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I Roster of women Women's events indexed by player
I WCC Blog Label = Women (News)

Cycle O Qualifiers O Candidates O World Championship
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O 2023 World Cup        
O 2023 Grand Swiss        

This site's history of the Women's World Championship ends here, but the coverage continues.
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2020-21   2019-20 Grand Prix   2022-23 Candidates   2023 Ju Wenjun - Lei Tingjie
    2021 World Cup        
    2021 Grand Swiss        
2019-20       2019 Kazan   2020 Ju Wenjun - Goryachkina
Cycle O Grand Prix O World Championship
2017-18           2018 Khanty-Mansiysk (Ju Wenjun 1st)
2015-17       2015-16   2018 Ju Wenjun - Tan Zhongyi
            2017 Tehran (Tan Zhongyi 1st)
2013-15       2013-14   2016 Hou Yifan - M.Muzychuk
            2015 Sochi (M.Muzychuk 1st)
2011-13       2011-12   2013 Hou Yifan - Ushenina
            2012 Khanty-Mansiysk (Ushenina 1st)
2009-11       2009-10   2011 Hou Yifan - Koneru
            2010 Antakya (Hou Yifan 1st)
Cycle O Interzonal O Candidates O World Championship
2008           Nalchik (Kosteniuk 1st)
2006           Ekaterinburg (Xu Yuhua 1st)
2004           Elista (Stefanova 1st)
2001           Moscow (Zhu Chen 1st)
2000           New Delhi (Xie Jun 1st)
1995-99   Kishinev   Groningen   Xie Jun - Z.Polgar (forfeit)
        Xie Jun - Galliamova (forfeit)   Xie Jun - Galliamova
1993-96   Jakarta   Tilburg   Z.Polgar - Xie Jun
1991-93   Subotica   Shanghai   Xie Jun - Ioseliani
1990-91   Azov   Borzomi   Xie Jun - Chiburdanidze
    Genting        
1987-88 X Smederevska Palanka X Chaltubo   Chiburdanidze - Ioseliani
    Tuzla        
1985-86 X Havana X Malmo   Chiburdanidze - Akhmilovskaya
  X Zeleznovodsk        
1982-84 X Bad Kissingen   Matches   Chiburdanidze - Levitina
  X Tbilisi        
1979-81 X Alicante   Matches   Chiburdanidze - Alexandria
    Rio de Janeiro        
1976-78   Roosendaal   Matches   Chiburdanidze - Gaprindashvili
  X Tbilisi        
1973-75 X Menorca   Matches   Gaprindashvili - Alexandria
1971-72 X Ohrid   Matches   Gaprindashvili - Kushnir
1967-69     X Subotica   Gaprindashvili - Kushnir
1964-65     X Sukhumi   Gaprindashvili - Kushnir
1961-62     X Vrnjacka Banja   Gaprindashvili - Bikova
1959-60     X Plovdiv   Bikova - Zvorikina
1958           Bikova - Rubtsova
1955-56     X Moscow   Moscow (3 players; Rubtsova 1st)
1952-53     X Moscow X Bikova - Rudenko
1949/50         X Moscow (Rudenko 1st)

[X means no PGN file is available for the event.]

Year Place O World Championship
1939 Buenos Aires   Menchik 1st
1937 Stockholm X Menchik 1st
1937 Semmering X Menchik - Graf
1935 Warsaw X Menchik 1st
1934 Rotterdam X Menchik - Graf
1933 Folkestone X Menchik 1st
1931 Prague X Menchik 1st
1930 Hamburg X Menchik 1st
1927 London X Menchik 1st

Clippings for 1927-39 events from B.M. Kazic's 'International Championship Chess'


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