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TOURNAMENT STANDINGS
World Rapid Championship (Women) Tournament

Kateryna Lagno10.5/15(+8 -2 =5)[games]
Alexandra Kosteniuk10.5/15(+10 -4 =1)[games]
Olga Girya10/15(+8 -3 =4)[games]
Antoaneta Stefanova10/15(+7 -2 =6)[games]
Anna Muzychuk10/15(+6 -1 =8)[games]
Tatiana Kosintseva9.5/15(+8 -4 =3)[games]
Anna Ushenina8.5/15(+6 -4 =5)[games]
Irina Krush8.5/15(+7 -5 =3)[games]
Bella Khotenashvili8.5/15(+7 -5 =3)[games]
Xue Zhao8.5/15(+5 -3 =7)[games]
Valentina Gunina8.5/15(+8 -6 =1)[games]
Nana Dzagnidze8.5/15(+6 -4 =5)[games]
Inna Gaponenko8/15(+4 -3 =8)[games]
Svetlana Bezgodova8/15(+8 -7 =0)[games]
Alina Kashlinskaya7.5/15(+6 -6 =3)[games]
Marina Korneva7.5/15(+4 -4 =7)[games]
Elisabeth Paehtz7.5/15(+6 -6 =3)[games]
Harika Dronavalli7.5/15(+7 -7 =1)[games]
Aleksandra Goryachkina7.5/15(+6 -6 =3)[games]
Chen Zhu7.5/15(+6 -6 =3)[games]
Pia Cramling7.5/15(+4 -4 =7)[games]
Dina Drozdova7/15(+5 -6 =4)[games]
Natalia Zhukova7/15(+5 -6 =4)[games]
Tuvshintugs Batchimeg7/15(+3 -4 =8)[games]
Nafisa Muminova7/15(+5 -6 =4)[games]
Karina Ambartsumova7/15(+5 -6 =4)[games]
Mariya Muzychuk6.5/15(+4 -6 =5)[games]
Maria Fominykh6/15(+5 -8 =2)[games]
Ekaterina Ubiennykh5.5/15(+5 -9 =1)[games]
Daria Charochkina5.5/15(+4 -8 =3)[games]
Sandugach Shaydullina5.5/15(+5 -9 =1)[games]
Evgeniya Sukhareva5/15(+2 -7 =6)[games]
* (34 players total; 2 players not shown. Click here for longer list.)

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
World Rapid Championship (Women) (2014)

The 2014 Women's World Rapid Championship was a 15-round Swiss open (for players rated >2200) held in in the building of the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 23-25 April, right after the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Khanty - Mansiysk (2014). There were 34 players, including defending champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Time control: 15 minutes per player for all moves, with 10 seconds added per move from move 1. Prize fund: $50,000, with $12,000 to the winner. Chief arbiter: Andrzej Filipowicz.

Kateryna Alexandrovna Lagno won on tiebreak (direct encounter) ahead of Alexandra Kosteniuk, both with 10.5/15.

Official site: http://wwrbc2014.fide.com/
Regulations: https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/...
Crosstable: http://wwrbc2014.fide.com/wp-conten...
Chessdom: http://www.chessdom.com/fide-women-...
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/lag...
ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/lagno...
TWIC: https://theweekinchess.com/chessnew...
FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/tournament...

Previous: World Rapid Championship (Women) (2012) (there was no event in 2013). Next: World Rapid Championship (Women) (2016) (there was no event in 2015). See also World Blitz Championship (Women) (2014)

