Hangzhou (China)

Hangzhou

The strongest women's closed tournament of all time is taking place in Hangzhou, China from the 13th to the 24th of July. Hou Yifan is the favourite, but the Kosintseva sisters are only slightly lower rated. All the games were drawn in the first round.

The time limit is the one that is gradually becoming a standard in strong FIDE events:

40 moves in 90 minutes, then 30 minutes for the remainder of the game. There is, in addition, an increment of 30 seconds by move.

The Sofia rule is also being applied, which means that "draws agreed by mutual consent" before move 30 are forbidden.

Here are the players:

Seed	Title	Name	Country	Elo	World rank	Age
1.	GM	Hou Yifan	CHN	2575	3	17
2.	GM	Nadezhda Kosintseva	RUS	2560	4	26
3.	GM	Tatiana Kosintseva	RUS	2557	5	25
4.	GM	Nana Dzagnidze	GEO	2537	7	24
5.	MI	Anna Zatonskih	USA	2522	11	32
6.	GMF	Ju Wenjun	CHN	2515	13	20
7.	MI	Dronavalli Harika	IND	2513	14	20
8.	GM	Marie Sebag	FRA	2510	15	24
9.	GM	Zhu Chen	QAT	2485	23	35
10.	GM	Zhao Xue	CHN	2470	29	26

The first round results:

White	Elo	Result	Black	Rating	No. of moves
Hou Yifan	2575	½-½	Nana Dzagnidze	2537	27
Marie Sebag	2510	½-½	N.Kosintseva	2560	31
Dronavalli Harika	2513	½-½	Zhao Xue	2470	119
Zhu Chen	2485	½-½	Anna Zatonskih	2522	53
T. Kosintseva	2557	½-½	Ju Wenjun	2515	40

The Official site : http://chess.sport.org.cn

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