Английская Википедия:FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16
Шаблон:Short description The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16 was a series of five chess tournaments exclusively for women, which determined one player to play in the Women's World Chess Championship Match 2018, a 10-game match against the knockout world champion.
This was the fourth cycle of the tournament series. Top ranked player was Hou Yifan, who won the previous three editions of the Grand Prix, but had withdrawn participation after playing in the first tournament. The overall Grand Prix was won by Chinese player Ju Wenjun, who overtook Koneru Humpy at the last tournament.[1] Koneru Humpy thereby finished overall runner-up for the fourth time.
Format
Originally the Grand Prix was scheduled as a 4-event tour.[2][3][4] However, at the March 2016 FIDE Presidential Board meeting, a fifth event was then added, which replaced the Women's Knockout championship.[5] Sixteen women were selected to compete in these tournaments,[4] though with the expansion the total became twenty, along with extras to replace the withdrawn Hou Yifan. Each player agrees to a contract to participate in exactly three of these tournaments. The players must rank their preference of tournaments once the final list of host cities is announced and the dates are allocated to each host city.
Each tournament is a 12-player, single round-robin tournament. In each round players score 1 point for a win, ½ point for a draw and 0 for a loss. Grand Prix points were then allocated according to each player's standing in the tournament: 160 grand prix points for first place, 130 for second place, 110 for third place, and then 90 down to 10 points by increments of 10. In case of a tie in points the Grand Prix points are shared evenly by the tied players.
Players only count their three best tournament results. The player with the most Grand Prix points is the winner. FIDE reserved the right to change locations and dates and increase the tournaments to six (6) and players to eighteen (18), each player in four (4) tournaments.[6] Eventually they expanded the Grand Prix but not in the contractual manner specified, deciding to add a fifth stop at their Moscow presidential meeting (March 2016), with approximately 20 players in all taking part, keeping 3 tournaments per player.[5]
Players and qualification
Players invited base on qualifying criteria were:[2]
- The four semi-finalists of the Women's World Chess Championship 2015:
- Шаблон:Flagicon Mariya Muzychuk
- Шаблон:Flagicon Natalia Pogonina
- Шаблон:Flagicon Pia Cramling
- Шаблон:Flagicon Harika Dronavalli
- The six highest ranked players (averaged over a year):
- Шаблон:Flagicon Hou Yifan
- Шаблон:Flagicon Koneru Humpy
- Шаблон:Flagicon Nana Dzagnidze
- Шаблон:Flagicon Ju Wenjun
- Шаблон:Flagicon Anna Muzychuk
- Шаблон:Flagicon Valentina Gunina
- Two FIDE presidential nominees[7]
- Five organizer nominees:
- Шаблон:Flagicon Almira Skripchenko[8]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
- Шаблон:Flagicon Nino Batsiashvili[9]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Zhao Xue[9]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Olga Girya
- Other players appearing in tournaments:
- Шаблон:Flagicon Natalia Zhukova[8]
- Шаблон:Flagicon Lela Javakhishvili
- Шаблон:Flagicon Bela Khotenashvili
- Two players appearing only one tournament:
In May, 2016, Hou Yifan announced that she was dropping out of the Women's Grand Prix because she disagrees with the process of determining the Women's World Champion. FIDE has kept every second Women's World Championship as a 64-player knockout tournament since 2010, which Hou characterized as a "lottery." The winner of the knockout is the Women's World Champion, and then plays the overall winner of the Grand Prix. Hou believes that as the current World Champion she should defend her title against a challenger (as the Men's World Championship is decided), rather than playing in qualifying tournaments and then having to play against the winner of the knockout tournament. Alternatively, under the current setup, if she wins both the knockout tournament and the Grand Prix, she would have to play the woman who took second place in the Grand Prix for the title. In the 2013-2014 cycle, Hou was unable to play in the knockout tournament because she had already committed to play in another venue when the knockout tournament was scheduled; therefore, she lost her title to Mariya Muzychuk temporarily and regained it in a match in 2016 (delayed from 2015). Hou also said she will not be playing in the knockout tournament in this cycle.[10]
Prize money and Grand Prix points
The prize money for the single tournaments and the overall series stayed the same as the previous year, that is €60,000 per single Grand Prix and €90,000 for the overall Grand Prix finish.[2]
Place | Single Grand Prix event | Overall standings | Grand Prix points |
---|---|---|---|
1 | €10,000 | €25,000 | 160 |
2 | €8,250 | €20,000 | 130 |
3 | €6,750 | €15,000 | 110 |
4 | €5,750 | €10,000 | 90 |
5 | €5,000 | €7,500 | 80 |
6 | €4,500 | €5,500 | 70 |
7 | €4,250 | €4,000 | 60 |
8 | €4,000 | €3,000 | 50 |
9 | €3,250 | – | 40 |
10 | €3,000 | – | 30 |
11 | €2,750 | – | 20 |
12 | €2,500 | – | 10 |
Tiebreaks
With the objective of determining a clear, single winner to play in the Challenger Match and in the case of the top two or more players having equal cumulative points, the following criteria (in descending order) will be utilized to decide the overall winner:
- Number of actual game result points scored in the three tournaments.
