Women’s World Championship 2010
(Hatay, Turkey 2-25 December 2010)
Highest rated players who are not on the list
IM Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia) 2576
IM Irina Krush (USA) 2495 – Reigning U.S. Women’s Champion
Final 64 players (by order of ratings)
| Name | Country | Title | Rating |
| Koneru, Humpy | IND | g | 2600 |
| Hou, Yifan | CHN | g | 2591 |
| Kosintseva, Tatiana | RUS | g | 2581 |
| Dzagnidze, Nana | GEO | g | 2551 |
| Stefanova, Antoaneta | BUL | g | 2548 |
| Muzychuk, Anna | SLO | m | 2530 |
| Cramling, Pia | SWE | g | 2526 |
| Harika, Dronavalli | IND | m | 2525 |
| Ju, Wenjun | CHN | wg | 2524 |
| Lahno, Kateryna | UKR | g | 2522 |
| Cmilyte, Viktorija | LTU | g | 2514 |
| Kosteniuk, Alexandra | RUS | g | 2507 |
| Chiburdanidze, Maia | GEO | g | 2502 |
| Socko, Monika | POL | g | 2495 |
| Sebag, Marie | FRA | g | 2494 |
| Ruan, Lufei | CHN | wg | 2480 |
| Mkrtchian, Lilit | ARM | m | 2479 |
| Zatonskih, Anna | USA | m | 2478 |
| Zhu, Chen | QAT | g | 2477 |
| Zhao, Xue | CHN | g | 2474 |
| Paehtz, Elisabeth | GER | m | 2474 |
| Hoang Thanh Trang | HUN | g | 2473 |
| Pogonina, Natalija | RUS | wg | 2472 |
| Danielian, Elina | ARM | g | 2466 |
| Muzychuk, Mariya | UKR | m | 2462 |
| Shen, Yang | CHN | wg | 2461 |
| Ushenina, Anna | UKR | m | 2460 |
| Skripchenko, Almira | FRA | m | 2460 |
| Dembo, Yelena | GRE | m | 2454 |
| Zhukova, Natalia | UKR | g | 2447 |
| Rajlich, Iweta | POL | m | 2446 |
| Turova, Irina | RUS | m | 2439 |
| Khukhashvili, Sopiko | GEO | m | 2430 |
| Houska, Jovanka | ENG | m | 2421 |
| Romanko, Marina | RUS | m | 2414 |
| Munguntuul, Batkhuyag | MGL | m | 2409 |
| Foisor, Cristina-Adela | ROU | m | 2403 |
| Huang, Qian | CHN | wg | 2402 |
| Ovod, Evgenija | RUS | m | 2387 |
| Cori T., Deysi | PER | wg | 2384 |
| Shadrina, Tatiana | RUS | wg | 2384 |
| Kovanova, Baira | RUS | wg | 2380 |
| Ding, Yixin | CHN | wg | 2370 |
| Zawadzka, Jolanta | POL | wg | 2368 |
| Fierro Baquero, Martha L. | ECU | m | 2363 |
| Muminova, Nafisa | UZB | wm | 2360 |
| Lomineishvili, Maia | GEO | m | 2347 |
| Zhang, Xiaowen | CHN | wg | 2339 |
| Baginskaite, Camilla | USA | wg | 2336 |
| Vasilevich, Irina | RUS | m | 2333 |
| Soumya, Swaminathan | IND | wg | 2332 |
| Meenakshi Subbaraman | IND | wg | 2328 |
| Demina, Julia | RUS | wg | 2323 |
| Ozturk, Kubra | TUR | wm | 2264 |
| Caoili, Arianne | AUS | wm | 2242 |
| Nadig, Kruttika | IND | wg | 2230 |
| Yildiz, Betul Cemre | TUR | wm | 2225 |
| Zuriel, Marisa | ARG | wm | 2208 |
| Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid Y | PER | wf | 2154 |
| Kagramanov, Dina | CAN | wm | 2101 |
| Mona, Khaled | EGY | wg | 2093 |
| Heredia Serrano, Carla | ECU | wm | 2087 |
| Greeff, Melissa | RSA | wg | 2082 |
| Mezioud, Amina | ALG | wm | 2029 |
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Go Humpy!
Go Humpy!
Absent:
Kosintseva 2576 (#4 in the World not counting Polgar)
Krush 2495
Galliamova 2487
Xu Yuhua 2483
Gunina 2479
3 out of 5 reigning Olympic Champions from Russia, reigning US Champion and former World Champion;
but
Oztaurk, Kubra TUR 2264
and
Yildiz, Betul Cemre TUR 2225
got Wild Cards, of course the tournament is in Turkey, but including Kosintseva instead of Yildiz, who already has a miserable performance as a Wild Card in Women Grand Prix has much more sense
Who got the presidential nominations?
Where is Nedezhda Kosintseva? Typical FIDE farce.
Can All India chess federation can prevent Humpyr from participating this. AICF secretary is holding FIDE vice presidency also. Anything can happen!
I think election of FIDE posts should be based on number of disciplinary actions taken (not strictly against players).
For the people who are wondering how the top rated (read live rating) player of the world is not the world champion. If rating is the only criteria then no need of world championship. Every two months world champion will be updated(officially) and after every match(Live rating).
Team FIDE has corrected their ill doings (remember Khalifman/Anand/Ponomariov/Kazimdizhanov era)and is presently with a decent system for the world championship which has been followed in the mighty past and is revered by the majority.
Carlsen should look at Anand before taking this cowardice decision. He has fought all the formats put before him by the governing body (FIDE). Event the marathon runner (Anand) was forced to face the reigning champion (Karpov) in a 100m race. Then he faced Topalov in his country under al adverse conditions, which a player like Kramnik would not have accepted.
Regarding the champion is given the privileage to participate directly,
Chess is the only popular sports where you can see a world champion in his forties. Which means there wont be much fluctuations in strength in a span of 2 years. And of course a challenger will be having a much bigger appeal than a bunch of challengers. In such cases (many challengers) at least theoretically there is a chance for match fixing by a group of players. Can you deny this Mr. Carlsen?
Team FIDE has corrected their ill doings? Constantly changing the format, blatantly favoring certain players, and scheduling matches in locations that are anything but neutral doesn’t sound like much of a correction.
It is a bless to see how this is organized if you compare to the men.
Almost impossible to get rid of Anand.
Why don’t they do it there also (perhaps with 16 strongest players then) every two years and then a revenge match one year later.
Any idea why Krush wasn’t invited? Or did she decline?
Did Krush decline her invitation???
Krush got only 4th place on the last year US Women, when we had only 2 qualification spots (Zatonskih, Baginskaite + Melekhina as a reserved player)
It is better to see Kosintseva and Krush in the tournament, not Ozauturk and Yildiz, who got President Nominations
Irina didn’t get the spot because the USCF screwed up.
Krush is punished by FIDE because of the crook Bill Goichberg. Goichberg, Berry, Randy Bauer wasted USCF money to go after Ilyumzhinov and now all US players have to pay for his corruption.
Nadezhda Kosintseva not getting a wild card. Could this farce happen in any other sport? No. But for Fide is everything possible, as usual…
Round and around and around and around it goes, where the curse of Kursan will end, nobody knows!