2018 Women's World Championship PGN

I added the PGN files to my page on the 2018 FIDE Knockout Matches, Women's World Championship (WWC), thereby completing the work from last week's post, 2018 WWC Crosstables. I also added the names of all 64 players to the Index of Women Players. Of these players, 46 had already competed in a previous WWC event and 18 were competing for the first time.

The official site has a composite image with photos for all 64 participants. A compact version is shown below.

ugra2018.fide.com

This event appears to have been the last using the knockout format to determine the Women's World Champion; FIDE on the Women's World Championship Cycle (fide.com; 21 November 2018):-

FIDE and the newly elected President, Mr. Arkady Dvorkovich, consider the development of women's chess to be one of their most important priorities. We believe that this goal can be achieved by increasing the number of elite tournaments for women and by establishing a coherent and logical system to the Women’s World Championship cycle. We are pleased to note that the first official steps in this direction have been taken

The regulations for the first stage in the next cycle were issued nearly a week earlier: Rules for the FIDE Women’s Candidates Tournament 2019 (fide.com; 15 November 2018). The Candidates format, last used for a WWC cycle in the 1997 Groningen Candidates Tournament, is foreseen for the 'first half of 2019'.