The 2018 FIDE Women's World Chess Championship, held between 3 and 23 November in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, features 64 players in a series of knockout matches. The early rounds are two games each, plus a tiebreak if necessary. The final is a match of four games, plus a possible tiebreak, with the winner declared the Women's World Champion.
The prize fund is USD $450,000 with the winner taking home $60,000.
Time control: the players receive 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with a 30-second increment from move one. The tiebreaks consist of two 25 min + 10-sec increment rapid games, then if needed two additional 10+10 games, two 5+3 blitz games and finally a single Armageddon game, where White has 5 minutes to Black's 4, but a draw counts as a win for Black.
The list of participants is impressive: the China stars GM Wenjun Ju (2568) and the last year's winner GM Zhongyi Tan (2513), the Indian GM Humpy Koneru (2548), the Russian GMs Kateryna Lagno (2556), Alexandra Kosteniuk (2543), Aleksandra Goryachkina (2534) and Valentina Gunina (2497) as well as the famous Ukrainan GMs Anna (2564) and Mariya (2545) Muzychuk, the German IM Elisabeth Paehtz (2495), as well as GM Nana Dzagnidze (2516) and many others.
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Schedule: (UTC)
Round 1 / Game 1 Nov 3, 2018 11:00
Round 1 / Game 2 Nov 4, 2018 11:00
Round 1 / Game 3 Nov 5, 2018 11:00
Round 1 / Game 4 Nov 5, 2018 12:30
Round 1 / Game 5 Nov 5, 2018 14:00
Round 1 / Game 6 Nov 5, 2018 14:45
Round 1 / Game 7 Nov 5, 2018 15:30
Round 1 / Game 8 Nov 5, 2018 16:00
Round 1 / Game 9 Nov 5, 2018 16:30
Round 2 / Game 1 Nov 6, 2018 11:00
Round 2 / Game 2 Nov 7, 2018 11:00
Round 2 / Game 3 Nov 8, 2018 11:00
Round 2 / Game 4 Nov 8, 2018 12:30
Round 2 / Game 5 Nov 8, 2018 14:00
Round 2 / Game 6 Nov 8, 2018 14:45
Round 2 / Game 7 Nov 8, 2018 15:30
Round 2 / Game 8 Nov 8, 2018 16:00
Round 2 / Game 9 Nov 8, 2018 16:30
Round 3 / Game 1 Nov 9, 2018 11:00
Round 3 / Game 2 Nov 10, 2018 11:00
Round 3 / Game 3 Nov 11, 2018 11:00
Round 3 / Game 4 Nov 11, 2018 12:30
Round 3 / Game 5 Nov 11, 2018 14:00
Round 3 / Game 6 Nov 11, 2018 14:45
Round 3 / Game 7 Nov 11, 2018 15:30
Round 3 / Game 8 Nov 11, 2018 16:00
Round 3 / Game 9 Nov 11, 2018 16:30
Round 1/4 final / Game 1 Nov 12, 2018 11:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 2 Nov 13, 2018 11:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 3 Nov 14, 2018 11:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 4 Nov 14, 2018 12:30
Round 1/4 final / Game 5 Nov 14, 2018 14:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 6 Nov 14, 2018 14:45
Round 1/4 final / Game 7 Nov 14, 2018 15:30
Round 1/4 final / Game 8 Nov 14, 2018 16:00
Round 1/4 final / Game 9 Nov 14, 2018 16:30
Round 1/2 final / Game 1 Nov 15, 2018 11:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 2 Nov 16, 2018 11:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 3 Nov 17, 2018 11:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 4 Nov 17, 2018 12:30
Round 1/2 final / Game 5 Nov 17, 2018 14:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 6 Nov 17, 2018 14:45
Round 1/2 final / Game 7 Nov 17, 2018 15:30
Round 1/2 final / Game 8 Nov 17, 2018 16:00
Round 1/2 final / Game 9 Nov 17, 2018 16:30
Round Final / Game 1 Nov 19, 2018 11:00
Round Final / Game 2 Nov 20, 2018 11:00
Round Final / Game 3 Nov 21, 2018 11:00
Round Final / Game 4 Nov 22, 2018 11:00
Round Final / Game 5 Nov 23, 2018 11:00
Round Final / Game 6 Nov 23, 2018 12:30
Round Final / Game 7 Nov 23, 2018 14:00
Round Final / Game 8 Nov 23, 2018 14:45
Round Final / Game 9 Nov 23, 2018 15:30
Round Final / Game 10 Nov 23, 2018 16:00
Round Final / Game 11 Nov 23, 2018 16:30
Ju Wenjun won the Women’s World Champion’s title! Congratulations!
Watch the games of the Women's World Chess Championship 2018 with computer analysis on ChessBomb.
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FIDE Women's World Chess Championship 2017
