| FIDE Women's Grand Prix Tehran (2016) |
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This was the second leg of five in the Women's Grand Prix series 2.5-2016 which would determine the challenger for the women's crown in 2017. (1) The first leg in Monte Carlo was easily won by Yifan Hou who gained the maximum 160 Grand Prix points for her result. The third leg, originally to be held in Tbilisi in Georgia, was held in Batumi, Georgia in April-May 2016. When
The first round commenced on Thursday 11 February 2016 with the eleventh and final round being played on Tuesday 23 February 2016. Rest days were 15 and 20 February. Where
Tehran, Iran.
Format
Round robin, twelve players, eleven rounds.
Time Control For each player 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one. Tie Breaks
The rules stipulate that no tie breaks will be used in individual GP tournaments. Prizes and Grand Prix ranking points are shared equally where there are any tied placements. If there is a tie at the top of the Grand Prix points tally by the end of the last event, then the winner will be declared as follows, with successive tiebreakers being invoked if the earlier ones do not break the tie: - No. of actual game result points scored in the three tournaments
- No. of 1st places
- No. of 2nd places
- No. of wins
- Drawing of lots
Prizes and Grand Prix points (2) The total prize money for this event was 60,000 Euros (nearly US $68,000). Grand Prix points awarded for each place in the event are in brackets after the prize money. 1st Prize 10,000 Euros (160 pts), 4th Prize 5,750 Euros (90 pts), 7th Prize 4,250 Euros (60 pts), 10th Prize 3,000 Euros (30 pts)
2nd Prize 8,250 Euros (130 pts), 5th Prize 5,000 Euros (80 pts), 8th Prize 4,000 Euros (50 pts), 11th Prize 2,750 Euros (20 pts)
3rd Prize 6.750 Euros (110 pts), 6th Prize 4,500 Euros (70 pts), 9th Prize 3,250 Euros (40 pts), 12th Prize 2,500 Euros (10 pts) Crosstable, Grand Prix points (GPP) and comments (1, 3) Elo 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 GPP
1 Ju Wenjun 2558 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 7½ 160
=2 Khademalsharieh 2403 ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 120
=2 Zhao Xue 2506 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7 120
=4 Pogonina 2454 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 6½ 85
=4 Dzagnidze 2529 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 6½ 85
6 Koneru 2583 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 6 70
7 Zhukova 2484 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ * 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 5½ 60
=8 Gunina 2496 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 4½ 45
=8 Harika 2511 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 4½ 45
10 Cramling 2521 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 0 4 30
=11 Stefanova 2509 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 3½ 15
=11 Batsiashvili 2485 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ * 3½ 15
Pogonina (85 GP points from Monaco) kicked off to an early lead in the second round when she was the only player to win her first two games and retained her lead through to and including round five. However a draw by Pogonina with Gunina and a win by Dzagnidze (50 GP points from Monaca) against Zhukova in round six enabled Dzagnidze to draw level with Pogonina to share the lead. They shared the lead for another round before a loss by Pogonina to Stefanova and a win by Dzagnidze over Harika in Round 8 enabled the Georgian to pull clear of the Russian to take the sole lead, which only lasted for that round. In Round 9, Dzagnidze lost her game, as did Pogonina in her game against Zhao Xue playing her first event in the GP, enabling the latter to grab the co-lead alongside the Georgian with 6.5/9. In Round 10, both co-leaders were beaten and overtaken by their conquerors: Zhao Xue lost to Iranian teenager Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (who gained her first GM norm) while Dzagnidze lost to Ju Wenjun, the two winners now sharing the lead with 7/10. In the final round, Ju Wenjun drew with Harika after 50 moves to remain undefeated and to win the tournament outright and take the maximum 160 GP points and 10,000 Euros prize money, while Khademalsharieh was ground down by Zhukova in 74 moves to record her only loss of the event to share second place with Zhao Xue, each winning 120 GP points and 7,500 Euros prize money. Official site http://tehran2016.fide.com/
Previous Women's GP event Women's Grand Prix Monte Carlo (2015) Next Women's GP event FIDE Women's Grand Prix Batumi (2016) (1) Wikipedia article: FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2.5%E2%80%9316 (2) https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/... (3) http://tehran2016.fide.com/en/compo...
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| Feb-20-16 | | LucB: <Did I stumble into the Ken Rogoff page by mistake?> <Yes you did.>
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Feb-21-16
 | | HeMateMe: I'm glad that the head scarves haven't dulled the ladies' creative thinking. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | Absentee: <HeMateMe: No, you aren't clear> My bad then. I hope this won't prevent us from being pinky-swear friends. <and you don't read the newspapers> Right.
<or follow issues in the World Court.> Wrong.
