Goddesschess: 2011 European Individual Chess Championship

Sunday, April 3, 2011

2011 European Individual Chess Championship

A great outing by the best female player and a long-time top player in the world, GM Judit Polgar of Hungary. Judit finished in 3rd place overall with 8.5/11 and qualifies for the World Cup that will be held in August-September in Mansky-Kamsky. Yes, I know, it's not really called that but that's what I call it - easier for me to remember and spell.

For her efforts, Judit earned 11,000 euros and if I'm reading the regulations and the final standings correctly as posted at chess-results.com, Judit also earned a performance rating bonus of 700 euros and picks up 13.4 ELO points. That would put her ELO up to 2699 - just one point shy of that 2700 "super GM" mark. It would be great to see Judit back in the 2700s, where she used to be when she was playing full-time, before marriage and children came along. That's difficult to juggle now, with two small children, even with a supportive husband and extended family to help with child care, etc.

Here are the top finishers - there is some confusion as to who qualified for the World Cup - it seems it may be the first 26 players, because some of the players included in that number have already qualified by other means, so the cut-off dropped down by 4 places. It is also possible that player #27 qualified, so I am including him, too.

Final Ranking after 11 Rounds (393 players)

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3	Rp	w	we	w-we	K	rtg+/-
1	GM	Potkin Vladimir	RUS	2653	8.5	2849	63.5	78.0	2822	8.5	6.07	2.43	10	24.3
2	GM	Wojtaszek Radoslaw	POL	2711	8.5	2826	63.0	77.0	2812	8.5	7.05	1.45	10	14.5
3	GM	Polgar Judit	HUN	2686	8.5	2799	63.5	77.0	2781	8.5	7.16	1.34	10	13.4
4	GM	Moiseenko Alexander	UKR	2673	8.5	2755	62.0	74.5	2790	8.5	6.87	1.63	10	16.3
5	GM	Vallejo Pons Francisco	ESP	2707	8.0	2819	66.5	80.0	2764	8	7.18	0.82	10	8.2
6	GM	Ragger Markus	AUT	2614	8.0	2783	62.5	76.0	2768	8	5.72	2.28	10	22.8
7	GM	Feller Sebastien	FRA	2657	8.0	2766	58.5	70.5	2763	8	6.46	1.54	10	15.4
8	GM	Svidler Peter	RUS	2730	8.0	2751	62.5	76.5	2757	8	7.58	0.42	10	4.2
9	GM	Mamedov Rauf	AZE	2667	8.0	2751	61.0	74.0	2754	8	6.76	1.24	10	12.4
10	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	RUS	2720	8.0	2741	63.0	76.5	2744	8	7.61	0.39	10	3.9
11	GM	Zhigalko Sergei	BLR	2680	8.0	2732	59.5	72.0	2731	8	7.25	0.75	10	7.5
12	GM	Jakovenko Dmitry	RUS	2718	8.0	2719	60.0	72.5	2704	8	7.87	0.13	10	1.3
13	GM	Korobov Anton	UKR	2647	8.0	2697	61.5	75.0	2740	8	6.66	1.34	10	13.4
14	GM	Inarkiev Ernesto	RUS	2674	8.0	2695	60.0	72.5	2735	8	7.15	0.85	10	8.5
15	GM	Postny Evgeny	ISR	2585	8.0	2633	52.0	64.0	2676	8	6.60	1.40	10	14.0
16	GM	Azarov Sergei	BLR	2615	7.5	2776	62.5	75.0	2723	7.5	5.79	1.71	10	17.1
17	GM	Khairullin Ildar	RUS	2634	7.5	2771	61.5	74.5	2720	7.5	6.12	1.38	10	13.8
18	GM	Kobalia Mikhail	RUS	2672	7.5	2754	57.0	70.5	2716	7.5	6.80	0.70	10	7.0
19	GM	Guliyev Namig	AZE	2522	7.5	2739	59.5	71.0	2652	7.5	5.07	2.43	10	24.3
20	GM	Zherebukh Yaroslav	UKR	2560	7.5	2739	59.0	71.5	2712	7.5	4.99	2.51	10	25.1
21	GM	Riazantsev Alexander	RUS	2679	7.5	2728	60.0	72.5	2687	7.5	7.30	0.20	10	2.0
22	GM	Iordachescu Viorel	MDA	2626	7.5	2725	62.0	76.0	2716	7.5	6.08	1.42	10	14.2
23	GM	Lupulescu Constantin	ROU	2626	7.5	2722	58.0	71.0	2677	7.5	6.62	0.88	10	8.8
24	GM	Mcshane Luke J	ENG	2683	7.5	2718	59.0	72.5	2684	7.5	7.41	0.09	10	0.9
25	GM	Fridman Daniel	GER	2661	7.5	2717	56.5	69.0	2684	7.5	7.11	0.39	10	3.9
26	GM	Motylev Alexander	RUS	2677	7.5	2716	59.0	71.0	2710	7.5	6.96	0.54	10	5.4
27	GM	Ivanisevic Ivan	SRB	2617	7.5	2712	58.5	71.0	2704	7.5	6.09	1.41	10	14.1

The other chess femmes did not fare as well in the standings. However, kudos to them for playing in this tough event. That's the way they'll sharpen their skills and get those ELOs to rise - they have to stay out of the women's ratings ghetto by only playing against lower rated women in women-only events.

105

Dembo Yelena

GRE

2457

6.5

2549

52.5

61.5

2464

5.5

4.11

1.39