Women's Candidates Tournament 2024

Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
Tournament information
SportChess
LocationToronto, Canada
Dates2 April–25 April 2024
AdministratorFIDE
Tournament
format(s)
Double round-robin tournament
Participants8 from 5 nations

The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 will be an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. It is scheduled to be held from 2 April to 25 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada, alongside the Candidates Tournament 2024.[1][2]

It will be a double round-robin tournament.[3] The winner of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Women's World Chess Championship match in 2025 against the current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun.

Qualification

The eight players to qualify[4] will be:

Qualification method Player Age Rating Rank
(February 2024)
2023 Women's World Championship runner-up China Lei Tingjie 27 2550 5
The top two finishers in the Women's Grand
Prix 2022–23 		FIDE Kateryna Lagno[a] (winner) 34 2542 6
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] (runner-up) 25 2553 4
The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World
Cup 2023[b] 		Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova (runner-up) 20 2426 40
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk (third place) 34 2520 8
The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Swiss
2023[c] 		India R Vaishali (winner) 22 2481 14
China Tan Zhongyi (third place) 32 2521 7
Highest rating for January 2024[b] India Koneru Humpy 37 2554 3

Notes

  1. ^ a b Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag, as FIDE banned Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[5]
  2. ^ a b Aleksandra Goryachkina finished first in the Women's Chess World Cup 2023, but had already qualified for the Candidates through the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022–23. She is replaced by the highest-rated player on the January 2024 FIDE rating list who has played a minimum 30 games.
  3. ^ Anna Muzychuk finished second in the Women's Grand Swiss 2023, but she had already qualified for the Candidates through the Women's Chess World Cup 2023. According to the regulations, the second spot for the Candidates via the Women's Grand Swiss was awarded to the highest finisher of the Grand Swiss who had not already qualified (3rd-place finisher Tan Zhongyi).[6]

References

  1. ^ "Toronto will host the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournaments". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. ^ "FIDE Candidates, Women's Candidates 2024 To Be Held In Toronto". Chess.com.
  3. ^ "FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Cycle 2023 - 2025". FIDE.
  4. ^ "Qualification for the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024" (PDF). FIDE.
  5. ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  6. ^ "Qualification for the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024" (PDF). FIDE.

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