The rest doesn't pertain to my question at all, but maybe I haven't been clear again. I'm aware of the conflicting claims in the region (you could take my assurance that as a germanist I know something about that blockade thing too).
What I was asking you is if you think the involvement of the US comes from sheer generosity towards the unfortunate Philippines or if they are, more pragmatically, defending their own influence in the area against China's. How you can possibly believe that a nation can "have its say" by allowing a foreign nation's military into their territory, I have no idea (more explicitly: it's the occupying nation that will have its say, not the hapless host), but this is beside the point. This one last thing, then I'd rather not continue the unsavory discussion: <People 20 years ago warned about the coming power of a revitalized China, and they were correct.> Yes. But I'm not sure what your point is. Am I supposed to consider China's rise a bad thing? I don't. I consider it a very good thing. |
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Feb-21-16
| | HeMateMe: building military airfields on the open water is not a good thing. China is destabilizing the area, other countries hate them for that, and they don't care. The USA got along just fine for 30 years with not having naval facilities in the PP. If you think we want this just to "project power" I think that's incorrect. Keeping an eye on China and making sure those shipping lanes stay open is the priority. This isn't some sort of individual power play as you imagine. I can see you're a USA-phobe like Mort and some others here, but you have to accept what is. China is shaping up to be the USSR of the 21st century--a large nation bent on expansionism. We'll help the pacific rim nations like Japan, S. Korea and the PP, if they are willing to share the burden. Japan is. They are building ultra modern warships. Japan has no illusions about what a militarized China means for the area. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | SometimesGood: China never was an expansionist country unlike USA who took Natives' lands by force or Russia who did the same in Siberia. Both nations cleared lands very efficiently killing millions of aborigines. And now they "warn" about Chinese "aggressive" plans. China will never take what is not her historically. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | jphamlore: I am so pleased the ladies are playing the Queen's Gambit Declined and are having so many fighting decisive games. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | notyetagm: <SometimesGood: China never was an expansionist country unlike USA who took Natives' lands by force or Russia who did the same in Siberia. Both nations cleared lands very efficiently killing millions of aborigines.> Hard to argue with that. |
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Feb-21-16
 | | alexmagnus: <China never was an expansionist country> Tell that to Tibetans. Or any other ethnic minority in China. By the way, there is one special thing about China: it was multiple time conquered by other nations but instead of China becoming part of that nations, the conquerors themselves became Chinese. Most famous case being probably the rule of the Yuan dynasty. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | SometimesGood: <alexmagnus: <China never was an expansionist country>
Tell that to Tibetans. Or any other ethnic minority in China.> Actually I am a specialist in this topic. Chinese politics with respects to minorities and its results is one of success stories in aboriginal affairs - say the truth the one. Tibetans like Huis, Miaos and all other minorities have no birth control restrictions whereas Han people had only right for one child. For example your beloved Tibetans have fastest population growth. There are extremely generous measures for minorities discriminatory to Han people, for example in education, business etc.
Anyway, good luck with your Western stereotypes and continue your politics towards aboriginals. Actually I thought you're more informed. I also add I know all problems with minorities in China. But at least they try and they have results. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | twinlark: <Tell that to Tibetans.> That's a complex historical story:
<...Tibet's assimilation into China was established during the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368). In China's view, the relationship continued throughout the next two dynasties, the Ming and the Qing.> What complicates this is a period of relatively weak rule by China in the last couple of centuries of imperial rule followed by a period of relative independence from China for nearly 40 years before 1950, before China was in a position to reassert its ownership of the country. Also: <neither China nor any major Western power recognised [Tibet] as independent>. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-... There are strong arguments on both sides.
