Jermuk Chess Grand Prix Round 2: Humpy, Wenjun in joint lead

Women’s chess is always quite exciting with the players not willing for draws easily. The Jermuk Women’s Chess Grand Prix – fifth edition of the series 2011/12 – has begun. India’s Koneru Humpy has won both the rounds to lead with China’s Ju Wenjun. The latter has won both the rounds as well.

Watch live India time Round 3 today at the official website. Round 3 will see following pairings: Khurtsidze-Zhao, Danielian-Humpy, Yifan-Wenjun, Lufei-Mkrtchian, Kovalevskaya-Munguntuul and Kosintseva-Lahno.

Round 1 on 2012/07/17

1 GM Koneru Humpy 2598 1 – 0 GM Zhao Xue 25562 IM Khurtsidze Nino 2456 0 – 1 WGM Ju Wenjun 25183 GM Danielian Elina 2480 ½ – ½ IM Mkrtchian Lilit 24504 GM Hou Yifan 2617 ½ – ½ IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 24475 WGM Ruan Lufei 2483 ½ – ½ GM Lahno Kateryna 25376 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2417 1 – 0 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2516

Round 2 on 2012/07/18 at India time 4.30 pm1 GM Zhao Xue 2556 0 – 1 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda 25162 GM Lahno Kateryna 2537 1 – 0 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 24173 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2447 0 – 1 WGM Ruan Lufei 24834 IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2450 0 – 1 GM Hou Yifan 26175 WGM Ju Wenjun 2518 1 – 0 GM Danielian Elina 24806 GM Koneru Humpy 2598 1 – 0 IM Khurtsidze Nino 2456

Standings after round 21 WGM Ju Wenjun 2518 CHN 2

2 GM Koneru Humpy 2598 IND 23 GM Lahno Kateryna 2537 UKR 1½4 WGM Ruan Lufei 2483 CHN 1½5 GM Hou Yifan 2617 CHN 1½6 IM Kovalevskaya Ekaterina 2417 RUS 17 GM Kosintseva Nadezhda 2516 RUS 18 GM Danielian Elina 2480 ARM ½9 IM Mkrtchian Lilit 2450 ARM ½10 IM Munguntuul Batkhuyag 2447 MGL ½11 IM Khurtsidze Nino 2456 GEO 012 GM Zhao Xue 2556 CHN 0