Situation is tensed at the 5th stage of FIDE Grand Prix in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar. Only one from 6 games finished draw in the 7th round. There is only one point difference among first 6 competitors (a 5-time World Champion Maia Chiburdanidze is among them).
After the match with Indian Humpy Koneru in the last round, Georgian chess player managed to mobilize and she beat French outsider Mari Sebag on the 42nd move.
Chiburdanidze collected 4 points and remained in the 6th place. As we have already mentioned, she falls behind leaders a little bit. Maia has a good chance to improve her results. She will play with Turkish Betul Yildiz (she is in the last place) in the 8th round. Today Yildiz beat Chen Zhu who plays in the name of Qatar and now she is in the 11th place with 2 points.
As for leaders, 3 chess players are in leaders who have 5-5 points. Those are: Chineses Xue Zhao and Yifan Hou and Bulgarian Antoaneta Stefanova. By the way, Zhao was defeated by Russian Tatiana Kosintseva (4.5), but she remained in the 1st place according to the additional index.
According to the results of previous stages Nana Dzagnidze is leader of Grand Prix with 390 points. She has participated in 3 tournaments (Chiburdanidze has only 85 points). Hou also has 320 points in the results of 3 stages, Kosintseva collected 290 points in 2 tournaments. Hou as well as Kosintseva (she refused to play in the last stage) are playing last stage and have the last chance to overtake Dzagnidze. Nana has a chance to increase her points at the tournament in Chile.
All participants play 4 tournaments of Grand Prix and show 3 best results. Winner chess player of total points will win a right to participate at the World Championship in the last quarter of 2011.
August 8 is the day-off at Grand Prix and the last 11th round will be held on August 11. Prize of each tournament is 40 000 EUR. Points and money will be divided by places the following way:
I place: 120 + bonus 40 points, 6 500 EUR
II place: 110 points + bonus 20, 4 750
III place: 100 points + bonus 10, 4 000
IV place: 90 points 3 750
V place: 80 points, 3 500
VI place: 70 points, 3 250
VII place: 60 points, 3 000
VIII place: 50 points, 2 750
IX place: 40 points, 2 500
X place: 30 points, 2 250
XI place: 20 points, 2 000
XII place: 10 points, 1 750
The best 9 participants according to six rounds of Grand Prix will be rewarded the following way:
I place: 15 000 EUR
II place: 10 000
III place: 8 000
IV place: 7 000
V place: 6 000
VI place: 5 000
VII place: 4 000
VIII place: 3 000
IX place: 2 000
FIDE's Women Grand Prix, the 5th stage, Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), July 29 - August 12
The 7th round
Yifan Hou (China, 2577) – Shen Yang (China, 2435) 0.5:0.5
Chen Zhu (China, 2476) – Betul Yildiz (Turkey, 2235) 0:1
Maia Chiburdanidze (Georgia, 2514) – Mari Sebag (France, 2519) 1:0
Batkhuagn Munguntaal (Mongolia, 2421) – Humpy Koneru (India, 2600) 1:0
Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria, 2560) – Yuhua Xu (China, 2488) 1:0
Tatiana Kosintseva (Russia, 2562) – Xue Zhao (China, 2462) 1:0

Tournament situation
1. Zhao– 5; 2. Stefanova – 5; 3. Hou – 5; 4. Kosintseva – 4.5; 5. Koneru – 4.5; 6. Chiburdanidze – 4; 7. Xu – 3; 8. Munguntaal – 2.5; 9. Zhu – 2.5; 10. Shen – 2.5; 11. Yildiz – 2; 12. Sebag – 1.5;