- Number of first places (in case of a tie – points given accordingly).
- Number of second places (in case of a tie – points given accordingly).
- Number of wins.
- Drawing of lots.
Schedule
Like the men's Grand Prix, the number of tournaments were reduced, here from six to five.[2]
No. | Host city | Date | Winner | Points (Win/draw/loss) |
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1 | Monte Carlo, Monaco | 2–16 October 2015 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 9/11 (+8=2-1) |
2 | Tehran, Iran | 10–24 February 2016 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 7.5/11 (+4=7-0) |
3 | Batumi, Georgia | 19 April – 3 May 2016 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 7.5/11 (+6=3-2) |
4 | Chengdu, China | 1 – 15 July 2016 | Шаблон:Flagathlete Шаблон:Flagathlete |
7/11 (+3=8-0) 7/11 (+5=4-2) |
5 | Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia | 18 November – 2 December 2016 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 7.5/11 (+5=5-1) |
Events crosstables
Monaco 2015
1st stage, Monte Carlo, Monaco, 2–16 October 2015[11] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Rating Change H2H Victories SB TPR GP 1 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2671 * 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 9 +11 0 8 45.00 2766 160 2 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2528 0 * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 7 +13 1 4 36.00 2619 120 3 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2578 1 0 * ½ ½ 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 7 +5 0 6 36.00 2614 120 4 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2513 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 6 +17 ½ 3 29.00 2554 85 5 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2445 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 0 1 1 ½ ½ 1 6 6 ½ 3 28.25 2560 85 6 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2525 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ -1 1 4 26.75 2517 65 7 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2500 0 0 1 0 1 1 * 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ +3 0 2 27.25 2519 65 8 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2573 0 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 * 1 ½ ½ 1 5 -14 0 4 21.25 2476 50 9 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2441 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 4½ +3 1½ 2 20.25 2459 30 10 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2485 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 4½ -5 1 1 22.25 2455 30 11 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2549 ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 4½ -15 ½ 1 26.50 2450 30 12 Шаблон:Nowrap 2402 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 * 1½ -22 0 0 8.00 2219 10
Tehran 2016
2nd stage, Tehran, Iran, 10–24 February 2016[12] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Rating Change H2H Victories SB TPR GP 1 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2558 * ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 7½ +11 0 4 39.25 2631 160 2 Шаблон:Nowrap 2403 ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 +31 1 4 36.00 2614 120 3 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2506 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 7 +15 0 5 35.00 2605 120 4 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2454 ½ ½ 0 * 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 6½ +18 1 5 34.00 2573 85 5 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2529 0 ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 1 1 0 1 1 6½ +6 0 5 31.50 2566 85 6 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2583 0 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 6 -8 0 3 30.50 2532 70 7 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2484 ½ 1 0 1 0 ½ * ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 5½ +3 0 3 30.50 2505 60 8 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2496 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 * ½ 1 ½ 1 4½ -9 ½ 2 22.00 2504 45 9 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2511 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 4½ -11 ½ 1 22.50 2438 45 10 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2529 0 ½ 0 0 1 ½ 1 0 ½ * ½ 0 4 -18 0 2 22.50 2400 30 11 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2509 0 0 ½ 1 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ 3½ -21 ½ 1 18.75 2370 15 12 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2485 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ * 3½ -17 ½ 1 17.50 2372 15
- Sarasadat Khademalsharieh achieved a 9-game GM norm, her first one.
