Women's World Championship 2014

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Lewis Martin
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Women's World Championship 2014

Post by Lewis Martin » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:12 pm

Now it has been postponed for a few months.

http://www.fide.com/component/content/a ... -2014.html

So it looks like that by 2014 it means 2015.

Chris Rice
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Re: Women's World Championship 2014

Post by Chris Rice » Thu Sep 25, 2014 12:18 pm

Some people think that's not going far enough....

The Chess Mind by Dennis Monokroussos.

FIDE was supposed to have the women's world championship, knockout edition, start in a couple of weeks, but it has fallen through and will be postponed for a few months, according to this press release. Not being a fan of knockout world championships, I wouldn't mind if it's "postponed" forever and the women's championship parallels the "men's"/open title's cycle. That said, it's ridiculous and worse that FIDE put this on the calendar a long time ago and surely cost the 64 invitees a fair amount of money for hiring seconds, clearing their schedule of other events and invitations, and so on. (I hope the 110 delegates who kept Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in power are happy.)

http://www.thechessmind.net/blog/2014/9 ... onths.html

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Re: Women's World Championship 2014

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Sep 25, 2014 8:39 pm

Yes, scrap the knockout and move to a Candidates tournament then title match - as with the main WC.
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