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FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–25

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FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2024-25
Tournament information
SportChess
Location Tbilisi
Dates14 August 2024–2025
AdministratorFIDE
FormatSeries of round-robin tournaments
Venue(s)

The 2024–2025 edition of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix is a series of six chess tournaments exclusively for women which determined two players to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. The winner of the Candidates Tournament would play the reigning world champion in the next Women's World Chess Championship.[1]

This is the seventh cycle of the tournament series. Each of 16 players had to participate in three out of six tournaments, and every tournament was a ten-player round robin event. The tournaments were held between 2024 and 2025.

Players

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20 players qualified for the Grand Prix. The twenty players to qualify for WGP shall be determined according to the following criteria:[1][2]

  • A. 2 spots – FIDE Women's World Championship Match 2023 participants: GM Ju Wenjun and GM Lei Tingjie
  • B. 2 spots – FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2022–23: GM Kateryna Lagno and GM Aleksandra Goryachkina.
  • C. 3 spots – FIDE Women's World Cup 2023: IM Nurgyul Salimova, GM Anna Muzychuk, GM Tan Zhongyi.
  • D. 3 spots – FIDE Women's Grand Swiss 2023: three best players according to the final standings (but not below 4th place), excluding those who have qualified for WGP Series 2024-25 via paths 3.1.a-c. The unallocated spot(s), if any, shall be awarded according to the procedure described in Article 3.1.e.
  • E. 4 spots – Standard Rating in the April 2024 FIDE Rating List: four players with the highest rating, excluding those who have qualified for WGP Series via paths 3.1.a-d. Only players who played at least 30 games rated in the FIDE standard rating lists from May 2023 to April 2024 are eligible. If two or more players have equal ratings, the drawing of lots shall be used to determine the qualifiers.
  • F. 6 spots – Players nominated by Organisers of WGP tournaments: each of the six WGP tournament Organiser shall nominate any player non-qualified via paths 3.1.a-e of his/her choice upon consultation with FIDE president.

Replacement players are stylized in italics.

Invitee Qualifying method Rating
China Lei Tingjie Women's World Championship Match 2023 2549
FIDE Kateryna Lagno[a] Women's Grand Prix Series 2022–23 2532
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] Women's Grand Prix Series 2022–23 2545
Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova Women's World Cup 2449
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk Women's World Cup 2521
China Tan Zhongyi Women's World Cup 2545
India R Vaishali Women's Grand Swiss 2488
Mongolia Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul Women's Grand Swiss 2356
India Koneru Humpy Rating 2530
Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk Rating 2508
Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze Rating 2505
India Harika Dronavalli Rating 2491
Switzerland Alexandra Kosteniuk Rating 2488
Spain Sarasadat Khademalsharieh[b] Rating (replacement) 2489
Georgia (country) Lela Javakhishvili Organizer's nominee 2451
Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva Organizer's nominee 2472
Germany Elisabeth Pähtz Organizer's nominee 2451
Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou Organizer's nominee 2428
India Divya Deshmukh Organizer's nominee 2472
Austria Regina Pokorna Organizer's nominee 2302
Poland Alina Kashlinskaya[c] Replacement 2474

Schedule

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Dates Host city Winner Runner-up Third Place
August 14–25, 2024 Tbilisi Alina Kashlinskaya Bibisara Assaubayeva Stavroula Tsolakidou
October 29–November 9, 2024 Shymkent FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] China Tan Zhongyi Bibisara Assaubayeva
February 17–28, 2025 Monaco
March 14–25, 2025 Cyprus
April 14–25, 2025 India
May 5–16, 2025 Austria

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Prizes

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The tour points are to be awarded as follows:[1]

Place Tour Points Overall
prize money
Event
prize money
1st 130 €30,000 €18,000
2nd 105 €22,000 €13,000
3rd 85 €16,000 €10,500
4th 70 €12,000 €8,500
5th 60 €10,000 €7,000
6th 50 €8,000 €6,000
7th 40 €7,000 €5,000
8th 30 €6,000 €4,500
9th 20 €5,000 €4,000
10th 10 €4,000 €3,500
  • Tour points and prize money are shared equally between tied players.

