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.NameFEDRtgPts. TB1  TB2  TB3 Rpwwew-weKrtg+/-
1GMPotkin VladimirRUS26538.5284963.578.028228.56.072.431024.3
2GMWojtaszek RadoslawPOL27118.5282663.077.028128.57.051.451014.5
3GMPolgar JuditHUN26868.5279963.577.027818.57.161.341013.4
4GMMoiseenko AlexanderUKR26738.5275562.074.527908.56.871.631016.3
5GMVallejo Pons FranciscoESP27078.0281966.580.0276487.180.82108.2
6GMRagger MarkusAUT26148.0278362.576.0276885.722.281022.8
7GMFeller SebastienFRA26578.0276658.570.5276386.461.541015.4
8GMSvidler PeterRUS27308.0275162.576.5275787.580.42104.2
9GMMamedov RaufAZE26678.0275161.074.0275486.761.241012.4
10GMVitiugov NikitaRUS27208.0274163.076.5274487.610.39103.9
11GMZhigalko SergeiBLR26808.0273259.572.0273187.250.75107.5
12GMJakovenko DmitryRUS27188.0271960.072.5270487.870.13101.3
13GMKorobov AntonUKR26478.0269761.575.0274086.661.341013.4
14GMInarkiev ErnestoRUS26748.0269560.072.5273587.150.85108.5
15GMPostny EvgenyISR25858.0263352.064.0267686.601.401014.0
16GMAzarov SergeiBLR26157.5277662.575.027237.55.791.711017.1
17GMKhairullin IldarRUS26347.5277161.574.527207.56.121.381013.8
18GMKobalia MikhailRUS26727.5275457.070.527167.56.800.70107.0
19GMGuliyev NamigAZE25227.5273959.571.026527.55.072.431024.3
20
GMZherebukh YaroslavUKR25607.5273959.071.527127.54.992.511025.1
21
GMRiazantsev AlexanderRUS26797.5272860.072.526877.57.300.20102.0
22
GMIordachescu ViorelMDA26267.5272562.076.027167.56.081.421014.2
23
GMLupulescu ConstantinROU26267.5272258.071.026777.56.620.88108.8
24
GMMcshane Luke JENG26837.5271859.072.526847.57.410.09100.9
25GMFridman DanielGER26617.5271756.569.026847.57.110.39103.9
26
GMMotylev AlexanderRUS26777.5271659.071.027107.56.960.54105.4
27GMIvanisevic IvanSRB26177.5271258.571.027047.56.091.411014.1

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. 

105IMDembo YelenaGRE24576.5254952.561.524645.54.111.391013.9
125IMJavakhishvili LelaGEO24376.0258655.065.5247253.351.651016.5
134IMMuzychuk AnnaSLO25286.0253757.068.5249766.09-0.0910-0.9
147IMHouska JovankaENG24196.0250850.561.5249164.971.031010.3
164GMCmilyte ViktorijaLTU25266.0244655.066.5245366.60-0.6010-6.0
167WGMCherednichenko SvetlanaUKR22786.0242746.057.0236064.761.241518.6
169GMZhukova NataliaUKR24436.0241648.558.0232955.53-0.5310-5.3
180WIMBoric ElenaBIH22926.0230243.053.0229365.890.11151.6
188IMMilliet SophieFRA23695.5250449.060.024755.53.971.531015.3
195WGMZawadzka JolantaPOL23865.5247951
253IMMelia SalomeGEO24625.0230751.562.5225257.03-2.0310-20.3
254WIMPavlidou EkateriniGRE22045.0230445.054.5223942.921.081516.2
257WIMDolzhykova KaterynaUKR22655.0228847.557.5226154.780.22153.3
265WGMPtacnikova LenkaISL23075.0225146.057.0225455.61-0.6115-9.1
297WFMCherednichenko ElenaUKR21414.5219344.054.021373.53.110.39155.8
302WGML'ami AlinaROU22974.5215845.056.521734.56.16-1.6615-24.9
304Klek Hanna-MarieGER21494.5214546.555.521564.54.65-0.1515-2.3
307WIMMakka IouliaGRE21194.5210344.053.521134.54.76-0.2615-3.9
315Boyard MarieLUX19764.5198140.548.519363.53.62-0.1215-1.8
324WIMSteil-Antoni FionaLUX21174.0215743.553.0212744.07-0.0715-1.0
337WFMOsmanodja FilizGER20554.0200640.048.5202344.65-0.6515-9.8
354Bismuth LeaFRA19463.5183238.047.017072.53.04-0.5415-8.1
376Lucheva VelislavaFRA03.0147530.038.516073
377Karsenty MadeleineFRA14153.0144631.537.5159000.71-0.7115-10.6
379Aubert LauraneFRA03.0132930.538.016101

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