European Women's Championship April 22 - May 4, Warsaw Poland : 11 round swiss 29 qualify for the 2001 FIDE Women's Championship
http://www.pzszach.org.pl/europa/womens.htm (English) : http://www.szachista.com.pl/archiwum/2mistrzkob/2mistrzkob.html (Polish and English)
Final standings 11 rounds 157 players
1- 7 8.0 Arakhamia(GEO 2427) Bojkovic(YUG 2447) Foiser(ROM 2408) Galliamova(RUS 2554) Kovalevskaya(RUS 2488) Skripchenko(MDA 2441) Stepovaia(RUS 2440)
8-14 7.5 Gaponenko(UKR 2373) Grabuzova(2375) Khurtsidze(GEO 2459) Kosteniuk(RUS 2397) Paehtz(GER 2358) Peptan(ROM 2461) Prudnikova(YUG 2419)
15-29 7.0 Ciuksyte(LTU 2217) Danielian(ARM 2369) Dworakowska(POL 2360) Galianina(RUS 2389) Kononenko(UKR 2361) Lagvilava(BLR 2300) Mkrtchian(ARN 2344) Peng(NED 2391) Petrenko(MDA 2336) Radziewicz(POL 2345) Sedina(ITA 2393) Socko(POL 2351) Stefanova(BUL 2473) Zatonskih(UKR 2421) Zielinska(POL 2377)
30-38 7.0 Alexandrova(UKR 2419) Dzagnidze(GEO 2241) Hunt(ENG 2426) Ionescu(ROM 2339) Kachiani(GER 2456) Kiseleva(UKR 2296) Matveeva(RUS 2430) Shumiakina(RUS 2376) Sikorova(CZE 2236)
Tie break round 1 -- winners named first. Winners qualify for FIDE. Losers go to round 2 : Mkrtchian-Alexandrova Danielian-Kachiani Dworakowska-Petrenko Ciuksyte-Hunt Lagvilava-Sikorova Peng-Radziewicz Galianina-Kiseleva Zatonskih-Ionescu Kononenko-Socko
Zielinska-Dzagnidze Sedina-Matveeva Stefanova-Shumiakina : Round 2 losers eliminated Alexandrova-Kachiani Petrenko-Hunt Radziewicz-Sikorova Kiseleva-Ionescu Socko- Dzagnidze Shumiakina-Matveeva
Round 3 Winners qualify for FIDE, losers eliminated : Petrenko-Alexandrova Radziewicz-Kiseleva Socko-Shumiakina : Type "liblist EuroWomen2001" for the games