Tehran Times- FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov thanked the Iranian officials for hosting the Women's World Chess Championship. The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 was a 64-player knock-out tournament, to decide the women's world chess champion. The final was won by Tan Zhongyi over Anna Muzychuk in the rapid tie-breaks. The competition took ...

Tasnim- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), says that he has become very happy after Iran requested to host Women's World Chess Championship 2017 since chess is popular in the country. The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 started on Friday in Tehran and will run until March 5. The knock-out tournament ...

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov says that the international federation will support Iran as host of the women's World Championship. In the FIDEs General Assembly at a meeting held in Baku, Iran was chosen as host of world championship but some well known players namely Nazi Paikidze said that they will not participate in the ...