The 2000 FIDE Women's World Cup was a 24-player tournament held from 1-13 September in Shenyang, China. The tournament was not part of any World Championship cycle. The participants were first divided into four 6-player round-robin groups (1-5 September), from which the two best players advanced to an 8-player knockout (7-13 September). Rest days: September 6 and 11. The prize fund was US $168,000. Games started at 2 pm. Chief arbiter: Ignatius Leong.
1 Zhu Chen 2539 * ½ 1 1 1 1 4½
2 Yuhua Xu 2505 ½ * ½ 1 ½ 1 3½
3 Pokorna 2363 0 ½ * 0 1 1 2½
4 Kovalevskaya 2475 0 0 1 * ½ 1 2½
5 Maric 2443 0 ½ 0 ½ * 1 2
6 Payet 2010 0 0 0 0 0 * 0
1 Wang Pin 2502 * ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 3½
2 Kanying Qin 2501 ½ * ½ ½ 1 1 3½
3 Skripchenko 2450 ½ ½ * ½ 1 1 3½
4 Stefanova 2514 0 ½ ½ * ½ 1 2½
5 Amura 2351 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1 2
6 Mouradian 2000 0 0 0 0 0 * 0
1 Wang Yu 2401 * ½ 1 ½ 1 1 4
2 Cramling 2484 ½ * 0 1 1 1 3½
3 Khurtsidze 2418 0 1 * ½ 1 1 3½
4 Chiburdanidze 2545 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 2½
5 Kosteniuk 2398 0 0 0 ½ * 1 1½
6 Solomons 2000 0 0 0 0 0 * 0
1 Hoang Thanh Trang 2489 * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 3½
2 Zhukova 2450 ½ * ½ 1 1 ½ 3½
3 Xie Jun 2568 0 ½ * ½ 1 1 3
4 Krush 2354 ½ 0 ½ * ½ 1 2½
5 Wang Lei 2498 ½ 0 0 ½ * ½ 1½
6 Hernandez 2207 0 ½ 0 0 ½ * 1
The playoff (two 15+10 Rapid games and sudden death Blitz games if necessary) took place soon after Round 5. Wang Pin - Kanying Qin 1-1, Kanying Qin - Skripchenko 1½-½, and Wang Pin - Skripchenko 2-0 (2nd game was forfeited) resolved the 3-way tie in favor of Wang Pin and Kanying Pin. Cramling qualified by 1½-½ against Khurtsidze, and Hoang Thanh Trang beat Zhukova 1½-½ in two games for the quarterfinal pairings. Then after a rest day the top two players in each group played a knockout tournament, each match consisting of two Classical games. If 1-1, then two Rapid tiebreak games, and if still equal, individual sudden death Blitz games until there was a win (a draw did not count as a win for Black): Quarterfinals Sept. 7-8 Semifinals Sept. 9-10 Final Sept. 12-13
Yuhua Xu ½1 -- - 1½
Wang Yu ½0 -- - ½
Yuhua Xu 01 01 1 3
Cramling 10 10 0 2
Cramling 1½ -- - 1½
Zhu Chen 0½ -- - ½
Yuhua Xu ½1 -- - 1½
Zhukova ½0 -- - ½
Zhukova 1½ -- - 1½
Wang Pin 0½ -- - ½
Zhukova ½1 -- - 1½
Hoang Thanh Trang ½0 -- - ½
Hoang Thanh Trang ½1 -- - 1½
Kanying Qin ½0 -- - ½
Yuhua Xu pleased the home fans by beating Natalia Zhukova in the final. She took home the first prize of US $30,000.Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2000101...
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Wikipedia article: Shenyang
Next: World Cup (Women) (2002). See also World Cup (2000)
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