FIDE Women Grand Prix: One of the Players Was Attacked Outdoors

Dear All,

I would like to draw ACP’s attention to the following facts:

1. Violations of FIDE rules during the Women’s Grand Prix 2013-2014. The 6.4 paragraph has been constantly violated during the aforementioned competition.

The women's Superfinal has started in the Radisson Slavyanskaya. After Round 1 Tatiana Kosintseva is the only player having full point, she faces Natalia Pogonina in the second round. Another players of the Russian national team Gunina and Kosintseva N. are competing next to them. Follow these and other games live.   

Today some of the players in the European Women's Championship will leave Chakvi to head to Kutaisi, where the continental rapid championship is taking place. The majority of the starting list represent the host country, although the Russian troops are to be strengthened significantly - Valentina Gunina and Alexandra Kosteniuk will arrive in the Georgian parliamentary capital.

The first day of the Women's World Blitz Championship has finished today in Batumi, Georgia. The Russian player Valentina Gunina is an undoubted hero of it. After she had 3 points out of three rounds Gunina wondered "How lucky I am". Gunina continued "being lucky" throughout all the following rounds. Valentina outplayed Georgians Chiburdanidze, Khukhashvili, Georgian Spanish Matnadze, Ukrainians Muzychuk Mariya and Natalia Zhukova, Chinese Tan Zhongyi and Cori Deysi of Peru.

Pia Cramling's example is a prove that bursting energy and clear memory of youth are not always the decisive trumps in women's chess yet, in spite of all the changes our game has undergone in the 21st century. The Swedish GM, who will celebrate her 52th birthday on April 23rd, has already qualified to the semifinals of the knockout World Women's Championship taking place in Russia.

The website sport.news.am reports about the unusual draw ceremony of the Women's Grand Prix which took place in Jermuk, Armenia. Each of the participants chose a warrior, who crowned them.

It seems that GM Vugar Gashimov won't play in the current Grand Prix Series due to health issues. The Azerbaijani GM is no longer in the updated participants' list published on the FIDE website. 

The Russian Men and Women Rapid Chess Championships have finished in St. Petersburg.