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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
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