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Hou Yifan is a winner of Rostov Women Grand Prix
Wednesday, 17 August 2011

The first leg of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix was concluded in Rostov with a convincing win by the Women World Champion, 17 year old Hou Yifan of China. In the presence of two other former Women World Champions and the world’s leading female players she dominated the field from the outset setting a blistering pace which made it hard for the other contestants to catch up. Second place was also clinched in an exciting last round by GM Lahno of Ukraine who was the only player to defeat GM Yifan in their direct encounter.

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Rating statistics FIDE (in start number order)

No.   Name FED Fide-No. Rtg W n We W-We K Rtg+/- Ra Rp
1 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta BUL 2902257 2524 5.0 11 5.44 -0.44 10 -4 2527 2491
2 GM Koneru, Humpy IND 5008123 2614 5.5 11 6.92 -1.42 10 -14 2519 2519
3 IM Galliamova, Alisa RUS 4129725 2492 5.5 11 4.94 0.56 10 6 2530 2530
4 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra RUS 4128125 2497 3.0 11 5.02 -2.02 10 -20 2529 2354
5 IM Muzychuk, Anna SLO 14111330 2538 6.5 11 5.68 0.82 10 8 2526 2591
6 GM Kosintseva, Nadezhda RUS 4134974 2560 6.0 11 6.03 -0.03 10 0 2524 2560
7 GM Danielian, Elina ARM 13300210 2521 5.0 11 5.41 -0.41 10 -4 2527 2491
8 IM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina RUS 4116704 2427 3.5 11 3.88 -0.38 10 -4 2536 2403
9 GM Kosintseva, Tatiana RUS 4133471 2557 6.5 11 6.01 0.49 10 5 2524 2589
10 GM Lahno, Kateryna UKR 14109336 2536 7.0 11 5.66 1.34 10 13 2526 2628
11 GM Hou, Yifan CHN 8602980 2575 8.0 11 6.30 1.70 10 17 2522 2697
12 WGM Ruan, Lufei CHN 8602727 2479 4.5 11 4.71 -0.21 10 -2 2531 2466


With this result Hou Yifan has increased her rating and get close again to 2600 whilst top rated woman Humpy Koneru lost 14 points and hence the gap between these two players who will be facing off for the World Championship title in November 2011 in Tirana, Albania is very small now.
 
IM Ana Muzychuk, also got her third GM-norm in this event but she commented that she is still some games short of the overall number required for the title. No doubt that with such results it will only be a matter of time before IM Muzychuk earns this prestigious title. Also WGM Ruan Lufei from China and finalist in the last Women’s World Championship in Hatay, Turkey earned an IM norm.
 
The overall ranking points and results in tie break order are as follow :

Rank SNo.   Name Rtg FED 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Pts SB Rp GP Pts
1 11 GM Hou, Yifan 2575 CHN * 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 8 40.00 2697 160
2 10 GM Lahno, Kateryna 2536 UKR 1 * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 0 ½ ½ 7 38.75 2628 130
3 5 IM Muzychuk, Anna 2538 SLO 0 1 * ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 34.25 2591 100
4 9 GM Kosintseva, Tatiana 2557 RUS ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 33.50 2589 100
5 6 GM Kosintseva, Nadezhda 2560 RUS ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 6 29.75 2560 80
6 2 GM Koneru, Humpy 2614 IND 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 0 1 28.25 2519 65
7 3 IM Galliamova, Alisa 2492 RUS 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ * 1 0 1 1 ½ 26.75 2530 65
8 1 GM Stefanova, Antoaneta 2524 BUL ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 ½ 5 25.25 2491 45
9 7 GM Danielian, Elina 2521 ARM 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 * 0 1 1 5 24.25 2491 45
10 12 WGM Ruan, Lufei 2479 CHN ½ 1 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ 24.75 2466 30
11 8 IM Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina 2427 RUS 0 ½ ½ 0 0 1 0 0 0 ½ * 1 17.50 2403 20
12 4 GM Kosteniuk, Alexandra 2497 RUS 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 * 3 17.50 2354 10


The games were hard fought and in total there were only 32 draws (48%), 21 wins for white and 13 wins for black.
 
In the closing ceremony, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov augured the contestants good luck for the next leg which is being organized by the Chinese Chess Association and Shenzhen Media Group in Shenzhen in early September.
 
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