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Rostov-on-Don is the venue from the 1st-15th of August for this exceptional event. The previous series for Women was highly successful. The present one, of six events, will lead to a challenger being designated to meet the present World Champion Hou Yifan in 2013 over ten games.

The average rating is a couple of points higher than that seen last month in Hangzhou, China, so the record is again broken: Which means that we have the strongest ever all-women event!

Here is a list of the participants:

Seed	Name	Country	Title	Rating	World Rank	Age
1	Humpy Koneru	IND	GM	2614	2	24
2	Hou Yifan	CHN	GM	2575	3	17
3	Nadezhda Kosintseva	RUS	GM	2560	4	26
4	Tatiana Kosintseva	RUS	GM	2557	5	25
5	Anna Muzychuk	SLO	GM	2538	6	21
6	Kateryna Lahno	UKR	GM	2536	8	21
7	Antoaneta Stefanova	BUL	GM	2524	10	32
8	Elina Danielian	ARM	GM	2521	12	32
9	Alexandra Kosteniuk	RUS	GM	2497	17	27
10	Alisa Galliamova	RUS	WGM	2492	18	39
11	Ruan Lufei	CHN	WGM	2479	24	23
12	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	RUS	WGM	2427	49	37