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FIDE has recently announced the line-up of the Women's Grand Prix. Most people have ignored the Regulations, but we decided to check the document out.
Surprisingly, there is a revolutionary new rule coming up! To promote chess, video from all the games will be broadcast live. The audience will have a chance to vote "Hot or not" in each match-up. The girl who gets more votes receives a full point, while the game is worth one point too, as usual. The bookmakers are at a loss already: they are not only reviewing ratings and game history, but also the results of chess beauty contests. Who will win the series and qualify for a World Women's Championship match and a professional modelling contract from FIDE's new corporate sponsor - an elite modelling agency?
A similar system will be employed at the Women's World Chess Championship match. As far as we know, the tie-break will be rapid chess and a bikini contest. In the case of a tie we will have blitz and mud wrestling.
Another interesting question that came up was why Natalia Pogonina didn't receive a nomination. A top-level FIDE official told Pogonina.com on terms of anonymity: "She is too hot for my liking".
Candidate master Peter Zhdanov offers video commentary on two of his recent games and shares a few practical tips on how to play blitz. Check out the beginning of the video to see a fantastic picture of Natalia Pogonina.
Warning: the annotations are in Russian. In the future we are planning to experiment with authors & formats and to record videos in English too.
Pogonina.com offers you a selection of some of the most informative chess tweets from last week. All the fresh chess news in one short post:
Olga Girya wins a strong women's tournament in India Quote of the week Close is not enough
RussiaChess.org: "Falling just a few steps from the finish" - ten deadly endgame blunders that happened in World Chess Championship-level tournaments
Kramnik is leading the Candidates Tournament after R12; Carlsen 0.5 points behind UAE now has a huge chess club for 500 players FIDE President nominations for the Women's Grand Prix Series
Berik Balbagaev: @Chess_News Again only half the truth...not only Nadezhda Kosintseva, but also Viktoria Cmilyte!
New episode of Odessa Chess TV program R12 proved this statement right Not the openings you expect to see at 2750+ level Nice domain name
Have we missed some of the best tweets? You can contribute to our next top-10 stories chart by retweeting the post you like and adding @Pogonina to the message so that we can see it.
By candidate master Peter Zhdanov, editor of Pogonina.com
In this special weekly column we will be looking at the most unexpected upsets that happened last week. Players usually face opponents of a comparable level. Considerably less frequent are situations when a significantly lower-rated player succeeds in beating a much stronger adversary.
If you have ever won a game against someone rated 300 points or above of yourself, please send it to us for publication. Any additional information (a photo, annotations, etc.) will be appreciated.
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