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

Symbol key
° Won the subsequent Women's World Championship
Edition Host city Prize fund Winner Runner-up Third
1952Moscow, RussiaSoviet Union Elisabeth Bykova°Netherlands Fenny HeemskerkSoviet Union Olga Ignatieva
1955Moscow, RussiaSoviet Union Olga Rubtsova°Soviet Union Larissa VolpertEast Germany Edith Keller-Herrmann
1959Plovdiv, BulgariaSoviet Union Kira ZvorykinaSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Verica NedeljkovićSoviet Union Larissa Volpert
1961Vrnjačka Banja, YugoslaviaSoviet Union Nona Gaprindashvili°Soviet Union Valentina BorisenkoSoviet Union Kira Zvorykina
1964Sukhumi, GeorgiaSoviet Union Alla KushnirSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milunka LazarevićSoviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1967Subotica, YugoslaviaSoviet Union Alla KushnirSoviet Union Valentina KozlovskayaSoviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1971Kislovodsk, RussiaSoviet Union Alla KushnirSoviet Union Nana AlexandriaSoviet Union Tatiana Zatulovskaya
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Milunka Lazarević
1974–75Moscow, RussiaSoviet Union Nana AlexandriaSoviet Union Irina LevitinaSoviet Union Marta Shul
Soviet Union Valentina Kozlovskaya
1977–78Bad Kissingen, GermanySoviet Union Maia Chiburdanidze°Israel Alla KushnirSoviet Union Elena Akhmilovskaya
Soviet Union Elena Fatalibekova
1980–81Tbilisi, GeorgiaSoviet Union Nana AlexandriaSoviet Union Nana IoselianiSoviet Union Marta Litinskaya
Soviet Union Nona Gaprindashvili
1983–84Sochi, RussiaSoviet Union Irina LevitinaSoviet Union Lidia SemenovaSoviet Union Nana Alexandria
Soviet Union Nana Ioseliani
1986Malmö, SwedenSoviet Union Elena AkhmilovskayaSoviet Union Nana AlexandriaSoviet Union Marta Litinskaya-Shul
1988Tsqaltubo, GeorgiaSoviet Union Nana IoselianiSoviet Union Elena AkhmilovskayaSoviet Union Irina Levitina
1990Borzomi, GeorgiaChina Xie Jun°Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Alisa MarićSoviet Union Alisa Galliamova
1992–93Shanghai, ChinaGeorgia (country) Nana IoselianiHungary Zsuzsa PolgarGeorgia (country) Maia Chiburdanidze
1994–95Tilburg, NetherlandsHungary Zsuzsa Polgar°Georgia (country) Maia ChiburdanidzeSweden Pia Cramling
1997Groningen, NetherlandsChina Xie Jun°Russia Alisa GalliamovaGeorgia (country) Maia Chiburdanidze
2019Kazan, Russia€ 200,000Russia Aleksandra GoryachkinaUkraine Anna MuzychukRussia Kateryna Lagno
2022–23Chongqing, China€ 250,000China Lei TingjieChina Tan ZhongyiUkraine Anna Muzychuk
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina
2024Toronto, Canada€ 250,000[3]China Tan ZhongyiIndia Humpy KoneruChina Lei Tingjie
2026Pegeia, Cyprus€ 300,000[4]India Vaishali RameshbabuKazakhstan Bibisara AssaubayevaChina Zhu Jiner

See also

References

  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.
  4. ↑ "About the Event". FIDE Candidates 2026. Retrieved 15 April 2026. The total prize fund for the event is 1,000,000 euros (1,180,050 US dollars), with 700,000 for the Open and 300,000 for the Women's Candidates.
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