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Updated August 19, 2007: U.S. Open GM Boris Gulko won the event on tie-break with 7.5 - congrats to the veteran, who beat out six other players all with 7.5! Probably the surprise of the tournament was Abby Marshall (USA 2038), who was ranked 101st and finished in 15th place with 7.0/8 (she finished with 7.0 with 10 other players, including Hikaru Nakamura, who finished in 8th place with 7.0/9). Who is Abby Marshall? She's one of a crop of young female players who is becoming a star playing in various Susan Polgar-sponsored tournaments. Born in 1991, Abby won the 2006 Susan Polgar National Invitational for Girls (she also won the 2005 event). This is an INCREDIBLE finish for Abby - and I cannot believe her performance didn't get more press. Yes, I like Melekhina but by comparison, she finished in 36th place with 6.0. WOW! Other chess femmes who participated in the U.S. Open and their final standings: (71) Elizabeth Vicary (USA 2155), 5.5; (75) Ettie Nikolova (USA 2048), 5.5; (84) Hana Itkis (USA 2084), 5.5; (110) Megan Lee (USA 1571) 5.5 - ANOTHER OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE!!!!!; (147) Sylvia Yang (USA 1854), 5.0; (151) Dakota E. Dixon (1832), 5.0; (152) Alena Kuzniatsova (USA 1875), 5.0; (157) Rachel A. Jatovsky (USA 1849), 5.0; (163) Jennis S. Liu (USA 1872) 5.0; (164) Vanessa A. West (USA 2041), 4.5; (174) Ashley Carter (USA 1820), 4.5; (206) Donna Alarie (USA 1762), 4.5; (244) Jordana Cathryn Williams (USA 1721), 4.0; (259) Pieta Garrett (USA 2262), 4.0; (262) Linda Diaz (USA 1635), 4.0; (275) Darrian Robinson (USA 1803), 4.0; (278) Kimberly Ding (USA 1098), 3.5; (281) Janice S. Chen (USA 1733), 3.5; (286) Polly P. Wright (USA 1700), 3.5; (300) Jamie Lynn Olsen-Mills (USA 1671), 3.5; (310) Stephanie Pitcher (USA 1603), 3.5; (326) Crystal Liu (USA 1546), 3.0; (332) Pamela R. Lee (USA 1457), 3.0; (335) Eve D. Zhurbinskiy (USA 1582), 3.0; (343) Sarah R. May (USA 1487), 3.0; (363) Joan H. Schlich (USA 1414), 2.5; (365) Sandra R. Pahl (USA 1351), 2.5; (366) Alison K. Parshall (USA 1226), 2.5; (377) Amanda Weinberg (USA 1116), 2.5; (380) Amelia A. Wheeless (USA 1725), 2.5; (387) Jessica Regam (USA 1124), 2.0; (394) Kathy A. Schneider (USA 742), 1.5; (395) Ananya Roy (USA 1585), 1.5; (399) Jennifer L. Dowling (USA 909), 1.5; (405) Ruth Arluck (USA 915), 0.0 Jovanka Houska's new book Good Press for Humpy A nagging question over the years has been: Why aren’t there more good players who are women? Since the World Chess Federation began ranking players more than 40 years ago, only one, Judit Polgar of Hungary, has been in the top 100. Some men, notably Garry Kasparov, the former champion, have suggested that women do not have the psychological makeup (meaning aggressiveness) or intellectual capacity to play high-level chess. Late last year, a study in Psychological Science concluded that that was not necessarily true. It said a likely reason for the dearth of good women players was that not enough of them played competitive chess. The study was by Christopher F. Chabris, a research associate in the psychology department at Harvard, and Mark E. Glickman, an associate professor of health policy and management at Boston University. “If you look at boys and girls who started at roughly the same playing strength,” Professor Glickman said, “if you look at them at the start and follow them over time, there tends not to be a difference.” Still, it is puzzling that Polgar has stood alone for so long. At long last, however, she may be about to get some help in the battle of the sexes.
