| World Championship |
| Dates: |
27th November - 16th December 2000 |
| City: |
New Delhi (India) |
| Venue: |
Hyatt Regency |
| Organizers: |
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| Chief Arbiter: |
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| Players participating: |
61 (incl. 4 GMs, 12 IMs, 24 WGMs, 11 WIMs, 3 WFMs) |
| Eligible: |
Unconfirmed
1999 World Champion (1): Xie Jun
From 1997 Candidates (9): Galliamova, Ioseliani, Chiburdanidze, Peng Zhaoqin, Marić, Arakhamia-Grant, Cramling, Gurieli, Kachiani-Gersinska
Zone 1.1 (2): Calzetta Ruiz, Houska (did not arrive - replaced by Sziva)
Zone 1.2 (2): Pitam, Klinova
Zone 1.3 (1): Koskela
Zone 1.4 (4): Peptan, Lakos, Zielińska, Dworakowska
Zone 1.5 (7): Khurtsidze, Khurtsilava, Goletiani, Bojković, Javakhishvili, Manokova, Tkeshelashvili
Zone 1.6 (4): Matveeva, Demina, Zayats, Stiazhkina
Zone 1.7 (2): Čmilytė, Reizniece
Zone 1.8 (2): Lagvilava, Eidelson
Zone 1.9 (3): Zatonskikh, Zhukova, Vasylevych
Zone 2.1 (3): Krush, Khan, Shahade
Zone 2.2 (1): Charest
Zone 2.3 (1): Arribas Robaina
Zone 2.4 (1): Jo.Chaves
Zone 2.5 (1): Amura
Zone 3.1a (?1): none
Zone 3.1b (1): Vijayalakshmi
Zone 3.2a (?1, ?2): Hoàng Thanh Trang, Nguyễn Thị Thanh An
Zone 3.2b (1): Moylan (did not arrive - replaced by Putra-Johns)
Zone 3.3 (?4): Qin Kanying, Xu Yuhua, Wang Lei, Zhu Chen
Zone 3.4 (1): Uskova
Zone 4.1 (?1): El-Ghaby, Houli
Zone 4.2 (1): none
Zone 4.3 (1): Frank (did not arrive - replaced by Meyer)
Home players (?2): Thipsay, Meenakshi (maybe one of them was selected as replacement for missing 3.1a zone representative)
Other (3): Gaprindashvili, Skripchenko, Kovalevskaya (possibly all by Nona qualified by rating; details unknown) |
| Games played: |
160 (3 games were forfeited) |
| Competition format: |
Knock-out |
| Tie-breaks: |
none |
| Time control: |
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| PGN game file: |
wwc2000-wch.pgn |
