Grandmaster Humpy Koneru of India (pictured on the left)
has won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Doha, Qatar. She won the tournament on a tie-break over Armenia's Elina Danielian. Both had finished the tournament with scores of 8 points. Here are the results from the 10th round of play (the player on the left had the white pieces in the game):
Round 10 on 2011/03/04 at 15:00
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GM Dzagnidze -------- GM Zhu Chen result: 0-1
GM Koneru ---------- IM Mkrtchian result: 1-0
IM Fierro Baquero --- GM Xu Yuhua result: 0-1
GM Cramling---------- GM Danielian Elina result: 1-0
GM Stefanova -------- IM Batkhuyag result: draw
GM Sebag------------ GM Chiburdanidze result:draw
These results meant the following standings existed after 10 rounds of play:
Here are the results from round 11 (which was the last round of play in the tournament):
The player on the left had the white pieces in the game):
Results of round eleven (final)
Ti. | Name | Rtg | Result | Ti. | Name | Rtg |
| GM | Chiburdanidze Maia | 2502 | ½-½ | GM | Dzagnidze Nana | 2550 |
| IM | Munguntuul Batkhuyag | 2410 | 1-0 | GM | Sebag Marie | 2489 |
| GM | Danielian Elina | 2454 | ½-½ | GM | Stefanova Antoaneta | 2546 |
| GM | Xu Yuhua | 2484 | 1-0 | GM | Cramling Pia | 2516 |
| IM | Mkrtchian Lilit | 2475 | ½-½ | IM | Fierro Baquero Martha | 2363 |
| GM | Zhu Chen | 2495 | 0-1 | GM | Koneru Humpy | 2607 |
These results mean the final standings after 11 rounds of play were as follows:
(A tie-break had to be used to decide who won first place,with GM Koneru winning the tie-break):
According to a Chessbase report on this tournament (which you can read by clicking on the following link:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7060, ) Humpy Koneru's victory in this tournament means she wins the FIDE Grand Prix and as a result Koneru will face Chinese player Hou Yifan (pictured below) in the next Women's World Chess Championship!
Here are the moves for all the of the games played in rounds 10 and 11 of the tournament:
