – http://kazan2011.fide.com/