While I was working on this I noticed a mismatch across various sources for the player 'Kulkarni Bhakti'. The sources are inconsistent in choosing which name to index the player. I'll come back to this when I update the index of women players over all events.
I also noticed that I've never added a legend to document the time controls for the different stages ('SG : RP1 : RP2 : BLZ : 4/5') of the individual matches. This will require a separate effort to correct.
After seven straight weeks of the 2018 Carlsen - Caruana match, culminating in last week's
Wrapup
post, it's time to move on to other subjects. I created a new page for the recent
2018 FIDE Knockout Matches (Women)
and added it to the index page
World Chess Championship for Women.
A good portion of the time I spent working on the new page was to understand the recent announcement, FIDE on the Women's World Championship Cycle (fide.com; 21 November 2018). It says,
According to the existing regulations, in 2019 there should have been a Women’s World Championship match between the current winner of the 2018 Women’s World KO Championship and the winner of the FIDE Women`s Grand Prix Series 2017-2018. Unfortunately, the previous FIDE leadership were unable to hold the Grand Prix series thus threatening the 2019 Women`s World Championship match entirely.
I'll come back to that subject when I add the crosstables and PGN to the new page for the 2018 Knockout Matches (Women), which took place in Khanty-Mansiysk.
On my main blog I also wrote a number of posts about the match.
One good turn deserves another. In the first post on this blog listed above, 'Warmup', I noted that GM Ian Rogers had mentioned my blog in his own article titled 'Couch Potato’s Guide' (uschess.org). A week later, in the post 'Chess @ 538.com', I noted that Rogers had abandoned the contract with USchess after a dispute over their censorship of his coverage of an unfortunate video released during the match. The GM continued to issue periodic reports on Lichess, where I found the following articles:-
Another journalist, GM Jonathan Tisdall, an expert in the key skills of chess, reporting, and the Norwegian language, also issued a series of in-depth reports via a well known online play site:-
For more from both journalist GMs, see their Twitter feeds, @GMIanRogers and @GMjtis.
