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The 2012 FIDE Women's World Championship, held from 11 November to 1 December at the Ugra Chess Academy in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia (with a rest day on 26 November) featured 64 players in a series of knockout matches. Rounds 1-5 had two games each, plus tiebreak games on the third day if necessary. The final (Round 6) was a match of four games plus tiebreak games, with the winner declared Women's World Champion. Total prize fund: $450,000, with the winner taking home $60,000. Players received 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 more minutes for the rest 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 10+10 Rapid games, two 5+3 Blitz games (two 5+10 Rapid games in the final), and an Armageddon game where White had 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counted as a win for Black. The participants were accomodated in the Olympic hotel. Chief arbiter: Hal Bond. The reigning World Champion Yifan Hou was knocked out in Round 2, by Monika (Bobrowska) Socko. On her way to the final, Anna Ushenina eliminated Deysi Estela Cori Tello in Round 1, Anna Muzychuk in Round 2, Natalia Pogonina in Round 3, Nadezhda Kosintseva in the quarterfinal, and Ju Wenjun in the semifinal. Antoaneta Stefanova defeated Marina Romanko Nechaeva in Round 1, Zhu Chen in Round 2, Monica Socko in Round 3, Marie Sebag in the quarterfinal and Dronavalli Harika in the semifinal. The final match started 27 November. After 2-2 in the Classical games, Ushenina won the second Rapid game and became the 14th Women's World Champion. Elo Classic Rpd
Anna Ushenina 2452 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 3½
Antoaneta Stefanova 2491 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 0 2½
Official site: https://web.archive.org/web/2012120...
Regulations: https://web.archive.org/web/2012111...
Zero Bulletin: https://web.archive.org/web/2013011...
Mark Weeks: https://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/b2...
ChessBase 1: https://en.chessbase.com/post/women...
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ChessBase 3: https://en.chessbase.com/post/tumul...
Chess.com: https://www.chess.com/news/view/ann...
TWIC 1: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
TWIC 2: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
TWIC 3: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi...
Wikipedia article: Women's World Chess Championship 2012Previous: Hou - Koneru Women's World Championship Match (2011) (Hou defended her title against Humpy Koneru). Next: Ushenina - Hou Women's World Championship Match (2013) (Hou regained the title by defeating Ushenina)
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| Nov-10-12 | | itsankush: Go Koneru go |
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Nov-10-12
 | | HeMateMe: If Yifan wins, maybe we can see a training match, where she could play a game, and she would play both sides of the board, impartially? |
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| Nov-10-12 | | hellopolgar: a knock-out championship determines the women's world champion? how come men's world champion is never determined this way? |
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| Nov-10-12 | | Absentee: <hellopolgar:
how come men's world champion is never determined this way?>If only... |
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| Nov-10-12 | | Refused: <hellopolgar: a knock-out championship determines the women's world champion? how come men's world champion is never determined this way?> We have seen this.
Cues should be. " (chess) tourists" "Khalifman" "Vegas". |
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Nov-10-12
 | | alexmagnus: Well, nobody knows how Khalifman would have done in the same format as now in women's case (that is, KO followed by a match). Actually, a Khalifman-Karpov match in 2000 could well have ended with Khalifman's victory. |
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Nov-10-12
| | alexmagnus: But it's interesting that women's WC, despite the KO format, was never won by a real outsider. |
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| Nov-10-12 | | SimonWebbsTiger: I feel sorry for the lass who gets knocked out by Hou Yifan. Seems a bit rich the structure gives Hou two bites of the cherry. |
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Nov-10-12
| | HeMateMe: I tried chess bomb, no games yet. Isn't it already Sunday, in Siberia? Maybe today was just the meet and greet, no games? |
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| Nov-10-12 | | dx9293: <Refused> Oh, not the "tourist" stuff again, please. If Kramnik would have won, instead of getting knocked out, no one would have called him a tourist. |
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| Nov-10-12 | | whiteshark: Round one pairings are out: http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/wp-c... |
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Nov-10-12
| | alexmagnus: Lahno vs Mona, heh. Somehow I wished this exact pairing. |
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| Nov-10-12 | | Refused: <dx9293: <Refused> Oh, not the "tourist" stuff again, please.
If Kramnik would have won, instead of getting knocked out, no one would have called him a tourist.> I just used the (in)famous quotation by Kasparov to refresh Absentee's memory, that we already had k.o. World Championships. And no, the k.o. formats we have seen in the past did not necessarily produce the arguably strongest player emerging. Khalifman was one example, he was a fine GM at that time, but not really a WC in my book. Same with Kasimdzhanov, he is a very strong grandmaster and probably one of the best when it comes to opening theory, but also not a real WC callibre. In short I am not a huge fan of those k.o. tournaments. |
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| Nov-10-12 | | waustad: There is an 11 hour time difference between EST and the time there. Games start at 4AM EST. http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/?pag...
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclo... |
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| Nov-10-12 | | Shimanzi: Go kosintevas go |
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| Nov-10-12 | | waustad: OK, if neither Yifan Hou or Humpy Koneru win, who plays the WWCC match next time around? I seem to recall the Humpy earned the right for a match in the World Cup or some such. They seem to alternate methods of deciding who is champ. |
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| Nov-11-12 | | Absentee: <Refused:
I just used the (in)famous quotation by Kasparov to refresh Absentee's memory, that we already had k.o. World Championships.>*My* memory? |
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| Nov-11-12 | | Blunderdome: <Absentee> Actually, from your initial post, I couldn't tell whether you were being facetious or were genuinely unaware of the FIDE KO matches. One can glean only so much from two words and no inflection. |
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| Nov-11-12 | | waustad: I tried to look at the elo profile for Pia Cramling's opponent and the link went to a male player from Iran. I guess they still need to work out some kinks. |
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Nov-11-12
| | alexmagnus: <Khalifman was one example, he was a fine GM at that time, but not really a WC in my book.> Nobody knows. See Gelfand. When he won the Candidates, all screamed he is bad, the format sucks, and Anand will crush him, the match won't last past 10 games. But what actually happened, he held Anand to tiebreaks... Maybe Khalifman-Karpov would be similar. Even more, in 2000 Karpov was on a big decline, so I wouldn't be surprised if a Khalifman-Karpov 2000 match ended with the former's victory. |
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Nov-11-12
| | alexmagnus: <. They seem to alternate methods of deciding who is champ.> They do. KO in even years, matches in odd ones (matches: KO champion vs GP winner, IIRC). That is, the 2013 match will be between Hou and the winner of this championship (but I don't know what happens if Hou wins this championship. Probably there will be no match at all...). |
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| Nov-11-12 | | Octavia: 32 women are going to have a nice time with their pals in Khanty for ~ a week - they all know each other from many other competitions - then its time to go home. I hope my fav is going to be the outsider to win the competition! She's won against stronger players then these before now. |
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| Nov-11-12 | | waustad: Alexander Khalifman is commentating on chesstv.com. |
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Nov-11-12
| | HeMateMe: I'm conflicted about this event. I'm happy that so many players get a whiff of a championship event, but with such short matches, an upset could knock out a more worthy player, early in the tournament. Maybe choosing the eight who played the best this year, in a Candidates event, is a better method. Anyhow, I hope the chess is good, which I'm sure it will be. Yifan is a juggernaut, hard to imagine the winner here (if it isn't Yifan herself) beating Yifan in a match. Maybe Kat Lahno. Does anyone have a player here that they think can defeat Hou Yifan in a match of say, ten games? |
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| Nov-11-12 | | Octavia: why 10 games? |
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