 page 4 of 5; games 76-100 of 114  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
76. V Gunina vs K Ambartsumova  1-0422014World Rapid Championship (Women)A70 Benoni, Classical with 7.Nf3
77. C Zhu vs S Bezgodova  1-0342014World Rapid Championship (Women)A53 Old Indian
78. E Sukhareva vs E Ubiennykh  1-0682014World Rapid Championship (Women)D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation
79. N Popova vs S Shaydullina  1-0392014World Rapid Championship (Women)B59 Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3
80. Kosteniuk vs M Korneva  1-0252014World Rapid Championship (Women)B12 Caro-Kann Defense
81. I Krush vs O Girya  1-0292014World Rapid Championship (Women)D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
82. K Ambartsumova vs C Zhu  1-0332014World Rapid Championship (Women)C11 French
83. B Khotenashvili vs N Zhukova  1-0582014World Rapid Championship (Women)A40 Queen's Pawn Game
84. D Drozdova vs T Batchimeg  1-0672014World Rapid Championship (Women)A48 King's Indian
85. D Charochkina vs S Shaydullina  1-0292014World Rapid Championship (Women)A09 Reti Opening
86. S Bezgodova vs E Sukhareva  1-0422014World Rapid Championship (Women)A06 Reti Opening
87. E Ubiennykh vs N Popova  1-0342014World Rapid Championship (Women)D87 Grunfeld, Exchange
88. Lagno vs X Zhao  1-0232014World Rapid Championship (Women)C46 Three Knights
89. T Kosintseva vs H Dronavalli  1-0582014World Rapid Championship (Women)C65 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense
90. O Girya vs A Kashlinskaya  1-0542014World Rapid Championship (Women)D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
91. B Khotenashvili vs I Gaponenko  1-0492014World Rapid Championship (Women)E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
92. E Sukhareva vs D Charochkina  1-0522014World Rapid Championship (Women)E11 Bogo-Indian Defense
93. Goryachkina vs N Popova  1-0602014World Rapid Championship (Women)D85 Grunfeld
94. A Kashlinskaya vs Lagno  1-0512014World Rapid Championship (Women)E60 King's Indian Defense
95. E Paehtz vs K Ambartsumova  1-0362014World Rapid Championship (Women)B25 Sicilian, Closed
96. I Gaponenko vs D Drozdova  1-0602014World Rapid Championship (Women)B07 Pirc
97. N Zhukova vs E Ubiennykh  1-0312014World Rapid Championship (Women)D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
98. S Shaydullina vs N Muminova  1-0332014World Rapid Championship (Women)E04 Catalan, Open, 5.Nf3
99. V Gunina vs Kosteniuk 1-0512014World Rapid Championship (Women)D58 Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower (Makagonov-Bondarevsky) Syst
100. Lagno vs A Ushenina  1-0442014World Rapid Championship (Women)B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
 page 4 of 5; games 76-100 of 114  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Apr-24-14  hellopolgar: Go chess queen!
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Apr-25-14  Expendable Asset: What's the time control?
Apr-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Go Irina! Catch the leaders. This tournament has Muzychuks in stereo.
Apr-25-14  waustad: FWIW, Marina Guseva is the maiden name of Marina Romanko and she has 2 pages. I suppose that by putting links between the pages cg has done as much as they can really do in cases like this.
Apr-25-14  waustad: According to a Susan Polgar tweet I read on TWIC, Kateryna Lahno has won on tiebreaks. Tomorrow they start playing 10 blitz games a day.
Apr-25-14  nok: Last round game: V Gunina vs Lahno, 2014

OUCH.

Apr-25-14  waustad: It is interesting that everybody was making such a fuss about Kostiniuk's 30th birthday which was also Cramling's 51st. Perhaps the latter player wasn't as interested in remembering the day. she was already one of the strongest women playing chess before most of the other players were born and still is now.
Apr-25-14  Jim Bartle: From what I see, Kosteniuk does a lot of self-promotion, while Cramling just plays. That could be a reason.
Apr-25-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: AK was world champion; that should give her a bit more of a boost. She has also played many more world leaders in chess, male and female, than has Pia cramling. Still, they both should have been mentioned.
Apr-26-14  waustad: <HHM>Take a look before you make statements like <She has also played many more world leaders in chess, male and female, than has Pia cramling.>: http://chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/Sing...

or perhaps you should note that she played board 2 for the Swedish men's team in the Olympiad. As far as WWCC is concerned, she could never beat Nona G or Maia C at their peaks, but she was European Women's Champion as recently as 2010. Since many league games and such never make it here, you may not realize that she has been a very active professional player since her teens, much of the time playing men. If all rated games were included, her game count would be near the top. How many World Champions has she played? Of course many of her games aren't in any of these databases, but here is a partial list: Kasparov (http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi...), Spassky, Smyslov, Karpov, Ponomariov. She's also -1 versus Korchnoi over 9 games. Here you can find the games versus many of these: http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...

