Doha FIDE Women Grand Prix
Final stage of the tournament series, 20th February to 6th March
The FIDE Women Grand Prix series has its sixth and final tournament set to take place from 20th February to 6th March in Doha, Qatar. 12 players will compete in the round robin event. The winner of each tournament will win 6,500 euros out of a prize fund of 40,000 euros and the overall winner of the series will win a further 15,000 euros at the end of the series.
The winner of the Grand Prix series will qualify for the 2011 World Championship match against the reigning chess queen Hou Yifan.
Participants:
GM Humpy Koneru IND 2607
GM Antoaneta Stefanova BUL 2546
GM Pia Cramling SWE 2516
GM Nana Dzagnidze GEO 2550
GM Marie Sebag FRA 2489
GM Maia Chiburdanidze GEO 2502
GM Zhu Chen QTR 2495
GM Elina Danielan ARM 2454
GM Xu Yuhua CHN 2484
IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul 2410
IM Martha Fierro ECU 2353
IM Lilit Mrktchian ARM 2475
Humpy will prevail.
why is Ruan Lufei not in the participants list ?
“why is Ruan Lufei not in the participants list”
She is most likely attending her Phd classes.
It’s absolutely unfair that Tatiana Kosintseva has played only 3 stages of the GP, while all the participants have played 4 stages!
Re: Ruan Lufei not included
The participants were determined before anyone knew she existed.
Re: Tatiana Kosintseva in only three stages
Tatiana Kosintseva and Baira Kovanova had scheduling conflicts so both missed one stage.
http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/fresh-problem-for-world-chess-federation-scheduling-conflicts/?hp
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4221052685/m/9641016197
“It’s absolutely unfair that Tatiana Kosintseva has played only 3 stages of the GP…”
I may be mistaken, but I believe she’s a university student…She probably has more obligations than playing chess.
Susan, obviously the official website has made a mistake by mentioning that “This will be one of the strongest women tournaments of all times and it is important to point out that there are three ex-world Champions taking part as well as the highest ranked women players in the world”
Actually, there are four ex-world champions in the list: Stefanova Antoaneta, Chiburdanidze Maia, Chen Zhu and Yuhua Xu.
I would like to know your prediction about this strong tournament.
Best from Washington, DC