Batumi 2016
3rd stage, Batumi, Georgia, 19 April – 3 May 2016[13] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Rating Change H2H Victories SB TPR GP 1 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2497 * 1 ½ 1 1 0 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 7½ +21 0 6 40.25 2634 160 2 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2557 0 * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 0 1 1 ½ 6½ +1 0 4 33.75 2560 130 3 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2476 ½ ½ * 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 ½ 6 +9 1 3 33.00 2539 100 4 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2555 0 ½ 0 * 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 6 -4 0 3 31.25 2532 100 5 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2504 0 0 ½ 0 * 1 1 ½ 1 0 ½ 1 5½ -1 2 4 27.75 2500 70 6 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2535 1 0 1 ½ 0 * ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 5½ -6 ½ 3 31.00 2497 70 7 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2453 ½ ½ ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ +8 ½ 2 29.00 2505 70 8 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2561 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ 5 -15 1½ 2 27.00 2459 40 9 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2489 0 1 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 5 -3 1 3 25.50 2466 40 10 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2442 1 0 0 ½ 1 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 ½ 5 +5 ½ 3 27.75 2470 40 11 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2445 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 0 * ½ 4½ -1 0 2 24.25 2441 20 12 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2493 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ * 4 -14 0 0 23.00 2399 10
Chengdu 2016
4th stage, Chengdu, China, 1–15 July 2016[14] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Rating Change H2H Victories SB TPR GP 1 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2526 * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 7 +13 1 3 37.50 2612 145 2 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2575 0 * ½ 1 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 7 +5 0 5 36.00 2607 145 3 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2578 ½ ½ * ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6 -6 1½ 2 32.00 2541 93⅓ 4 Шаблон:Nowrap 2512 ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 6 +5 1 2 31.75 2547 93⅓ 5 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2545 ½ 1 0 ½ * 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 6 -1 ½ 2 33.25 2544 93⅓ 6 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2454 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 * ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 1 5½ +9 1½ 2 29.25 2516 60 7 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2510 ½ 0 1 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ +0 1 2 28.50 2511 60 8 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2545 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 5½ -6 ½ 2 27.75 2508 60 9 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2487 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * 1 ½ ½ 5 -1 1 1 26.50 2477 35 10 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2444 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0 * ½ ½ 5 +6 0 1 27.25 2481 35 11 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2495 0 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ 4 -12 0 0 21.25 2411 20 12 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2463 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * 3½ -12 0 0 20.00 2383 10
Khanty-Mansiysk 2016
5th stage, Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, 18 November – 2 December 2016[15] Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Total Rating Change H2H Victories SB TPR GP 1 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2580 * 1 1 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 + 7½ +2 0 4 160 2 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2489 0 * 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 6½ +10 0 5 130 3 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2525 0 1 * 0 ½ 1 1 0 0 ½ 1 1 6 -2 2½ 5 82 4 Шаблон:Nowrap 2435 0 ½ 1 * ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6 +14 2½ 2 82 5 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2543 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 6 -4 2 2 82 6 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2450 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 0 1 1 1 6 +11 1½ 3 82 7 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2555 1 0 0 ½ ½ ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 6 -6 1½ 3 82 8 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2448 ½ 0 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ ½ 1 5½ +7 0 2 50 9 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2426 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ * 0 ½ ½ 5 +5 0 2 40 10 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2492 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ * ½ ½ 4½ -10 ½ 0 25 11 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2461 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ * ½ 4½ -6 ½ 1 25 12 Шаблон:Flagathlete 2455 - 0 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ * 2½ -21 0 0 10
Grand Prix standings
At the third tournament it was mentioned top ranked Hou Yifan had withdrawn from the Grand-Prix. Koneru Humpy was leading the table after four tournaments. After winning in the tenth round of the last tournament, Ju Wenjun secured the overall Grand Prix win.
Rank | Player | Sep.2015 Rating[16] |
Monte Carlo |
Tehran | Batumi | Chengdu | Khanty- Mansiysk |
Total |
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1 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2542 | 160 | 93⅓ | 160 | 413⅓ | ||
2 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2578 | 120 | 70 | 145 | 335 | ||
3 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2529 | 45 | 160 | 82 | 287 | ||
4 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2530 | 65 | 130 | 82 | 277 | ||
5 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2508 | 45 | 145 | 82 | 272 | ||
6 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2524 | 120 | 70 | 60 | 250 | ||
7 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2500 | 15 | 100 | 130 | 245 | ||
8 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2549 | 30 | 100 | 93⅓ | 223⅓ | ||
9 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2528 | 120 | 40 | 60 | 220 | ||
10 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2397 | 10 | 120 | 82 | 212 | ||
11 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2573 | 50 | 85 | 70 | 205 | ||
12 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2445 | 85 | 85 | 25 | 195 | ||
13 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2500 | 65 | 15 | 93⅓ | 173⅓ | ||
14 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2671 | 160 | 160 | ||||
15 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2483 | 40 | 35 | 82 | 157 | ||
16 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2482 | 30 | 60 | 50 | 140 | ||
17 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2513 | 85 | 30 | 10 | 125 | ||
18 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2441 | 30 | 70 | 10 | 110 | ||
19 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2502 | 10 | 60 | 40 | 110 | ||
20 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2463 | 40 | 35 | 25 | 100 | ||
21 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2474 | 20 | 20 | ||||
21 | Шаблон:Flagathlete | 2492 | 20 | 20 |
See also
- FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14, the previous cycle
References
External links
- Official websites: Monaco, Tehran, Batumi, Chengdu, Khanty-Mansiysk
- FIDE Women's Grand Prix Regulations
Шаблон:FIDE Grand Prix series Шаблон:Women's World Chess Championships
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Regulations (FIDE)
- ↑ 4,0 4,1 Announcement (FIDE)
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 FIDE Presidential Board Meeting (March 2016)
- ↑ Regulations (PDF)
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ 8,0 8,1 Monaco Grand Prix
- ↑ 9,0 9,1 Iran Women's Grand Prix Participants
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Monaco Grand Prix: Official site
- ↑ Tashkent Grand Prix: Official site
- ↑ Batumi Grand Prix: Official site
- ↑ Chengdu Grand Prix: Official site
- ↑ Khanty-Mansiysk Grand Prix: Official site
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web