2013 FIDE Women's Grand Prix: Geneva

Some extremely interesting developments in this Grand Prix.  Hou Yifan standing currently in 7th place?  And Cmilyte and Kosteniuk in 10th and 11th places?  But, there is a lot of chess left to lay - 5 more games!  Here are the standings after Round 6:

Rk.		Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	RUS	2517	4.0	1.0	2	10.75
2	GM	Anna Muzychuk	SLO	2585	4.0	0.5	2	11.50
3	GM	Kateryna Lagno	UKR	2548	4.0	0.5	2	9.50
4	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	GEO	2505	4.0	0.0	4	10.00
5	WGM	Wenjun Ju	CHN	2544	3.5	0.0	2	8.50
6	GM	Anna Ushenina	UKR	2491	3.5	0.0	1	8.25
7	GM	Yifan HOU	CHN	2617	3.0	0.0	2	8.75
8	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	GEO	2545	3.0	0.0	1	7.75
9	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	MGL	2298	2.0	0.0	1	6.75
10	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	LTU	2522	2.0	0.0	0	7.00
11	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	RUS	2491	1.5	0.5	0	4.25
12	WGM	Olga Girya	RUS	2463	1.5	0.5	0	4.00

Round 6 action from the official website:

Tatiana Kosintseva and Bela Khotenashvili outplayed Viktorija Cmilyte and Batchimeg Tuvshintugs respectively and joined the group of leaders. Katerina Lagno and Anna Muzychuk finished their games in draws and also share the first place with 4 out of 6. After 5 draws in the previous rounds World Champion Anna Ushenina won the first game in the tournament and is half a point behind of the leaders. Her opponent Alexandra Kosteniuk lost the third game in a row. Olga Girya played very confidently against former world champion Hou Yifan and made a draw after 70 moves. (I wonder if GM Maurice Ashley has seen this game...see my comments in the post below about Game 6 in the U.S. Women's Chess Championship. Note also that there have been other long drawn out games among the players in Geneva, and no one seems to implied that any of the players should have resigned when it appeared she was in a losing position and not doing so was a sign of "disrespect" for the opponent!)

Round 5 action from the official website:

The key game of the round five was the encounter between number one and number two in the tournament Hou Yifan and Anna Muzychuk. Slovenian player outplayed Hou Yifan and shares the first place with Ukrainian Katerina Lagno who drew her game against Anna Ushenina. Two Russian players Alexandra Kosteniuk and Olga Girya lost their games against Bela Khotenashvili and Ju Wenjun respectively. Another Russian Tatiana Kosintseva had winning position against Tuvshintugs Batchimeg but missed her chances a few times today. Viktorija Cmilyte and Nana Dzagnidze were the last to finish their game in a draw after 72 moves.

Not unexpectedly, Muzychuk's game with Hou Yifan was the game of the day in R5 and extensively analyzed by GM Mikhal Chishin. 

Here are the pairings for Round 7 tomorrow:

SNo.		Name	Rtg	Res.		Name	Rtg	SNo.
4	WGM	Tuvshintugs Batchimeg	2298	-	GM	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2491	12
5	GM	Viktorija Cmilyte	2522	-	IM	Bela Khotenashvili	2505	3
6	GM	Anna Muzychuk	2585	-	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	2517	2
7	WGM	Olga Girya	2463	-	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	2545	1
8	GM	Kateryna Lagno	2548	-	GM	Yifan Hou	2617	11
9	GM	Anna Ushenina	2491	-	WGM	Wenjun Ju	2544	10