Intensity

     Six rounds have passed. We won 5 matches and lost one. As about me- I've got 5,5p/6, winning all my games against lower rated opponents and making a draw against a higher rated one. Here's the game in which I made a draw, vs Sopiko Guramishvili (2426).


     We have a difficult match today, playing against the favorite nr.1 team, who has also won all the matches so far. I have white against Nana Dzagnidze (2550).
      Here are the board pairings of our team: http://kulupler2013.tsf.org.tr/tr/component/turnuva/?task=fileview&kid=294

It it my first tournament when I play with my rating being over 2400. It is quite difficult to raise your Elo when the k=10...

   
     I hope to have a good game!

xoxo from Denizli ;)

Elite

     The Dilijan FIDE Women Grand Prix is being fought these days. It gathered some of the strongest female chess players at the moment.
     Humpy Koneru is leading the tournament with 4,5p/6.

GM Humpy Koneru (2597)

     Anna Muzychuk and Nana Dzagnidze are following with 4p/6.

GM Anna Muzychuk (2593)

GM Nana Dzagnidze (2550)

     The Mongolian Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (2316)- the lowest seed- surprises with being on the 4th place, with 3,5p/6.

WGM Batchimeg Tuvshintugs (2316)

     The Women's World Champion- Anna Ushenina is only on 50%- 3p/6, not being able to score any wins so far.

GM Anna Ushenina (2499)

     You can see the full ranking list after the 6th round here:

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Dilijan-2013
Rank after round 6
Rank	SNo.		Name	Rtg	FED	W	n	We	W-We	K	Rtg+/-	Ra	Rp
1	10	GM	Koneru Humpy	2597	IND	4.5	6	3.64	0.86	10	9	2519	2712
2	8	GM	Muzychuk Anna	2593	SLO	4.0	6	3.50	0.50	10	5	2533	2658
3	11	GM	Dzagnidze Nana	2550	GEO	4.0	6	3.60	0.40	10	4	2473	2598
4	2	WGM	Batchimeg Tuvshintugs	2316	MGL	3.5	6	1.62	1.88	15	28	2494	2551
5	5	GM	Ushenina Anna	2499	UKR	3.0	6	2.96	0.04	10	0	2504	2504
6	3	GM	Harika Dronavalli	2492	IND	3.0	6	3.08	-0.08	10	-1	2481	2481
7	1	WGM	Girya Olga	2436	RUS	3.0	6	2.72	0.28	10	3	2470	2470
8	6	GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	2526	RUS	2.5	6	2.88	-0.38	10	-4	2540	2483
9	9	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2531	BUL	2.5	6	3.07	-0.57	10	-6	2523	2466
10	12	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	2511	LTU	2.5	6	3.21	-0.71	10	-7	2483	2426
11	7	IM	Khotenashvili Bela	2531	GEO	2.0	6	2.83	-0.83	10	-8	2551	2426
12	4	GM	Danielian Elina	2475	ARM	1.5	6	2.89	-1.39	10	-14	2487	2294

     You can follow the live games on the official site of the event: http://dilijan2013.fide.com/en/component/content/article/40-static-content/133-live-games

     I wonder how many mistakes can be made even on a supposed very high level. 

     The central match of yesterday's round- Koneru-Muzychuk ended with a unexplainable blunder made by Anna in a drawn endgame:

Black to move

     Anna played 40...f6?? here and after 41. b5-a5 42. Ne2 a few more moves were made and Anna had to resign. 40...b5 instead would have been more than enough for a draw: 41.Kd3-Kd5.

     One of my main goals is to get the chance of playing in this kind of events. I think that I could show a decent result even now. It isn't easy at all to get to play there- one should either have a 2500+ rating, or be Women's World Champion, or have their country as an organizer of one of the tournaments from the series.

     I hope that one of these conditions will be full-filled one day- preferably one of the first 2 ones, or maybe both of them?! ;)

Spider's style

     The Gibraltar Tradewise Chess Festival has come to it's decisive last 3 rounds. There are three players leading the tournament with 5,5p out of 6: Vitiugov Nikita,Georgiev Kiril and Le Quang Liem.
     Today's round should be a very interesting one, here are the pairings of the top10 boards:

1	9	GM	Vitiugov Nikita	2694	5½		5½	GM	Georgiev Kiril	2643	16
2	1	GM	Ivanchuk Vassily	2758	5		5½	GM	Le Quang Liem	2705	8
3	14	GM	Iturrizaga Eduardo	2650	5		5	GM	Kamsky Gata	2740	2
4	3	GM	Adams Michael	2725	5		5	GM	Tkachiev Vladislav	2650	15
5	21	GM	Salgado Lopez Ivan	2606	5		5	GM	Navara David	2710	6
6	17	GM	Jones Gawain C B	2632	5		5	GM	Shirov Alexei	2708	7
7	10	GM	Short Nigel D	2690	5		5	IM	Larino Nieto David	2497	45
8	5	GM	Vachier-Lagrave Maxime	2711	4½		4½	GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	2516	37
9	11	GM	Yu Yangyi	2688	4½		4½	GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	2515	38
10	13	GM	Fridman Daniel	2667	4½		4½	WGM	Ju Wenjun	2505	42

     Adams (who's called by chess players "the spider" because of his playing style) played a very nice game yesterday, against Dzagnidze. Here are some mementos from the game:

Black to move

21...Nfxd5!! 22.exd5- Re2! 23. Rxe2- Rxe2 24. Rd1- Bd4 25.Be1

Black to move

25...Qe8! 26.Nf3- Qe3 27. Qb1- Rxb2 28. Qc1-Qxc1 29. Rxc1-Be3 30. Rd1-c4

Black has a decisive advantage that Adams managed to convert into a full point

     There seems to be a very nice and friendly atmosphere in Gibraltar. There are many other events being organized besides the tournaments. For example, there's been a game played on a huge chess board- 5 Top women vs 5 Top men!

Nana Dzagnindze, Tania Sachdev, Valentina Gunina, Viktoria Cmylite and Stuart Conquest holding the microphone (the main organizer of the event)- from left to right

Le Quang Liem, Gawain Jones, Maxim Vachier-Lagrave and Gata Kamsky (from left to right)

     The men's team turned to be a bit stronger and won the game :)

Gibraltar's famous Rock

     I am very curious to see who's going to be the winner this year!