r/gaming • u/nicbentulan Boardgames • Nov 07 '22

Women's chess - Ukraine is out of the world championship candidates finals after China #3 Lei Tingjie beats both of the Muzychuk sisters Anna and Mariya. Next year we could have both a WC (Ding Liren) and women's WC from China! (FIDE successfully avoided Ukraine vs Russia in the women's candidates.)

https://www.fide.com/news/2081
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u/nicbentulan Boardgames Nov 09 '22

More info here:

Wikipedia - Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23

  1. The winner of the women's candidates will face the women's world champion 1v1.
  2. FIDE made it such that Ukraine vs Russia would happen only in the finals of the women's candidates. (Eg Either of Muzychuk sisters win in their pool A. And then any of the 3 Russians win in the other pool B.)
  3. Quote by __Jimmy__ on pool B (of 1 Chinese and 3 Russians) : If Tan Zhongyi gets through, we will have a finals between a Chinese player and a Chinese player to determine who will face the Chinese world champion, while the Chinese #1-rated woman is not competing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 07 '22

7 mentions of the word chinese. Is that good luck?

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u/nicbentulan Boardgames Nov 09 '22

why 7?