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The 6th Women’s FIDE Grand Prix in Doha – round 3

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The 3rd round was again very interesting! Zhu Chen won against Stefanova very quickly and nicely after white moved to a3 with the wrong knight. Here is the game –

Chiburdanidze scored the first win – Black King remained in the middle, got in danger there, tried to hide on the queenside but didnt find any shelter there either. The game ended on move 48. Watch this interesting game yourself –

Fierro played a very nice endgame against Dzagnidze which she eventually won.

And finally the game of the leader of the event – Danielian. Black had a very good position after the opening, then she was much better but allowed the exchange sacrifice (by playing 17…Ne4) and white could have a winning after further complications – 21.Bc4, but instead went for the losing 21.Rxd7.

Pictures of the leaders

Results of 3rd round

IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363 1 – 0 GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550
GM Cramling Pia 2516 ½ – ½ GM Koneru Humpy 2607
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546 0 – 1 GM Zhu Chen 2495
GM Sebag Marie 2489 ½ – ½ IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475
GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502 1 – 0 GM Xu Yuhua 2484
IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410 0 – 1 GM Danielian Elina 2454

Pairings of round 4

1GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 – GM Danielian Elina 2454
GM Xu Yuhua 2484 – IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410
IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 – GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502
GM Zhu Chen 2495 – GM Sebag Marie 2489
GM Koneru Humpy 2607 – GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546
IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363 – GM Cramling Pia 2516

A recent blitz game of mine

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Here is a recent game I played on ICC against GM Rustemov. Hope you like it.

The 6th Women’s FIDE Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar Round 2

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This was another round of very exciting fight! Sebag was the first to win in a true Sicilian game with lots of sacrifices!

Black played 22…axb3 and won in 6 moves!

Danielian’s game was also full of sacrifices:

White played 30.Nc5 in order to try to open the position up.

And another example from the same game:

White sacrificed a Rook – 39.Rxc7 in order to lure the Black Q away from defending the f5-pawn.

The results of 2nd round

GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 1 – 0 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410
GM Danielian Elina 2454 1 – 0 GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502
GM Xu Yuhua 2484 0 – 1 GM Sebag Marie 2489
IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 0 – 1 GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546
GM Zhu Chen 2495 ½ – ½ GM Cramling Pia 2516
GM Koneru Humpy 2607 1 – 0 IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363

Thus, Dzagnidze and Danielian are on 2 out of 2.

Pairings of the 3rd round

IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363 – GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550
GM Cramling Pia 2516 – GM Koneru Humpy 2607
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546 – GM Zhu Chen 2495
GM Sebag Marie 2489 – IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475
GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502 – GM Xu Yuhua 2484
IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410 – GM Danielian Elina 2454

Live games are at http://qatar2011.fide.com/tournament-games.html and games start in 4 hours 🙂

The 6th Women’s FIDE Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar

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The last leg of the Grand-Prix has started today in Doha, Qatar. This event is especially important as the winner will be playing against the current World Champion Hu Yifan!

It was a great day for the players playing Black pieces – 4 games were won out of 6.

Here are the results

GM Koneru Humpy 2607 – GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 0-1
IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363 – GM Zhu Chen 2495 1-0
GM Cramling Pia 2516 – IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 1/2
GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546 – GM Xu Yuhua 2484 0-1
GM Sebag Marie 2489 – GM Danielian Elina 2454 0-1
GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502 – IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410 0-1

Tomorrow’s pairings (2nd round)

1GM Dzagnidze Nana 2550 – IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2410
GM Danielian Elina 2454 – GM Chiburdanidze Maia 2502
GM Xu Yuhua 2484 – GM Sebag Marie 2489
IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2475 – GM Stefanova Antoaneta 2546
GM Zhu Chen 2495 – GM Cramling Pia 2516
GM Koneru Humpy 2607 – IM Fierro Baquero Martha L 2363

A selection of photos from the official website – http://qatar2011.fide.com/tourview/show-5.html

Aeroflot Open 2011 – round 9

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Le Quang Liem won the event by better tie-break, Vitiugov was 2nd and Tomashevsky 3rd!

Here are the top 10 results of round 9

1 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 6.0 BUL 2665 – GM Vitiugov, Nikita 5.5 RUS 2709 0-1
2 GM Mamedov, Rauf 5.5 AZE 2660 – GM Le, Quang Liem 6.0 VIE 2664 ½-½
3 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 5.5 RUS 2695 – GM Sjugirov, Sanan j 5.5 RUS 2626 1-0
4 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 5.5 UZB 2681 – GM Yu, Yangyi j 5.5 CHN 2607 ½-½
5 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 5.5 ISR 2625 – GM Khismatullin, Denis 5.5 RUS 2649 ½-½
6 GM Vuckovic, Bojan 5.0 SRB 2623 – GM Kamsky, Gata 5.0 USA 2730 0-1
7 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 5.0 RUS 2718 – GM Sandipan, Chanda 5.0 IND 2641 ½-½
8 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 5.0 RUS 2666 – GM Bocharov, Dmitry 5.0 RUS 2605 ½-½
9 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. 5.0 ARM 2604 – GM Grachev, Boris 5.0 RUS 2660 ½-½
10 GM Ding, Liren 5.0 CHN 2628 – GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 5.0 RUS 2660 ½-½

And the best 20 players are:

1 GM Le, Quang Liem 6.5 VIE M 2664 2809 +1.73 -1 2649.4
2 GM Vitiugov, Nikita 6.5 RUS M 2709 2803 +1.11 -1 2638.6
3 GM Tomashevsky, Evgeny 6.5 RUS M 2695 2797 +1.22 1 2630.6
4 GM Khismatullin, Denis 6.0 RUS M 2649 2779 +1.57 -1 2660.3
5 GM Yu, Yangyi j 6.0 CHN M 2607 2762 +1.87 -1 2644.1
6 GM Kamsky, Gata 6.0 USA M 2730 2756 +0.28 -1 2631.1
7 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 6.0 ISR M 2625 2734 +1.32 1 2614.7
8 GM Kasimdzhanov, Rustam 6.0 UZB M 2681 2727 +0.56 1 2607.0
9 GM Mamedov, Rauf 6.0 AZE M 2660 2720 +0.74 1 2597.4
10 GM Cheparinov, Ivan 6.0 BUL M 2665 2716 +0.62 1 2587.0
11 GM Sandipan, Chanda 5.5 IND M 2641 2715 +0.93 -1 2639.4
12 GM Bocharov, Dmitry 5.5 RUS M 2605 2686 +1.01 -1 2611.1
13 GM Andreikin, Dmitry 5.5 RUS M 2689 2663 -0.29 -1 2594.0
14 GM Grachev, Boris 5.5 RUS M 2660 2662 +0.04 -1 2592.4
15 GM Zvjaginsev, Vadim 5.5 RUS M 2660 2669 +0.14 -1 2589.6
16 GM Petrosian, Tigran L. 5.5 ARM M 2604 2750 +1.82 1 2671.0
17 GM Jakovenko, Dmitry 5.5 RUS M 2718 2718 +0.01 1 2639.4
18 GM Kobalia, Mikhail 5.5 RUS M 2666 2715 +0.63 1 2638.0
19 GM Sjugirov, Sanan j 5.5 RUS M 2626 2700 +0.96 1 2630.1
20 GM Ding, Liren 5.5 CHN M 2628 2703 +0.92 1 2624.7

You can see the full list on http://www.aeroflotchess.org/tournaments/A/