CFN September, 2009

Chess Femme News
News About Women in Chess

September, 2009
Earlier September Tournament News

Updated September 30, 2009:

September 29, 2009 - Happy 90th Birthday to WIM Kira Alekseyevna Zvorykina

Nanjing Pearl Spring Tournament
(Women's FIDE Grand Prix)
September 27 - October 10, 2009
Nanjing, China

Interim standings (after R3) [Photograph: WGM Lilit Mkrtchian (Mkrtchyan) taken at the 2008 Women's World Chess Championships]:


Lilit Mkrtchyan	Zhao Xue	Marie Sebag

1.	Dzagnidze, Nana	g	GEO	2535	3
2.	Xu Yuhua	g	CHN	2485	2½
3.	Ju Wenjun		CHN	2443	2
4-8.	Zhao Xue	g	CHN	2542	1½
4-8.	Zhu Chen	g	QAT	2488	1½
4-8.	Fierro Baquero, Martha	m	ECU	2386	1½
4-8.	Kovanova, Baira	wg	RUS	2408	1½
4-8.	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	wg	MGL	2418	1½
9-11.	Mkrtchian, Lilit	m	ARM	2468	1
9-11.	Sebag, Marie	g	FRA	2519	1
9-11.	Shen Yang	wg	CHN	2453	1
12.	Yildiz, Betul Cemre	wm	TUR	2224	0

Teller Ede Memorial
September 24 - October 5, 2009
Pax, Hungary
Men's and Women's Events. Parallel to the Marx Gyorgy Memorial, a women top event will be held, the Teller Ede Memorial. It will have similar rules and will feature six titled women players.

Participants:
IM Vajda Szidónia, HUN 2375
WGM Ticia Gara, HUN 2364
WGM Joanna Majdan, POL 2361
WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova, UKR 2341
WGM Julia Kochetkova, RUS 2305
WIM Lili Toth, HUN 2171

Women's standings after R5:

1.	Vajda, S	4
2.	Kochetkova, J	2½
s	Tóth, L	2½
4.	Majdan, J	2
s	Gara, T	2
s	Doluhanova, E	2

FIDE Titles to be Awarded at FIDE Congress, October 11 - 18, 2009
The following information is from GM Alexandra Kosteniuk's blog, posted September 25, 2009:

GM Applications:
Tatiana Kosintseva (RUS 2536)

WGM Applications:
Ju Wenjun (CHN 2454)
Ilze Berzina (LAT 2320)
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg (USA 2335)

WIM Applications:
Yuan, Yuanling CAN 2205
Delorme, Laurie FRA 2219
Arabidze, Meri GEO 2258
Fuchs, Judith GER 2253
Gagare, Shalmali IND 2201
Tomilova, Elena RUS 2311
Abrahamyan, Tatev USA 2295

InventiChess 2009
September 18 - 26, 2009
Antwerp
GM Antoaneta Stefanova and IM Anna Muzychuk played in this invitational. Here are the final standings (after R9):

1. IGM E. Sutovsky (ISR 2676) 7.0
2. IGM E. Bacrot (FRA 2709) 5.5
3. IGM K. Sasikiran (IND 2661) 5.5.
4. IGM B. Socko (POL 2637) 5.0
4. IGM G. Sargissian (ARM 2678) 4.5
4. IGM J. Timman (NED 2588) 4.5
4. IM A. Muzychuk (UKR 2542) 4.5
4. IGM A. Stefanova (BUL 2535) 4.0
9. IM B. Michiels (BEL 2451) 2.5
10. IGM D. Howell (ENG 2624) 2.0

Chinese Chess Queen
Jinzhou China
September 17 - 24, 2009

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Hou Yifan	2585	CHN	*	½	1	1	½	½	1	1	5,5	0,0	17,25	4
2		Ju Wenjun	2443	CHN	½	*	1	½	1	½	½	1	5,0	0,0	16,00	3
3	GM	Zhao Xue	2542	CHN	0	0	*	½	1	1	½	1	4,0	0,0	10,50	3
4		Tan Zhongyi	2435	CHN	0	½	½	*	½	½	½	1	3,5	0,0	10,50	1
5	WGM	Huang Qian	2424	CHN	½	0	0	½	*	½	1	½	3,0	0,0	9,25	1
6	WGM	Ruan Lufei	2486	CHN	½	½	0	½	½	*	½	0	2,5	0,5	9,75	0
7	GM	Xu Yuhua	2485	CHN	0	½	½	½	0	½	*	½	2,5	0,5	8,50	0
8	WGM	Shen Yang	2453	CHN	0	0	0	0	½	1	½	*	2,0	0,0	5,25	1

In the News:

	September 29, 2009: From The Times of India, 'Men get intimidated as I'm a chess player’, about IM Tania Sachdev
	September 29, 2009: From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Squirrel Hill chess player hooked on strategy, winning, By Jodi Weigand, about NM Iryna Zenyuk and the upcoming U.S. Women's Chess Championship
	September 27, 2009: From the Goddesschess blog, Bhatki Kulkarni 24th National Junior Girls Chess Championship (India).
	From Facebook, September 24, 2009: GM Susan Polgar is in New York to participate in the 2009 Global Creative Leadership Summit (September 23 - 25, 2009). The GCLS is a partnership with the United Nations. She is a panelist on Innovation, Entrepreneurialism and National Competitiveness in a Global Age. More.
	September 23, 2009: From Panarmenian.net, Lilit Mkrtchyan will represent Armenia at Nanjing 2009 - 2010 2nd FIDE Women Grand Prix
	September 12, 2009: The Times of India, Indian eves finish 7th at World Team Chess Championships.
	September 12, 2009: ABS-CBN News, Paragua's sister to join PSC Rapid chess. The youngest sister of Filipino Grandmaster (GM) Mark Paragua has confirmed to play in the inaugural Pineda-Santos-Camer (PSC) Rapid Chess tournament which starts Sunday at the Ramon Magsaysay Cubao High School (RMCHS) in Cubao, Quezon City. The 11 year-old Gem Hannah Callano-Paragua is fresh from an outstanding performance in the recently concluded Milo Little Olympics Chess Championships.
	September 11, 2009: National Rumanian Radio, Ukraine finishes third at 2009 World Women Team Chess Championship in China.
	September 10, 2009: Press Release from the Hip Hop Chess Federation, 9 Queens joins the Hip Hop Chess Federation to put on the "West Coast Kings and Queens Tournament."
	September 2, 2009: The Daily News (Los Angeles), Chess phenom yet to meet her match, by Dennis McCarthy - On 10 year old Simone Laio.

Coming Up:

October 17, 2009
Hales Corners Chess Challenge X
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Current Women's World Chess Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk, has donated gifts and prizes for the chess femmes! Goddesschess is sponsoring $190 worth of cash prizes for Challenge X chess femmes: two prizes in the Open ($60; $40) and three prizes in the Reserve Section ($40; $30; $20). Current Women's World Chess Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk also generously donated many chess prizes, including books and CDs/DVDs, for the female chessplayers.

October 3 - 14, 2009
U.S. Women's Chess Championship
St. Louis, Missouri
This year's U.S. WCC is being hosted by the beautiful Chess Club and Scholastic Chess Center of St. Louis and offers the largest purse yet for the participants. There are many side events/events leading up to the competition itself, which features some new players not seen before in this national competition. Goddesschess is against sponsoring its Fighting Chess Award - this year it's $500 - and GM Susan Polgar has once again agreed to repeat her role from 2008 as judge. The Award is to encourage fighting chess in the tradition of the Polgar sisters. More.