2015 Women's World Draughts Championship
The 2015 Women's World Draughts Championship at the international draughts was held May 11–24, 2015 in Wuhan, China International Draughts Federation FMJD. Sixteen female players in total will be competing in the tournament. The tournament started on May 11, 2015, and will end on May 24, 2015. It will be played as a round-robin, with 15 rounds in total, each of which be micro-match from two games. The winning prize for the tournament is 20,000 euros.
Natalia Sadowska (Poland) won the right to become a candidate in the match for the title Women's World Draughts Champions with Zoja Golubeva (Latvia).
Participants
The sixteen participants are nominated according to a schema and rules accepted by the FMJD General Assembly:
| Number | Title | Name | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GMIF, MI | Zoja Golubeva |  Latvia | World Champion |
| 2 | GMIF, MI | Tamara Tansykkuzhina |  Russia | Challenger |
| 3 | You Zhang |  China | Organisation place | |
| 4 | MIF | Hanqing Zhao | China | Sponsors place |
| 5 | Enkhtuul Dondov |  Mongolia | FMJD Wild Card | |
| 6 | MIF | Alatenghua | China | Asian Champion |
| 7 | Odgerel Molomjamts | Mongolia | Asian Championship #2 | |
| 8 | MIF | Laima Adlytė |  Lithuania | Instead of Africa Champion |
| 9 | MFF | Marika Azojan |  Estonia | Instead of America Champion |
| 10 | GMIF, MF | Olga Baltazhy |  Ukraine | Europe #1 |
| 11 | GMIF | Viktoriya Motrichko | Ukraine | Europe #2 |
| 12 | MIF | Nika Leopoldova | Russia | Europe #3 |
| 13 | MIF | Aigul Idrisova | Russia | Europe #4 |
| 14 | GMIF, MF | Olga Fedorovich |  Belarus | Europe #5 |
| 15 | MIF, MF | Natalia Sadowska |  Poland | Europe #6 |
| 16 | GMIF | Olga Kamyshleeva |  Netherlands | Rating on January 1, 2015 |
Reserve players
| Number | Title | Name | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GMIF | Matrena Nogovitsyna | Russia |
| 2 | GMIF | Darya Tkachenko | Ukraine |
| 3 | MIF | Vitalia Doumesh | Netherlands |
| 4 | MIF | Darja Fedorovich | Belarus |
| 5 | MIF | Heike Verheul | Netherlands |
| 6 | MIF | Olesia Abdoullina | Latvia |
| 7 | MFF | Arleta Flisikowska | Poland |
| 8 | GMIF | Erdenetsogt Mandakhnaran | Mongolia |
Rules and regulations
The games will be played in the official FMJD time rate of the Fischer system with 1 hour and 20 minutes for the game plus 1 minute per move.[1] Conforming to the FMJD regulations players are not allowed to agree on a draw before they both made 40 moves. If they do so nevertheless, the referee is obliged to decide on a 0-point each players.
The final classification will be based on the total points obtained. If two or more players will have same total points to define the places:
1. the largest number of victories
2. the best results between this players
3. the best results obtained in order of the classification.
Results
| Place | Name | Country | Title | Rating | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | Points | win. | draw | loss | Coeff. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zoja Golubeva | Latvia | GMIF | 2262 |  | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 268 |
| 2 | Natalia Sadowska | Poland | MIF | 2179 | 1 | | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 274 |
| 3 | Olga Kamyshleeva | Netherlands | GMIF | 2251 | 1 | 2 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 281 |
| 4 | Olga Fedorovich | Belarus | GMIF | 2190 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 265 |
| 5 | Tamara Tansykkuzhina | Russia | GMIF | 2257 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 270 |
| 6 | Aygul Idrisova | Russia | MIF | 2199 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 228 |
| 7 | Hanqing Zhao | China | MIF | 2058 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 262 |
| 8 | Nika Leopoldova | Russia | MIF | 2169 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 238 |
| 9 | Yulia Makarenkova | Ukraine | MIF | 2127 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 185 |
| 10 | Olga Baltazhy | Ukraine | GMIF | 2165 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 202 |
| 11 | Laima Adlyte | Lithuania | MIF | 2087 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 196 |
| 12 | Alatenghua | China | MIF | 2041 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 158 |
| 13 | You Zhang | China | 1850 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 132 | |
| 14 | Odgerel Molomjamts | Mongolia | 1974 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 113 | |
| 15 | Marika Azojan | Estonia | MFF | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | | 1 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 8 | 101 |
| 16 | Enkhtuul Dondov | Mongolia | 1956 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 6 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 87 |