Шахматные Новости

The FIDE Women Grand Prix series has its sixth and final tournament set to take place from 20th February to 6th March in Doha, Qatar. 12 players will compete in the round robin event. The winner of each tournament will win 6,500 euros out of a prize fund of 40,000 euros and the overall winner of the series will win a further 15,000 euros at the end of the series.

The winner of the Grand Prix series will qualify for the 2011 World Championship match against the reigning queen Hou Yifan.

Participants:
GM Humpy Koneru IND 2607
GM Antoaneta Stefanova BUL 2546
GM Pia Cramling SWE 2516
GM Nana Dzagnidze GEO 2550
GM Marie Sebag FRA 2489
GM Maia Chiburdanidze GEO 2502
GM Zhu Chen QTR 2495
GM Elina Danielan ARM 2454
GM Xu Yuhua CHN 2484
IM Batkhuyag Munguntuul 2410
IM Martha Fierro ECU 2353
IM Lilit Mrktchian ARM 2475

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From December 28th 2010 to January 6th 2011 the 53rd edition of the international chess tournament "Torneo di Capodanno" will be played in Reggio Emilia. Free day is on January 1st and opening ceremony takes place on December 28th, morning. Games starting daily from 14:30. The tournament will be played at hotel Astoria Mercure.

53rd event in succession is probably one of the records for a Fide closed tournament, beside Hastings.

Players:
Vassily Ivanchuk UKR 2754
Sergei Movsesian SVK 2723
David Navara CZE 2722
Vugar Gashimov AZE 2719
Alexander Morozevich RUS 2700
Fabiano Caruana ITA 2700
Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2697
Nigel Short ENG 2690
Alexander Onischuk USA 2688
Michele Godena ITA 2551

Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 will be held from 2nd to 25th December in Hatay, Turkey. 64 players qualified for the knockout matches which will produce a World Champion after six rounds of play. All matches are taking place over two days (two classical games) plus another day for rapid tiebreaks, except the final match which will be decided after four games.

Суперфинал чемпионата России по шахматам среди мужчин пройдет в Москве, в Центральном доме шахматиста с 10 по 22 декабря.

В турнире принимают участие чемпион страны Александр Грищук (2771), Сергей Карякин (2760), Дмитрий Яковенко (2726), Петр Свидлер (2722), Ян Непомнящий (2722), Владимир Малахов (2720),  Никита Витюгов (2709), Евгений Томашевский (2699), Игорь Курносов (2676), Вадим Звягинцев (2676), Денис Хисматуллин (2659) и Владимир Поткин (2646).

Турнир проходит по круговой системе. Контроль времени – 90 минут на первые 40 ходов, затем 30 минут до конца партии с 30 секундным добавлением.

Игровые дни – 11-16 и 18-22 декабря. Начало каждого тура – в 15.00, начало последнего тура – в 12.00.