World Championship |
Dates: |
10th - 27th March 2006 |
City: |
Ekaterinburg (Russia) |
Venue: |
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Organizers: |
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Chief Arbiter: |
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Players participating: |
64 (incl. 8 GMs, 19 IMs, 23 WGMs, 8 WIMs, 1 WFM) |
Eligible: |
Placed 1-4 in 2004 World Championship (4): Stefanova, Kovalevskaya, Koneru, Chiburdanidze 2004 World U20 Champion: Korbut 2005 World U20 Champion: Pähtz By Elo rating (5): Galliamova, Xu Yuhua, Kosteniuk, Zhu Chen, Zhao Xue 2004 European Championship (10): Peng Zhaoqin, Zhukova, Dzagnidze, Slavina, Foisor, Arakhamia-Grant, Cramling, Soćko, T.Kosintseva, Houska 2005 European Championship (19): Lahno, N.Kosintseva, Zayats, Danielian, Dembo, Khurtsidze, Mkrtchian, Kononenko, Radziewicz, Matveeva, Purtseladze, Segag, Zielińska, Skripchenko, Ushenina, Ovod, Čmilyte, Javakhishvili, Vasylevich 2005 American Championship (3): Amura, Rivera, Piña Vega 2004 Asian Championship (3): Wang Yu, S.Meenakshi, Ju Wenjun 2005 African Championship (2): Basta Sohair, Sabure Zone 2.1 (1): Krush Zone 2.2 (1): Khoudgarian Zone 2.3 (1): Arribas Robaina Zone 2.4 (1): Zapata Zone 2.5 (1): Lujan Zone 3.1 (1): Pourkashiyan Zone 3.2 (1): Vijayalakshmi Zone 3.3 (1): Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet Zone 3.4 (1): Aketaeva Zone 3.5 (4): Hou Yufan, Shen Yang, Qin Janying, Ruan Lufei Zone 3.6 (1): Berezina-Feldman Zone 4.1 (1): Mezioud Nominated by FIDE President (1): Kursova |
Games played: |
183 |
Competition format: |
Knock-out |
Tie-breaks: |
none |
Time control: |
90m/40 + 15m/all + 30s/incr. |
PGN game file: |
wwc2006-wch.pgn |