Women ACP Rapid and Veterans

Here some intermezzo news in between round 4 of World Cup. The women enjoy their tournament with the start of First ACP Women World Rapid in Rixos Hotel, Konya, Turkey from November 30th to December 4th 2009. 12 players, some qualifiers and some invitees will compete. After 4th round the standing is :

Rank, Name, Rating, FED, Point
1 GM Kosteniuk Alexandra 2517 RUS 4
2 IM Cmilyte Viktorija 2480 LTU 4
3 GM Kosintseva Tatiana 2522 RUS 3
4 GM Socko Monika 2457 POL 3
5 GM Cramling Pia 2525 SWE 2½
6 IM Javakhishvili Lela 2482 GEO 2
7 IM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2518 RUS 1½
8 IM Klinova Masha 2305 ISR 1½
9 WGM Zhukova Natalia 2465 UKR 1
10 WIM Ozturk Kubra 2177 TUR 1
11 WIM Yildiz Betul Cemre 2213 TUR ½
12 Menzi Nezihe Ezgi 1847 TUR 0


No China player, while Koneru is playing in other rendezvous (see below) but one Israeli here. Maybe the misunderstanding had been resolved on what occured at Youth Closing ceremony. Alexandra herself blogging on this here. Official website here.




Meanwhile in Czech being a veteran also can land you a nice chess invitation :


Chess legends aka. Old Hands :
Viktor Korchnoi
Jan Timman
Robert Hübner
Vlastimil Hort


will compete with young grandmistresses aka. Snowdrops :
Humpy Koneru
Anna Muzychuk
Katerina Lahno
Jana Jackova


in the two-round scheveningen match „Lasses and Old Timer” - Czech Coal Chess Match 2009, which will take place in Marianske Lazne at Cristal Palace Hotel from 28th November till 5th December 2009. The speed of a game will be 90 minutes for 40 moves with additional 30 minutes till the end of the game and 30 seconds will be added for each completed move. The tournament is held by a civic association Prague Chess Society


Complete result is here.

Result up to round 4 as per player :

Timman - Koneru 1/2
Muzychuk - Timman 1/2
Timman - Lahno 1/2
Jacková - Timman 0-1
Hort - Muzychuk 1/2
Koneru - Hort 1-0
Hort - Jacková 1/2
Lahno - Hort 1/2
Hübner - Lahno 1/2
Jacková - Hübner 0-1
Hübner - Koneru 1/2
Muzychuk - Hübner 1-0
Korchnoi - Jacková 0-1
Lahno - Korchnoi 1/2
Korchnoi - Muzychuk 0-1
Koneru - Korchnoi 1-0


In round 4, the veteran Jan Timman put a nice Dragon against Jacková with Black having extra pawn for a battle of R+R vs R+B+pawn :

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