[2] The match was played between defending champion Anna Ushenina, winner of the Women's World Chess Championship 2012, and challenger Hou Yifan, the previous champion and winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2011–2012.

After seven of ten games Hou Yifan won the match 5.5 to 1.5 to retake the title.

[3] Prior to the match, as of 23 May 2013, Anna Ushenina and Hou Yifan have played 8 games against each other at classical time control with the following statistics:[4] The match is played as at most ten classical games in the Taizhou Hotel, or less if one player reaches 5.5 points before that.

In case of a tie there will be a new drawing of colors and then four rapid games with 25 minutes for each player and an increment of ten seconds after each move.

Hou Yifan dominated the match, winning four games, drawing three and losing none, and thus regained the championship title which she had lost the previous year.