Women's World Chess Championship 1999

The 1999 Women's World Chess Championship was won by former champion Xie Jun, who regained her title after defeating Alisa Galliamova.

These ten players contested a double round-robin tournament in Groningen in December 1997, from which the top two would advance to the final to determine the challenger.

FIDE decided that the whole final match should be played in Shenyang, China, after Chinese sponsors made the best offer for the prize fund.

However, Galliamova refused to play entirely on her opponent's home turf, so Xie Jun was declared the winner by default and given the right to challenge champion Polgar.

The championship match was at first scheduled to take place in November 1998, but champion Susan Polgar requested a postponement because she was pregnant.