05.07.2005 The next women's championship venue is announced

ITAR-TASS reports that the next women’s chess world championship will take place the next year in March in Yekaterinburg. This decision was taken in the course of negotiations between the head of Sverdlovsk region Eduard Rassel and the vice-president of International chess federation Georgios Makropulos.

Rossel and Makropulos met in Nizhny Tagil at the exposition “Defense and protection – 2005”. The FIDE vice-president came to the Ural region to visit the international tournament that was organized by Bogoslovsky aluminium plant in Krasnoturinsk.