| Name |
Title |
Country |
Rating |
Geneva 2013 |
Dilijan 2013 |
Tashkent 2013 |
Khanty 2014 |
Tbilisi 2014 |
Erdenet 2014 |
Best 3 |
| Muzychuk, Anna |
g |
SLO |
2585 |
130 |
120 |
|
* |
* |
|
250 |
| Dzagnidze, Nana |
g |
GEO |
2556 |
100 |
120 |
|
* |
* |
|
220 |
| Kosintseva, Tatiana |
g |
RUS |
2517 |
100 |
90 |
|
* |
|
* |
190 |
| Khotenashvili, Bela |
m |
GEO |
2514 |
160 |
10 |
* |
|
* |
|
170 |
| Koneru, Humpy |
g |
IND |
2607 |
|
160 |
* |
|
* |
* |
160 |
| Ushenina, Anna |
g |
UKR |
2500 |
75 |
80 |
|
* |
|
* |
155 |
| Batchimeg Tuvshintugs |
wg |
MGL |
2295 |
20 |
60 |
|
* |
|
* |
80 |
| Ju, Wenjun |
wg |
CHN |
2535 |
75 |
|
* |
|
* |
* |
75 |
| Lagno, Kateryna |
g |
UKR |
2532 |
60 |
|
* |
* |
* |
|
60 |
| Stefanova, Antoaneta |
g |
BUL |
2496 |
|
60 |
* |
|
* |
* |
60 |
| Harika, Dronavalli |
g |
IND |
2475 |
|
60 |
* |
|
* |
* |
60 |
| Hou, Yifan |
g |
CHN |
2609 |
45 |
|
|
* |
* |
* |
45 |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra |
g |
RUS |
2495 |
45 |
|
* |
* |
|
* |
45 |
| Girya, Olga |
wg |
RUS |
2439 |
10 |
30 |
* |
* |
|
|
40 |
| Danielian, Elina |
g |
ARM |
2470 |
|
30 |
* |
* |
* |
|
30 |
| Zhao, Xue |
g |
CHN |
2579 |
|
|
* |
* |
* |
* |
0 |
| Nakhbayeva, Guliskhan |
wg |
KAZ |
2307 |
|
|
* |
|
|
|
|
| Muminova, Nafisa |
wg |
UZB |
2293 |
|
|
* |
* |
* |
* |
0 |
Note: Unfortunately GM Viktorija Cmilyte can't participate in Tashkent due to illness so she was replaced for the current Grand Prix with WGM Guliskhan Nakhbayeba of Kazakhstan. For the full information and rules of the Grand Prix Series, please refer to the
official Grand Prix web site.
There have been yet played two stages of the Women's Grand Prix 2013-2014 Series out of six, so the situation is not so clear like in
Men's Grand Prix.
GM Anna Muzichuk is currently leading with 250 points,
GM Nana Dzagnidze on the second place with 220, and third
GM Tatiana Kosintseva, who replaced her sister Nadezhda for the whole Grand Prix Series, with 190. But of course everything can change after Tashkent leg, as all these players have played two tournaments and will continue their performance in Khanty-Mansiysk.
First time taking part in Grand Prix series, International Master and
elected grandmaster Bela Khotenashvili, and the leader of women chess in India
GM Humpy Koneru are now the only two participants who managed to score 160 points by winning
Geneva and
Dilijan stages accordingly.
But if Humpy has a 100% result from one tournament played, Bela has two tournaments behind and if Georgian is pretending to compete for Grand Prix Series lead, she has no second chance for a mistake.
A great honor for the tournament is participating of two former World Champions
grandmasters Antoaneta Stefanova and
Alexandra Kosteniuk. They both have reached the highest wanted by any chess player title in the devastating knockout FIDE World Championships (2004 and 2008 accordingly). And even more: they both were in the final twice! Well we are definitely waiting for the third one!
GM Zhao Xue and WGM Ju Wenjun are second and third highest-rated female players in China, members of the national team which is holding first place by the medals won at the World Team Championships. Grand Prix in Tashkent will become the first one in the season for Zhao Xue and Ju Wenjun has just one tournament played, so both players are expected to shake the standings table.
GM Kateryna Lagno, former World Blitz Champion (2010) and currently the World Champion at the first board of Ukrainian female team, is famous for fighting for the best results in any tournament (even World Blitz and Rapid Championships among the strongest players of the planet). Twice European Women Individual Champion, she has finished the 2011-2012 Grand Prix Series with an impressive result of 320 points, but this is definitely not her maximum.
Young Indian prodigy, second board of the national team
GM Harika Dronavalli, by winning Asian Women’s Championship (2011), reaching quarter-final (2010) and semi-final (2012) of World Women’s Championships, has proven that she is not going to be shadowed by her top-rated compatriot.
Top-rated Armenian female player,
grandmaster Elina Danielian has successfully completed the first Grand Prix Series by scoring 358,5 points with impressive achievements such as second place in
Istanbul (2009), third in
Jermuk (2010) and shared first in
Doha (2011). Unluckily, she couldn’t succeed in the second season of Grand Prix and finished 11
th with 170 points only. Despite of that, five times National Champion and European Champion at the Armenian female team, Elina doesn’t need an advice how to get motivated, and definitely will use all her chances in Tashkent.
A number of times Russian women’s team member,
WGM Olga Girya has already promoted herself as a highly motivated fighter by not giving up even in hopeless situations. Olga shows gradually growing results in Russian and international events and she is expected to take one of the leading positions in female chess.
First board of Kazakh women's team
WGM Guliskhan Nakhbayeva has got Woman Grandmaster title after ipressive performance in
Istanbul Olympiad 2012 to become third woman in Kazakhstan to archieve this title. With Guliskhan's leadership and her draw against former world champion Hou Yifan, Kazakh team surprised all the chess world by beating Chinese team.
The name of nominee from Tashkent,
WGM Nafisa Muminova, is maybe not familiar to most of the participants, but not to Antoaneta. Representing Uzbekistan on the first board in 40
th World Chess Olympiad (2012), she has managed to draw with Bulgarian. Nafisa entered the national team in 2007 and consolidated her rights by becoming a vice-champion of the
Asian Youth Championship U-18 in 2008.