Tournaments

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Georgia (Stage 1)

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The first stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–2025 was held in Tbilisi, Georgia from August 14 to 25, 2024. Alina Kashlinskaya was the winner of the tournament.[5][6]

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Stage 1, August 14–25 2024, Tbilisi, Georgia, Category X (2482.4)
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points TB Grand Prix Points Prize money
1  IM Alina Kashlinskaya (POL) 2474 Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 6 130 €18,000
2  IM Bibisara Assaubayeva (KAZ) 2472 ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 105 €13,000
3  IM Stavroula Tsolakidou (GRE) 2428 ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 5 22.00 71.67 €8,667
4  GM Anna Muzychuk (UKR) 2521 ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 5 21.25 71.67 €8,667
5  GM Nana Dzagnidze (GEO) 2505 ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 0 1 ½ 1 5 21.25 71.67 €8,667
6  GM Mariya Muzychuk (UKR) 2508 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear 1 ½ ½ ½ 50 €6,000
7  GM Vaishali Rameshbabu (IND) 2488 0 ½ 0 ½ 1 0 Does not appear ½ ½ 1 4 16.50 35 €4,750
8  GM Alexandra Kosteniuk (SUI) 2488 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ Does not appear ½ 1 4 16.50 35 €4,750
9  IM Lela Javakhishvili (GEO) 2451 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ Does not appear 0 20 €4,000
10  IM Sarasadat Khademalsharieh (ESP) 2489 ½ 0 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 0 1 Does not appear 10 €3,000

Kazakhstan (Stage 2)

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The Second stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–2025 was held in Shymkent, Kazakhstan from October 29 to November 9, 2024. Aleksandra Goryachkina was the winner of the tournament.

FIDE Women's Grand Prix Stage 2, October 29 – November 9, 2024, Shymkent, Kazakhstan, Category X (2476.4)
Player Rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points TB Grand Prix Points Prize money
1 FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] 2528 Does not appear 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 7 5 130 €18,000
2 China Tan Zhongyi 2551 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 1 1 6,5 4 105 €13,000
3 Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva 2488 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 5 5 77.5 €9,500
4 Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou 2445 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5 5 77.5 €9,500
5 India Koneru Humpy 2530 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 4,5 5 55 €6,500
6 India Divya Deshmukh 2493 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 4,5 4 55 €6,500
7 FIDE Kateryna Lagno[a] 2527 ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 4 4 40 €5,000
8 Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova 2402 ½ 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 3,5 4 30 €4,500
9 Germany Elisabeth Pähtz 2456 0 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 2,5 5 15 €3,750
10 Mongolia Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul 2344 0 0 ½ 0 0 0 1 0 1 2,5 4 15 €3,750


Grand Prix standings

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Invitee Rating Tbilisi Shymkent Monaco Cyprus India Austria Total Prize Money
Kazakhstan Bibisara Assaubayeva 2472 105 77.5 182.5 €22,500
Greece Stavroula Tsolakidou 2428 71.67 77.5 149.17 €18,167
Poland Alina Kashlinskaya 2474 130 130 €18,000
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] 2545 130 130 €18,000
China Tan Zhongyi 2545 105 105 €13,000
Georgia (country) Nana Dzagnidze 2505 71.67 71.67 €8,667
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 2521 71.67 71.67 €8,667
India Divya Deshmukh 2472 55 55 €6,500
India Koneru Humpy 2530 55 55 €6,500
Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 2508 50 50 €6,000
FIDE Kateryna Lagno[a] 2532 40 40 €5,000
India Vaishali Rameshbabu 2488 35 35 €4,750
Switzerland Alexandra Kosteniuk 2488 35 35 €4,750
Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova 2449 30 30 €4,500
Georgia (country) Lela Javakhishvili 2451 20 20 €4,000
Germany Elisabeth Pähtz 2451 15 15 €3,750
Mongolia Batkhuyagiin Möngöntuul 2356 15 15 €3,750
Spain Sarasadat Khademalsharieh 2489 10 10 €3,000
China Lei Tingjie 2549
India Harika Dronavalli 2491
Austria Regina Pokorná 2302

Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag because FIDE banned Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[3] Cite error: The named reference "flags" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  2. ^ Replacement for Ju Wenjun
  3. ^ Replacement for Pokorna in 1st leg (Tbilisi)

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Regulations for FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2024-2025" (PDF). FIDE. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
  2. ^ "FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024-2025 Qualifiers". April 27, 2024.
  3. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  4. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  5. ^ "Kashlinskaya Wins Tbilisi Grand Prix, Earns 2nd GM Norm". Chess.com. August 24, 2024.
  6. ^ "Alina Kashlinskaya victorious in Tbilisi after scoring back-to-back wins". ChessBase. August 24, 2024.