2012 Women’s World Championship (Finals)
A new World Championship will be declared in a few days and it will come down to two players. Former champion Antoaneta Stefanova of Bulgaria faces the Ukraine’s Anna Ushenina for the crown to culminate two weeks of bruising chess battles. The winner will have to face Hou Yifan in a match next year. Stefanova was champion in 2004-2006 while Ushenina is a perennial star for the Ukraine side.
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| 1 | Ushenina | 2452 |
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Stefanova | 2548 |
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Results, Games (TWIC), Photos
This was much more entertaining than that Anand Gelfand fiasco 😀
A beautiful place for the tourney but the terrible weather played havoc and has claimed many really legit contenders.
Much as I liked it, Anna Ushenina is great but unfortunately she has been helped tremendously by the weather so that the strongest players were forced aside with some of them catching cold and performing below par. This leaves recognition of her as the real world champion with some shade of doubt.
It’s a pity that the result of a World Championship was so random caused by a 1 off day performance of some players.
It is so strange that in order to produce just a challenger to the World Champion FIDE needs so many rounds of Grand Prix to decide whereas the one deciding the World Champion itself in the knockout system is so brief and only need to based on just 2 games most of the time!
It’s so ironical! Therefore the result could only be so random!!!
You are spot on Daaim.
I am not rooted for Hou Yifan though she is really solid.
I am a fan of others as well, such as Kateryna Lahno etc.
The importance FIDE placed on WWCC title using knockout system leaves much to be desired. It cheapens the title to the level of almost any other ordinary tournament.
And, as I mentioned above it just did not make sense to me that FIDE took great pride and hard work just to produce a challenger then a lottery way to produce the WWCC title.
This way FIDE could not prevent wild card result which might not truthfully represent true strength.
This should be a World Cup instead of World Championship.