The Ukrainian grandmaster defeated Antoaneta Stefanova on tie-break.
The tie-break between Anna Ushenina (Ukraine) and Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria) was short, but the struggle was really tense.
Antoaneta Stefanova had White in the first rapid game. She obtained a minimal advantage in the opening, but her central break was a bit premature, as it allowed Black to open the files and activate her pieces. The position got simplified, and Black eventually equalized. In the subsequent maneuvering game White tried different tricks, but Black defended accurately and parried all threats. A draw was agreed on 89th move.
In the second game Anna Ushenina demonstrated an opening novelty and seized the initiative. Stefanova ended up in a worse position and was short on time. After the exchange of queens White got a spatial advantage, invaded Black’s camp with her rooks and won a pawn. Stefanova did not want to defend passively and attempted to activate her pieces, but Ushenina exchanged a pair of rooks and denied her counterplay. Soon White won another pawn and accurately converted her decisive material advantage.
The score in the final is 3.5-2.5 in favor of Anna Ushenina (Ukraine). FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov congratulated her with this historic achievement at the concluding press-conference. The FIDE President arrived today to Khanty-Mansiysk to participate in the closing ceremony of the 2012 Women’s World Championship.
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Beauty and brain. But Kosteniuk is the greatest woman player ever.
World Champion Anna Usheshina’s HTH scores with some of the top players is shown below.
0-2 Vs Humpy
1-3 Vs Yifan
0-2 Vs Susan Polgar
0-3 Vs Zhao, Xue
0-1 Vs Cramling, Pia
0-1 Vs Kosintseva, Tatiana
0-1 Vs Harika, Dronavalli
0-1 Vs Khotenashvili, Bela
0-2 Vs Kosteniuk, Alexandra
0-1 Vs Zhu, Chen
Her world ranking is only 37. What advertisement FIDE has for its world championship system! Lottery??
she defeated the combined brains of stefanova, Topalov, Danialov etc.. Poor Topa, His recommendation to Etti was not good to beat a 2400.. No wonder he is not among the elites. The elites are playing 4th LCC
Absolutely no way to decide a World championships!!
Congrats!!
It is the game. She was strongest in the event.
Good selection, anonymous 14.00 to prove your allegation. I guess the lack of names like Muzychuk, Stefanova, N Kosintseva, Pogonina Ju… is just accidental. Bu that logic yuo would prove that Serena Williams slams are flukes.
Anna won fair and square in a long exhausting tourney with all top players participating beating 5 better ranked (and 1 close) quite comfortably. She is already in chess history and no one ever will take that from her
if wimbledon can have a knockout why not chess. Boris Becker in his prime was sent out crashing by a unseeded player.. does that devalue the title?
If the champs are so good, why not show in the two games.. remember it is two games… not one.. so one bad day you can still bounce back IF you are that good.. otherwise live with it..you saw the classical anand gelfand match 12-12
The 2012 FIDE Women’s World Championship was compulsory internet viewing. Such a wealth of talent. A marvelous advertisement for chess.
Anna Ushenina is the well-deserved 20012 Women’s World Champion. What a fighting spirit! Her “miracle” draw against Ju Wenjun in the semi-final completely astounded everyone who saw it. How is it possible for a King and a Rook to hold back three Pawns all perched ready to queen with their King and a Bishop in support. Seeing is believing.
A knockout tournament is more difficult to prepare for than a round robin where you know who your opponents will be. And to be under that pressure for 21 days, with only a couple of breaks. It was an incredible test at thinking at the board!
Congratulations Anna.
The 2012 FIDE Women’s World Championship was compulsory internet viewing. Such a wealth of talent. A marvelous advertisement for chess.
Anna Ushenina is the well-deserved 20012 Women’s World Champion. What a fighting spirit! Her “miracle” draw against Ju Wenjun in the semi-final completely astounded everyone who saw it. How is it possible for a King and a Rook to hold back three Pawns all perched ready to queen with a their King and a Bishop in support? Seeing is believing.
A knockout tournament is more difficult to prepare for than a round robin where you know who your opponents will be. And to be under that pressure for 21 days, with only a couple of breaks. It was an incredible test at thinking at the board!
Congratulations Anna.