Two weeks ago, in a field with 13 grandmasters, she tied for first at the Kaupthing Open in Luxembourg with Hannes Stefansson of Iceland. Going into the last round, she was in a six-way tie for first, but beat Sebastian Siebrecht of Germany. How’s that for lack of aggression? After 3 Nf3, Siebrecht had a few options as Black, but steered the game into a Benoni opening, showing he was spoiling for a fight. Koneru and Siebrecht showed that they knew recent theory, playing more than 20 moves that followed the course of recent games, in particular a 2001 encounter between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov, which ended in a draw. Siebrecht should have removed his king from in front of Koneru’s rook with 22 ... Kh8. Koneru’s 29 Rf1 was not the most accurate, as Siebrecht could have played 29 ... Qb2. Instead, 29 ... Qd5 opened the critical a2/g8 diagonal for White’s bishop. Still, the position was not fatal. After 30 f5, Siebrecht could play 30 ... c4, when 31 Bc4 is met by 31 ... Rf5. But 30 ... Ref7 was a critical error. Even after 31 ... Rf5 32 Rh4 Kg8 33 Rg1 Qb7 34 Bc3, Black is losing. Siebrecht fell on his sword with 33... Be4 rather than play out a most likely hopeless position with 34 ... Qg2 35 Kg2 Bc2. Lebanese
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Women's Bulgarian Championships ---------------------------------------------------------- Open Women Bulgarian Ch Vratsa BUL (BUL), 25-31 vii 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------- 1 Chilingirova Pavlina WIM 2189 BUL 7.5 40.0 50.5 2 Ionescu Irina WGM 2274 ROM 6.5 39.0 51.0 3 Dragomirescu Angela WIM 2227 ROM 6.5 36.5 48.0 4 Raeva Elitsa WFM 2215 BUL 6.0 41.0 53.0 5 Voiska Margarita WGM 2314 BUL 6.0 40.5 51.5 6 Genova Lybka WIM 2221 BUL 6.0 37.5 48.5 7 Nikolova Adriana WFM 2234 BUL 5.5 39.0 49.0 8 Videnova Iva WFM 2155 BUL 5.5 36.5 46.5 9 Jordanova Svetla WFM 2136 BUL 5.5 36.5 46.5 10 Bednikova Stefi 2077 BUL 5.5 34.5 45.5 11 Stefanova Milena 2018 BUL 5.5 34.0 44.0 12 Petkova Veneta 1966 BUL 5.0 30.5 38.0 13 Danova Tanja WFM 2135 BUL 5.0 29.5 39.5 14 Koen Maja WIM 2192 BUL 4.5 37.5 48.5 15 Naidenova Jordanka 1749 BUL 4.5 34.0 40.5 16 Vladimirova Maria 1998 BUL 4.5 33.5 39.5 17 Trifonova Sandra 1889 BUL 4.5 31.0 40.0 18 Georgieva Konstantina 1769 BUL 4.5 27.0 33.5 19 Georgieva Emilia 2023 BUL 4.5 25.5 31.5 20 Sirkova Darena 1732 BUL 4.0 32.0 42.0 21 Barbageorgopoulou Fani 1792 GRE 4.0 31.0 40.0 22 Vladimirova Diana 1776 BUL 4.0 30.5 38.0 23 Ivanova Simoneta 1839 BUL 4.0 30.0 38.5 24 Papathanasiou Ageliki 1558 GRE 4.0 22.5 28.5 25 Boneva Zvezdelina 1962 BUL 3.5 32.5 40.0 26 Galunova Tsveta 1832 BUL 3.5 28.5 35.5 27 Barbageorgopoulou Despina 1715 GRE 3.5 28.0 34.0 28 Todorova Gabriela 1846 BUL 3.5 26.5 32.5 29 Todorova Kalina 1729 BUL 3.0 26.0 32.0 30 Papathanasiou Elisavet 0 GRE 2.0 24.0 29.5 31 Chokova Galabina 0 BUL 1.0 27.0 33.0 ITT
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Urals Cup 2007 MonRoi Women's Grande Prix
Finale Updated August 1, 2007: Biel
Chess Festival The 125 player Master Tournament was won by GM Mikhail Ulibin (RUS 2514) with 8.5. Chess femmes who participated in this event and their final standings: (3) IM Svetlana Matveea (RUS 2420), 6.5; (41) IM Inna Gaponenko (UKR 2458), 6.0; (42) WGM Swathi Ghate (IND 2317), 6.0; (44) IM Harika Dronavalli (IND 2478), 6.0; (57) WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman (IND 2327), 6.0; (64) WGM Sophie Milliet (FRA 2414), 5.5. (Added August 19, 2007) Politiken
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1. Mijovic, Aleksandra wf MNE 2163 * = 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.5 2460
2. Drljevic, Ljilja wf MNE 2257 = * = 1 1 1 1 1 1 7.0 2340
3. Vojinovic, Jovana MNE 2217 0 = * 1 1 1 1 1 1 6.5 2260
4. Misovic, Sanja SRB 1872 0 0 0 * 1 1 = 0 1 3.5 2009
5. Vujacic, Branka MNE 1903 0 0 0 0 * = 1 1 1 3.5 2005
6. Neric, Jelena MNE 1882 0 0 0 0 = * = = 1 2.5 1910
7. Bubanja,Milica MNE ---- 0 0 0 = 0 = * 1 = 2.5 1895
8. Vujosevic, Snezana MNE 1998 0 0 0 1 0 = 0 * 0 1.5 1785
9. Bacic,Kristina MNE ---- 0 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 * 1.5 1785
