Cotroceni 2010

Thanks to current Women's World Chess Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk's chessblog.com for information about this closed tournament in Romania.

The official website is sort of a mess on my web browser.  It's also in Romanian, but by scrolling around I figured out what was what - sort of. There are photographs of the chess femmes participating:

IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2461
IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2447
IM Foisor Cristina-Adela ROU 2440
IM Repkova Eva SVK 2434
IM Melia Salome GEO 2431
IM Peptan Corina-Isabela ROU 2411
IM Turova Irina RUS 2386
IM Gara Anita HUN 2370
IM Vajda Szidonia HUN 2369
WGM Cosma Elena-Luminita ROU 2332

Here are standings after Round 4 from http://www.chess-results.com/:

Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts. TB1 TB2 TB3
1 IM Melia Salome GEO 2431 3,0 5,25 0,0 2
2 IM Vajda Szidonia HUN 2369 2,5 4,25 0,0 1
3 WGM Cosma Elena-Luminita ROU 2332 2,5 4,00 0,0 1
4 IM Peptan Corina-Isabela ROU 2411 2,0 5,00 0,0 0
5 IM Gara Anita HUN 2370 2,0 3,75 0,0 1
6 IM Turova Irina RUS 2386 2,0 3,50 0,0 0
7 IM Repkova Eva SVK 2434 1,5 3,25 0,0 0
IM Foisor Cristina-Adela ROU 2440 1,5 3,25 0,0 0
9 IM Muzychuk Mariya UKR 2447 1,5 2,75 0,0 0
10 IM Khotenashvili Bela GEO 2461 1,5 2,50 0,0 1

Annotation:
Tie Break1: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable
Tie Break2: The results of the players in the same point group#results against
Tie Break3: The greater number of victories

I picked up on this event while reading GM Kosteniuk's blog not only because it is one of the relatively rare female-only invitationals but also because IM Salome Melia is playing in it. She has been performing excellently in 2010: she won the Georgian national women's chess championship, then tied for first place in the strong Women's Tournament at the Moscow Open, and now she is holding first place in this event.  You go, girl!