BOGM 2010 Women (Survey Results)

As you all know, the 2010 Battle of Grandmasters has been moved to a later date - for lack of venue. The reason does not sound so good to the ears, which could even elicit a spontaneous reaction of "Huh?," with your mouth gaping and eyes widely dilated.

BOGM was originally scheduled last March 15-23 (Dapitan), then to March 23-30 (Manila), and now moved to May 24-31 in Tagaytay City. As announced, the earliest possible schedule is only after the Asian Individual/Continental Championships which is scheduled to take place from April 20 to 30.

A big event like this should be well planned way ahead of time. The lack of venue being the main reason for the postponement erodes the credibility of the organizers behind it.

If you saw silliness in my survey as to who would win the BOGM 2010 Women's Division, I won't blame you. Nonetheless, as I had said in my previous post, the result of the survey is still worth a talk.

So after a week of survey, a total of 97 readers of Chess Windows participated. (First of all, my thanks to all those who took efforts to vote.) Should the BOGM 2010 push through and provided that the list of participants remains the same as announced, it would be interesting to find out if indeed the actual results of the tournament tally with the readers' pulse.

The question in the survey was: "Who do you think would win the Battle of Grandmasters 2010 Women's Division?

Here is the result (please click on chart for larger view):