İş Bankası - Atatürk International Women Masters Chess Tournament

The Turkish Chess Federation, following the example of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, wants to give Women's chess a bold face. They attempt this by organizing the first Women's super tournament sponsored by İş Bankası. The total prize money is $ 16, 000.

The Turkish Chess Federation is also making an attempt at bringing up a Women dream team for the future and aim to win medals at future olympiads.

The tournament will be a round robin and starts on the 10th of March 2008 (arrival) and will finish on 20th March 2008 (departure). There will be eight invited players and the best two Turkish women player, according to the FIDE ElO List.

Notable absentees this year are
Judit Polgar - does not play in Women events.
Koneru Humpy - Second strongest female ever
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Pregnancy and children.

The event will still be a pretty strong one.

The following players are confirmed for the 2008 edition:

1 Cramling, Pia GM SWE 2531
2 Zhu Chen GM QAT 2531
3 Zhao Xue WGM CHN 2530
4 Hou Yifan WGM CHN 2502
5 Chiburdanidze, Maia GM GEO 2500
6 Ushenina, Anna IM UKR 2486
7 Harika, Dronavalli WGM IND 2480
8 Krush, Irina IM USA 2475
9 Atalık, Katerina IM TUR 2404
10 Betul Cemre Yildiz WIM TUR 2220

Reserve players

14 Javakhishvili, Lela IM GEO 2474
15 Socko, Monika IM POL 2473

For more details, see the official site - http://www.tsf.org.tr/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=19&Itemid=27

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