Saturday, July 16, 2011

Chess Femme News!

GM Judit Polgar (HUN 2699) is the lone female playing amid the teams participating in the Yinzhou Cup 2011 World ChessTeam Championship (July 17 - 26, 2011).  She's on the Hungarian team:

6. Hungary (RtgAvg:2696 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0)
Bo.NameRtgFEDGames
1GMLeko Peter2717HUN0.0
2GMAlmasi Zoltan2726HUN0.0
3GMPolgar Judit2699HUN0.0
4GMBalogh Csaba2643HUN0.0
5GMErdos Victor2613HUN0.0

The US has fielded a team:

1. USA (RtgAvg:2667 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 0)
Bo.NameRtgFEDGames
1GMKamsky Gata2741USA0.0
2GMOnischuk Alexander2675USA0.0
3GMShulman Yuri2617USA0.0
4GMSeirawan Yasser2635USA0.0
5GMHess Robert2609USA0.0

The competitive fires evidently are still burning in GM Yasser Seirawan.  Good to see him back but after his not too good performance at the 2011 U.S. Chess Championship, I'm surprised, frankly!  How is he going to compete against the Chinese players who almost always seem to be under-rated relative to their actual level of skill/talent - or all those over 2700 Eastern Europeans and the Russians? 

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Meanwhile, here's a tournament that's called a "European Team Championship" - but notice the lack of teams from England, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, etc etc. etc.:

European Youth Team Championship - Girls U18
July 15 - 21, 2011
Iasi, Romania
Website (English translated)

Standings after R3:
Rk.Team12345678TB1 TB2 TB3
1HUNGARY 1* 243.52.50
2ROMANIA 1* 43.02.50
3SLOVENIA* 132.52.00
4BULGARIA1* 122.01.75
5ROMANIA 2½* 111.50.75
POLAND½1* 11.50.75
7HUNGARY 201* 11.01.00
8ROMANIA 3½½* 01.00.00

The team composition is small (mininum of 2 players) and except for one of the Foisor sisters playing on Romania 1, I'm not familiar with any of these players:
1. ROMANIA 1 (RtgAvg:2255 / TB1: 4 / TB2: 3)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1WIMBulmaga Irina2293ROU1.02.0
2WFMFoisor Mihaela-Veronica2217ROU2.02.0
2. ROMANIA 2 (RtgAvg:1899 / TB1: 1 / TB2: 1.5)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1WFMVisanescu Daria-Ioana1976ROU1.52.0
2Vasilescu Maria1822ROU0.02.0
3. HUNGARY 1 (RtgAvg:2207 / TB1: 4 / TB2: 3.5)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1WIMPapp Petra2261HUN2.02.0
2Varga Melinda2152HUN1.52.0
4. BULGARIA (RtgAvg:1923 / TB1: 2 / TB2: 2)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1Krumova Ani1961BUL0.52.0
2Dragieva Denitza1885BUL1.52.0
5. SLOVENIA (RtgAvg:1921 / TB1: 3 / TB2: 2.5)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1Kolaric Spela2045SLO1.52.0
2Vidic Teja1797SLO1.02.0
6. HUNGARY 2 (RtgAvg:2154 / TB1: 1 / TB2: 1)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1WIMVarga Klara2161HUN1.02.0
2WFMKabai Zsuzsanna2146HUN0.02.0
7. POLAND (RtgAvg:2105 / TB1: 1 / TB2: 1.5)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1WFMAdamowicz Katarzyna2106POL0.02.0
2Gluszko Monika2103POL1.52.0
8. ROMANIA 3 (RtgAvg:1955 / TB1: 0 / TB2: 1)
Bo.NameRtgFEDPts.Games
1Gelip Ioana1989ROU0.52.0
2Morea Georgiana-Steluta1921ROU0.01.0
3Anton Roxana-Ana1836ROU0.51.0

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The Andorra Open begins July 16 (through the 24) and always attracts a large field.  The highest rated female player this year is IM Tania Sachdev (IND 2419) who comes in as the 24th ranked player.  Most of the chess femmes fall into the lower ranked players, among them Maya Porat (ISR 2274), ranked 37th on the player list, Adina-Maria Hamdouchi (FRA 2266), ranked 39th (153 registered players).

I'll be watching Sachdev's performance, hoping for a break-out.  She seems to have hit a plateau.

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