The FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Match between the current World
Champion Hou Yifan of China and her challenger, Koneru Humpy of India, is being
staged in the Triana International Hotel from November 14 to 30. The time control
is 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of
the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move one. The
winner of the ten-game match is the first player to reach 5.5 points or more.
The prize fund is 200,000 Euro, with 60% going to the winner. The games start
at 15:00h local time, which is also Central European Time = 17:00 Moscow, 19:30
New Delhi, 22:00h Beijing and 09:00 New York. You can find the starting time
for other locations here.
Game one
Pictorial impressions of game one
By Frederic Friedel
This is what the stage looked like on Sunday, when it was still being built
A choice of chairs for the players
Arbiter Panagiotis NIkolopoulos and Frederic Friedel pre-testing the table and
chairs
The red one! World Champion Hou Yifan comes first and gets first pick of the
chairs
Challenger Humpy (with her father right) is happy with the blue high-back
Albanian TV Channel One arrives to do a broadcast of the match
The entrance to the playing hall in the Triana International Hotel lobby
On Monday at 2:45 p.m. the players and public start to enter
Yifan gets a metal detector scan by Arbiter Carol Jarecki
She gets checked from head to toe – Carol is very meticulous
The World Champion: 17-year-old Chinese GM Hou Yifan
Koneru Humpy, the second strogest female play in chess history
The challenger ready to start game one
Note how the players have (very carefully) pointed their knights and bishops
For years now Yifan always brings along her little silver pot with Chinese
raisins
General sustenance for each player during the game
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov symbolically makes the first move for
Humpy
After some instructions the chief sponsor executes the first black move with
the knight
The President and his sponsor: Rezart
Taci of Taci Oil International
After her third move, g3, Humpy covers her eyes and sinks into thought
After a number of minutes in that position she snaps out of it and plays
her fourth move
Camera lady Qi Yu captures it all for the Xinhua News Agency
FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropulos and Ashok Koneru
Game one under way, with around 20 spectators, which increases to fifty
by the end
FIDE brass in the lobby: (clockwise from the top) Deputy President Georgios
Makropoulos, Member, Appeals Committee Beatriz Marinello, President of the Turkish
Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici, Berik Balgabaev, Advisor to FIDE President
You tell us who is winning: the President plays chess in the VIP suite
In the press room: WGMs Anastasia Karlovich and Anna Burtasova, well known
to our readers
Nastja working on the pictures she has taken with her Canon 5D Mark II
Schedule
| Sunday |
13 November 2011 |
Opening ceremony |
| Monday |
14 November 2011 |
Game one |
| Tuesday |
15 November 2011 |
Game two |
| Wednesday |
16 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Thursday |
17 November 2011 |
Game three |
| Friday |
18 November 2011 |
Game four |
| Saturday |
19 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Sunday |
20 November 2011 |
Game five |
| Monday |
21 November 2011 |
Game six |
| Tuesday |
22 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Wednesday |
23 November 2011 |
Game seven |
| Thursday |
24 November 2011 |
Game eight |
| Friday |
25 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Saturday |
26 November 2011 |
Game nine |
| Sunday |
27 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Monday |
28 November 2011 |
Game ten |
| Tuesday |
29 November 2011 |
Rest day |
| Wednesday |
30 November 2011 |
Tie-break, closing |
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