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The four-day event showcased a different chess variant each day: Basque Chess, Rapid Chess960, Rapid Chess and Blitz Chess with each game played counting for 1 point in determining the winner. Hou easily won the match: 0–2 in Basque, 3.5–0.5 in Chess960, 3–1 in Rapid Chess, and 4.5–3.5 in Blitz with a total score of 11–7.
Women's Speed Chess Championship finals No. Year Winner Runner-up Final score Prize fund 1 2019 Elina Danielian: Valentina Gunina: 15-13 $20,000 2 2020 Anna Ushenina: Alexandra Kosteniuk: 14.5-13.5 $52,000 3 2021 Hou Yifan: Harika Dronavalli: 15-13 $66,000 4 2022 Kateryna Lagno: Hou Yifan: 15-13 $70,000 5 2023 Hou Yifan: Harika Dronavalli: 15 ...
The Women's World Chess Championship 2011 was the 35th of its kind. ... Champion Hou Yifan retained her title, [5] defeating challenger Koneru Humpy by 5½ - 2½. [6 ...
The match was played between defending champion Anna Ushenina, winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, and challenger Hou Yifan, the previous champion and winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012. After seven of ten games Hou Yifan won the match 5.5 to 1.5 to retake the title. [3]
The FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2013–14 was a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women, which formed part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship 2015. The winner of the Grand Prix was decided in the last stage in Sharjah, UAE, when rating favorite and reigning world champion Hou Yifan overtook second ...
Hou Yifan has won all three Grand Prix she has played. Koneru Humpy has been the perennial runner-up, coming second in each of the first five Grand Prix series. The players who qualify for the world women's championship match are marked with blue background. The players who qualify for the Candidates Tournament are marked with green background.
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) divides time controls for chess into "classical" time controls, and the fast chess time controls.As of July 2014, for master-level players (with an Elo of 2400 or higher) the regulations state that at least 120 minutes per player (based on a 60-move game) must be allocated for a game to be rated on the "classical" list; [3] for lower-rated players, this can be ...
The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 was a 64-player knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world chess champion. The final was won by Tan Zhongyi over Anna Muzychuk in the rapid tie-breaks.