
The 2021
Women's World Draughts Championship
The Women's Draughts World Championship is the world championship in international draughts organized by the World Draughts Federation (FMJD). The championship is held every two years. In the even year following the tournament must take place the W ...
at the
international draughts
International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a Abstract strategy, strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light co ...
took place from June 28 to July 14, 2021, in
Tallinn
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,
Estonia
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, under the auspices International Draughts Federation
FMJD
The World Draughts Federation (''Fédération Mondiale du Jeu de Dames'') FMJD, is the international body uniting national draughts federations. It was founded in 1947 by four Federations: France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.
Membe ...
. 16 players from 9 countries competing in the tournament, which played in COVID bubble Hotel Viru.
World Championship Women 2021. Rules and Regulations
/ref> Championship played round-robin. Main referee IR Frank Teer (The Netherlands). The winning prize for the tournament 20,000 euros.
At the same hotel simultaneously took place 2021 World Draughts Championship
The 2021 Draughts World Championship, World Draughts Championship at the international draughts took place from June 28 to July 14, 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia under the auspices International Draughts Federation (FMJD). Forty players competed in th ...
.
Matrena Nogovitsyna
Matrena Stepanovna Nogovitsyna (; born November 6, 1991) is a Russian player in the International draughts who won the women's world champion title in 2021. She was unable to defend this title due to the exclusion of Russian players from internatio ...
from Russia won first title.
Rules and regulations
The games were played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move. Conforming to the FMJD regulations players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both made 40 moves. If they do so nevertheless, the referee is obliged to decide on a 0-point each players.
The final classification was based on the total points obtained. If two or more players share the same place, the following factors will be used to define the places occupied:
# the largest number of victories
# the best results between this players
# the best results obtained in order of the classification.
For the places 1—3 will be played tie-break with Lehmann-Georgiev system (15 minutes and 2 seconds added per move for an unlimited number of games).
Other places will be shared.
Schedule
Participants
Results
References
External links
Offiсial site
Participants
Global reserve list for WC2021
Worldchampionship Women Tallinn 2021
KNDB
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