Thursday, September 25, 2014 at 12:03AM

FIDE was supposed to have the women's world championship, knockout edition, start in a couple of weeks, but it has fallen through and will be postponed for a few months, according to this press release. Not being a fan of knockout world championships, I wouldn't mind if it's "postponed" forever and the women's championship parallels the "men's"/open title's cycle. That said, it's ridiculous and worse that FIDE put this on the calendar a long time ago and surely cost the 64 invitees a fair amount of money for hiring seconds, clearing their schedule of other events and invitations, and so on. (I hope the 110 delegates who kept Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in power are happy.)