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FIDE is announcing the list of players for the 1st tournament of the Women's Grand-Prix 2011-2012 in Rostov, Russia (1-15 August 2011):

01. Hou Yifan (CHN)
02. Humpy Koneru (IND)
03. Nadezhda Kosintseva (RUS)
04. Tatiana Kosintseva (RUS)
05. Anna Muzychuk (SLO)
06. Kateryna Lahno (UKR)
07. Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS)
08. Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL)
09. Elina Danielian (ARM)
10. Alisa Galliamova (RUS)
11. Ruan Lufei (CHN)
12. Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (RUS)

Ифанька - 4 из 4 ! 

Хоу Ифань

The closing ceremony of the fifth stage of FIDE Women Grand Prix State took part in the State Drama Art Theater of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

New Delhi, June 24: India’s Krishnan Sasikiran grinded it out for 72 moves before registering his first win over Viktor Laznicka of the Czech Republic in the third round of the inaugural AAI Grandmasters Chess Championships at the AAI Officer’s Institute on Friday. It also opened the scoring for Sasi.

Top seeded Fabiano Caruana of Italy maintained his winning streak with a third successive win, this one over women’s World champion, Hou Yifan of China, while Parimarjan Negi drew with Filipino Wesley So.

Sasi, who had lost his first two games, played white in a Catalan Opening and for most of the game held an advantage. But Viktor Laznicka put up a spirited defense and hung in there for a long time. Laznicka was passive, but once he opened the position, he seemed to be creating weaknesses. Into the third time control, the Czech finally resigned and gave the Indian a well-deserved win.

Быстротечный турнир в Мальме близится к завершению. Сегодня в 14.00 по московскому времени состоятся партии пятого, заключительного тура. Впереди с 2.5 очками Аниш Гири и Ганс Тикканен, и эти двое сразятся между собой. На пол-очка отстают Широв (играет с Гранделиусом) и Со (с Хектором).