Women's World Chess Championship 2013

The World Chess Championship for women in 2013 was a duel between world chess champion Anna Uschenina and challenger Hou Yifan as the winner of the FIDE Grand Prix of women from 2011 to 2012 and was held from 10 to 23 September 2013 China Taizhou in Jiangsu Province instead.

When held as a knockout tournament chess World Women's Championship in 2012, the then World Champion Hou Yifan already retired from in the second round, while Anna Uschenina won the tournament. Although no rematch right exists, Hou Yifan previously secured by winning the qualifiers, the right to a duel against their eventual successor; in case of successful defense of the World Championship title in 2012 by the Indian Hou Yifan K. Humpy would have had as a runner-up Grand Prix Challenge the law against Hou Yifan.

In December 2012, the point statistics of the two opponents was balanced against each other: Between 2006 and 2009 they had earned in seven tournament games, two wins, two defeats and three draws. In six of the seven games Hou Yifan led the white stones. Another game in the FIDE Grand Prix 2013-2014 women lost Hou Yifan in 2013 in Geneva with white against Uschenina.

The match was very one-sided. Uschenina won a match and lost three times with the white pieces (1st, 3rd, 6th game ). With her win with White in the 7th game Hou Yifan won for themselves and thus win back the world title after only seven out of ten scheduled games the competition with 5,5:1,5 ( 4 = 3 -0).

The prize fund amounted to 200,000 euros, of which the winner received 120,000.

References and sources

1927, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1935, 1937 ( duel ), 1937 (tournament ), 1939 ( Menchik ) • 1949/50 ( Rudenko ) • 1953 ( Bykova ) • 1956 ( Rubzowa ) • 1958 1959 ( Bykova ) • 1962, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1975 ( Gaprindashvili ) • 1978, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988 ( Tschiburdanidse ) • 1991, 1993 ( Xie Jun ) • 1996 ( Zsuzsa Polgár ) • 1999, 2000 ( Xie Jun ) • 2001 ( Zhu Chen ) • 2004 ( Stefanova ) • 2006 ( Xu Yuhua ) • 2008 ( Kosteniuk ) • 2010, 2011 ( Hou Yifan ) • 2012 ( Uschenina ) • 2013 ( Hou Yifan ) • 2014

  • Chess World Championship of Women
  • Sporting event in 2013
  • Chess 2013
Anna Ushenina Women's World Chess Championship 2012 Taizhou (Jiangsu) Women's World Chess Championship 1927 Women's World Chess Championship 1930 Women's World Chess Championship 1931 Women's World Chess Championship 1933 Women's World Chess Championship 1935 Women's World Chess Championship 1937 (Menchik–Graf) Women's World Chess Championship 1937 (Stockholm olympiad) Women's World Chess Championship 1939 Women's World Chess Championship 1949–50 Elisaveta Bykova Women's World Chess Championship 1958 Zhu Chen Alexandra Kosteniuk Women's World Chess Championship 2011 Women's World Chess Championship 2014
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