1993 Women's World Chess Championship

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At the 1993 Women's World Chess Championship , the Chinese Xie Jun successfully defended her title against Nana Iosseliani .

Interzonal tournament

At the 1991 interzonal tournament, 35 players competed who had previously qualified in regional tournaments.

Candidates tournament

The candidates tournament was played as a round-robin tournament, with each player twice against each other. The six players from the interzonal tournament were joined by Maia Chiburdanidze, who lost the previous World Cup match, and Alisa Marić, who came second in the Candidates' tournament at the time. The Hungarian player Zsuzsa Polgár was also invited by FIDE . Shortly before, she was the third player to ever receive the general grandmaster title . The tournament took place in Shanghai in October and November 1992 . Places 1 and 2 in this candidate tournament entitle them to participate in the subsequent candidate finals.

Pl. Surname 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 total
1. HungaryHungary Zsuzsa Polgár 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 1 1 12½
2. Georgia 1990Georgia Nana Iosseliani 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 9½
3. Georgia 1990Georgia Maia Chiburdanidze 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 1 ½ 0 1 ½ 1 9½
4th Yugoslavia Federal Republic 1992Yugoslavia Alisa Marić ½ ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 0 0 8th
5. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Qin Kanying 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 1 8th
6th United StatesUnited States Irina Levitina 0 ½ 0 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 6½
7th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Peng Zhaoqin 0 0 1 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ 6th
8th. Georgia 1990Georgia Nona Gaprindashvili 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 0 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 1 6th
9. China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Wang Pin 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 ½ 1 0 6th

Candidate Finals

The candidate final took place in Monaco in February 1993 . It ended in a draw both after the originally planned eight games and after two extra two games. Finally, a drawing of lots was brought about through which Nana Iosseliani entered a world championship fight as a challenger for the second time.

1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 Points
HungaryHungary Zsuzsa Polgár 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 1 0 6th
Georgia 1990Georgia Nana Iosseliani 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 0 1 0 1 6th

World championship fight

The world championship match was held in Monaco in October and November 1993 . Defending champion Xie Jun prevailed very clearly and remained world champion.

1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 Points
Georgia 1990Georgia Nana Iosseliani 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 2½
China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xie Jun 1 1 ½ 1 1 0 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 8½

Web links

Women's World Chess Championships


Duels

1927 , 1930 , 1931 , 1933 , 1935 , 1937 (duel) , 1937 (tournament) , 1939 ( Menchik ) • 1949/50 ( Rudenko ) • 1953 ( Bykowa ) • 1956 ( Rubzowa ) • 1958 , 1959 ( Bykowa ) • 1962 , 1965 , 1969 , 1972 , 1975 ( Gaprindashvili ) • 1978 , 1981 , 1984 , 1986 , 1988 ( Chiburdanidze ) • 1991 , 1993 ( Xie Jun ) • 1996 ( Zsuzsa Polgár ) • 1999 ( Xie Jun )

Knockout tournaments

2000 ( Xie Jun ) • 2001 ( Zhu Chen ) • 2004 ( Stefanowa ) • 2006 ( Xu Yuhua ) • 2008 ( Kostenjuk ) • 2010 ( Hou Yifan )

alternating

2011 ( Hou Yifan ) • 2012 ( Uschenina ) • 2013 ( Hou Yifan ) • 2015 ( Marija Musytschuk ) • 2016 ( Hou Yifan ) • 2017 ( Tan Zhongyi ) • 2018 (duel) , 2018 (knockout tournament) ( Ju Wenjun )

Duels

2020 ( Ju Wenjun ) • 2022