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Frank Berry U.S. Women's Championship Updated on July 19, 2007. Sort of an update - I'm loopy on too much wine, my sweety called tonight and kept me on the phone a long time, and he'll be here in less than 48 hours :) What can I say - check out what I've done at the Goddesschess blog and I'll sort it all out tomorrow - maybe!!! Read more. Updated on July 18, 2007. The standings are changing faster than I can capture them! Well, I FINALLY have the standings published after Round 5 ended - who knows who will be in the lead when Round 6 has been completed? So far this has been a rather surprising championship! Read more. Updated on July 17, 2007. Updated results from July 16th available. Round 3 has been completed and Round 4 is underway. A VERY short draw between Zatonskih and Krush - disappointing. Read more. Updated on July 16, 2007. The action has begun with many decisive games. Round 2 is underway even as I type this. July 16 update! July 15, 2007 This was posted by my buddy Licenser over at the Chessville forum. If you can, please contribute. Thank you! 5th Holly Heisman Memorial Fundraiser Tournament: reported by Dan Heisman. The Holly Heisman Fund is a charitable trust at the Philadelphia Foundation (www.philafound.org) to support women in need, specifically those with breast cancer, battered wives, and runaway teens. Established in 1995, over the years the Holly Heisman Fund has raised over $14,000 towards these charitable ends! Get in on the action this year, when the event will be held Sunday, August 12th. Get all the facts, and enter to play, donate a prize, or just donate direct to this very worthy cause.North
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1. Zhao Xue wg CHN 2500 * 1 = 1 = 1 1 1 = 1 7.5 2654
2. Paehtz, Elisabeth m GER 2457 0 * = = 1 = = 1 = 1 5.5 2466
3. Tairova, Elena wg RUS 2410 = = * = = 1 1 0 0 1 5.0 2434
4. Socko, Monika m POL 2479 0 = = * = = = 1 = 1 5.0 2427
5. Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina m RUS 2454 = 0 = = * = = = 1 = 4.5 2386
6. Kachiani-Gersinska, Ketino m GER 2405 0 = 0 = = * = 1 1 = 4.5 2392
7. Michna, Marta wg GER 2377 0 = 0 = = = * = = 1 4.0 2352
8. Peptan, Corina-Isabela m ROM 2411 0 0 1 0 = 0 = * 1 1 4.0 2348
9. Nill, Jessica wg GER 2238 = = 1 = 0 0 = 0 * 0 3.0 2285
10. Mader, Manuela wf GER 2204 0 0 0 0 = = 0 0 1 * 2.0 2194
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Open For the record, here are the winners and the chess femmes who participated in Open and top sections. I also noted what the winner of these sections took home $$$ wise and whether any of the chess femmes won $$$. Five women who will be playing in the 2007 U.S. Women’s Chess Championship also played in this event – they are highlighted in bold. Open (92 registered players): (1) GM Varuzhan Akobian (USA 2651), 6.5/9 ($5,648.12); (33) WGM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (GEO 2458), 5.0/9; (35) WIM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (USA 2275), 5.0/9; (53) WFM Alisa Melekhina (USA 2163), 4.0/9. Under 2400 (131 registered players): (1) Anton P. Del Mundo (PHI 2388), 7.0/9 ($5,922.80); (35) WGM Katerine Rohonyan (USA 2304), 5.0/9; (37) WIM Evgenia Hansen (DEN 2275), 5.0/9; (39) WFM Tatev Abrahamyan (USA 2265), 5.0/9; (67) WFM Iryna Zenyuk (USA 2204), 4.0/9. Under 2200 (170 registered players): (1) Chris J. Mabe (USA 2188), 8.0/9 ($14,624.00); (7) Tatiana Vayserberg (USA 2087), 7.0/9 ($1,462.33); (20) WFM Elizabeth Vicary (USA 2127), 6.0/9 ($195.11); (32) Anna Levina (USA 2063), 5.5/9; (55) Lilia Doiban (USA 2126), 4.5/9; (58) Hana Itkis (USA 2089), 4.5/8; (80) Jennie S. Liu (USA 1831), 4.0/9; (115) Vanessa West (USA 2062), 2.5/8. 4th
Proville International Open On July 1, 2007 The Association of Chess Professionals announced the start of an ACP Women's Tour beginning July 1, 2007. Rules here. |
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Koneru, a 20-year-old from India, may be poised to break into the elite
ranks. She is now the No. 2 woman in the world, one of just 10 to earn
the title of grandmaster, which she did at 15 years 2 months, three
months younger than Polgar was when she earned the title. Over the last
18 months, she has played a number of strong tournaments against men,
including the second section of the elite Corus tournament in 2006, with
good results.