ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN WOMEN’S WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
PanARMENIAN.Net
October 18, 2012 – 17:13 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenia’s Elina Danileyan, Lilit Lazarian and Tatev
Abrahamyan (U.S.) will participate in Women’s World Chess Championship,
to be held on November 10- December 2 in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia.
The tournament will be played as a 64 player knockout type. Each
pairing consists of two games, one with white and one with black. The
winner advances. In case of a tie, tiebreaks are played the next day.
The final consists of four games at classical time control, followed
by four rapid games.
The world champion will then defend her title in the Women’s World
Chess Championship 2013, a ten game match against Hou Yifan, winner
of the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 2011-2012.
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