The
Women's World Chess Championship 2001 took place from November 25 to December 14, 2001, in Moscow, Russia. It was won by
Zhu Chen, who beat
Alexandra Kosteniuk in the final by 5 to 3. The final was tied 2–2 after the classical games and decided in the rapid tie-breaks.
For the second time, the championship took the form of a 64-player
knock-out tournament.
Participants
The qualified players were seeded by their
Elo rating
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor.
The Elo system was invented as an improved ch ...
s (October 2001).
Top 50 Women October 2001
FIDE
Notable top players not taking part were Judit Polgár (ranked the no. 1 woman in the world), Xie Jun
Xie Jun (born October 30, 1970) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and is not just the first Chinese female but the first Asian female to become a chess grandmaster. She had two separate reigns as Women's World Chess Champion, from 1991 to 1996 ...
(ranked 2nd), Wang Lei (4th), Pia Cramling
Pia Ann Rosa-Della Cramling (born 23 April 1963) is a Sweden, Swedish chess player. In 1992, she became the fifth woman to earn the FIDE title of Grandmaster (chess), Grandmaster (GM). Since the early 1980s, she has been one of the strongest fem ...
(6th), Koneru Humpy (13th), Qin Kanying
Qin Kanying (; born 2 February 1974) is a Chinese chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman Grandmaster. She is a former Women's World Chess Championship runner-up and five-time Chinese women's champion.
Career
Qin Kanying won the Women's ...
(15th), Sofia Polgar
Sofia Polgar ( hu, Polgár Zsófia, ); born November 2, 1974) is a Hungarian and Israeli chess player, teacher, and artist. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, she is the middle sister ...
(16th), and Viktorija Čmilytė
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* Viktorija (singer), Serbian singer
See also
* Viktoriya
* Viktoria (disambiguation)
* Victoria (disambiguation)
* Viktor (disambiguation)
* Victor (disam ...
(20th).
Polgár, ranked 1st female and 19th overall in the world, chose instead to participate in the concurrent open event. Reigning champion Xie Jun had put her active career on hold at the time and decided not to defend her title.
Qualification paths
*WC: semifinalists of Women's World Chess Championship 2000 The Women's World Chess Championship 2000 was a change from previous championship cycle in that, for the first time, it consisted of a 64-player knock-out tournament which took place from November 27 to December 16, 2000 in New Delhi, India. Despi ...
(2)
*J: World Junior Champion 2000
*R: Rating (7)
*E: European Individual Chess Championship (29)
*AM: American Continental Chess Championship 2001
*AS: Asian Chess Championship (6)
*AF: African Chess Championship 2001 (3)
* Z2.1 (3), Z2.2, Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1a, Z3.1b, Z3.2a, Z3.2b, Z3.3, Z3.4: Zonal tournaments
*PN: FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE ( Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is an international organization based in Switzerland that connects the various national c ...
President nominee (2)
Results
Final Match
:
Bracket
References
External links
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