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FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022–23
The 2022–2023 edition of the FIDE Grand Prix was a series of four chess tournaments exclusively for women which determined two players to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2023–2024. The winner of the Candidates Tournament would play the reigning world champion in the next Women's World Chess Championship. This is the sixth cycle of the tournament series. Each of 16 players had to participate in three out of four tournaments, and every tournament was a twelve-player round robin event. The tournaments were held between September 2022 and May 2023. Kateryna Lagno and Aleksandra Goryachkina were the top two finishers of the series, and qualified to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. Players 16 players qualified for the Grand Prix: * Women's World Chess Champion. * Four semifinalists of Women's Chess World Cup 2021. * The top 4 finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, excluding those who already qualified for the Grand Prix. * 3 player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves Perfect information, no hidden information and no elements of game of chance, chance. It is played on a square chessboard, board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as White and Black in chess, "White" and "Black", each control sixteen Chess piece, pieces: one king (chess), king, one queen (chess), queen, two rook (chess), rooks, two bishop (chess), bishops, two knight (chess), knights, and eight pawn (chess), pawns, with each type of piece having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured (removed from the board) by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The object of the game is to "checkmate" (threaten with inescapable capture) the enemy king. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw (chess), draw. The recorded history of chess goes back to at least the emergence of chaturanga—also thought to be an ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hou Yifan
Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster, three-time Women's World Chess Champion and professor at Peking University. She is the second highest Elo rating system, rated female player of all time.Chess: Hou Yifan, No 1 woman and professor at 26, loses in online return Leonard Barden, The Guardian, 17 July 2020 A chess prodigy, she was the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of grandmaster (at the age of 14 years, 6 months, 16 days) and the youngest ever to win the Women's World Chess Championship (at age 16). At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg Women's World Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polina Shuvalova
Polina Sergeevna Shuvalova (; born 12 March 2001) is a Russian chess player. She holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM, 2020) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM, 2019). She is the 2019 World Girls U-20 Champion as well as the World Girl's U18 Champion in 2018 and 2019. As of 2023, Shuvalova has earned one of three title norms required to become a grandmaster. Biography Polina Shuvalova was a Moscow chess school student. In 2017, she won the Russian Junior Chess Championship for under-21 girls. In the 2000s Shuvalova repeatedly represented Russia at the European Youth Chess Championships and World Youth Chess Championships in different age groups, where she won four medals: two gold (in 2013, at the European Youth Chess Championship in the under-12 girls group, and in 2018, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-18 girls group), silver (in 2017, at the World Youth Chess Championship in the under-16 girls group) and bronze (in 2016, at the World Youth Chess Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harika Dronavalli
Harika Dronavalli (born 12 January 1991) is an Indian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Grandmaster (GM). She was part of the gold winning women's team at the 45th Chess Olympiad in 2024. She has won three bronze medals in the Women's World Chess Championship, in 2012, 2015 and 2017. Harika was honored with the Arjuna Award for the year 2007–08 by the government of India. In 2016, she won the FIDE Women's Grand Prix event at Chengdu, China and rose up from world no. 11 to world no. 5 in FIDE women's ranking. In 2019, she was awarded the Padma Shri for her contributions towards the field of sports. Early life Harika was born to Ramesh and Swarna Dronavalli on 12 January 1991 in Guntur where she attended Sri Venkateswara Bala Kuteer school. Her father works as a deputy executive engineer at a Panchayat Raj subdivision in Mangalagiri. She started playing chess at a very young age and won a medal in the under-9 national championship. She followed it up with a silver m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alina Kashlinskaya
