Susan Polgar Chess Blog: A NEW Champion will be crowned

Susan Polgar Chess Blog: A NEW Champion will be crowned

Even Susan Polgar thinks Xu Yuhua has the best chance to become World Champ!

Top 4 in Women World Championship

vs
Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) * Galliamova, Alisa (RUS)


vs
Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) * Xu, Yuhua (CHN)

Who do you think will win?

I favor Xu Yuhua.

Chimi downs 3 GM

19 year old Batchimeg Tuvshintugs or "Chimi" of Oakland is doing sensationally well in the US Championship B Group.
Chimi started the first round by beating GM Alex Fisbein ,the first time she has ever beaten a GM! The second GM she beat was GM Boris Kreiman in Round 3.
Chimi then beat GM Julio Becerra (ELO 2556) in Round 5 on the Black side.

She currently has 3.5 points out of 5 - tied second place after 5 rounds.
Chimi plays White vs Gata Kamsky in Round 6.

Related Link:

US Championship official website

Susan Polger National Invitational for Girls

Chess Blog For Girls: Rules and Conditions for the 2006 SP National Invitational for Girls. The tournament will be played during the U.S. Open Championship.

Kosteniuk performs well in Aeroflot 2006

Alexandra Kosteniuk finishes in 24th place in the very strong Aeroflot championship.
She achieved a performance rating (TPR) of 2657 which is a very good result considering she her
actual ELO is just 2514 only. She played 9 very strong male GMs (+2 =6 -1). Also impressive was she was only seeded 90 but ended up finishing in 24th place.

Here's Kosteniuk's win over GM Kepinski (ELO 2619):

Koneru vs Smeets

Humpy Koneru of India is continuing her steady improvement in the past few years. She recently completed Corus B group with a minus one score (2580 performance), beating Cheparinov, Smeets, Stellwagen and Lahno along the way.

quote from Susan Polgar Blog

Here's a game showing her prowress beating Smeets.Analysis by Susan Polgar

World Women Championship

The Women World Chess Championship will take place next month.
Date: March 10-27
Venue: Ekaterinburg, Russia

Exciting times because at least 20 of the active strongest chess players in the world will be fighting for the championship.

Alexandra Kosteniuk is one of the strongest player there. We are sure that the web savvy GM will cover the event well at her website.


The top 10 players taking part:
1 Koneru, Humpy
2 Cramling Pia
3 Kosteniuk, Alexandra
4 Chiburdanidze, Maya
5 Xu, Yuhua
6 Lahno Kateryna
7 Stefanova, Antoaneta
8 Zhu, Chen
9 Kosintseva Nadezhda
10 Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet
Full list of particpants

Chess Queens

This blog is to promote chess for girls. Many more females are playing competitive chess and I hope one day girls will make a stronger mark in the chess scene.