Hou Yifan Recaptures Women's Title

I added the 2013 Hou Yifan - Ushenina Title Match to the index page covering the World Chess Championship for Women. This was the last event in the 2011-2013 cycle for women. The most important rules for the cycle were already summarized in my post on the 2011-2012 Women's Grand Prix, Jermuk.

There is much that can be said about the structure of the Women's World Championship, but I'll leave that for another time. In the meantime, congratulations to the remarkable Hou Yifan for regaining her women's title!

There are two more World Championship events currently underway. For details, see September 2013 World Championships on my main blog.

2013 World Cup PGN and Players

Finishing the work started with 2013 World Cup Results, I added the PGN for all seven rounds of the 2013 World Cup. I also added links for the 128 participants to the Index of Players that covers all World Chess Championship events.

2013 World Cup Results

I added the results of the recent Tromso, Norway, event to my page on the 2013 World Cup. TBA: PGN, explanation of abbreviations, and index of players.

Congratulations to GM Kramnik on a convincing victory. He had competed only once before in a World Championship elimination event, the 1999 FIDE Knockout Matches in Las Vegas, where he lost in the fifth (quarterfinal) round to GM Adams.

C26 Zonal Clippings 2013

In my previous post C26 Zonal Clippings 2012, I mentioned that the permanent page for Zonals 2012-2013 (C26), 'includes only the six events played in 2012, and I'll add the events from 2013 as soon as I can.' And so I did.

C26 Zonal Clippings 2012

Continuing with C26 Zonals Indexed, I created a page for clippings from other sources, titled Zonals 2012-2013 (C26). 'C26' is my code for the 26th zonal cycle since FIDE introduced the zonal qualifications in the late 1940s.

I also added links for the new page to the index of all World Championship Zonals, as well as to the overall index for the World Chess Championship. The new page of clippings includes only the six events played in 2012, and I'll add the events from 2013 as soon as I can.

C26 Zonals Indexed

Continuing with C26 Zonals, I added the 22 new events for cycle 26 to the index page of the World Championship Zonals. Next step: Add clippings for the 22 events.

C26 Zonals

The 2013 World Cup starts in a few days, which means it's time to update my index of the World Championship Zonals, and include the events from the current cycle. To get started, I identified all events and referenced them to The Week in Chess (TWIC). Here's the list.

1.0: TWIC 908 - (C 2012)
1.0: TWIC 967 - (C 2013)

2.0: TWIC 937 - (C 2012)
2.0: TWIC 967 - (C 2013)
2.1: TWIC 966 - (Z)
2.2: TWIC 927 - (Z)
2.3: TWIC 970 - (Z)
2.4: TWIC 965 - (Z)
2.5: TWIC 964 - (Z)

3.0: TWIC 914 - (C 2012)
3.0: TWIC 969 - (C 2013)
3.1: TWIC 966 - (Z)
3.2: TWIC 953 - (Z)
3.3: TWIC 952 - (Z)
3.4: TWIC 971 - (Z)
3.5: TWIC 933 - (Z)
3.6: TWIC 966 - (Z)
3.7: TWIC 936 - (Z)

4.0: TWIC 968 - (C 2013)
4.1:
4.2: TWIC 966 - (Z)
4.3: TWIC 966 - (Z)

Only one event, zonal 4.1, is missing from TWIC. Next step: Update the index of all zonals.