The Russian IM\Valentina Gunina Makes History And Wins The Prestigious Women European Chess Championship 2012

The Russian talented IM\Valentina Gunina (2511 Elo) made history and won -on tiebreaks- the title of the prestigious European Individual Women Chess Championship that took place from 2-13 March ,2012 in the Anatolian hotel in the beautiful city of Gaziantep ,Turkey and currently are followed by The European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships (from 15-18 March) under the auspice of the Turkish Chess Federation and the sponsorship of the Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality the City of Gaziantep and the European Chess Union that provided a prize fund of 150,000 Euro for the three events -IM\Gunina won 20,500 Euro for the first prize-which makes it the biggest prize fund in the history of the European Women's chess events ;GM\Tatiana Kosintseva (2513 Elo) from Russia came second while GM\Anna Muzychuk (2583 Elo) from Slovenia-who was leading the tournament to the last 11th round that lost dramatically to IM\Gunina- came third .
Congratulations to all the winners and to Mr.Ali Nihat Yazıcı -Chairman of the Turkish Chess Federation-
For more information : http://eiwcc2012.tsf.org.tr/component/content/article/38-haber/157-round-11-valentina-gunina-became-the-european-champion

The Chinese Shine at The 2010 Women's World Chess Championship In Hatay ,Turkey

GM\Hou Yifan(2591)will face WGM\Ruan Lufei (2480)-both Chinese- on the battle for the title of the new Chess Queen on 20th Monday December 2010 ;they will play 4 games.The Women's World Chess Championships 2010 takes place in Hatay, Turkey from 2nd-25th December 2010.

Congratultions to China !

Source of the photos : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Hou_Yifan.jpg

http://files.chesscomfiles.com/images_users/tiny_mce/SonofPearl/Ruan%20Lufei%20semi%20final.jpg

WGM\ Mona Khaled Has Qualified For The 2010 Women's World Championship

WGM\ Mona Khaled has deservedly qualified for the 2010 Women's World Championship that will take place in Hatay, Turkey 2-25 December 2010.

WGM Mona Khaled was born in the USA in 1994. She now represents Egypt. She won the African Womens Championship in 2007 and in 2008 she won the Arab Womens Championship scoring seven wins and one draw from eight games.Champion of Egypt 2010 (with 9/9){http://www.chessgames.com/player/khaled_mona.html}

Source of the photo : http://tinyurl.com/23n8v33

Congratulations to WGM\ Mona Khaled with my best wishes of success .

For more information :http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2010/10/2010-womens-world-championship.html