12th Women's European Championship in Tbilisi Georgia

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The Championship will take place in Tbilisi, Georgia from the 7th to the 18th of May. Georgia being renowned for it's successful female players, both now and in previous years. Many of the World champions such as Maia Chiburdanidze and Nona Gaprindishvili came from this small Caucasian country. Pia Cramling of Sweden was the 2010 Champion. Most of the leading European players are present including the Kosintseva sisters and home-bred Nana Dzagnidze.

The twenty leading participants:

Seed	Flag	Title	Name	Country	Rating	World rank (women)
1		IM	Kosintseva Nadezhda	RUS	2567	4
2		GM	Kosintseva Tatiana	RUS	2559	5
3		GM	Dzagnidze Nana	GEO	2557	6
4		IM	Muzychuk Anna	SLO	2537	8
5		GM	Lahno Kateryna	UKR	2530	9
6		GM	Kosteniuk Alexandra	RUS	2522	10
7		GM	Danielian Elina	ARM	2506	14
8		GM	Stefanova Antoaneta	BUL	2506	13
9		GM	Cmilyte Viktorija	LTU	2504	15
10		IM	Muzychuk Mariya	UKR	2473	25
11		IM	Khotenashvili Bela	GEO	2470	27
12		GM	Cramling Pia	SWE	2468	29
13		IM	Mkrtchian Lilit	ARM	2468	31
14		IM	Ushenina Anna	UKR	2468	30
15		GM	Arakhamia-Grant Ketevan	SCO	2462	33
16		GM	Hoang Thanh Trang	HUN	2456	36
17		IM	Gaponenko Inna	UKR	2455	37
18		IM	Javakhishvili Lela	GEO	2454	38
19		WGM	Pogonina Natalija	RUS	2448	41
20		IM	Moser Eva	AUT	2445	44