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🏆 Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

  PARTICIPANTS (sorted by highest achieved rating; click on name to see player's games)
Humpy Koneru, Tatiana Kosintseva, Xue Zhao, Nadezhda Kosintseva, Nana Dzagnidze, Kateryna Lagno, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Zhongyi Tan, Maia Chiburdanidze, Antoaneta Stefanova, Alisa Galliamova, Pia Cramling, Viktorija Cmilyte, Harika Dronavalli, Ekaterina Kovalevskaya, Marie Sebag, Elina Danielian, Yuhua Xu, Thanh Trang Hoang, Natalija Pogonina, Pin Wang, Monika Socko, Lilit Mkrtchian, Irina Krush, Almira Skripchenko, Lela Javakhishvili, Natalia Zhukova, Qian Huang, Elisabeth Paehtz, Ekaterina Atalik, Nino Khurtsidze, Iweta Radziewicz Rajlich, Zhaoqin Peng, Corina-Isabela Peptan, Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska, Svetlana Matveeva, Natasa Bojkovic, Olga Alexandrova, Ann Matnadze Bujiashvili, Maia Lomineishvili, Joanna Dworakowska, Irina Turova, Tatjana Vasilevich, Yuanyuan Xu, Yu Wang, Rusudan Goletiani, Elena Sedina, Jana Jackova, Carolina Lujan, Mariya Sergeyeva, Meenakshi Subbaraman, Jennifer Shahade, Svetlana Petrenko, Thi Thanh An Nguyen, Maritza Arribas Robaina, Kieu Thien Kim Le, Sopio Tqeshelashvili, Luciana Morales Mendoza, Anna Hahn, Shadi Paridar, Dinara Khaziyeva, Farida Arouche, Asma Houli, Cecile Henriette van der Merwe

Chessgames.com Chess Event Description
Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

The 2004 FIDE Women's World Championship, held from 22 May to 5 June in Elista, Russia (with rest days on May 28 and June 2) featured 64 players in a series of knockout matches. The early rounds had two games each, plus tiebreak games if necessary. The final was a match of four games plus eventual tiebreak games, with the winner declared Women's World Champion. Players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 15 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, and (if needed) two additional 5 min + 10-sec Rapid games, plus a single Armageddon game where White had 6 minutes to Black's 5, but a draw counted as a win for Black. The eventual tiebreaks of the final were four 25 min + 10-sec games, two 5 min + 10-sec games, then one 5 + 10 Rapid game at a time, and an Armageddon game if in the opinion of the chief arbiter the match was taking too much time. Chief arbiter: Geurt Gijssen.

The reigning champion Zhu Chen did not participate. On her way to the final, Antoaneta Stefanova knocked out Tan Zhongyi in Round 1, Tatjana Petrovna Vasilevich in Round 2, Natalia Zhukova in Round 3, Nana Dzagnidze in the quarterfinal, and Maia Chiburdanidze in the semifinal. Ekaterina Valentinovna Kovalevskaya knocked out Carolina Lujan in Round 1, Olga Alexandrova in Round 2, Kateryna Alexandrovna Lagno in Round 3, Ketino Georgiyevna Kachiani-Gersinska in the quarterfinal and Humpy Koneru in the semifinal. The final match started 3 June. After three games, Kovalevskaya could no longer catch up and Antoaneta Stefanova became the 10th women's world champion:

Elo 1 2 3 Stefanova 2490 1 1 ½ 2½ Kovalevskaya 2502 0 0 ½ ½

Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2004052...
Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2004071...
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ChessBase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/antoa...
TWIC 1: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
TWIC 2: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 2004

Previous: Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001) (Zhu Chen is the 9th women's world champion). Next: Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2006) (Stefanova knocked out in Round 2, Yuhua Xu became the 11th women's world champion)

 page 3 of 8; games 51-75 of 197  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
51. C Peptan vs R Goletiani  ½-½372004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB42 Sicilian, Kan
52. T Nguyen vs K Kachiani-Gersinska  ½-½442004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
53. O Alexandrova vs A Matnadze Bujiashvili  1-0852004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD30 Queen's Gambit Declined
54. H Dronavalli vs V Cmilyte  0-1672004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentA15 English
55. N Kosintseva vs L Javakhishvili  1-01152004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB40 Sicilian
56. E Sedina vs E Danielian  ½-½372004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB01 Scandinavian
57. P Wang vs E Paehtz 0-1462004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
58. T Vasilevich vs Y Xu  1-0742004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch
59. M Socko vs L Mkrtchian  0-1502004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE42 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 c5, 5.Ne2 (Rubinstein)
60. N Khurtsidze vs E Atalik  ½-½442004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentA11 English, Caro-Kann Defensive System
61. N Bojkovic vs Y Wang 1-0902004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentC42 Petrov Defense
62. N Pogonina vs M Sebag  0-1312004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
63. M Lomineishvili vs I Turova  1-0662004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
64. J Dworakowska vs Z Peng  1-0592004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
65. S Tqeshelashvili vs Y Xu 0-1192004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE48 Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5
66. S Petrenko vs N Zhukova  ½-½412004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentC02 French, Advance
67. T Kosintseva vs Q Huang  ½-½502004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentC11 French
68. K Kachiani-Gersinska vs T Nguyen  1-0642004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE73 King's Indian
69. L Javakhishvili vs N Kosintseva  0-1442004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentE44 Nimzo-Indian, Fischer Variation, 5.Ne2
70. E Danielian vs E Sedina  ½-½322004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentA07 King's Indian Attack
71. Y Xu vs T Vasilevich  1-0352004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD51 Queen's Gambit Declined
72. M Socko vs L Mkrtchian 0-1452004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD37 Queen's Gambit Declined
73. J Dworakowska vs Z Peng  1-0532004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentB48 Sicilian, Taimanov Variation
74. Y Xu vs S Tqeshelashvili 1-0172004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentC10 French
75. N Zhukova vs S Petrenko  1-0362004Women's World Championship Knockout TournamentD87 Grunfeld, Exchange
 page 3 of 8; games 51-75 of 197  PGN Download
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-24-04  Knight13: Antoaneta Stefanova won!
Mar-09-05  TweetyBird88: HI! I'm TweetyBird88. My name is Kiarra Coston and I am 16 years old. I started playing chess when I was 14, and I really like it. you can hit me up if you wanna play on this website!! xoxoxo
Mar-09-05  FLCLlove: umm...<TweetyBird88> you can't directly play on this site...that information might do us better if it was in your profile:)
Mar-09-05  FLCLlove: ChessGames.com Help here are some websites where you can play though...
Sep-16-09  JimmyVermeer: The match between Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska and Nguyen Thi Thanh An resulted in a tie. Kachiani moved on to the next round. How was this decided?
Jun-28-20
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <JimmyVermeer> It's because Kachiani drew the Armageddon game T Nguyen vs Kachiani-Gersinska, 2004 with the black pieces.

Sorry for late answer ;)

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