I was just notified by GM Mikhail Golubev that the field for the 1st ACP Women World Rapid Cup has been finalized.
ACP WS 2008-09 qualifiers:
Kosintseva, Tatiana
Kosteniuk, Alexandra
Kosintseva, Nadezhda
Cramling, Pia
Cmilyte, Viktorija
Zhukova, Natalya
Javakhishvili, Lela
Socko, Monica (replaces Pogonina)
ACP nominee:
Klinova, Masha
TCF nominies:
Ozturk, Kubra
Menzi, Nezihe Ezgi
Yildiz, Betul Cemre
ACP Board
http://www.chess-players.org/eng/index.html
The Association of Chess Professionals and the Turkish Chess Federation are glad to announce the final tournament of the ACP Women Series (First ACP Women World Rapid Cup) to be held at the Rixos hotel in Konya, Turkey from November 30th to December 4th 2009.
The event will be a Round Robin rapid tournament with twelve participants including eight qualifiers from the ACP Women Series 2008-09, three Turkish Chess Federation nominees, one ACP nominee.
The total prize fund will amount to USD 20,000.
ACP & TCF
Why 3 much weaker Turkish players?
See Susan there goes Yildiz! hahahaha.You really gotta watch’em Susan they may have a high traditional rating from winnin a few events, but may not be all that great! Gettem Yildiz! haha.
no chinese players, no humpy – kinda lame to call it “World Rapid” – aint it?
And no Polgar sisters. This is not a world event.
Menzi is like 12 years old 1800; quite good for a girl, but not too good to play GM like Kosteniyuk, Kosintseva, Cramling, we had before a Canadian girl, M. Roy, who played against GMs and lost, where is she now?
World Champions can’t be created suddenly, therefore, it is perfectly right to give young players chance to play with big stars. This will motivate all young players.