Iran started the world championship on chess among women.

In Tehran on February 11 started the world championship on classical chess among women participants will compete for the title of new world champion. The current world champion HOU Yifan ignores the world Championships in Gypsy of the year, which are played according to the knockout system.

According to the regulations, in each round (except the final) the winner must specify two games with 1.5 hours for first 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest with 30 seconds adding after each move (starting with the first). If these two parties won’t determine playing two rapid games, then minute rapid, blitz game, well over all maybe the Armageddon.

With the first round (1/32 finals) started five Ukrainians and two of them started with a victory.

One of the favorites of the tournament Anna Muzychuk as black managed to beat Mesiad Amin from Algeria. Also started with a victory Inna Gaponenko, who white defeated Russian Ekaterina Kovalevskaya.

Parties Anna Ushenina – Anastasia Zezulkina and Hoang Thanh Chung – Natalia Buksa first games ended in a draw, but Natalia Zhukova their first game lost to Nino Khurtsidze and on Sunday her only victory will do.

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