FIDE is publishing the player's contract for the Women's World Chess Championship to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from 9 November (arrivals) to 3 December 2012 (departures). The qualified players are expected to fax or email scanned the original document of their signed contract to the FIDE Secretariat's fax number +30 2109212859 or email
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no later than midnight of Tuesday 28 August 2012. FIDE is also publishing the initial list of qualifiers as per regulations.
The full technical regulations of the event are on the FIDE handbook.
Women's WCC 2012 Player's Contract
QUALIFIERS for the WORLD WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 2012
a) From World Women’s Championships 2010-2011: 01. Hou, Yifan (CHN) - World Champion 02. Koneru, Humpy (IND) - Finalist 2011 03. Ruan, Lufei (CHN) - Semi finals 2010 04. Zhao Xue (CHN) - Semi finals 2010
b) World Girl Junior Champions 2010-2011: 05. Muzychuk, Anna (SLO) 2010 06. Cori T Deysi (PER) 2011
c) Rating List 7/2011 & 1/2012: 07. Polgar, Judit (HUN) 2704,50 08. Dzagnidze, Nana (GEO) 2536,00 09. Chiburdanidze, Maia (GEO) 2500,00 10. Gunina, Valentina (RUS) 2498,50 11. Galliamova, Alisa (RUS) 2491,00
d) 28 players from European Women’s Championships 2010 & 2011 12. Cramling, Pia (SWE) 2010 13. Cmilyte, Viktorija (LTU) 2010 14. Socko Monika (POL) 2010 15. Sebag, Marie (FRA) 2010 16. Kosintseva Tatiana (RUS) 2010 17. Zhukova Natalia (UKR) 2010 18. Dembo Elena (GRE) 2010 19. Stefanova Antoaneta (BUL) 2010 20. Kosintseva Nadezhda (RUS) 2010 21. Muzychuk Mariya (UKR) 2010 22. Rajlich Iweta (POL) 2010 23. Ziaziulkina Nastassia (BLR) 2010 24. Kovalevskaya Ekaterina (RUS) 2010 25. Khurtsidze Nino (GEO) 2010 26. Danielian, Elina (ARM) 2011 27. Matveeva, Svetlana (RUS) 2011 28. Khotenashvili, Bela (GEO) 2011 29. Lahno, Kateryna (UKR) 2011 30. Javakhishvili, Lela (GEO) 2011 31. Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan (SCO) 2011 32. Foisor, Cristina-Adela (ROU) 2011 33. Bodnaruk Anastasia (RUS) 2011 34. Pogonina Natalija (RUS) 2011 35. Ovod Evgenija (RUS) 2011 36. Romanko Marina (RUS) 2011 37. Hoang Thanh Trang (HUN) 2011 38. Mkrtchian Lilit (ARM) 2011 39. Khukhashvili Sopiko (GEO) 2011
e) 8 players from Americas 40. Linares Napoles Oleiny (CUB) (Continental) 41. Lujan Carolina (ARG) (Zonal 2.5) 42. Castrillon Gomez Melissa (COL) (Zonal 2.3) 43. Zatonskih, Anna (USA) (Zonal 2.1) 44. Aliaga Fernandez, Ingrid (PER) (Zonal 2.4) 45. Natalia Khoudgarian (CAN) (Zonal 2.2) 46. Abrahamyan, Tatev (USA) (Zonal 2.1) 47. Krush, Irina (USA) (Zonal 2.1)
f) 12 players from Asia/Oceania 48. Berezina, Irina (AUS) (Zonal 3.6) 49. Ju Wenjun (CHN) (Zonal 3.5) 50. Shen Yang (CHN) (Zonal 3.5) 51. Huang Qian (CHN) (Zonal 3.5) 52. Wang Yu (CHN) (Zonal 3.5) 53. Harika, Dronavalli (IND) (Continental 2011) 54. Pourkashiyan, Atousa (IRI) (Continental 2010) 55. Ghader Pour, Shayesteh (IRI) (Zonal 3.1) 56. Ranasinghe, S D (SRI) (Zonal 3.2) 57. Li, Ruofan (SIN) (Zonal 3.3) 58. Davletbayeva, Madina (KAZ) (Zonal 3.4) 59. Soumya, Swaminathan (IND) (Zonal 3.7)
g) 3 players from Africa 60. Mona, Khaled (EGY) (Continental 2011) 61. Mezioud, Amina (ALG) (Continental 2011) 62. Greeff, Melissa (RSA) (Continental 2011)
h) 2 nominees of the FIDE President 63. (TBA) 64. (TBA)
TOTAL: 64 players
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