Sebag, Cmilyte and Foisor Joint Leaders At Euro Women’s Individual 2012

Pix 1. Pictures of the three leading women chess players: Sebag, Foisor and Cmilyte (l to r). (photos by Anastasiya Karlovich with kind permission of TCF. Photo from official tournament website)

5 March 2012, Kuala Lumpur – In Gaziantep, Turkey, three players are joint leaders comprising of GM Marie Sebag of France, GM Viktorija Cmilyte of Lithuania and IM Cristina-Adela Foisor of Romania with 3 points from three rounds of play of the European Women’s Individual Chess Championship 2012.

The official website reported that after the third round of the European Individual Women Championship, only three players from the whole tournament left with 100%. Defending European champion Viktorija Cmilyte won the game against Jovana Vojinovic, Cristina-Adela Foisor and Marie Sebag were stronger in the games against Tatjana Kosintseva and Natasa Bojkovic accordingly.

On the first board former world champion Antoaneta Stefanova made a draw with Salome Melia. Hilal Ozturk shows the best result among Turkish players. In the third round she defeated Anastasia Savina whose rating is 550 points above the Turkish youngster. Another Turkish player Kubra Ozturk starts to score and gained her first point by winning nice game against Roberta Messina. Muzychuk's sisters got quite dangerous positions today but both of them managed to secure half a point.

Here is the round 3 game between WGM Vojinovic Jovana and GM Cmilyte Viktorija of the European Womens Individual Chess Championship 2012, Gaziantep, Turkey.

 

Official website: http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr

Savina Springs Surprise On Muzychuk

 

Pix 1. Anastasia Savina – Anna Muzychuk on board 1, Round 1, European Womens Individual Chess Championship 2012, Gaziantep, Turkey. (photos by Anastasiya Karlovich with kind permission of TCF. Photo from Tournament Website)

3 March 2012, Kuala Lumpur – In Turkey, the round 1 of the European Womens Individual Chess Championship 2012 took place and some surprises awaited for the early favourites.

Here the top seed, Anna Muzychuk had a tough time with her board one opponent, Anastasia Savina. Anna played black and ended in a nail-biting draw.

 

 

 

 Pix 2. Tournament Playing Hall In Gaziantep, Turkey.

(All Photos From Official Tournament Website – http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr)

Some round 1 results (top 25 boards):-

During Round 1, GM Nana Dzagnidze was given a surprise by WIM Mammadova Gulna who won her game against Dzagnidze causing a first round upset. Here is the game between Dzagnidze-Mammadova during round 1, European Womens Individual Chess Championship 2012, Gazientep, Turkey.

 

Official Tournament Website: - http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr/

Euro Individual Women 2012 Begins!

3 March 2012, Kuala Lumpur - In Turkey, the European Women Individual 2012 got underway. The official tournament website reported that The first round of the European Individual Women Chess Championship started at 4 p.m. in the Anatolian Hotel in Gaziantep. The first games appeared to be not easy ones for the favourites and the first round has already brought some surprising results. The first day became unfortunate for Georgian top women players as the second number of the starting list Nana Dzagnidze was defeated by WIM Gulnar Mammadova, as well as another top player Bela Khotenashvili who lost the game against Inna Ivakhinova.

The rating favorite Anna Muzychuk could have lost her game as well but was lucky to survive against Russian player Anastasia Savina, who got winning position but let her advantage slip away in the time trouble. Her sister Mariya Muzychuk, as well as another Ukrainian top-player Katerina Lahno, played against Mamedjarova's sisters from Azerbaijan but could not take more than 50% as well. The most of other rating favorites managed to win in the first round.