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Women's Candidates Tournament

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 ?   Elisabeth Bykova°   Fenny Heemskerk   Olga Ignatieva
1955 Moscow, Russia ?   Olga Rubtsova°   Larissa Volpert   Edith Keller-Herrmann
1959 Plovdiv, Bulgaria ?   Kira Zvorykina   Verica Nedeljković   Larissa Volpert
1961 Vrnjačka Banja, Yugoslavia ?   Nona Gaprindashvili°   Valentina Borisenko   Kira Zvorykina
1964 Sukhumi, Georgia ?   Alla Kushnir   Milunka Lazarević   Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1967 Subotica, Yugoslavia ?   Alla Kushnir   Valentina Kozlovskaya   Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1971 Kislovodsk, Russia ?   Alla Kushnir   Nana Alexandria   Tatiana Zatulovskaya
  Milunka Lazarević
1974–75 Moscow, Russia ?   Nana Alexandria   Irina Levitina   Marta Shul
  Valentina Kozlovskaya
1977–78 Bad Kissingen, Germany ?   Maia Chiburdanidze°   Alla Kushnir   Elena Akhmilovskaya
  Elena Fatalibekova
1980–81 Tbilisi, Georgia ?   Nana Alexandria   Nana Ioseliani   Marta Litinskaya
  Nona Gaprindashvili
1983–84 Sochi, Russia ?   Irina Levitina   Lidia Semenova   Nana Alexandria
  Nana Ioseliani
1986 Malmö, Sweden ?   Elena Akhmilovskaya   Nana Alexandria   Marta Litinskaya-Shul
1988 Tsqaltubo, Georgia ?   Nana Ioseliani   Elena Akhmilovskaya   Irina Levitina
1990 Borzomi, Georgia ?   Xie Jun°   Alisa Marić   Alisa Galliamova
1992–93 Shanghai, China ?   Nana Ioseliani   Zsuzsa Polgar   Maia Chiburdanidze
1994–95 Tilburg, Netherlands ?   Zsuzsa Polgar°   Maia Chiburdanidze   Pia Cramling
1997 Groningen, Netherlands ?   Xie Jun°   Alisa Galliamova   Maia Chiburdanidze
2019 Kazan, Russia € 200,000   Aleksandra Goryachkina   Anna Muzychuk   Kateryna Lagno
2022–23 Chongqing, China € 250,000   Lei Tingjie   Tan Zhongyi   Anna Muzychuk
  Aleksandra Goryachkina
2024 Toronto, Canada € 250,000[3]   Tan Zhongyi   Humpy Koneru   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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