21st World Senior Chess Championship - Women

"Seniors" are playing chess, as are the "youth" - continents apart, at the same time two young women are battling for the title of Women's World Chess Champion.

Official site - it's not a dedicated website so you'll have to hunt and peck for news of the Seniors Championships, and eventually it will just disappear altogether.  The games begin tomorrow.  Here is the line-up for the ladies.  Ladies have to be age 50 or above to play in this event:

Starting rank list

No.		Name	FED	Rtg	sex
1	GM	Gaprindashvili Nona	GEO	2360	W
2	WGM	Fatalibekova Elena	RUS	2285	W
3	WGM	Kozlovskaya Valentina	RUS	2281	W
4	WIM	Strutinskaya Galina N	RUS	2277	W
5	WGM	Saunina Ludmila	RUS	2274	W
6	WIM	Fomina Tatyana	EST	2215	W
7		Zaitseva Tamara	RUS	2183	W
8	WGM	Khmiadashvili Tamar	GEO	2166	W
9	WIM	Miednikova Swietlana	RUS	2165	W
10	WIM	Thipsay Bagyashree Sathe	IND	2152	W
11	WIM	Bilunova Rimma I	RUS	2151	W
12	WIM	Titorenko Natalia I	RUS	2143	W
13	WIM	Sorokina Tamara	RUS	2131	W
14	WFM	Bogumil Tatiana	RUS	2115	W
15	WFM	Melashvili Nino	GEO	2106	W
16	WIM	Mira Helene	AUT	2098	W
17		Chernova Natalja	RUS	2095	W
18	WFM	Lopatin Olga	GER	2091	W
19	WFM	Kuznetsova Luba	RUS	2087	W
20	WFM	Dotan Valeria	ISR	2083	W
21	WFM	Komysheva Margarita	RUS	2081	W
22	WFM	Khropova Larisa	RUS	2069	W
23	WFM	Battsengel Shirchin	MGL	2068	W
24	WFM	Kierzek Mira	MKD	2023	W
25		Abdikasova Panu	KAZ	1978	W
26		Kabanova Irina	RUS	1959	W
27	WFM	Shushpanova Nina	RUS	1946	W
28		Blagonadezhnaya Ideya	RUS	1898	W
29		Lein Marina	RUS	1890	W
30		Chireykina Natalia	RUS	1853	W
31		Kapelkina Galina	RUS	1841	W
32		Khalturina Tatiana	RUS	1840	W
33		Hoose Hannelore	GER	1764	W
34		Rakipov Natasa	CRO	1763	W
35		Shmyreva Tatiana	RUS	1755	W
36		Jayashree P Sankpal	IND	1710	W
37		Abramyan Anatolya	RUS	0
38		Berezovskaya Vera	RUS	0
39		Milashevskaya Valentina	RUS	0
40		Richardson Charlotte	USA	0
41		Savostina Larisa	RUS	0