The line-up for the 2012 edition of the famous tournament at Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands, has been announced! It all begins in January: 14th Jan - Sun 29th Jan 2012.
A record-number of chess femmes (I'm soooo excited!): None in the A Group (were Judit Polgar, Hou Yifan and Koneru Humpy busy? Were they asked?); in the B Group three of the top female players in the world:
| GM | Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | 2554 | 1983
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| GM | Cmilyte, Viktorija | LIT | 2525 | 1983 |
| GM | Dronavalli, Harika | IND | 2505 | 1991 |
In the C Group, five female players:
| GM | Danielian, Elina | ARM | 2517 | 1978 |
| WGM | Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | 2461 | 1985 |
| WGM | Sachdev, Tania | IND | 2419 | 1986 |
| WIM | Schut, Lisa | NED | 2290 | 1994 |
| WIM | Haast, Anne | NED | 2264 | 1993 |
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