Women's Candidates Tournament

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The Women's Candidates Tournament is a major women's chess tournament organized by FIDE.[1]

It is a final contest to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world champion.[2] The inaugural Women's Candidates tournament was held in 1952 and continued for every Women's World Championship match (except 1958) until 1997, after which the match format was abandoned and replaced by a knock-out tournament. The Women's Candidates tournament was brought back in 2019 when FIDE re-instituted the match format as the sole format for determining the Women's World Champion.

Winners and results[edit]

Symbol key
° Won the subsequent Women's World Championship
Edition Host city Prize fund Winner Runner-up Third
1952 Moscow, Russia ? Soviet Union Elisabeth Bykova° Netherlands Fenny Heemskerk Soviet Union Olga Ignatieva
1955 Moscow, Russia ? Soviet Union Olga Rubtsova° Soviet Union Larissa Volpert East Germany Edith Keller-Herrmann
1959 Plovdiv, Bulgaria ? Soviet Union Kira Zvorykina Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Verica Nedeljković Soviet Union Larissa Volpert
1961 Vrnjačka Banja, Yugoslavia ? Soviet Union Nona Gaprindashvili° Soviet Union Valentina Borisenko Soviet Union Kira Zvorykina
1964 Sukhumi, Georgia ? Soviet Union Alla Kushnir Soviet Union Milunka Lazarević Soviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1967 Subotica, Yugoslavia ? Soviet Union Alla Kushnir Soviet Union Valentina Kozlovskaya Soviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1971 Kislovodsk, Russia ? Soviet Union Alla Kushnir Soviet Union Nana Alexandria Soviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milunka Lazarević
1974–75 Moscow, Russia ? Soviet Union Nana Alexandria Soviet Union Irina Levitina Soviet Union Marta Shul
Soviet Union Valentina Kozlovskaya
1977–78 Bad Kissingen, Germany ? Soviet Union Maia Chiburdanidze° Israel Alla Kushnir Soviet Union Elena Akhmilovskaya
Soviet Union Elena Fatalibekova
1980–81 Tbilisi, Georgia ? Soviet Union Nana Alexandria Soviet Union Nana Ioseliani Soviet Union Marta Litinskaya
Soviet Union Nona Gaprindashvili
1983–84 Sochi, Russia ? Soviet Union Irina Levitina Soviet Union Lidia Semenova Soviet Union Nana Alexandria
Soviet Union Nana Ioseliani
1986 Malmö, Sweden ? Soviet Union Elena Akhmilovskaya Soviet Union Nana Alexandria Soviet Union Marta Litinskaya-Shul
1988 Tsqaltubo, Georgia ? Soviet Union Nana Ioseliani Soviet Union Elena Akhmilovskaya Soviet Union Irina Levitina
1990 Borzomi, Georgia ? China Xie Jun° Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Alisa Marić Soviet Union Alisa Galliamova
1992–93 Shanghai, China ? Georgia (country) Nana Ioseliani Hungary Zsuzsa Polgar Georgia (country) Maia Chiburdanidze
1994–95 Tilburg, Netherlands ? Hungary Zsuzsa Polgar° Georgia (country) Maia Chiburdanidze Sweden Pia Cramling
1997 Groningen, Netherlands ? China Xie Jun° Russia Alisa Galliamova Georgia (country) Maia Chiburdanidze
2019 Kazan, Russia € 200,000 Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina Ukraine Anna Muzychuk Russia Kateryna Lagno
2022–23 Chongqing, China € 250,000 China Lei Tingjie China Tan Zhongyi Ukraine Anna Muzychuk
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina
2024 Toronto, Canada € 250,000[3] China Tan Zhongyi India Humpy Koneru China Lei Tingjie

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Tingjie wins Women's Candidates Final to set up World Championship Match". www.insidethegames.biz. 2023-04-03. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  2. ^ "Women's Candidates Tournament, Final". womenscandidates.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-10-06.
  3. ^ "About the Event". FIDE Candidates 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024. The total prize fund for the event is 750,000 euros (820,000 US dollars), with 500,000 for the Open and 250,000 for the Women's Candidates.
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