Women's World Chess Championship 2012
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The Women's World Chess Championship
2012 is an upcoming knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world champion.
The tournament will be played as a 64 player knockout type in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia
from 10 November to 3 December 2012. Each pairing consists of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advances. In case of a tie, tiebreaks are played the next day. Those are two rapid games and if still tied an Armageddon match.
The final consists of four games at classical time control
, followed by four rapid games.
Women's World Chess Championship
The Women's World Chess Championship is played to determine the women's world champion in chess. Like the World Chess Championship, it is administered by FIDE....
2012 is an upcoming knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world champion.
The tournament will be played as a 64 player knockout type in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
from 10 November to 3 December 2012. Each pairing consists of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advances. In case of a tie, tiebreaks are played the next day. Those are two rapid games and if still tied an Armageddon match.
The final consists of four games at classical time control
Time control
A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed. Time controls are typically enforced by means of a game clock...
, followed by four rapid games.