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Women's World Chess Championship 2011 |
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The Women's World Chess Championship 2011 was the 34th women's world championship in history. It was organized by FIDE and was played in a match format between the champion and the FIDE Grand Prix winner as challenger. On 8 August 2011 the match was awarded to Tirana, Albania. The prize fund will be $200,000. The match was scheduled to take place from 13 to 30 November 2011 Hou Yifan retained her title, after gaining it in the Women's World Chess Championship 2010. Her challenger was Koneru Humpy the runner-up to Hou Yifan in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2009–2011. Match format The match was scheduled to be played over ten 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. Colors alternate except after game 4. Rated 2578 and 2600 respectively the women are rated second and third on FIDE's women's rating list, behind only Judit Polgar. 
After eight games the match was decided, by Hou drawing the eighth game and reaching 5½ points. Should the match have been tied after ten games, tie-breaks would have kicked in. Those were:
Prior to the match, Hou Yifan and Koneru Humpy played 16 games against each other at classical time control with the following statistics: 
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Women's World Championship 2011. (26 November 2011 at 09:10). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 26 November 2011, at 10:25, from
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