Women's World Chess Championship
List of Women's World Chess Championships
Due to various hosting and timing issues, the championships had varied from their intended annual calendar in recent years. FIDE's plan is to get back on schedule by holding a second 2018 world championship, with the full 64 player knock-out tournament, culminating with the final between two players competing for the championship title in November 2018.

Women's World Chess Championship

Section Title: List of Women's World Chess Championships
Table Section Text: Due to various hosting and timing issues, the championships had varied from their intended annual calendar in recent years. FIDE's plan is to get back on schedule by holding a second 2018 world championship, with the full 64 player knock-out tournament, culminating with the final between two players competing for the championship title in November 2018.

Year	Host country	Host city	World champion	Runner-up(s)	Won (+)	Lost (−)	Draw (=)	Format

Women's World Chess Championship (1927–1944)

1927	United Kingdom	London	Vera Menchik	11 players	10	0	1	12-player round-robin tournament

1930	Germany	Hamburg	Vera Menchik	4 players	6	1	1	5-player double round-robin tournament

1931	Czechoslovakia	Prague	Vera Menchik	4 players	8	0	0	5-player double round-robin tournament

1933	United Kingdom	Folkestone	Vera Menchik	7 players	14	0	0	8-player double round-robin tournament

1934	Netherlands	Rotterdam	Vera Menchik	Sonja Graf	3	1	0	4-game match

1935	Poland	Warsaw	Vera Menchik	9 players	9	0	0	10-player round-robin tournament

1937	Sweden	Stockholm	Vera Menchik	25 players	14	0	0	26-player Swiss-system tournament

1937	Austria	Semmering	Vera Menchik	Sonja Graf	9	2	5	16-game match

1939	Argentina	Buenos Aires	Vera Menchik	19 players	17	0	2	20-player round-robin tournament

Vera Menchik died in 1944 as reigning world champion.

Women's World Chess Championship (1944–1950)

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Women's World Chess Championship (1950–1999)

1950	Soviet Union	Moscow	Lyudmila Rudenko	15 players	11½ points out of 15	16-player round-robin tournament

1953	Soviet Union	Moscow	Elisaveta Bykova	Lyudmila Rudenko	7	5	2	14-game match

1956	Soviet Union	Moscow	Olga Rubtsova	Elisaveta Bykova	10 points out of 16	3-player (Rubtsova, Bykova, Rudenko) octuple round-robin

1958	Soviet Union	Moscow	Elisaveta Bykova	Olga Rubtsova	7	4	3	14-game match

1959	Soviet Union	Moscow	Elisaveta Bykova	Kira Zvorykina	6	2	5	13-game match

1962	Soviet Union	Moscow	Nona Gaprindashvili	Elisaveta Bykova	7	0	4	11-game match

1965	Soviet Union	Riga	Nona Gaprindashvili	Alla Kushnir	7	3	3	13-game match

1969	Soviet Union	Tbilisi Moscow	Nona Gaprindashvili	Alla Kushnir	6	2	5	14-game match

1972	Soviet Union	Riga	Nona Gaprindashvili	Alla Kushnir	5	4	7	16-game match

1975	Soviet Union	Pitsunda Tbilisi	Nona Gaprindashvili	Nana Alexandria	8	3	1	12-game match

1978	Soviet Union	Tbilisi	Maia Chiburdanidze	Nona Gaprindashvili	4	2	9	15-game match

1981	Soviet Union	Borjomi Tbilisi	Maia Chiburdanidze	Nana Alexandria	4	4	8	16-game match (draw)

1984	Soviet Union	Volgograd	Maia Chiburdanidze	Irina Levitina	5	2	7	14-game match

1986	Bulgaria	Sofia	Maia Chiburdanidze	Elena Akhmilovskaya	4	1	9	14-game match

1988	Soviet Union	Telavi	Maia Chiburdanidze	Nana Ioseliani	3	2	11	16-game match

1991	Philippines	Manila	Xie Jun	Maia Chiburdanidze	4	2	9	15-game match

1993	Monaco	Monaco	Xie Jun	Nana Ioseliani	7	1	3	11-game match

1996	Spain	Jaén	Susan Polgar	Xie Jun	6	2	5	13-game match

1999	Russia China	Kazan Shenyang	Xie Jun	Alisa Galliamova	5	3	7	15-game match

Women's World Chess Championship (2000–present) (addition of the knockout format)

2000	India	New Delhi	Xie Jun	Qin Kanying	1	0	3	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match)

2001	Russia	Moscow	Zhu Chen	Alexandra Kosteniuk	2+3	2+1	0	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, plus tie-breaks)

2004	Russia	Elista	Antoaneta Stefanova	Ekaterina Kovalevskaya	2	0	1	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, won early)

2006	Russia	Yekaterinburg	Xu Yuhua	Alisa Galliamova	2	0	1	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, won early)

2008	Russia	Nalchik	Alexandra Kosteniuk	Hou Yifan	1	0	3	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match)

2010	Turkey	Hatay	Hou Yifan	Ruan Lufei	1+2	1	2+2	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, plus tie-breaks)

2011	Albania	Tirana	Hou Yifan	Humpy Koneru	3	0	5	10-game match, won early

2012	Russia	Khanty-Mansiysk	Anna Ushenina	Antoaneta Stefanova	1+1	1	2+1	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, plus tie-breaks)

2013	China	Taizhou	Hou Yifan	Anna Ushenina	4	0	3	10-game match, won early

2015	Russia	Sochi	Mariya Muzychuk	Natalia Pogonina	1	0	3	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match)

2016	Ukraine	Lviv	Hou Yifan	Mariya Muzychuk	3	0	6	10-game match, won early

2017	Iran	Tehran	Tan Zhongyi	Anna Muzychuk	1+1	1	2+1	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, plus tie-breaks)

May 2018	China	Shanghai Chongqing	Ju Wenjun	Tan Zhongyi	3	2	5	10-game match

Nov 2018	Russia	Khanty-Mansiysk	Ju Wenjun	Kateryna Lagno	1+2	1	2+2	64-player knock-out tournament (4-game championship match, plus tie-breaks)

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Chiburdanidze defended her title against Alexandria at Borjomi Tbilisi in 1981, and Irina Levitina at Volgograd in 1984.

final_sentence: Chiburdanidze defended her title against Alexandria at Borjomi Tbilisi in 1981, and Irina Levitina at Volgograd in 1984.