The Women's World Chess Championship 2012 is an upcoming knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world champion.[1]
The tournament will be played as a 64 player knockout type in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia from 10 November to 3 December 2012. Each pairing consists of two games, one with white and one with black. The winner advances. In case of a tie, tiebreaks are played the next day. Those are two rapid games and if still tied an Armageddon match.
The final consists of four games at classical time control, followed by four rapid games.
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