The European Club Cup this year is incredibly strong both in Open and Women event! We play and live in a very good hotel, the food is great and I was able to start the tournament with a win against GM Lahno (2554 ELO, 5th rated in Top 100 women in the world)! The game turned out to be very interesting with pawn sacrifices on my part. Here it is:
The official website of the event is http://ecc2011.sahohlacnik.com/
Ju won against Zhu and Danielian lost 2nd game in a row, this time to Ruan. Hou shared a point with Zhao while Muzychuk won against Yildiz to join the leaders.
Standings after round 4
1-3 Hou, Zhao, Muzychuk 3
4-7 Cmilyte, Tan, Ruan, Ju 2.5
8 Zhu 1.5
9-11 Yildiz, Kovalevskaya, Munguntuul 1
12 Danielian 0.5
Photos of round 4
Games of round 4
In the 3rd round Hou Yifan shared a point with Yildiz in a very interesting and long game, while Cmilyte won against Danielian.
Results of round 3
GM Zhao Xue 2497 ½ – ½ GM Zhu Chen 2490
GM Hou Yifan 2578 ½ – ½ WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2308
IM Muzychuk Anna 2545 ½ – ½ IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2465
WGM Tan Zhongyi 2429 1 – 0 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2421
GM Cmilyte Viktori 2525 1 – 0 GM Danielian Elina 2517
WGM Ruan Lufei 2477 ½ – ½ WGM Ju Wenjun 2536
Photos of round 3
Games of round 3
Hou and Zhao are leading the event with 2 out of 2, Muzychuk is clear 3rd with 1.5 points.
Here are the photos from 2nd round
Results in 2nd round
GM Zhu Chen 2490 ½ – ½ WGM Ruan Lufei 2477 7
WGM Ju Wenjun 2536 ½ – ½ GM Cmilyte Viktorija 2525 6
GM Danielian Elina 2517 ½ – ½ WGM Tan Zhongyi 2429 5
IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2421 ½ – ½ IM Muzychuk Anna 2545 4
IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2465 0 – 1 GM Hou Yifan 2578 3
WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2308 0 – 1 GM Zhao Xue 2497 2
Standings after 2nd round
1-2 Hou, Xue 2
3 Muzychuk 1.5
4-8 Zhu, Ruan, Ju, Cmilyte, Tan 1
9-11 Yildiz, Kovalevskaya, Danielian 0.5
12 Munguntuul 0
Games of the 2nd round
Our team ‘BAS” won the last match against “RAD” and became the Women’s Serbian Team Champion! I had an unpleasant 10th round game but 11th one made me forget everything 🙂 Here they are:
You can check out the final standings at http://www.chess-results.com/tnr54868.aspx?lan=14