Women's World Chess Championship 2006
The Women's World Chess Championship 2006 took place from March 10–27, 2006 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. For the fourth time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament.
The tournament was won by Xu Yuhua, who beat Alisa Galliamova in the final by 2½ to ½. Notably, Xu Yuhua was three months pregnant at the time.
Participants
Players were seeded by their Elo ratings (January 2006 list),[1] except that defending champion Antoaneta Stefanova was the no. 1 seed.
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Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL), 2499, GM (WC)
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Humpy Koneru (IND), 2537, GM (WC)
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Pia Cramling (SWE), 2515, GM (E04)
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Alexandra Kosteniuk (RUS), 2514, GM (R)
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Maia Chiburdanidze (GEO), 2511, GM (WC)
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Xu Yuhua (CHN), 2502, WGM (R)
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Kateryna Lahno (UKR), 2500, IM (E05)
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Zhu Chen (CHN), 2482, GM (R)
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Nadezhda Kosintseva (RUS), 2480, IM (E05)
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Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (IND), 2479, IM (Z3.2)
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Tatiana Kosintseva (RUS), 2479, IM (E04)
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Monika Soćko (POL), 2475, IM (E04)
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Viktorija Čmilytė (LTU), 2475, IM (E05)
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Zhao Xue (CHN), 2473, WGM (R)
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Qin Kanying (CHN), 2469, WGM (Z3.5)
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Alisa Galliamova (RUS), 2467, IM (R)
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Yelena Dembo (GRE), 2461, IM (E05)
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Almira Skripchenko (FRA), 2461, IM (E05)
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Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (RUS), 2458, IM (WC)
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Lilit Mkrtchian (ARM), 2453, IM (E05)
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Nana Dzagnidze (GEO), 2452, IM (E04)
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Irina Krush (USA), 2447, IM (Z2.1)
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Lela Javakhishvili (GEO), 2444, IM (E05)
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Natalia Zhukova (UKR), 2432, WGM (E04)
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Nino Khurtsidze (GEO), 2430, IM (E05)
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Svetlana Matveeva (RUS), 2428, IM (E05)
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Ekaterina Korbut (RUS), 2427, WGM (J04)
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Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant (GEO), 2426, IM (E04)
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Elina Danielian (ARM), 2423, IM (E05)
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Elisabeth Pähtz (GER), 2422, IM (J05)
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Elena Zaiatz (RUS), 2422, IM (E05)
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Iweta Radziewicz (POL), 2421, IM (E05)
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Tatiana Kononenko (UKR), 2417, WGM (E05)
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Marie Sebag (FRA), 2415, IM (E05)
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Peng Zhaoqin (NED), 2407, GM (E04)
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Cristina Adela Foisor (ROM), 2402, IM (E04)
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Marta Zielińska (POL), 2398, WGM (E05)
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Anna Ushenina (UKR), 2398, WGM (E05)
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Irina Vasilevich (RUS), 2386, IM (E05)
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Wang Yu (CHN), 2385, WGM (AS)
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Shen Yang (CHN), 2380 (Z3.5)
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Irina Slavina-Turova (RUS), 2379, IM (E04)
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Claudia Amura (ARG), 2366, WGM (AM)
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Evgenija Ovod (RUS), 2366, IM (E05)
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Ruan Lufei (CHN), 2361 (Z3.5)
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Sulennis Pina Vega (CUB), 2358, WGM (AM)
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Jovanka Houska (ENG), 2355, IM (E04)
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Carolina Luján (ARG), 2346, WGM (Z2.5)
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Maka Purtseladze (GEO), 2341, IM (E05)
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Dana Aketayeva (KAZ), 2330, WIM (Z3.4)
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Maria Kursova (RUS), 2319, WIM (PN)
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Atousa Pourkashiyan (IRI), 2319, WIM (Z3.1)
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Ju Wenjun (CHN), 2290 (AS)
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Subbaraman Meenakshi (IND), 2289, WGM (AS)
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Irina Berezina-Feldman (AUS), 2285, IM (Z3.6)
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Hou Yifan (CHN), 2269, WFM (Z3.5)
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Maritza Arribas (CUB), 2269, WGM (Z2.3)
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Karen Zapata (PER), 2218, WIM (Z2.4)
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Hoang Xuan Thanh Khiet (VIE), 2196, WIM (Z3.3)
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Ingris Rivera (COL), 2128 (AM)
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Natalia Khoudgarian (CAN), 2106, WIM (Z2.2)
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Farid Basta Sohair (EGY), 2083, WIM (AF)
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Tuduetso Sabure (BOT), 2072, WGM (AF)
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Amina Mezioud (ALG), 1978 (Z4.1)
Only two players from the top 20 were absent: Judit Polgár (ranked the no. 1 woman in the world - and 14th overall) who instead took part in the open championship events of 2005 and 2007, as well as Hoang Thanh Trang (ranked 11th).
Qualification paths[2]
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Results
Final match
Women's World Chess Championship Final 2006 1 2 3 Total Alisa Galliamova (Russia)
0 ½ 0 ½ Xu Yuhua (China)
1 ½ 1 2½
Bracket
References
External links
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