In Geneva, nine rounds are held at Grand Prix and there are still two leaders- Bela Khotenashvili and Slovenian Anna Muzichuk, they have 6.5-6.5 points. In the ninth round both of them won- Khotenashvili beat Olga Giria with black pieces and Muzichuk beat Tushintug Batchimed with white pieces. Tatiana Kosintseva is half point behind the "Duet", she beat Katerina Lanho. As for Nana Dzagnidze, she played draw wuth Anna Ushenina and she shared rge seventh-eighth place with 4.5 points with Yofan Hou. Today, there is held the round before the last one, Khotenashvili plays against Lanho and Dzagnidze against Venzhun Zhu.
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.