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June, 2006:

June 28, 2006: My friend in the north, Wayne Mendryk, who was of invaluable assistance in reporting the news when Chess Goddesses was online, has agreed once again to be a correspondent reporting chess femme news!  He's already on the job, reporting that Judit Polgar will be competing in the Essent Tournament to be held October 20-28, 2006.

June 27, 2006:  Darlings, I have gossip!  Of course, it's old gossip, but it's news to me, since I generally stopped visiting chess news sites after I gave up the Chess Goddesses website back in August, 2004.  Anyway, here I am back in it and today when I was reading around the various chess news sites for potential chess femme news, I discovered at the British Chess Magazine that Judit Polgar is expecting her second child - and is evidently quite far along!  Well, knock me off my chair.  Of course, such things do happen to a young married woman!  Congrats to Judit and Gustav.  The BCM copyrighted pic of Judit (left) shows her looking absolutely beautiful, with her hair simply but elegantly pulled back from her face, dressed in a white suit.  The BCM article noted Judit's "advanced pregnancy", but you'd never be able to tell it from the photo.

Midnight Sun Chess Challenge: June 24 - July 4, 2006, 9 Rounds, 62 players.  Sponsored by Tromsø Chess Club, Norway.  First place is worth 3,000 Euros. The event was won by GM Sergei Shipov (RUS 2576) with 7.5/9.  IM Joanna Dworakowska (POL 2364) finished in 9th place, with 6.0.  There were a couple of players with a first or middle name of "Inge," but I wasn't sure if they're femmes, so I did not include them in this final results list:  54. Edakina, Anastasia RUS, 3.0; 59. Edakina, Maria RUS, 2/5 (my guess is that these two players are sisters).

White Nights Chess Tournament: June 22 - July 1, 2006, 9 rounds, 114 players.  The official site is in Cyrillic script so I took my results directly from TWIC.  The event was won by Dmitry Egorov (RUS 2215) with 7.0/9.  The only chess femme finisher in the top results as reported at TWIC is  WF Ekaterina Akatova (RUS 2159), who finished in 23rd place with 5.5.

5th Grenoble Masters:  June 22-30, 2006
IM Cristina Adela Foisor (ROM 2392) was the only woman competing in this event and finished in a respectable 4th place with 4.5/9.  The event was won by IM Timor Asanov (RUS 2381) with 7.0/9.

2nd Mielenska Perla Baltiku: June 20 - 29, 2006, 10 rounds, 21 players, was won by GM Vladimir P. Malaniuk (UKR 2539) with 9.0/10.  Chess femmes who participated and their final results: 7.  WIM Joanna Majdan (POL 2297), 4.0; 8. WFM Klaudia Kulon (POL 2077), 4.0; 13. WIM Svetlana Cherednichenko (UKR 2238), 3.0; 18.  k Maria Gociniak (what the hell does "k" mean?) (POL 2034), 2.0.  

XXIV Balaton International Chess Festival:  June 17-25, 2006
Report is only on the "Open" (70 players).  "F" Laszlo Gonda (what does "F" stand for?) (HUN 2465) won the Open with 7.5/9.  Here are the results of the chess femmes who participated in the Open:  (37) Porat, Maya ISR 1984, 4/5; (40) Horvath, Julia wm HUN 2261, 4.5; (49) Kozma, Edit wf HUN 2103, 4.0.

1st Open Teplice: June 17 - 24, 2006, 9 rounds, 36 players.  Marie Bazantova (CZE 2148) participated in this event and finished in 11th place with 5.5.  The event was won by GM Marek Vokac (CZE 2455) with 7.0/9. 

Dutch Women's Championship:  June 16 - June 29, 2006, 11 Rounds.  Wayne Mendryk reports that the Dutch Women's Championship just finished; Peng Zhaoqin won all but one game and took the championship with an unbelievable score of  8.5/9! That was 1.5 points ahead of number two Bianca Muhren and 2.5 better than Tea Lanchava.  Full final standings and results later.

Updated July 4, 2006: This is a follow-up to Wayne Mendryk's report on June 30, 2006. Here is the final cross-table:

10th Voronezh International Chess Festival (Master Open):  June 10 - June 24, 2006, 9 Rounds, 121 players.  The event was won by GM Denis Khismatullin (RUS 2584) with 7.0/9.  One woman finished in the top 35, in 33rd place, WGM Tatiana Shumiakina (RUS 2341) with 5.5/9.  Other women players: 48th, Daria Charochkina (2216), 5.0; 69th, Veronika Avdeeva (2107), 4.5; 81st, Olga Guseva (2247), 4.0; 87th, Irina Semenova (2240), 4.0; 91st, S. Bezgodova-Filichkina (2243), 3.5; 100th, Olga Vrublevskaya (2152), 3.0; 227th, Yuliya Yakovich (2104), 2.0; 120th, Anastasiya Sluzhbina (2187), 1.0.

