FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2024–25
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| Sport | Chess |
| Location |  Tbilisi |
| Dates | 14 August 2024–2025 |
| Administrator | FIDE |
| Format | Series of round-robin tournaments |
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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 sevenh 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
[edit]20 players qualified for the Grand Prix. The twenty players to qualify for WGP shall be determined according to the following criteria:
- A. 2 spots – FIDE Women's World Championship Match 2023 participants: GM Ju Wenjun and GM Lei Tingjie
- B. 2 spots – FIDE Wommen'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.
| Invitee | Qualifying method | Rating |
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 Kateryna Lagno[a]
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Wommen's Grand Prix Series 2022-23 | 2532 |
| Aleksandra Goryachkina[a]
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Women's World Cup | 2545 |
 Nurgyul Salimova
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Women's World Cup | 2449 |
 Anna Muzychuk
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Women's World Cup | 2521 |
 Tan Zhongyi
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Women's World Cup | 2545 |
 R Vaishali
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Women's Grand Swiss | 2488 |
 Batkhuyag Munguntuul
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Women's Grand Swiss | 2356 |
| Koneru Humpy
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Rating | 2530 |
| Mariya Muzychuk
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Rating | 2508 |
| Nana Dzagnidze
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Rating | 2505 |
| Harika Dronavalli
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Rating | 2491 |
 Alexandra Kosteniuk
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Rating | 2488 |
 Bibisara Assaubayeva
|
wild-cards | 2472 |
 Elisabeth Pähtz
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wild-cards | 2451 |
 Alina Kashlinskaya
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Organizer's nominee | 2474 |
 Regina Pokorna
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wild-cards | 2302 |
 Stavroula Tsolakidou
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wild-cards | 2428 |
 Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
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Rating (replacement) | 2489 |
| Lela Javakhishvili
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wild-cards | 2451 |
Schedule
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Prizes
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Crosstables
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Grand Prix standings
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Notes
[edit]- ^ a b 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.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Regulations for FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2024-2025" (PDF). fide.com. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
- ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
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