Women's World Chess Championship 2000

The Women's World Chess Championship 2000 was a change from previous championship cycle in that, for the first time, it consisted of a 64-player knock-out tournament which took place from November 27 to December 16, 2000 in New Delhi, India. Despite the change in format, the tournament was still won by defending champion Xie Jun of China, who beat her compatriot Qin Kanying in the final by 2½ to 1½.

Participants
This is the list of participants, ranked according to their Elo ratings on the October 2000 list. Due to a few late withdrawals, the final number of competitors was only 61.

• # 🇨🇳 Xie Jun (CHN), 2567, GM

• # Maia Chiburdanidze, 2550, GM

• # 🇷🇺 Alisa Galliamova (RUS), 2550, IM

• # 🇨🇳 Zhu Chen (CHN), 2534, WGM

• # 🇨🇳 Xu Yuhua (CHN), 2507, WFM

• # 🇸🇪 Pia Cramling (SWE), 2505, GM

• # Nana Ioseliani, 2500, IM

• # Hoang Thanh Trang, 2493, IM

• # 🇨🇳 Qin Kanying (CHN), 2484, WGM

• # 🇨🇳 Wang Lei (CHN), 2483, WGM

• # 🇷🇺 Ekaterina Kovalevskaya (RUS), 2468, WGM

• # 🇺🇦 Natalia Zhukova (UKR), 2467, WGM

• # 🇲🇩 Almira Skripchenko (MDA), 2451, IM

• # 🇺🇦 Anna Zatonskih (UKR), 2446, WGM

• # 🇩🇪 Ketino Kachiani-Gersinska (GER), 2444, IM

• # 🇷🇺 Svetlana Matveeva (RUS), 2440, WGM

• # Corina Peptan, 2439, IM

• # Alisa Marić, 2435, IM

• # Nino Khurtsidze, 2432, IM

• # Nataša Bojković, 2429, WGM

• # 🇺🇦 Tatjana Vasilevich (UKR), 2420, WGM

• # Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, 2414, IM

• # Peng Zhaoqin, 2413, IM

• # 🇮🇳 Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi (IND), 2402, WIM

• # Nona Gaprindashvili, 2390, GM

• # Maria Manakova, 2384, WGM

• # 🇺🇸 Irina Krush (USA), 2378, WGM

• # Nino Gurieli, 2373, IM

• # 🇷🇺 Julia Demina (RUS), 2366, WGM

• # 🇷🇺 Elena Zayac (RUS), 2359, WGM

• # Viktorija Čmilytė, 2352, IM

• # 🇮🇱 Masha Klinova (ISR), 2350, WGM

• # 🇵🇱 Joanna Dworakowska (POL), 2347, WGM

• # 🇧🇾 Rakhil Eidelson (BLR), 2345, WGM

• # 🇭🇺 Nikoletta Lakos (HUN), 2337, WGM

• # 🇷🇺 Olga Stjazhkina (RUS), 2337, WGM

• # Rusudan Goletiani, 2324, WGM

• # 🇧🇾 Genrieta Lagvilava (BLR), 2318, WGM

• # Erika Sziva, 2307, WIM

• # Lela Javakhishvili, 2296, WIM

• # Dana Reizniece, 2285, WGM

• # 🇪🇸 Mónica Calzetta (ESP), 2282, WIM

• # Nguyen Thi Thanh An, 2281

• # 🇮🇱 Ella Pitam (ISR), 2279, WGM

• # Sopio Tkeshelashvili, 2274, WIM

• # 🇮🇳 Subbaraman Meenakshi (IND), 2260

• # 🇺🇸 Anna Hahn (USA), 2255, WIM

• # Inga Khurtsilava, 2243, WIM

• # 🇮🇳 Bagyashree Thipsay (IND), 2234, WIM

• # 🇫🇮 Niina Koskela (FIN), 2226

• # 🇺🇸 Jennifer Shahade (USA), 2222

• # 🇨🇦 Johanne Charest (CAN), 2136, WIM

• # Marany Meyer, 2087

• # 🇦🇺 Geraldine Johns-Putra (AUS), 2065, WFM

• # 🇧🇷 Joara Chaves (BRA), 2057, WIM

• # 🇵🇱 Marta Zielińska (POL), 2054

• # 🇦🇷 Claudia Amura (ARG), WGM

• # 🇨🇺 Maritza Arribas (CUB), WGM

• # 🇰🇿 Fliura Uskova (KAZ), WIM

• # 🇲🇦 Zahira El Ghabi (MAR), WFM

• # Asma Houli

Notable top players not taking part were Judit Polgár (ranked the no. 1 woman in the world), Wang Pin (ranked 7th), Antoaneta Stefanova (11th), Sofia Polgar (14th), and Harriet Hunt (18th).

As Women's World Champion, Xie Jun was invited to participate in the concurrent open event, but chose to try to defend her title instead.

Final match

 * {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! !! Rating !! 1 !! 2 !! 3 !! 4 !! Total
 * +Women's World Championship Final 2000
 * align=left | 🇨🇳 Qin Kanying (CHN) || 2484
 * style="background:black; color:white"| 0 || ½ ||style="background:black; color:white"| ½ || ½ || 1½
 * align=left | 🇨🇳 Xie Jun (CHN) || 2567
 * 1 ||style="background:black; color:white"| ½ || ½ ||style="background:black; color:white"| ½ || 2½
 * }
 * 1 ||style="background:black; color:white"| ½ || ½ ||style="background:black; color:white"| ½ || 2½
 * }