Women's world chess championship 2012
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Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) became the new World Champion.
Women's world chess championship took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 9th November to 3rd December 2012
64-player knock out system. Each match shall be played over 2 games and the winner of every match shall be the first player to score 1.5 or more points. The final match, or round 6, shall be played over 4 games and the winner of the match shall be the first player to score 2.5 or more points.
Tie break: 2 tie break games ( 25 mn + 10 s after each move ). If the scores are level 2 five-minute games. If the score is still level, one sudden death game will be played.
The time control shall be 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move one.
Players in bold go on to the next round.
| FINALS ( 27th November - 1st December ) |
| Players | Game 1 | Game 2 | Game 3 | Game 4 | Tiebreak rapid 1 | Tiebreak rapid 2 | Total |
| Ushenina, Anna (UKR) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 3.5 |
| Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 2.5 |
| SEMI - FINALS ( 23rd - 25th November ) |
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| Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) - Harika, Dronavalli (IND) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Ushenina, Anna (UKR) - Ju, Wenjun (CHN) | 2½ - 1½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - ½ |
| QUARTER - FINAL ( 20th - 22nd November ) |
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| Sebag, Marie (FRA) - Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) | 1-3 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 0 - 2 |
| Ju, Wenjun (CHN) - Huang, Qian (CHN) | 3½ - 2½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 2½ - 1½ |
| Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) - Ushenina, Anna (UKR) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Zhao, Xue (CHN) - Harika, Dronavalli (IND) | 1½ - 2½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: ½ - 1½ |
| ROUND 3 ( 17th - 19th November ) |
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| Socko, Monika (POL) - Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) | 0-2 | |
| Ju, Wenjun (CHN) - Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) | 2½ - 1½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - ½ |
| Ushenina, Anna (UKR) - Pogonina, Natalija (RUS) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR) - Zhao, Xue (CHN) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) - Harika, Dronavalli (IND) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) - Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) | 2½ - 3½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - 2½ |
| Huang, Qian (CHN) - Krush, Irina (USA) | 2½ - 1½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - ½ |
| Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) - Sebag, Marie (FRA) | 0-2 | |
| ROUND 2 - ( 14th -16th November ) |
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| Socko, Monika (POL) - Hou, Yifan (CHN) | 3-1 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 2 - 0 |
| Koneru, Humpy (IND) - Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) | 0-2 | |
| Ushenina, Anna (UKR) - Muzychuk, Anna (SLO) | 3-1 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 2 - 0 |
| Zhao, Xue (CHN) - Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) | 2½ - 1½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - ½ |
| Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) - Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) - Mkrtchian, Lilit (ARM) | 3½ - 2½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 2½ - 1½ |
| Huang, Qian (CHN) - Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Sebag, Marie (FRA) - Girya, Olga (RUS) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) - Gunina, Valentina (RUS) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Cramling, Pia (SWE) - Krush, Irina (USA) | 1-3 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 0 - 2 |
| Hoang, Thanh Trang (HUN) - Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Harika, Dronavalli (IND) - Danielian, Elina (ARM) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR) - Arribas Robaina, Maritza (CUB) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) - Pogonina, Natalija (RUS) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Zatonskih, Anna (USA) - Ju, Wenjun (CHN) | 2-4 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1 - 3 |
| Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) - Zhu, Chen (QAT) | 1½ - ½ | |
| ROUND 1 - ( 11th - 13th November ) |
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| Hou, Yifan (CHN) - Ranasinghe, S D (SRI) | 2-0 | |
| Frick, Denise (RSA) - Koneru, Humpy (IND) | 0-2 | |
| Muzychuk, Anna (SLO) - Mezioud, Amina (ALG) | 2-0 | |
| Khoudgarian, Natalia (CAN) - Zhao, Xue (CHN) | 0-2 | |
| Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) - Mona, Khaled (EGY) | 2-0 | |
| Castrillon Gomez, Melissa (COL) - Kosintseva, Nadezhda (RUS) | 0-2 | |
| Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) - Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid Y (PER) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Berezina, Irina (AUS) - Sebag, Marie (FRA) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Gunina, Valentina (RUS) - Gu, Xiaobing (CHN) | 2-0 | |
| Ghader Pour, Shayesteh (IRI) - Cramling, Pia (SWE) | 0-2 | |
| Kosintseva, Tatiana (RUS) - Davletbayeva, Madina (KAZ) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Soumya, Swaminathan (IND) - Harika, Dronavalli (IND) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Khotenashvili, Bela (GEO) - Arribas Robaina, Maritza (CUB) | 1½ - 2½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: ½ - 1½ |
| Abrahamyan, Tatev (USA) - Kosteniuk, Alexandra (RUS) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Ju, Wenjun (CHN) - Pourkashiyan, Atousa (IRI) | 4-2 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 3 - 1 |
| Romanko, Marina (RUS) - Stefanova, Antoaneta (BUL) | 0-2 | |
| Zhu, Chen (QAT) - Ziaziulkina, Nastassia (BLR) | 2-0 | |
| Lujan, Carolina (ARG) - Zatonskih, Anna (USA) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Pogonina, Natalija (RUS) - Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) | 3-1 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 2 - 0 |
| Foisor, Cristina-Adela (ROU) - Muzychuk, Mariya (UKR) | 4½ - 4½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 3½ - 3½ after sudden death game |
| Danielian, Elina (ARM) - Khukhashvili, Sopiko (GEO) | 4-2 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 3 - 1 |
| Ovod, Evgenija (RUS) - Hoang, Thanh Trang (HUN) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Krush, Irina (USA) - Li, Ruofan (SIN) | 4½ - 3½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 3½ - 2½ |
| Kovalevskaya, Ekaterina (RUS) - Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) | 1-3 | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 0- 2 |
| Girya, Olga (RUS) - Rajlich, Iweta (POL) | 1½ - ½ | |
| Shen, Yang (CHN) - Huang, Qian (CHN) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Mkrtchian, Lilit (ARM) - Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (SCO) | 2-0 | |
| Bodnaruk, Anastasia (RUS) - Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) | 2½ - 3½ | after games : 1-1 , tie-break: 1½ - 2½ |
| Dembo, Yelena (GRE) - Khurtsidze, Nino (GEO) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Cori T., Deysi (PER) - Ushenina, Anna (UKR) | ½ - 1½ | |
| Zhukova, Natalia (UKR) - Guo, Qi (CHN) | 1½- ½ | |
| Skripchenko, Almira (FRA) - Socko, Monika (POL) | ½ -1 ½ | |
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