By decision of FIDE, V stage women's chess Grand Prix in 2013-1 will take place in Tbilisi. This phase will take place from June 18 to July 2, 2014. Total Grand Prix consists of six phases. At each stage of the allotted 60 thousand EUR, to be allocated as follows: 1st place-10000 € (+160 PTS), II-8250 (+130), III-6750 (+120), IV-5750 (+90), V-5000 (+80), VI-4500 (+70), VII-4250 (+60), VIII-4000 (+50), IX-3250 (+40), X-3000 (+30), XI-2750 (+20), XII-2500 (+10).
Each player must participate in 4-h competitions and in the overall will be shown the best results in three of them.
Grand Prix winner for the title of world's best female players to compete with the current champion in 2015. The current champion is Anna Ushenina (Ukraine), which won the title last year, knock-out. This year, she will try to retain her title against the winner of the Grand Prix 2011-12, the many times world champion Hou Yifan (China).
In the Grand Prix will be18 participants, including two Georgian-Nana Dzagnidze and Bela Khotenashvili.
That's the entire list: 1. Hou Yifan (China, 2617), 2. Koneru Humpy (India, 2597), 3. Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia, 2585), 4. Zhao Xiu (China, 2565), 5. Nana dzagnidze (Georgia, 2545), 6. Katerina Lagno (Ukraine, 2550), 7. Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia, 2531), 8. Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria, 2525), 9. Victoria Cmilyte (Lithuania, 2522), 10. Harika Dronavalli (India, 2509), 11. Ven′czûn′ Chiu (China, 2521), 12. Béla Khotenashvili (2492, Georgia), 13. Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia, 2496), 14. Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, 2488) 15. Elina Danieliân (Armenia, 2478), 16. Olga Kettlebell (Russia, 2464), 17. Nafisa Muminova (Uzbekistan, 2312), 18. Batčimeg Tuvšintugs (2298, Mongolia).
The first stage of the Grand Prix will be held from on the 2nd to 16th of May in Geneva (Switzerland) and it will be attended by 12 chess players, who will play a round robin. In Geneva: Yifan, Lagno, Muzychuk, Dzagnidze, Kosintseva, Cmilyte, Ven′czûn′, Khotenashvili, Kosteniuk, Ushenina, kettlebell, Tuvšintugs.
The following steps take place:
II., 15, 2013-June 29 (Dilijan, Armenia)
III., 17 September, 2013 – 1 October (Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
IV. 2014 g 2-16 may (Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia)
V. 18, 2014, June-2 July (Tbilisi, Georgia)
VI., 2014, 24 August-7 September (Ulan Bator, Mongolia)