There was a "FIDE Open" held as part of this festival, where 127 players with no ratings, or a rating under 2250 played a 9 round Swiss in 4 hours!  Whew!  This event was won by Mikhail Peschansky (2236) with 8.5/9.  Women who played in this event: 17th, Ekaterina Kabanova (2126), 6.0; 23rd, Marina Horlova (2121), 6.0; 25th, Anastasia Suharukova (2017), 6.0; 34th, Elena Strelnikova (2057), 5.5; 40th, Arina Andreeva (2028), 5.0; 42nd, Viktoria Bukhteeva (2059), 5.0; 58th, Diana Doroshenko (2058), 4.5; 60th, Inna Semenova (2118), 4.5; 61st, Viktoria Zemlianukhina (2063), 4.5; 65th, Elvira Blokhina (1880), 4.5; 71st, Ekaterina Savkina (1905), 4.5; 73rd, Galina Tambova (0000 - she got a rating of 1723 out of this performance!), 4.5; 74th, Matsenko, Elena 4.0; 83rd, Tatjana Forova (0000 - she got a rating of 1941 out of this performance!), 4.0; 85th, Marina Yuganova (1854),4.0; 95th, Varvara Mestnikova (0000, finished rated 2046!), 3.5; 97th, Marina Smolyaninova (1956), 3.5; 98th, Marina Nazarian (000, finished rated 1875!), 3.5; 102nd, Yulia Gelivanova (0000, finished rated 1801), 3.5; 103rd, Elena Semenova (1681), 3.5; 107th, Irina Maidanova (1938), 3.0; 111th, Anastasia Ognerubova (1892), 3.0; 119th, Natalia Chernyshova (0000, finished rated 1380), 2.5; 124th, Tatiana Bezgodova (0000, finished rated 1332), 2.0; 126th, Olga Lebedeva (0000, finished rated 1270), 1.5.

19th Heraclion Open: June 10 - 18, 2006 (Athens), 9 rounds, 191 players, was won by IM Nikolaos Kalesis (GRE 2435) with 7.5/9.  I'm only reporting the top chess femmes finishers here: 5. WGM Anastazia Karlovich (UKR 2288), 7.0; 12. Alexandra Stiri (GRE 2180), 6.5; 16. WIM Ioulia Makka (GRE 2198), 6.5; 18. Anastasia Paganoglou (GRE 1943), 6.5; 29. Evanthia Makka (GRE 2046), 6.0; 31. Maria-Anna Stefanidi (GRE 2170), 6.0. 

2nd San Marino Open:  June 5-11, 2006
There were "Open A" (148 players) and "Open B" (69 players) in this event.  The "A" event was won by GM Vadim Milov (SUI 2625) with 7.5/9.  (He had lost on tie-break to Miton in the Chicago Open,  I recognize a few other names who also played in the Chicago Open - these players really get around!)  IM Vijayalakshmi Subbaraman (IND 2472) finished in 30th place with 5.5; IM Anna Zozulia (UKR 2355) finished in 31st place also with 5.5; IM Joanna Dworakowska (POL 2364) finished in 54th place with 5.0 - interesting, in the Midnight Sun Chess Challenge she's reported as a WGM.  Which would you rather be, hmmm???  Other chess femmes who competed in the "A" event (final rank in parantheses):  (62) WGM Beata Kadziolka (POL 2359), 5.0; (74) WGM Meenakshi Subbaraman (IND 2282), 4.5; (77) WGM Carolina Lujan (ARG 2378), 4.5; (92) WGM Emilia Djingarova (BUL 2319), 4.0; (103) WIM Katarzyna Toma (POL 2238), 4.0; (122) Marianna Chiercici (ITA 1922), 3.0; (130) WFM Margarida Coimbra (POR 2070), 3.0.  

In the "B" event, no ratings were provided in the Final Ranking table.  The "B" winner was Jie Xia (or maybe it's Xia Jie) (ITA) with 7.5.  Chess femme finishers: (8) Suzana Chang (BRA) 5.5; (11) Izabelle Lamoureux (FRA) 5.5; (28) Cristina-Mihaela Vintan (GER) 4.5; (34) WIM Martine Dubois (FRA) 4.0; (51) Marie-Jeanne Jonckers (BEL) 3.5; (55) Lucia Brandenburg (NED) 3.0; (57) Pia Van Rossum (NED) 3.0; (61) Emanuela Falcinelli (ITA) 2.5.

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