Saturday, March 26, 2011

2011 European Individual Chess Championship

Unlike the European Individual Women's Championship, which had more than it's share of troubles before finally being scheduled - again - to take place in Turkey later this year (I'm not holding my breath, darlings), the 2011 EICC is taking place as originally scheduled. 

There are some chess femmes participating in the 2011 EICC - a relative handfull compared to the great number of chess dudes - and they will have their hands full trying to make decent scores against the tough competition.  I've tried to pick them out of the line-up of several hundred players, but no guarantee I've got them all:

12th European Individual 2011 (Aix-les-Bains FRA) Mon 21st Mar 2011 - Sun 3rd Apr 2011
Official Website (for English, click on the combined Stars and Stripes/Union Jack flag in the upper right). Photos below all from the official website.

Standings after R5 (393 players):
Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 GM Potkin Vladimir RUS 2653 5.0 3367 9.5 15.5 (not a femme - I put him here for comparison)
18 GM Polgar Judit HUN 2686 4.0 2794 9.0 14.5 (highest rated female player in the world)
44 IM Javakhishvili Lela GEO 2437 3.5 2728 10.0 15.0
91 IM Dembo Yelena GRE 2457 3.5 2323 5.5 9.0
100 IM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2528 3.0 2654 7.5 12.5
147 IM Houska Jovanka ENG 2419 3.0 2477 7.5 13.0
160 IM Melia Salome GEO 2462 3.0 2379 7.5 13.0 (Go, Melia, Go!)
182 WGM Zawadzka Jolanta POL 2386 2.5 2488 7.5 12.5
184 IM Milliet Sophie FRA 2369 2.5 2469 7.5 12.5
185 WIM Pavlidou Ekaterini GRE 2204 2.5 2468 8.5 12.0
202 GM Cmilyte Viktorija LTU 2526 2.5 2402 8.0 12.5
207 WGM L'ami Alina ROU 2297 2.5 2383 7.5 12.5
228 GM Zhukova Natalia UKR 2443 2.5 2344 9.0 12.5
256 WIM Dolzhykova Kateryna UKR 2265 2.0 2352 8.5 13.5
292 Klek Hanna-Marie GER 2149 2.0 2144 6.5 10.5
300 WIM Makka Ioulia GRE 2119 2.0 2088 6.5 10.5
301 WIM Boric Elena BIH 2292 2.0 2086 6.5 11.0
307 Vrhovnik Damir CRO 2063 2.0 2040 5.5 9.0
308 WFM Osmanodja Filiz GER 2055 2.0 2028 6.0 9.5
309 WGM Ptacnikova Lenka ISL 2307 2.0 2027 6.0 10.5
313 WGM Cherednichenko Svetlana UKR 2278 1.5 2359 7.5 12.0
314 WIM Steil-Antoni Fiona LUX 2117 1.5 2289 6.0 10.5
326 WFM Cherednichenko Elena UKR 2141 1.5 2131 8.0 13.0
337 De Seroux Camille SUI 2055 1.5 1841 5.5 8.5
349 Bismuth Lea FRA 1946 1.0 1906 6.5 9.5
359 Boyard Marie LUX 1976 1.0 1483 6.0 9.0
373 Minot Barbara FRA 1430 1.0 1024 6.0 9.5
374 Karsenty Madeleine FRA 1415 1.0 1015 5.5 8.5
377 Lucheva Velislava FRA 0 1.0 800 5.5 8.0
378 Mutzel Annabelle FRA 0 1.0 800 4.5 7.5
393 Vitasse Marie-Francoise FRA 0 0.0 792 4.0 7.5

GM Judit Polgar, R4
Don't be fooled by the relative scores of the ladies. All of the ladies other than Marie-Francoise Vitasse have higher-rated male players below them in the standings who have not done as well as they :) 
Marie-Francoise Vitasse is currently in last place.  Don't feel bad, Marie-Francoise, I'm rooting for you - I know how it feels! You've got guts playing in this event, and I salute you.

Highly-regarded male players such as GM Ivan Cheparinov of Bulgaria (2664) is in 26th place with 4.0; GM Jon Ludvig Hammer of Norway (2606) is in 32nd place with 4.0; highly touted GM Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia (2729) is in 36th place with 3.5 (he came in as the #2 seed); GM David Navarra (CZE 2722) is in 48th place, with 3.5 (he came in as the #3 seed); GM Aleksey Dreev (RUS 2697) is in 57th place with 3.5; Russian GM Nikita Vitiugov is in 70th place with 3.5  Well, you get the picture.  It's a tough competition, heh.  From my perspective, all the more applause due to the ladies who are up against these dudes. 

Full standings at Chess-results.com.

IM Lela Javakhishvili
IM Anna Muzychuk


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