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The 2017 FIDE Women's World Championship was held in Tehran, Iran, from 11 February to 3 March, with a rest day on 26 February. Rules and details The event featured 63 players in a series of knockout matches. Rounds 1-5 had two games each, plus tiebreak games if necessary. The final was a match of four games plus tiebreak games, with the winner declared Women's World Champion. The total prize fund was $450,000, with the winner taking home $60,000. Players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds added per move from move 1. The tiebreaks consisted of two 25 min + 10-sec increment Rapid games, then if necessary two 10+10 Rapid games, two 5+3 Blitz games (two 5+10 Rapid games in the final) and finally a single Armageddon game, where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counted as a win for Black. Chief arbiter: Anastasia Sorokina. Deputy chief arbiter: Shohreh Bayat. Controversial points The reigning champion Yifan Hou boycotted the qualification system and did not participate. Other absentees were Humpy Koneru and Irina Krush, as well as US Women's Champion Nazi Paikidze, and former (2015–16) Women's World Champion Mariya Muzychuk, who boycotted the event over the choice of the Iranian venue. The event started with only 63 players due to the passing away of qualifier Cristina-Adela Foisor. Her intended Round 1 opponent Olga Girya was seeded directly into Round 2. The final match On way to the final, Tan Zhongyi beat Sabina-Francesca Foisor in Round 1, Anna Ushenina in Round 2, Padmini Rout in Round 3, Ju Wenjun in the quarterfinal, and Dronavalli Harika in the semifinal. Anna Muzychuk eliminated Amina Mezioud in Round 1, Alina Kashlinskaya in Round 2, Le Thao Nguyen Pham in Round 3, Antoaneta Stefanova the quarterfinal, and Alexandra Kosteniuk in the semifinal. The final match started 27 February. After 2-2 in the Classical games, Tan Zhongyi won the second tiebreak game and became the 16th Women's World Champion. Classic Rpd
Tan Zhongyi (CHN) 2502 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 3½
Anna Muzychuk (UKR) 2558 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 2½
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Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 2017
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| Feb-05-17 | | ninja warrior: first... no way, no hou? |
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| Feb-05-17 | | Sokrates: How is it? Will the winner challenge Hou Yifan or will the winner be declared the new world champion? In case of the latter, it would be absurd due to the absense of Hou. |
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Feb-05-17
 | | Annie K.: No Hou, no Koneru, no Mariya Muzychuk (possibly to avoid clashing with her sister again)... Hou will probably challenge the winner here later to regain her crown, like before. Also note that this is the controversial WWCC held in Iran, that Paikidze is boycotting (and maybe some others). |
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Feb-05-17
| | Annie K.: Note: the FIDE participants' list names at #19 Cristina-Adela Foisor who has recently passed away. Will they replace her, or start with an empty spot? |
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Feb-05-17
 | | HeMateMe: recently Iran banned the USA freestyle wrestling team from competing in the world championship, held in Iran. This was payback for Trump's ban. Disgraceful, as they also forfeit opponents on the spot to Israeli competitors, ruining the competition. I think the debate on Hou having to compete is over. She is the consensus world champion and this 64 player lottery is insulting to a world champion. It's a great event because of the variety of players, but is not a world championship event. |
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| Feb-05-17 | | stst: It's double circus now... the FIDE political theatre, then the US-IRAN ... If FIDE can get this resolved (too late now, but if ever it got the real heart for reform, starting right next cycle,) then everything and eveybody will be happy. FIDE must abandon its bureaucracy, invite more representatives for a genueine forum... BUT ALL SAID - it most probably won't happen!! |
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| Feb-05-17 | | devere: <Annie K.: Hou will probably challenge the winner here later to regain her crown, like before.
