Grand Prix ongoing in Geneva will be renovated on Monday. As you know Georgian Bela Khotenashvili and Nana Dzagnidze participate in it. Total participants in this competition in 12 and there are held 11 rounds. After 8 rounds, there are two leaders - Khotenashvili and Slovenian Anna Muzichuk 5.5-5.5. On Saturday these two participants met each other and a tense match ended in a draw. Ukrainian Katerina Lanho and Russian Tatiana Kosintseva are half point behind leaders. As for Nana Dzagnidze, she lost with Lanho in the eighth round and with 4 points she shares the 7-8th places with Yfan Hou. On Monday, in the 9th round Khotenashvili plays against Olga Giria with black pieces and Dzagnidze against Venzhun Zhu with white pieces.
12 chess players are competing in the tournament. Tbilisi will host V stage of Grand Prix 2013-14. The next tournament will be held from June 18 to July 2 next year.
Grand Prix consists of six stages. 60 000 EUR are for each stage: I place – 10 000 ევრო (+160 points), II – 8 250 (+130), III – 6 750 (+120), IV – 5 750 (+90), V – 5 000 (+80), VI – 4 500 (+70), VII – 4 250 (+60), VIII – 4 000 (+50), IX – 3 250 (+40), X – 3 000 (+30), XI – 2 750 (+20), XII – 2 500 (+10).
Winner of Grand Prix will play against champion of the planet in 2015.