Women's World Chess Championship 2011
{{Infobox chess match
|comp1 = Hou Yifan
|comp2 = Humpy Koneru
|image1 = File:Hou Yifan 4 September 2012.jpg
|image2 = File:HumpyKoneru.jpg
|title1 = Defending champion
|title2 = Challenger
|flag1 = China
|flag2 = India
|dob1 = 27 February 1994
|age1 = 17 years old
|dob2 = 31 March 1987
|age2 = 24 years old
|qual1 = Winner of the
Women's World Chess Championship 2010
|qual2 = Runner-up of the
FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011
|elo1 = 2578
|elo2 = 2600
|womens_rank1 = 3
|womens_rank2 = 2
|prev = 2010
|prev_link = Women's World Chess Championship 2010
|next = 2012
|next_link = Women's World Chess Championship 2012
|score1 = 5½
|score2 = 2½
}}
The Women's World Chess Championship 2011 was the 35th of its kind. It was organised by FIDE and was played in a match format between the defending champion and a challenger, determined via the FIDE Grand Prix series.{{cite web|url=http://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=fcalview&aid=808 |title=Women's World Championship Match 2011|access-date=19 May 2011|publisher=FIDE}}
On 8 August 2011 the match was awarded to Tirana, Albania. The prize fund was $200,000.{{cite web|title=FIDE Awards Anand v Gelfand Match To Moscow|url=http://www.chess.com/news/fide-awards-anand-v-gelfand-match-to-moscow-1675|publisher=chess.com|access-date=8 August 2011|date=8 August 2011}} The match took place from 13 to 30 November 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.chess.com/news/2011-womens-world-chess-championship-5015|title = 2011 Women's World Chess Championship}} Champion Hou Yifan retained her title,{{cite web|title=WWCC R08: Draw, Hou Yifan retains World Championship title|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7700|publisher=chessbase|access-date=26 November 2011|date=24 November 2011}} defeating challenger Koneru Humpy by 5½ - 2½.{{cite web|url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7060|title=Humpy pulls it off – wins Doha GM and qualifies|date=March 5, 2011|author=ChessBase}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/koneru-shares-first-with-danielian-in-doha-qualifies-for-title-match/|title=Koneru shares first with Danielian in Doha, qualifies for title match
|date=March 6, 2011|author=chessvibes.com}}{{cite web|url=http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessnews/events/6th-fide-women-grand-prix-2011/koneru-ties-for-first-with-danielian-in-doha-and-qualifies-for-world-title-match|title=Koneru ties for first with Danielian in Doha and qualifies for World Title Match|date=March 5, 2011|author=chess.co.uk}}
Match format
File:Women's World Chess Championship Tirana 2011.jpg
The match was scheduled to be played over 10 games with classical time controls: 90 minutes for first 40 moves with added 30 minutes for the rest of the game and a 30-second increment per move starting from the first move.
Koneru Humpy played White in the first game.{{cite web|title=Opening ceremony: Koneru gets white pieces|url=http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/template.php?pag=22&id_newsdettaglio=12|publisher=wwcc2011tirana.com|access-date=14 November 2011|date=13 November 2011}} Colours then alternated, except after game 4. The two players were ranked second and third in the world at the time, behind only Judit Polgár.{{cite web|title=Women's November 2011 rating list|url=http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=202|publisher=FIDE|access-date=21 November 2011}}
Should the match have been tied after ten games, tie-breaks would have kicked in. Those were:
- Up to four rapid games (25 minutes per player with a 10-second increment from the first move)
- two rapid games (5 minutes per player with a 3-second increment from the first move)
- One armageddon game that Black only needs to draw to win the match (5 minutes for White and 4 minutes for Black with a 3-second increment from move 61)
=Match stats=
:
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|+Women's World Chess Championship 2011 | ||||||||||
| Rating | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647122 1] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647124 2] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647770 3] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647776 4] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647957 5] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647958 6] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1649037 7] | [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1649042 8] | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left | {{flagicon|India}} Koneru Humpy
| 2600 | ½ |style="background:black; color:white"| ½ | 0 |style="background:black; color:white"| ½ |style="background:black; color:white"| ½ | 0 |style="background:black; color:white"| 0 | ½ | 2½ | ||||||||||
| align=left | {{flagicon|China}} Hou Yifan
| 2578 |style="background:black; color:white"| ½ | ½ |style="background:black; color:white"| 1 | ½ | ½ |style="background:black; color:white"| 1 | 1 |style="background:black; color:white"| ½ | 5½ |
After eight out of ten games the match was decided, by Hou Yifan drawing with Black and reaching 5½ points.
Head-to-head record
Prior to the match, Hou Yifan and Koneru Humpy had played 16 games against each other at classical time control with the following statistics:{{cite web|url=http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=yifan-koneru|access-date=2023-09-28|title=yifan-koneru search results}}
| class="wikitable"
! !Hou Yifan !Draws !Koneru Humpy !Total | ||||
| align=center
|Hou Yifan (White) – Koneru Humpy (Black) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| align=center
|Koneru Humpy (White) – Hou Yifan (Black) | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| Total
!8 !6 !2 !16 |
|---|
References
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External links
- [http://www.wwcc2011tirana.com/template.php?pag=1&tongue=ENG Official website]
- [http://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/FWWCM2011.pdf Regulations for the Women's World Championship Match 2011]
- [http://www.fide.com/index.php?option=com_fidecalendar&view=fcalview&aid=808 Match in FIDE calendar]
{{Women's World Chess Championships}}