Pairings of Women's World Chess Championship (Unofficial)
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Thursday, 01 November 2012
Based on the November 1st rating list and the Regulations of the Women's World Chess Championship (November 9 - December 3, Khanty-Mansyuisk, Russia), the pairings are supposed to look like this:
1. Hou Yifan 2606 Ranasinghe, S D 1821
2. Humpy Koneru 2610 Denise Frick 1871
3. Anna Muzychuk 2586 Amina Mezioud 2055
4. Zhao Xue 2565 Natalia Khoudgarian 2138
5. Kateryna Lahno 2553 Mona Khaled 2155
6. Nadezhda Kosintseva 2539 Melissa Castrillon Gomez 2159
7. Viktorija Cmilyte 2524 Ingrid Aliaga Fernandez 2175
8. Marie Sebag 2521 Irina Berezina 2190
9. Valentina Gunina 2517 Gu Xiaobing 2209
10. Pia Cramling 2516 Shayester Ghader Pour 2219
11. Tatiana Kosintseva 2515 Madina Davletbayeva 2220
12. Harika Dronavalli 2512 Soumya Swaminathan 2251
13. Bella Khotenashvili 2504 Maritza Arribas Robaina 2273
14. Alexandra Kosteniuk 2501 Tatev Abrahamyan 2304
15. Ju Wenjun 2501 Atousa Pourkashian 2321
16. Antoaneta Stefanova 2491 Marina Romanko 2355
17. Zhu Chen 2491 Nastassia Ziazulkina 2367
18. Anna Zatonskih 2489 Carolina Lujan 2369
19. Natalia Pogonina 2478 Svetlana Matveeva 2377
20. Mariya Muzychuk 2476 Cristina-Adela Foisor 2383
21. Elina Danielian 2476 Sofiko Khukhashvili 2383
22. Hoang Thanh Trang 2470 Evgenija Ovod 2384
23. Irina Krush 2470 Li Ruofan 2394
24. Alisa Galliamova 2468 Ekaterina Kovalevskaya 2409
25. Olga Girya 2467 Iweta Rajlich 2410
26. Huang Qian 2465 Shen Yang 2413
27. Lilit Mkrtchian 2457 Ketevan Arakhamia 2414
28. Lela Javakhishvili 2455 Anastasia Bodnaruk 2415
29. Elena Dembo 2454 Nino Khurtsidze 2428
30. Anna Ushenina 2452 Cori T Deysi 2429
31. Natalia Zhukova 2451 Guo Qi 2432
32. Monika Socko 2445 Elmira Skripchenko 2441
In 1/32-final two classical time control games are played to determine the winner. In case of a tie, rapid, then blitz, then Armageddon.
Update: here is an official confirmation
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