Nana Dzagnidze (2545) a leader of Georgian chess national team gained the first victory at Grand Prix 2013-14.
Dzagnidze beat Mongolian Tuvshintug Batchimeg (2298) with white pieces and as a result she is in the 6th round with 2,0 points. Bela Khotenashvili (2505) also has the same points, in the fourth round she beat Anastasia Kosintseva (2517) and she is in the 5th place.
After 4 rounds Ukrainian Katerina Lahno is the leader of the tournament.She beat Russian Aleksandre Kosteniuk (2491) and gathered 3.0 points.
May 7 is day-off, on May 8 are held the 5th round matches. Khotenashvili plays against mentioned Kosteniuk with white pieces and Dzagnidze against Lithuanian Victorja Cmylite (2522) with black pieces, as for the leader Lahno she plays against Anna Ushenina (2491).
11 rounds will be held at the tournament which is underway in the city of Switzerland, Geneva. May 7 and 12 are day offs.
As we have already reported, according to the decision of FIDE, the v stage of Grand Prix will be held in Tbilisi too, the next round is held in 2014, from June 18 to July 2.
Grand Prix contains 6 rounds: 60 000 is prize money for each round, 1st place- 10 000 EUR (+260 points), 2nd place- 8 250 (+130 points), 3rd round – 6 750 (+120points), 4th place – 5 750 (+90points), 5th place – 5000 (+80 points), 6th place – 4 500 (+70 points), 7th round- 4 250 (+60), 8th round- 4 000 (+50), 9th – 3 250 (+40), 10th – 3 000 (+30), 11th – 2 750 (+20), 12th – 2 500 (+10).
The winner of Grand Prix, in 2015 will play against the current champion for gaining title of the best player of the planet. Now Ana Ushenina (Ukraine) is the current champion, last year she won with knock-out system. This year, for keeping the title Ushenina plays against Hou Yifan (China) twice champion of world ad winner of Grand Prix 2011-12.
