169 players. Here are the top finishers only (see The Week in Chess for full table):
| ch-EUR Ind w 2013 Belgrade SRB Tue 23rd Jul 2013 - Sat 3rd Aug 2013 Leading Final Round 11 Standings: | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Name | Ti | FED | Rtg | Pts | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 |
| 1 | Hoang Thanh Trang | GM | HUN | 2467 | 9.0 | 2421 | 73.0 | 79.0 |
| 2 | Melia Salome | IM | GEO | 2428 | 8.0 | 2452 | 72.5 | 77.0 |
| 3 | Mkrtchian Lilit | IM | ARM | 2454 | 8.0 | 2404 | 70.5 | 75.5 |
| 4 | Cmilyte Viktorija | GM | LTU | 2497 | 8.0 | 2393 | 68.5 | 73.5 |
| 5 | Kosteniuk Alexandra | GM | RUS | 2489 | 8.0 | 2393 | 67.0 | 71.5 |
| 6 | Khotenashvili Bela | IM | GEO | 2512 | 8.0 | 2388 | 69.0 | 74.5 |
| 7 | Socko Monika | GM | POL | 2435 | 8.0 | 2360 | 65.0 | 69.5 |
| 8 | Kashlinskaya Alina | WGM | RUS | 2334 | 7.5 | 2433 | 69.5 | 73.0 |
| 9 | Arabidze Meri | WGM | GEO | 2320 | 7.5 | 2432 | 73.5 | 77.5 |
| 10 | Pogonina Natalija | WGM | RUS | 2478 | 7.5 | 2407 | 68.0 | 72.5 |
| 11 | Kovanova Baira | WGM | RUS | 2371 | 7.5 | 2398 | 70.0 | 74.5 |
| 12 | Muzychuk Anna | GM | SLO | 2594 | 7.5 | 2393 | 69.0 | 73.5 |
| 13 | Girya Olga | WGM | RUS | 2437 | 7.5 | 2391 | 69.5 | 75.0 |
| 14 | Stefanova Antoaneta | GM | BUL | 2497 | 7.5 | 2362 | 65.0 | 70.0 |
| 15 | Ozturk Kubra | WGM | TUR | 2293 | 7.5 | 2360 | 65.0 | 69.0 |
| 16 | Cramling Pia | GM | SWE | 2523 | 7.5 | 2356 | 64.5 | 70.0 |
| 17 | Javakhishvili Lela | IM | GEO | 2465 | 7.5 | 2324 | 59.0 | 63.5 |
| 18 | Atalik Ekaterina | IM | EUR | 2430 | 7.5 | 2319 | 59.0 | 63.5 |
| 19 | Milliet Sophie | IM | FRA | 2396 | 7.5 | 2298 | 60.5 | 65.0 |
| 20 | Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan | GM | SCO | 2385 | 7.5 | 2280 | 59.0 | 63.5 |
Good to see IM Salome Melia doing so well - and she looks fabulous too! Melia was a WGM at the time we brought her from Europe to participate in the 2009 City of Montreal Chess Championships, and a city fell in love with her. Best of all, she earned a second GM norm, whoop whoop!
It seems like yesterday when Hoang Thanh Trang was a shy teenager with a bad haircut and thick glasses. She was always a good chessplayer, and has maintained her high level of play. Lilit Mkrtchian from Armenia (the place where the eight-spoke chariot wheel was first invented in the 19th century BCE, which revolutionized warfare and is, perhaps, memorialized in ancient chess pieces as the 'ruhkh' [often depicted as a horse-drawn war chariot]) has been near the top ranks of female players since her breakthrough performance a few years back in one of FIDE's knock-out format Women's World Chess Chamionships where, I believe (working from my badly leaking memory) she made it all the way into the quarter-finals. Here's a pic from the official website of the top three finishers:
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| Salome Melia left, Hoang Thanh Trang center, Lilit Mkrtchian right. |
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