Sunday, September 23, 2012

2012 FIDE Women's Grand Prix - Ankara

Hola darlings!

I spent most of yesterday cleaning up from Monday's storm damage and the additional debris deposited over the next several days (including more yesterday) by a week's worth of unrelentingly strong winds out of the northwest averaging 30 mph.  Yikes!  So, after working about 6 hours all tolled yesterday, the front yard is finally presentable once again.  But I have to cut it today.  We've had rain storms rolling through and combined with the finally cool (unseasonably cool) temperatures visiting us, the grass is growing like there is no tomorrow!  I was too tired last night to blog anything, but some interesting events happened yesterday in R6:

Round 6 on 2012/09/22 at 15:00
SNo.NameRtgRes.NameRtgSNo.
12GMKOSINTSEVA TATIANA25241 - 0GMCMILYTE VIKTORIJA25209
10WGMRUAN LUFEI24920 - 1GMKONERU HUMPY25938
11WGMJU WENJUN25281 - 0GMSTEFANOVA ANTOANETA25027
1IMMUNGUNTUUL BATKHUYAG24340 - 1GMZHAO XUE25496
2GMMUZYCHUK ANNA26061 - 0WGMYILDIZ BETUL CEMRE23415
3WGMOZTURK KUBRA22940 - 1GMSOCKO MONIKA24634

Can I hear a cheer for my girl Humpy Koneru?  Humpy won with black - again!  I make no secret of the fact that I'm a big fan of hers.  I want her to win this one.  I want her to challenge Hou Yifan once again for the Women's Champion title.  I've a feeling - founded on nothing but just intuition (women's intuition, if you must), that this time Humpy is ready for it. 

The fact that all results yesterday were W/L was very impressive to me.  About time you get serious, ladies!  Only joking :) 

Here are the standings after R6:

RankSNo.NameRtgFED123456789101112PtsRes.SB
18GMKONERU HUMPY2593IND*½1½1115012,75
22GMMUZYCHUK ANNA2606SLO*½½11115010,00
36GMZHAO XUE2549CHN½*1½0114012,50
411WGMJU WENJUN2528CHN½0*1½11406,75
510WGMRUAN LUFEI2492CHN0½*11½1406,50
69GMCMILYTE VIKTORIJA2520LTU½1*001109,00
71IMMUNGUNTUUL BATKHUYAG2434MGL½0*½½1½306,50
812GMKOSINTSEVA TATIANA2524RUS001½*½½06,00
95WGMYILDIZ BETUL CEMRE2341TUR00001½*05,00
104GMSOCKO MONIKA2463POL0½000*103,00
117GMSTEFANOVA ANTOANETA2502BUL000½0½*103,25
123WGMOZTURK KUBRA2294TUR000½½0*102,75

There are now only 5 rounds left to play; there will be another rest day after round 8.  Round 7 is today - may already be taking place, I've no idea what time it is in Turkey right now. 

Here are the face-offs for today:

SNo.NameRtgRes.NameRtgSNo.
4GMSOCKO MONIKA2463-GMKOSINTSEVA TATIANA252412
5WGMYILDIZ BETUL CEMRE2341-WGMOZTURK KUBRA22943
6GMZHAO XUE2549-GMMUZYCHUK ANNA26062
7GMSTEFANOVA ANTOANETA2502½ - ½IMMUNGUNTUUL BATKHUYAG24341
8GMKONERU HUMPY2593-WGMJU WENJUN252811
9GMCMILYTE VIKTORIJA2520-WGMRUAN LUFEI249210

Whoa, a result already reported - Stefanova and Munguntuul drew their game.  Anna Muzychuk and Humpy Koneru both have tough opponents.  Things should get very interesting...  Okay, now I've got to get out and cut that front lawn so my house doesn't look abandoned, and then it's moving to the back yard to begin massive clean-up operations!  Yard waste pick-up is Tuesday morning and I've got to have as much as I can stuffed into my yard waste containers and larger limbs cut up into 4 foot long sections and roped together for haul-away.  I SURE am getting a work-out this weekend!

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