<Or any other ethnic minority in China.> Almost every country has this sort of history. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | twinlark: <SometimesGood>
That's most interesting. Do you have any reading on these topics? |
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Feb-21-16
| | alexmagnus: <I also add I know all problems with minorities in China. But at least they try and they have results.> "Results"? The minority dominated regions are turned into kind of tourist attractions, and the general minority population is accepted only if they more or less completely assimilate with the Chinese. See also how allergic China reacts to any independence movements - be it Tibetan or Uyghur. As for whether Tibet ever was recognized as independent - no matter whether it was, the Tibetans have culture and language that have <nothing> to do with the Chinese culture and language(s). With a millennia-long tradition. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | SometimesGood: <twinlark: <SometimesGood>
That's most interesting. Do you have any reading on these topics?> There is a nice book I use a lot by Hall and Patrinos: Indigenous peoples, poverty and development. It can be downloaded for free - at least few months ago:) Otherwise there's not much, so I created everything by myself. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | SometimesGood: In this book there's a lot of data on Chinese minorities. I do believe in data and facts. Alexmagnus - I know all problems with independence movement and respect rights of people. Same problems persist in Spain, Belgium, France, Italy, Russia continue? This is a complicated topic and there's no simple solution. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | kubbybulin: The women are being made to wear head scarves??...somebody please tell me this is not true. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | savagerules: Look at the official site and you will see ALL the players wearing Halloween- like large scarves to please the clerics. I guess if there is a woman's tournament in the US and there is a rule requiring them to wear pantsuits like Hillary Clinton they would still come without any protests? |
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| Feb-21-16 | | kubbybulin: If I were GM Gunina, I would get a lawyer and sue FIDE. Then I would start- the WPCA and put the tournament sites to a vote between the players with a list of wonderful places in DEVELOPED countries to choose from (Paris, London, Moscow, Las Vegas come to mind.) At the Venetian, the tournament could be held at the Sands CC and nobody would even have to leave the hotel. This is wishful thinking as I live in Las Vegas. These players deserve much more respect.Their chess is very lively. I am male and I don't even pay attention to men's drawmaster chess. It is time for a radical change in women's chess. |
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Feb-21-16
| | HeMateMe: <SometimesGood> You seem to be a somewhat brainwashed fellow, probably Asian, English is not your first language. There is absolutely no good reason for China to build airstrips in the south pacific sandbars, load them with missiles (reported in the news recently) and tell other nations their ships can't pass near these sand bar/ airstrips. Disgraceful behavior on the part of China. It serves no purpose but to bully one's neighbors. if <SometimesGood> you really want what's best for the Chinese people you should hope that this economic crisis that has trashed the Yuan is the beginning of the end of communist rule in China. A democracy would never build airfields on submerged sandbars and then try to change the shipping rights in those areas, shipping lanes that other countries have depended upon for decades. You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting a dictatorship regime like China. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | Whitemouse: <<SometimesGood> You seem to be a somewhat brainwashed fellow, probably Asian, English is not your first language. There is absolutely no good reason for China to build airstrips in the south pacific sandbars, load them with missiles (reported in the news recently) and tell other nations their ships can't pass near these sand bar/ airstrips. Disgraceful behavior on the part of China. It serves no purpose but to bully one's neighbors. if <SometimesGood> you really want what's best for the Chinese people you should hope that this economic crisis that has trashed the Yuan is the beginning of the end of communist rule in China. A democracy would never build airfields on submerged sandbars and then try to change the shipping rights in those areas, shipping lanes that other countries have depended upon for decades. You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting a dictatorship regime like China.> Stop talking nonsense. I live my whole life in a third world country. You will never understand the real siktuations and conditions. Stop your daydream. Let us talk only about chess,. This is Chess forum. |
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| Feb-21-16 | | Whitemouse: I am Asian but not live in China and not a Chinese. |
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| Feb-22-16 | | twinlark: <I guess if there is a woman's tournament in the US and there is a rule requiring them to wear pantsuits like Hillary Clinton they would still come without any protests?> I believe FIDE recently introduced a dress code:
<In any top level tournament, players, delegations or teams must comply with a high standard dress code. Delegations includes both a player`s seconds and any other individual who the player allows to conduct business on behalf of the players. Players are responsible for the actions of acknowledged members of their delegations.> https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.... The wearing of scarves is clearly the Iranian variant. Despite the dress code, Pia Cramling was sexually assaulted by some moron when she and Gunina were walking in a park. Before anyone feels superior or offended by the Iranian dress code for women, here is an extract of the European Chess Union's: <The European Women's Championship is the first where the new ECU Dress Code regulations apply. They are quite specific: regarding décolletés (in the US "cleavage"): "the second from the top button may be opened." And skirts may be no shorter than 5-10 cm above the knees.> http://en.chessbase.com/post/che-an... "Our" dress code is OK, but theirs isn't? |
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| Feb-22-16 | | twinlark: <HeHateMe>
<You should be ashamed of yourself for supporting a dictatorship regime like China.> Yet the incarceration rate in China is about one fifth of that in the USA. You should be ashamed of supporting a regime that locks so many people up. Too much xenophobic stupid on this page.
Please direct any responses to my posts to the Rogoff page. |
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| Feb-22-16 | | twinlark: <SometimesGood>
Thank you. Drop in on my forum sometime. |
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Feb-22-16
 | | collodi: The question I have is not why it is that Iran is requiring the foreign players to wear headscarves. The question is why the foreign players are participating in an event that does this and thus perpetuating the unequal treatment of women? |
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| Feb-22-16 | | twinlark: Time to take this highly political discussion to the Kenneth Rogoff page. Let's leave this page for chess |
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