The Women's Chess Cup took place in Dresden, Germany, on July 7th and 8th. It was the final weekend of the Football World Cup. The idea behind the event was to dupe the rules of the football tournament. One female chess player from each of 32 participating nations was invited. Some powerful chess nations like China, Russia or Georgia did not qualify to the World Cup so they had no chance to take part in the chess cup either; while others, mainly African nations, do have decent football teams but are not capable of compose girl's chess team, so they did not send players to Dresden and were represented by reserve home players.

There were eight groups, A to H, with four players from four different countries each. Top two of each group qualified for the play-offs, with two games and a tiebreak deciding who proceeded. In the World Soccer Championship the USA went out in the preliminaries, and Germany made it to the semi-finals to take third. In the Women's World Cup the picture was different: Susan Polgar triumphed for the USA defeating Eli Paehtz of Germany in the final.

Speaking in football terms, the results of the World Championship final might be traveresed (exclusively for purposes our chess enjoyment) in the following way:

Germany - USA 2-2 (1-2) --> Read match report

USA - Germany 2-0 (1-0) --> Read match report

Links:
ChessBase report (in English)
ChessBase report (in German)
Deutsche Schachbund report (in German)