Apr-26-14  nok: <AK was world champion> Karpov was, but Kosteniuk was "world champion among women", which is a bit different.
Apr-26-14  waustad: I stopped looking too soon. She also played 3 draws with Anand.
Apr-26-14  waustad: For a further clarification, Nona G was WWCC champion before Cramling was a candidate, though Cramling did well against her in the games I've been able to find. Maia Chiburdanidze owned her up until around 2000, by which time many other players had joined the mix.

Sorry for going on so, but that <HHM> struck a raw nerve pontificating on something about which he didn't have a clue.

Apr-26-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Wasustad--I wasn't "pontificating". I know who Pia Cramling is. I've seen her in Chess Life since the 1980s. But:

1. She's never been world champion

2. "Playing" and "beating many times" are two different things, and I should have been more specific. AK has beaten all of the best female players of this era a number of times, except for Yifan. Cramling has a lot of games against strong players, male and female, but I'm pretty sure she hasn't had the level of success in sheer number of victories that Kosteniuk has.

All of this contributes to AK being much more visible, especially in the year 2014.

And, as I did say, they BOTH should have gotten a birthday congratulations and a photo.

Apr-27-14  Beholder: <HeMateMe: AK has beaten all of the best female players of this era a number of times, except for Yifan.>

You've got to be joking. Kosteniuk has won a 4-game match vs Yifan, thus becoming the 2008 Women's World Champion.

Apr-27-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Well, lets qualify that, <beholder> Yifan was 16 years old, at the time? Has AK beaten Hou at all, in the last three years? Hou Yifan is an adult now, her results now are more representative of her true skill than games played at age 16.

Tal beat Fischer 4-0 in 1959, and that doesn't make much of an impression on me, either. Bobby Fischer was age 16 at the time.

Apr-27-14  waustad: AK is an outstanding player at very fast time controls, which is where her wins that I know of against the top male players have come. Are there any at classic time controls? An interesting AK fact is that she is both Swiss men's and women's champion at the moment.

<Yifan was 16 years old, at the time> Actually she was 14.

Apr-27-14  Calar: Chessbase.com reports that the tournament is over, with Lahno as the winner.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/lagno-...

Apr-27-14  waustad: Yes, this one is over. They are playing the blitz part now.
Apr-28-14  waustad: Anna Muzychuk won the blitz section.
Apr-28-14  notyetagm: Women World Rapid Championships (2014)

Two medals for Anna Muzychuk, Bronze in the Rapids and Gold in the Blitz.

Only player I believe who won more than one medal.

May-01-14  Beholder: <HeMateMe: Tal beat Fischer 4-0 in 1959, and that doesn't make much of an impression on me, either. Bobby Fischer was age 16 at the time.>

Your impression, or lack of it, is irrelevant. The facts are that Tal did beat Fischer and Kosteniuk did beat Yifan. You were caught making factually incorrect statements. Wouldn't be the first time.

May-01-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: Beholder--are you saying that when one player is too young to have reached their prime, while the other player is at their peak, the outcomes of the games they play at that time is indicative of their true skills? Most ignorant of you. The Bobby Fischer of 1972 is certainly a different player than he was at age 16, the Hou Yifan in her early 20s is certainly a stronger player than she was at age 14.

How can anybody who can read and write be as thick as you?

May-02-14  Beholder: <HeMateMe> Well at least I *can* read and write, which is more than could be said of you.

The discussion about "true skills" etc. takes place only in your head. I'm not talking about anything of the sort, nor am I interested in this in the slightest.

You made a false statement:

<HeMateMe: AK has beaten all of the best female players of this era a number of times, except for Yifan.>

I have pointed out to you the fact that it's false, because Kosteniuk did, in fact, beat Yifan, not just in a random game but in a match for the Women's World Championship no less.

You are obviously physically incapable of admitting even the most blatant mistakes you make, resorting instead to personal insults.

May-02-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  HeMateMe: She (Hou) was 14 years old. Get real.

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