Chess Femme News!

Yeah, way to go, Girlfriend!  PADMINI ROUT SCORES FIRST IM NORM!

From orissadiary.com
September 24, 2011:

The little girl is growing up! You go, girl!

Bhubaneswar: At the end of 10th round of 4th Mayor’s Cup International Chess Tournament organised by Venus Chess Academy at Goregaon Sports Club in Mumbai, Aleksandrov Aleksej (ELO 2618) of Belarus is leading with nine points followed by Ukrainian GM Kravtsiv Martyn with eight points and third place shared by eight players with 7.5 points.

Odisha’s WGM Padmini Rout beat Kulkarni Rakesh and scored seven points by the end of tenth round.

Earlier, in the seventh and eighth round Rout defeated Indian GM Laxman RR and shared points with Bangladesh GM Murshed Niaz and bagged her first IM norms.

From 12th Women's World Chess Champion GM Alexandra Kosteniuk's blog, I found this great article on a simul held by eleven-year old WFM Danitza F. Vázquez of Puerto Rico!  It's a wonderful story and there are lots of photographs, please check it out! 

SUBZONAL FEMENIL 2.3.4 SUBZONA COLOMBIA 2010 IRT Final Nacional de Ajedrez Mayores FEMENIL 2011
September 23 - 30, 2011

It's early in the event, here is the current cross-table after R3:

Rk.		Name	Rtg	FED	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Pts.	TB1
1	WFM	Salazar Aura Cristina	2210	ANT	*						½	1	1				2.5	2.50
2	WFM	Mercado Luisa Fernanda	2066	BOL		*	½							1		1	2.5	2.00
3	WIM	Rivera Ingris	2176	BOL		½	*			1	½						2.0	3.25
4	WFM	Castrillon Gomez Melissa	2105	ANT				*	1			0				1	2.0	2.50
5	WFM	Franco Valencia Beatriz I	2176	ANT				0	*				1		1		2.0	1.50
6	WIM	Chirivi C Jenny Astrid	2197	ANT			0			*	1			½			1.5	1.25
7	WCM	Orozco Lina Yomayra	2161	VAL	½		½			0	*						1.0	2.25
8	WFM	Rodriguez Rueda Paula Andrea	2183	CUN	0			1				*	0				1.0	2.00
9	WIM	Mateus Martha	2155	VAL	0				0			1	*				1.0	1.00
10	WFM	Franco Valencia Angela Maria	2159	ANT		0				½				*			0.5	0.75
11		Orozco Luz Elena	2155	VAL					0						*	½	0.5	0.25
		Suarez Maria Alexandra	1963	RIS		0		0							½	*	0.5	0.25

Annotation:
Tie Break1: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break variable

 

51º JASC - Regional Oeste - Xaxim - Feminino

September 23 - 25, 2011

Final ranking:

Rk.	Team	1	2	3	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	CONCÓRDIA	*	4		4.0	2.50	0
2	CHAPECÓ	0	*	2½	2.5	1.50	0
3	FLOR DO SERTÃO		1½	*	1.5	0.00	0

Annotation:
Tie Break1: points (game-points)
Tie Break2: Sonneborn-Berger-Tie-Break (with real points)
Tie Break3: The results of the teams in then same point group according to Matchpoints

 

4th Mayor's Cup (Mumbai) 2011

Report at Chessdom.  We know (from article above) that Padmini Rout scored an important IM norm.  In addition, WIM Bhagyashri Thipsay made her maiden WGM norm!  Yippee!  I believe this was an 11-round tournament.

I've tried to pick out the chess femmes (but I'm not too good with Indian names, and I apologize in advance for any omitted players or any males that I may have added to the list by mistake -- I just do not have the time to check each individual's name on the FIDE list) from the final standings:

Final standings:
1 GM Aleksandrov Aleksej BLR 2618 – 9.5 (not a chess femme, but the clear first winner)
23 WGM Padmini Rout IND 2356 – 7.5
33 WGM Gomes Mary Ann IND 2325 – 7.5
42 WGM Soumya Swaminathan IND 2318 – 7
66 WIM Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe IND 2108 – 6.5
67 WFM Pujari Rucha IND 2145 – 6.5
72 WFM Ivana Maria Furtado IND 2073 – 6.5
86 WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty IND 2213 – 6
92 Linda Rangarajan IND 2158 – 6
108 Minina Veronika RUS 2120 – 6
127 Michelle Catherina P IND 2088 – 5.5
159 WCM Savant Riya IND 1782 – 5
(270 players)