2010 Women Chess Cup (Antakya, Turkey)

Today starts the Women’s World Championship with most of the top players in the world. Of course, Judit Polgar has eschewed playing in the gender-based tournament, but as the gap closes, there may be more entrants into the upper echelon of chess. Two possibilities are from the Asian continent in India’s Humpy Koneru and China’s Hou Yifan. Both have shown their mettle amongst elite men and are favored to take over the crown from reigning champion, Alexandra Kosteniuk. Kosteniuk has held the title for two years, but has not been in top form lately. She will headline a field of 64 qualifiers from around the world. The winner will win US$60,000.

Time Control

The tournament will be a knockout format with the first five rounds being two games of 40 moves in 90 minutes with a 30-second increment for each move thereafter. There will be two tiebreak games with the entire game player in 25 minutes with 10-second increment per move. Thereafter will be two five-minute games with 10-second increment per move. If the score is level there will be one sudden death playoff with draw odds for black. White will receive five minutes and black will receive four minutes. Black only has to score a draw to win.

2010 Women World Chess Championship December 2-25, 2010 (Antakya, Turkey)
#	Name	Title	Federation	Flag	Rating
1	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	GM	Russia		2507
2	Koneru, Humpy	GM	India		2600
3	Hou, Yifan	GM	China		2591
4	Kosintseva, Tatiana	GM	Russia		2581
5	Dzagnidze, Nana	GM	Georgia		2551
6	Stefanova, Antoaneta	GM	Bulgaria		2548
7	Muzychuk, Anna	IM	Ukraine		2530
8	Cramling, Pia	GM	Sweden		2526
9	Harika, Dronavali	IM	India		2525
10	Ju, Wenjun	WGM	China		2524
11	Lahno, Kateryna	GM	Ukraine		2522
12	Cmilyte, Viktorija	GM	Lithuania		2514
13	Chiburdanidze, Maia	GM	Georgia		2502
14	Socko, Monika	GM	Poland		2495
15	Sebag, Marie	GM	France		2494
16	Ruan, Lufei	WGM	China		2480
17	Mkrtchian, Lilit	GM	Georgia		2479
18	Zatonskih, Anna	IM	USA		2478
19	Zhu, Chen	GM	Qatar		2477
20	Zhao, Xue	GM	China		2474
21	Paehtz, Elisabeth	GM	Germany		2474
22	Hoang Thanh Trang	GM	Hungary		2474
23	Pogonina, Natalija	GM	Russia		2472
24	Danielian, Elina	GM	Armenia		2466
25	Muzychuk, Mariya	GM	Ukraine		2462
26	Shen, Yang	WGM	China		2461
27	Ushenina, Anna	IM	Ukraine		2460
28	Skripchenko, Almira	IM	France		2460
29	Dembo, Yelena	IM	Greece		2454
30	Zhukova, Natalia	GM	Ukraine		2447
31	Rajlich, Iweta	IM	Poland		2446
32	Turova, Irina	IM	Russia		2439
33	Khukhashvili, Sopiko	IM	Georgia		2430
34	Houska, Jovanka	IM	England		2421
35	Romanko, Marina	IM	Russia		2414
36	Munguntuul, Batkhuyag	IM	Mongolia		2409
37	Foisor, Cristina-Adela	IM	Romania		2403
38	Huang, Qian	WGM	China		2402
39	Ovod, Evgenija	IM	Russia		2387
40	Cori T., Deysi	WGM	Peru		2384
41	Shadrina, Tatiana	WGM	Russia		2384
42	Kovanova, Baira	WGM	Russia		2380
43	Ding, Yixin	WGM	China		2370
44	Zawadzka, Jolanta	WGM	Poland		2368
45	Fierro Baquero, Martha	IM	Ecuador		2363
46	Muminova, Nafisa	WIM	Uzbekistan		2360
47	Lomineishvili, Maia	IM	Georgia		2347
48	Zhang, Xiaowen	WGM	China		2339
49	Baginskaite, Camilla	WGM	USA		2336
50	Vasilevich, Irina	IM	Russia		2333
51	Soumya, Swaminathan	WGM	India		2332
52	Meenakshi Subbaraman	GM	India		2328
53	Demina, Julia	WGM	Russia		2323
54	Ozturk, Kubra	WIM	Turkey		2264
55	Caoili, Arianne	WIM	Australia		2242
56	Nadig, Kruttika	WGM	India		2230
57	Yildiz, Betul Cemre	WIM	Turkey		2225
58	Zuriel, Marisa	GM	Argentina		2208
59	Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid	GM	Peru		2154
60	Kagramanov, Dina	WIM	Canada		2101
61	Mona, Khaled	WGM	Egypt		2093
62	Heredia Serrano, Carla	WIM	Ecuador		2087
63	Greeff, Melissa	WGM	South Africa		2082
64	Mezioud, Amina	WIM	Algeria		2029
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