Women's World Chess Championship 2006
The Women's World Chess Championship 2006 took place from March 10–27, 2006 in Ekaterinburg, Russia. For the fourth time, the championship took the form of a 64-player knock-out tournament.
The tournament was won by Xu Yuhua, who beat Alisa Galliamova in the final by 2½ to ½. Notably, Xu Yuhua was three months pregnant at the time.Participants
The players were seeded by their FIDE Elo ratings of January 2006, except that defending champion Antoaneta Stefanova was the no. 1 seed.
Only two players from the top 20 were absent: Judit Polgár who instead took part in the open championship events of 2005 and 2007, as well as Hoang Thanh Trang.Qualification paths
- WC: Women's World Champion, runner-up and semifinalists of Women's World Chess Championship 2004
- J04 and J05: World Junior Champions 2004 and 2005
- R: Rating
- E04 and E05: European Individual Championships 2004 and 2005
- AM: American Continental Chess Championship 2005
- AS: Asian Chess Championship 2004
- AF: African Chess Championship 2005
- Z2.1, Z2.2, Z2.3, Z2.4, Z2.5, Z3.1, Z3.2, Z3.3, Z3.4, Z3.5, Z3.6, Z4.1: Zonal tournaments
- PN: FIDE President nominee
Results
Final match
A fourth game was not played because Xu Yuhua led by two points after game three.Bracket
