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The 2000 FIDE Women's World Championship, held from 27 November to 15 December in New Dehli, India featured 58 players in a series of knockout matches played at the same time as the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2000). The early rounds had two games each, plus tiebreak games (on the third day) if necessary. The final was a match of four games, plus eventual tiebreak games, with the winner declared Women's World Champion. Three players (Xie Jun, Chiburdanidze and Galliamova) had a bye in the first round, and three players apparently did not turn up (Rusudan Goletiani, Ela Pitam and Geraldine Johns-Putra). The reigning champion Xie Jun had the right to play in the Open section, but chose to defend her title. The time control* was 100 minutes for the first 40 moves then 50 more minutes till move 60, then 10 more minutes till the end of the game, with a 30-second increment from move 1. The tiebreaks consisted of two 25 min + 10-sec increment Rapid games, then (if necessary) two 15 + 10 Rapid games, and finally if necessary individual Rapid games where White had 4 + 10 and Black 5 + 10. If in the opinion of the chief arbiter the individual games took too much time he might decide on an Armageddon game in which White had 6 minutes and Black 5 (without increment), with a draw counting as a win for Black. On her way to the final, Xie Jun had a bye in Round 1 and knocked out Svetlana Matveeva in Round 2, Elena Yevgenyevna Zaiatz in Round 3, Natalia Zhukova in the quarterfinal, and Ekaterina Valentinovna Kovalevskaya in the semifinal. Kanying Qin knocked out Masha Vladimirovna Klinova in Round 1, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant in Round 2, Ketino Georgiyevna Kachiani-Gersinska in Round 3, Corina-Isabela Peptan in the quarterfinal and Alisa Maric in the semifinal. The final match between the two began on 12 December. After 1-0 in the first game, Xie Jun drew the remaining three and defended her title. She also took home $85,240 plus other awards and mementos. Elo 1 2 3 4
Xie Jun 2557 1 ½ ½ ½ 2½
Kanying Qin 2489 0 ½ ½ ½ 1½
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Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 2000
The Times of India, 17 December 2000 (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...)*Assuming that Women and Open had the same time control rules. See https://web.archive.org/web/2001040... Previous: Xie Jun - Galliamova Women's World Championship Match (1999) (the 7th world champion Xie Jun regained her title). Next: Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2001) (Zhu Chen became the 9th women's world champion)
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