The Women's World Chess Championship 2006 took place from March 10–27, 2006 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. For the fourth time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament.
The tournament was won by Xu Yuhua, who beat Alisa Galliamova in the final by 2½ to ½. Notably, Xu Yuhua was three months pregnant at the time.
Participants The players"Final list of qualifiers of WWCC 2006 as per FIDE Regulations" . FIDE. 2006-02-16. were seeded by their FIDE Elo ratings of January 2006, except that defending champion Antoaneta Stefanova was the no. 1 seed.
Only two players from the top 20 were absent: Judit Polgár (ranked the no. 1 woman in the world – and 14th overall) who instead took part in the open championship events of 2005 and 2007, as well as Hoang Thanh Trang (ranked 11th).
Qualification paths
WC: Women's World Champion, runner-up and semifinalists of Women's World Chess Championship 2004 (4) J04 and J05: World Junior Champions 2004 and 2005 R: Rating (average of all published ratings from July 2004 to January 2005 was used) (5) E04 and E05: European Individual Championships 2004 and 2005 (29)
AM: American Continental Chess Championship 2005 (3) AS: Asian Chess Championship 2004 (3) AF: African Chess Championship 2005 (2) Z2.1, Z2.2, Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5 (4), Z3.6, Z4.1: Zonal tournaments PN: FIDE President nominee
Results
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Bracket
References
External links ChessBase reports