The Pia Cramiling’s Chess Invitational is a 4-player double round-robin tournament taking place from 1-2 September 2018 in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish Chess Federation decided to give GM Pia Cramling a present during the 100 year celebration: Her own tournament to honor her achievements for chess in Sweden and the rest of the chess world. […]
Pia is moving back to Sweden
Pia is moving back to Sweden Hi Pia Cramling, I heard you were moving back to Sweden again after so many years in Spain. How come? – I was homesick! When we talked about moving with Anna, she was so positive that we in our family quickly decided to give it a chance.Will the move […]
Huang Qian and Cramling lead Women’s World Rapid Championship
Artwork by Mike Magnan Women’s World Rapid Championship The first 3 rounds of the World Women Chess Rapid Championship 2012 have been completed during the day 1 of the event. In strong competition, including WJCC and European medalist Anna Muzychuk (top seeded), the European Champion IM Valentina Gunina, the World Championship finalist GM Humpy Koneru, […]
Cramling, Dzagnidze tie for 1st at ACP Women’s Cup
Final standings(update: Dzagnidze won the Armageddon playoff) 1 GM Cramling Pia SWE 2491 8.02 GM Dzagnidze Nana GEO 2535 8.0 3 GM Lahno Kateryna UKR 2557 7.5 4 GM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2580 7.0 5 GM Chiburdanidze Maia GEO 2500 6.0 6 GM Kosintseva Tatiana RUS 2513 5.57 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra RUS 2448 5.5 8 […]
Massive upsets at WWC
Here are some of the biggest upsets in the first round of the 2010 Women’s World Championship: 1. GM Pia Cramling (2526), semifinalist in 2008, has been eliminated by Turkish WIM Betul Cemre Yildiz (2225). 2. WGM Natalia Pogonina (2472), who just came off a first place tie at the Russian Women’s Championship, lost to […]
Romanian women’s team chess championship
Romanian women chess championshipTight battle for the first placeReport by Chessdom This year’s Romanian Team Chess Championship – CN de Sah pe Echipe Superliga Feminin – is seeing one of the closest competition for first places in the history of the tournament. After 7 rounds CS AEM Luxten Timisoara and CS Politehnica Iasi are tied […]
Interview with Pia Cramling
Interview with Pia CramlingTuesday, 29 June 2010http://jermuk2010.fide.com Have you ever been in Armenia before? What are your first impressions about the city of Jermuk? Jermuk is very beautiful and nice, very fresh air and quiet. Which of the previous Grand Prix tournaments was more successful for you and what was the reason of it? Nalchik, […]
Making a move at the Women’s Grand Prix
Once again, with a win today, both GMs Pia Cramling and Hou Yifan have pulled within 1 point of tournament leader GM Tatiana Kosintseva. Round 9 results: SNo. Name Rtg Res. Name Rtg SNo. 5 GM Kosintseva Tatiana 2524 ½ – ½ GM Zhu Chen 2476 12 6 GM Cramling Pia 2523 1 – 0 […]
Interview with Pia Cramling
Pia Cramling, who seems to have been infected with a draw syndrome during the last few tournaments, was the next to appear in the press center. – I didn’t gain any benefit in the opening gambit,- the Swedish player told the journalists.- My opponent almost got things equalized. But then there came the end-game with […]
Humpy heads strong field at Women’s GP
FIDE Women Grand Prix in Nalchik12-player round robin, from 25th April to 8th May 2010 The FIDE Women Grand Prix is a new series of elite tournaments which will be organised by FIDE and Global Chess. There will be 6 legs over two years in various countries around the world with three tournaments every year. […]