Eligible	Tbilisi iz	Bad Kissingen iz
Semifinalists of 1980 candidates' matches (2)		Gaprindashvili, Litinskaya
Quarterfinalists of 1980 candidates' matches (4)	Akhmylovskaya, Gurieli, Verőci-Petronić	Lemachko
From West European zonal 1 (2)	García Vicente	Belle
From West European zonal 2 (3)	Fischdick	Hund, Borisova-Ornstein
From East European zonal (5)	Mureșan	Pogorevici, Ivánka, Ereńska-Radzewska, Klímová
From Soviet zonal (4)	Titorenko, Minogina	Fatalibekova, Semenova
From US zonal (2)	Savereide	Crotto
From Canadian zonal (1)		Shterenberg
From Central American zonal (1)	Guggenberger
From South American zonal (1)		Arbunic Castro
From West Asian zonal (1)	R.Khadilkar
From Asian Pacific zonal (1)	Liu Shilan
From Mediterranean-African zonal (3)	Nikolin, Pihajlić	Maksimović
Nominated by FIDE (1)	Levitina (wasn't allowed in last FIDE WCh cycle, because her brother defected from the SU to Israel)
Home player (0)
Replacements (0)