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Hou will not be the challenger next time, so that can not happen. |
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| Feb-05-17 | | sonia91: <Annie K.: no Mariya Muzychuk (possibly to avoid clashing with her sister again)...> No, the reason is that she doesn't want to wear hijab (http://www.chessdom.com/sisters-muz...) <Hou will probably challenge the winner here later to regain her crown, like before.> No, Hou <dropped out> the Women's World Championship cycle. <Sokrates> The winner will be declared the new world champion and will defend her title in a match with Ju Wenjun, winner of the 2015-16 Women's FIDE Grand Prix. <Annie K.: Note: the FIDE participants' list names at #19 Cristina-Adela Foisor who has recently passed away. Will they replace her, or start with an empty spot?> No replacement, Girya makes it directly into round 2. |
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Feb-05-17
 | | tamar: Mariya Muzychuk is among those boycotting because of the headwear requirement. “it is wrong that the players who refuse to play in Iran and to wear a hijab are simply out of the World Championship cycle.” |
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Feb-05-17
| | Annie K.: Thanks for the info, everybody. :)
So what happens if Ju Wenjun wins here too? |
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| Feb-05-17 | | sonia91: Ju Wenjun would become the new world champion and the challenger spot would be taken by the Women's Grand Prix runner-up, Koneru Humpy. |
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Feb-05-17
| | Annie K.: Thanks, <Sonia>. Wow, not much mention of someone named Hou Yifan in all these grand plans. Is this a farce, or is this a farce? :s Well, maybe she really should try to follow Judit's example, and play only in open events. Speaking of open events, I noticed that in the recent Rapid and Blitz world championships, also held in a Muslim country (Qatar?), <none> of the women played in the open section. Would anybody happen to know if it's just that somehow not a single one of them wanted to, or...? |
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| Feb-05-17 | | sonia91: Well, Hou Yifan dropped out from Women's WC cycle when she dropped out from the Women's Grand Prix (she competed only in the first stage, in Monte Carlo) and then did not sign the contract to play and defend her title in the KO WC. <Speaking of open events, I noticed that in the recent Rapid and Blitz world championships, also held in a Muslim country (Qatar?), <none> of the women played in the open section.Would anybody happen to know if it's just that somehow not a single one of them wanted to, or...?> Well, they were held concurrently. Playing in the open section means 0 chances to win a medal (and therefore money), while women's section = more chances to win a medal (=money). |
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| Feb-05-17 | | sonia91: <Participants' list and schedule: http://www.fide.com/component/conte...
See also: Wikipedia article: Women%27s World Chess Championship 2017 (with pairings tree)> Why link Wikipedia page (not 100% reliable) instead of the official website (which obviously has the pairings)?! http://tehran2017.fide.com |
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Feb-05-17
| | Annie K.: Well, mostly because I haven't found it yet. ;) Updated now, but I'm keeping the Wiki article too, because it has the pairings tree right on the page, whereas FIDE's pairings tree has to be downloaded. I appreciate anything you dig up, so keep the suggestions coming whenever you have any. :) |
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Feb-05-17
 | | keypusher: <Sonia91: Well, Hou Yifan dropped out from Women's WC cycle when she dropped out from the Women's Grand Prix (she competed only in the first stage, in Monte Carlo) and then did not sign the contract to play and defend her title in the KO WC.> Kind of stupid to make the world champion play in a knockout, IMO. But that's FIDE. |
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| Feb-05-17 | | sonia91: Thanks, <Annie K.> |
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| Feb-05-17 | | Clemens Scheitz: Thanks for all that info, <sonia91> |
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| Feb-05-17 | | Kaspablanca: <keypusherKind of stupid to make the world champion play in a knockout, IMO. But that's FIDE>I also say is stupid, playing in a KO tournament was the way Anna Ushenina and Mariya Muzychuk became "world champions" but once they faced Hou Yifan playing in a world champioship match the Chinese player simply crushed them, without losing a single game in those 2 matches. |
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| Feb-06-17 | | WorstPlayerEver: This championship is a farce. |
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| Feb-06-17 | | Lambda: Judit Polgar and now Hou are showing that gender segregation in chess is a farce in general. |
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| Feb-06-17 | | BobbieM: Except Yifan Hou is struggling vs 2650+ where Polgar had no such problems |
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| Feb-06-17 | | Lambda: 2650+ players are tough, very few players don't have a problem with them. Hou isn't quite as strong as Judit was, of course, but she still proves the point. |
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| Feb-06-17 | | TaniaWinter: They could have chosen a better site. I would rather play naked then wear a hijab.. |
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| Feb-06-17 | | stst: < This championship is a farce.>
Well, so long is not too smelly!!
Take it just like another horse race...the First & Second class horses are not always in show... This is at best like a Class 4/5 race, or a mixture of classes 4/5 and all the way to the last (it's class 9 in old HK standard.)
The winner - just like those in HK races, may be promoted to a higher class, but, alas, it's almost never to have a class 4/5 or even 3 horse promoted to Classes 1/2, where really top notch horses are gauged.
In the top class, invariably, there were only just a few (usually not more than 4/5.)
This race, the "horses," and the show are all quite ugly, but, still there one can wager and make some bucks, esp. it's quite a mixture - the outcome could quite be UN-expected, too. That's where I like to pick super "dark" ones.
Once the formal list is out, I can place my bet at different stages (different odds, of course.) |
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