Feb-23-17 Women's World Championship Knockout Tournament (2017) 
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| malathiswami: It would be helpful if they renamed the titles. The winner of this format could be called the Women's World Knockout Chess champion. The winner of the Grand Prix could be labelled the World Tournament Chess Champion. The new World Classical Chess Champion could be decided in an |
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Mar-09-16 Muzychuk - Hou Women's World Championship Match (2016)
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| malathiswami: <Everett>, thanks for the link to http://denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm - it is a brilliant article that applies systems thinking to gender differences. Tracing the link chain from biological differences to roles and motivation is particularly informative. The role of ... |
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Aug-12-15 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi
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| malathiswami: Congratulations to Viji, on an excellent performance at the Asian Continentals. Pity about the last round, but it is amazing to be able to get back to playing at the highest level 15 years after the national championship wins! |
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May-02-14 G K Monnisha
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| malathiswami: Met your father on the bus Wednesday. You are lucky to have such supportive parents! Wish you all the best. |
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Sep-28-12 Humpy Koneru
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| malathiswami: Congratulations to Koneru Humpy on winning the Ankara tournament and possibly challenger's rights.Hope you get another shot at the championship - and have more success this time. |
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Jun-12-12 FIDE Women's Grand Prix Kazan (2012)
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| malathiswami: The Grand Prix is a tournament cycle in itself, in addition to being used to determine the challenger. The rules allow federations that host events in the cycle to nominate a player each. TCF always hosts at least one, and nominates Yildiz. All the rules are on ... |
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May-16-12 Anand - Gelfand World Championship Match (2012)
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| malathiswami: Solskytz: Actually, your suggestion of playing armageddon, then blitz, then rapid, then classical, and using them as tiebreaks in reverse order, is genuinely brilliant! It will lead to a very interesting build up to the match, and also to very tough tussles at each stage, since |
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Mar-05-11 6th FIDE Women Grand Prix (2011)
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| malathiswami: The SB points are the cumulative scores of all the opponents that the player has defeated, plus half the score of the opponents with whom the player has drawn: the Sonneborn-Berger tiebreaker system. The comment is that Humpy won by scoring 5.5/6 over the last 6 rounds - she ... |
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Jan-23-11 Tania Sachdev
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| malathiswami: Another brilliant performance from Tania - evidently at the top of her form. Hope this represents a jump in playing level. |
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Jan-22-11 Ganguly vs W Spoelman, 2011
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| malathiswami: Nice finish by Surya Sekhar. |
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