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Saturday, March 5, 2011

News Flash: Koneru Humpy wins Doha Women's Chess Grand Prix

Chess blog for latest chess news and chess trivia (c) Alexandra Kosteniuk, 2011

Hello everyone,


Congratulations to Koneru Humpy and Elina Danielian for jointly winning the sixth Women's Chess Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar today. Another congratulations to Humpy for scoring overall high enough in the Grand Prix scores to earn a chance to challenge Hou Yifan of China for the Women's World Chess title later this year.




It was imperative that Danielian should either draw or lose to Stefanova and Munguntuul not lose to Sebag while Humpy must beat Chen for Humpy to make it to the top of the Grand Prix list behind Hou Yifan. Everything fell in place for the talented Indian Grandmaster. Meanwhile, Maia-Dzagnidze, Danielian-Stefanova and Lilit-Fierro matches were drawn. Munguntuul beat Marie, Yuhua beat Cramling and of course Chen lost to Humpy.

Final standings after Round 11


Rank

SNo.



Name

Rtg

FED

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Pts

Res.

SB

1

1

GM

Koneru Humpy

2607

IND

*

1

½

½

1

0

½

1

1

1

½

1

8

1

41.75

2

8

GM

Danielian Elina

2454

ARM

0

*

1

0

1

1

1

1

½

1

½

1

8

0

40.25

3

5

GM

Sebag Marie

2489

FRA

½

0

*

1

½

1

1

0

½

1

½

1

7

0

35.00

4

3

GM

Cramling Pia

2516

SWE

½

1

0

*

½

1

0

0

½

½

1

½



30.50

5

6

GM

Chiburdanidze Maia

2502

GEO

0

0

½

½

*

½

1

0

1

1

½

½


1

26.75

6

12

GM

Dzagnidze Nana

2550

GEO

1

0

0

0

½

*

1

1

1

0

1

0


½

29.25

7

9

GM

Xu Yuhua

2484

CHN

½

0

0

1

0

0

*

1

0

1

1

½

5

1

24.75

8

7

IM

Munguntuul Batkhuyag

2410

MGL

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

*

½

0

½

1

5

0

25.75

9

10

IM

Mkrtchian Lilit

2475

ARM

0

½

½

½

0

0

1

½

*

½

0

1


½

23.50

10

2

IM

Fierro Baquero Martha L

2363

ECU

0

0

0

½

0

1

0

1

½

*

½

1


½

21.00

11

4

GM

Stefanova Antoaneta

2546

BUL

½

½

½

0

½

0

0

½

1

½

*

0

4

0

23.50

12

11

GM

Zhu Chen

2495

QAT

0

0

0

½

½

1

½

0

0

0

1

*


0

17.50


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