Jovanka has been very supportive to Snodland Chess Club and has played simultaneous displays and given lectures, as well as judging our annual game of the year competition and playing in all of the Snodland Rapidplay tournaments.
Jovanka has been preparing for the tournament with GMs Stuart Conquest and Gawain Jones. She will be taking Stuart Conquest with her as her "second". In the first round Jovanka will be facing the Polish IM Iweta Rajlich. Jovanka has a good record against Rajlich and they have very similar Elo ratings. Rajlich's husband is the developer of Rybka, the strongest chess-playing programme in the world, so you can guarantee that she will be well prepared too. If Jovanka wins this first match, then she is likely to face the highest rated player in the tournament in round 2, Koneru Humpy, of India.
The tournament is a 64-player knockout, with just two games played in each round, except the final, which is over four games.
You can follow the games live on http://wwcc2010.tsf.org.tr/ and the first round will be played on Saturday 4th December.
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