FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022–23
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The 2022-2023 edition of the FIDE Grand Prix will be a series of four chess tournaments exclusively for women which will determine two players to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2023–2024. The winner of the Candidates Tournament will play the reigning world champion in the next Women's World Chess Championship.[1]
This will be the sixth cycle of the tournament series. Each of 16 players shall participate in three out of four tournaments, and every tournament shall be a twelve-player round robin event. The tournaments are planned to be held between September 2022 and June 2023.
Players
16 players will qualify for the Grand Prix:[1][2]
- Women's World Chess Champion.
- Four semifinalists of Women's Chess World Cup 2021.
- The top 4 finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, excluding those who already qualified for the Grand Prix.
- 3 players with highest rating in the March 2022 rating list, who played at least 1 rated game counted in one of the Standard FIDE Rating Lists from April 2021 to March 2022 (Humpy Koneru wasn't eligible because of this condition[3]), excluding those who already qualified for the Grand Prix.
- 4 organizer's nominees.
Invitee[2] | Qualifying method | Rating (March 2022) |
---|---|---|
Ju Wenjun | Women's World Champion | 2560 |
Alexandra Kosteniuk | Women's World Cup | 2516 |
Aleksandra Goryachkina | Women's World Cup | 2610 |
Tan Zhongyi | Women's World Cup | 2525 |
Anna Muzychuk | Women's World Cup | 2531 |
Lei Tingjie | Women's Grand Swiss | 2535 |
Elisabeth Pähtz | Women's Grand Swiss | 2507 |
Zhu Jiner | Women's Grand Swiss | 2464 |
Mariya Muzychuk | Women's Grand Swiss | 2544 |
Hou Yifan | Rating | 2650 |
Kateryna Lagno | Rating | 2550 |
Nana Dzagnidze | Rating | 2531 |
TBD | Organizer's nominee | |
TBD | Organizer's nominee | |
TBD | Organizer's nominee | |
TBD | Organizer's nominee |
Schedule
No. | Host city | Date |
---|---|---|
1 | Nursulltan, Kazakhstan [2] | 21 Sempember – 4 October 2022 |
2 | TBD | October – December 2022 |
3 | Munich, Germany [4] | 1–14 February 2023 |
4 | TBD | April – June 2023 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://handbook.fide.com/files/handbook/regulations_WGP_2022_23.pdf[bare URL PDF]
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