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Unofficial pairings of the first cycle of the Women’s World Championship

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Since the November rating list is out, I was able to find the unofficial pairings of the Women’s World Championship’s first cycle. It will be a mini match of 2 Classical games and if necessary then rapid, blitz and armageddon game to finally determine the winner of the first cycle :). Hopefully the official pairings will be out soon so everyone can start preparing :).

1. Hou Yifan 2606 – Ranasinghe, S D 1821
2. Humpy Koneru 2610 – Denise Frick 1871
3. Anna Muzychuk 2586 – Amina Mezioud 2055
4. Zhao Xue 2565 – Natalia Khoudgarian 2138
5. Kateryna Lahno 2553 – Mona Khaled 2155
6. Nadezhda Kosintseva 2539 – Melissa Castrillon Gomez 2159
7. Viktorija Cmilyte 2524 – Ingrid Aliaga Fernandez 2175
8. Marie Sebag 2521 – Irina Berezina 2190
9. Valentina Gunina 2517 – Gu Xiaobing 2209
10. Pia Cramling 2516 – Shayester Ghader Pour 2219
11. Tatiana Kosintseva 2515 – Madina Davletbayeva 2220
12. Harika Dronavalli 2512 – Soumya Swaminathan 2251
13. Bella Khotenashvili 2504 – Maritza Arribas Robaina 2273
14. Alexandra Kosteniuk 2501 – Tatev Abrahamyan 2304
15. Ju Wenjun 2501 – Атоша Пуркашиян 2321
16. Antoaneta Stefanova 2491 – Marina Romanko 2355
17. Zhu Chen 2491 – Nastassia Ziazulkina 2367
18. Anna Zatonskih 2489 – Carolina Lujan 2369
19. Natalia Pogonina 2478 – Svetlana Matveeva 2377
20. Mariya Muzychuk 2476 – Cristina-Adela Foisor 2383
21. Elina Danielian 2476 – Sofiko Khukhashvili 2383
22. Hoang Thanh Trang 2470 – Evgenija Ovod 2384
23. Irina Krush 2470 – Li Ruofan 2394
24. Alisa Galliamova 2468 – Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 2409
25. Olga Girya 2467 – Iweta Rajlich 2410
26. Huang Qian 2465 – Shen Yang 2413
27. Lilit Mkrtchian 2457 – Ketevan Arakhamia 2414
28. Lela Javakhishvili 2455 – Anastasia Bodnaruk 2415
29. Elena Dembo 2454 – Nino Khurtsidze 2428
30. Anna Ushenina 2452 – Cori T Deysi 2429
31. Natalia Zhukova 2451 – Guo Qi 2432
32. Monika Socko 2445 – Elmira Skripchenko 2441

You can find the list of players on the official website of the tournament – http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/?page_id=200

Participants of the Women’s World Championship 2012

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FIDE is announcing the list of players who confirmed their participation for the Women’s World Championship in Khanty-Mansiysk, 9 November to 3 December 2012.

For visa and travel details, the participants should contact the local Organising Committee at the emails [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected] to receive the necessary travel information, hotel bookings and invitation letter.

PARTICIPANTS of the WORLD WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 2012

a) From World Women’s Championships 2010-2011:
01. Hou, Yifan (CHN) – World Champion
02. Koneru, Humpy (IND) – World Champion Finalist 2011
03. Zhao Xue (CHN) – World Championship Semi finals 2010

b) World Girl Junior Champions 2010-2011:
04. Muzychuk, Anna (SLO)
05. Cori T Deysi (PER)

c) Rating List average 7/2011 & 1/2012:
06. Gunina, Valentina (RUS)
07. Galliamova, Alisa (RUS)
08. Zhu, Chen (QAT)
09. Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS)
10. Skripchenko, Almira (FRA)
11. Ushenina, Anna (UKR)

d) 28 players from European Women’s Championships 2010 & 2011
12. Cramling, Pia (SWE) (2010)
13. Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU)
14. Socko Monika (POL)
15. Sebag, Marie (FRA)
16. Kosintseva Tatiana (RUS)
17. Zhukova Natalia (UKR)
18. Dembo Elena (GRE)
19. Stefanova Antoaneta (BUL)
20. Kosintseva Nadezhda (RUS)
21. Muzychuk Mariya (UKR)
22. Rajlich Iweta (POL)
23. Ziaziulkina Nastassia (BLR)
24. Kovalevskaya Ekaterina (RUS)
25. Khurtsidze Nino (GEO)
26. Danielian, Elina (ARM) (2011)
27. Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS)
28. Khotenashvili, Bela (GEO)
29. Lahno, Kateryna (UKR)
30. Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO)
31. Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (SCO)
32. Foisor, Cristina-Adela (ROU)
33. Bodnaruk Anastasia (RUS)
34. Pogonina Natalija (RUS)
35. Ovod Evgenija (RUS)
36. Romanko Marina (RUS)
37. Hoang Thanh Trang (HUN)
38. Mkrtchian Lilit (ARM)
39. Khukhashvili Sopiko (GEO)

e) 8 players from Americas
40. Arribas Robaina, Maritza (CUB) (Continental)
41. Zatonskih, Anna (USA) (Zonal 2.1)
42. Abrahamyan, Tatev (USA) (Zonal 2.1)
43. Krush, Irina (USA) (Zonal 2.1)
44. Khoudgarian, Natalia (CAN) (Zonal 2.2)
45. Castrillon Gomez, Melissa (COL) (Zonal 2.3)
46. Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid (PER) (Zonal 2.4)
47. Lujan, Carolina (ARG) (Zonal 2.5)

f) 12 players from Asia/Oceania
48. Pourkashiyan, Atousa (IRI) (Continental 2010)
49. Harika, Dronavalli (IND) (Continental 2011)
50. Ghader Pour, Shayesteh (IRI) (Zonal 3.1)
51. Ranasinghe, S D (SRI) (Zonal 3.2)
52. Li, Ruofan (SIN) (Zonal 3.3)
53. Davletbayeva, Madina (KAZ) (Zonal 3.4)
54. Ju Wenjun (CHN) (Zonal 3.5)
55. Shen Yang (CHN) (Zonal 3.5)
56. Huang Qian (CHN) (Zonal 3.5)
57. Wang Yu (CHN) (Zonal 3.5)
58. Berezina, Irina (AUS) (Zonal 3.6)
59. Soumya, Swaminathan (IND) (Zonal 3.7)

g) 3 players from African Women’s Championship 2011
60. Mona, Khaled (EGY)
61. Mezioud, Amina (ALG)
62. Frick, Denise (RSA)

h) 2 nominees of the FIDE President
63. (TBA)
64. (TBA)

TOTAL: 64 players

Olympiad – rounds 8 and 9

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In round 8 we played Azeris, always a tough match in any European champ. or Olympiad. I was worse for most of the game against Z.Mamedyarova (WGM 2285) due to bad system choice but managed to exchange the most dangerous pieces of the opponent and drew. Unfortunately though, we lost 1.5-2.5.

In round 9 we got Puerto Rico and I had to play a 12 year old girl with 1916 ELO. I don’t even remember when I played a 12 year old last time! 🙂 Anyway, we won 4-0 🙂

Olympiad – round 7

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I drew IM Matnadze (2422 ELO) with Black in a very long and crazy game (93 moves). Unfortunately the team lost 1.5-2.5 to Spain 🙁

Here is my game:

Olympiad – round 6

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Today I won against WGM Ziaziulkina (2342 ELO) and the team won 2.5-1.5 against Belarus! The game started slowly with me playing a new line (for me) for the first time 🙂 but in the end I managed to do a couple of sacrifices 🙂