Women’s Grand-Prix 2011-2012 |
Tuesday, 12 April 2011 14:08 |
FIDE announces the Women’s Grand-Prix 2011-2012 which will give qualification to the Women’s World Championship match 2013. The schedule of the 6 events is the following:
1-15 August 2011, Rostov RUSSIA
8-22 September 2011, Shenzhen CHINA
8-23 October 2011, Nalchik RUSSIA
16-30 May 2012, Kazan RUSSIA
16-30 June 2012, Jermuk ARMENIA
16-30 November 2012, Istanbul TURKEY
In total 18 players will participate, 10 qualifiers as per regulations (listed below) plus 6 nominees from the organisers of each tournament (to be announced) plus 2 nominees of the FIDE President (to be announced).
The 10 qualifiers up to now are:
01. Hou, Yifan (World Champion 2010)
02. Ruan, Lufei (finalist world championship 2010)
03. Koneru, Humpy (semi-finalist world championship 2010)
04. Zhao, Xue (semi-finalist world championship 2010)
05. Kosintseva, Tatiana (by rating 2566,00 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
06. Stefanova, Antoaneta (by rating 2553,00 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
07. Kosintseva, Nadezhda (by rating 2551,50 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
08. Muzychuk, Anna (by rating 2528,00 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
09. Lahno, Kateryna (by rating 2526,50 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
10. Cmilyte, Viktorija (by rating 2526,50 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
The 3 first reserves for any replacements needed:
01. Dzagnidze, Nana (rating 2524,00 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
02. Cramling, Pia (rating 2516,50 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
03. Harika, Dronavalli (rating 2512,00 / Jul 2010 & Jan 2011)
The full regulations of the Women’s Grand-Prix 2011-2012 are published here:
http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=43&view=category
Wish the best to Tatiana Kosintseva!
What about Kosteniuk?
How come the self proclaimed chess queen Kosteniuk isn’t on this list? She’ll probably whine to FIDE to beg them to give her a spot in the final.
Best wish to Kosintseva sisters!
RUSSIA
CHINA
RUSSIA
RUSSIA
ARMENIA
TURKEY
he he he…