Alina Anatolyevna Kashlinskaya (; born 28 October 1993) is a Russian chess player playing for Poland. She holds the titles International Master and Woman Grandmaster, which FIDE awarded her in 2014 and 2009, respectively. Kashlinskaya is the 2019 European Women's Individual Chess Champion. Career In 2003, Kashlinskaya took the silver medal at the European Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U10 category. In August 2010, she was part of the Russian women's team in the 7th China-Russia Match, held with the Scheveningen system. Kashlinskaya took part in the women's section of the 39th Chess Olympiad playing for Russia B team. She won an individual silver medal playing on board five. In 2011, Kashlinskaya took silver at the World Youth Chess Championships in the Girls U18 section. The following year, she placed second at the World University Chess Championship in the women's section. Later that year, in December, she took part in the 5th "Snowdrops vs Old Hands" - Czech Coal M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dinara Wagner
Dinara Wagner ( born 25 May 1999) is a Russian chess player representing Germany. Until 2022, she played for the Chess Federation of Russia. In 2023 she won the final leg of the Women's Grand Prix as the lowest rated player in the field. Since 2020, she holds the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM), since 2023 she holds the title of International Master.Wagner, Dinara ratings.fide.com Biography Wagner is from , the capital of the . During her childhood, she won the Russian Junior Chess Championships for girls five times.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bibisara Assaubayeva
Bibisara Assaubayeva ( Kazakh: Бибісара Асаубаева, Bibısara Asaubaeva; born 26 February 2004) is a Kazakhstani chess player. Assaubayeva holds the titles of International Master and Woman Grandmaster. She is a two-time Women's World Blitz Chess Champion. She was given the award of Outstanding Female Chess Player of 2021 in Asia by FIDE when being still a teenager. She entered the Guinness World Records book in 2022, for her achievement as the youngest women's World Blitz Chess Champion, which she became in 2021 and retained in 2022. At the 2025 Sharjah Masters tournament, Assaubayeva qualified for the grandmaster title. Biography Born in Taraz, Kazakhstan, Assaubayeva played her first chess game at the age of four, taught by her grandfather. She won her first city championship when she was six years old. She achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master in 2011, at the age of 7, when she won the World Youth Championships in Caldas Novas, Brazil in the Girls U8 se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana Dzagnidze
Nana Dzagnidze ( ka, ნანა ძაგნიძე; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess player. She was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008. Dzagnidze was a member of the gold medal-winning Georgian team in the Women's Chess Olympiad in 2008 and European women's individual champion in 2017. Career Dzagnidze won the Girls Under 12 section of the World Youth Chess Championships in 1999. She also won the gold medal at the World Girls Under 20 Championship in 2003, scoring 2 points ahead of the field. In September 2005 she took part in the sixth Lausanne Young Masters tournament, finishing seventh. Andrei Volokitin won the tournament. At the Gibraltar Chess Festival, Dzagnidze won the prize for the best female player in 2009 and 2011. In July 2010 she won in Jermuk the fourth leg of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series, which was part of the Women's World Chess Championship cycle for 2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariya Muzychuk
Mariya Olehivna Muzychuk (; born 21 September 1992) is a Ukrainian chess grandmaster and Women's World Chess Champion from April 2015 to March 2016. She is also a twice women's champion of Ukraine (2012, 2013), World Team and European Team champion with Ukraine in 2013. Muzychuk has experienced multiple successes with Ukraine at the Women's Chess Olympiad winning gold in 2022, silver in 2018 and bronze in 2012, 2014 and 2016. Career Born in Lviv, Mariya Muzychuk was first taught chess at age two by her parents and at age three she knew all the chess pieces. At age six, Muzychuk took part in her first chess tournament. Muzychuk won the under-10 girls' section at the 2002 European Youth Chess Championship in Peniscola, Spain. In November 2010 she was ranked as the fifth highest rated under-20 female player in the world. She made it to the top-16 of the 2010 Women's World Chess Championship, but lost to Dronavalli Harika in an armageddon playoff after a tie in the regu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhu Jiner
Zhu Jiner (; born 16 November 2002) is a Chinese chess player and Grandmaster (2023). Biography In 2016, she won the World Youth Chess Championship in the G14 age category. In 2017, she was third in the Asian Zone 3.5 after Zhai Mo and Ni Shiqun, and qualified for the Women's World Chess Championship 2018. That same year, she was awarded the FIDE Woman International Master (WIM) title. In 2018, Zhu Jiner won the bronze medal at the Women's China Rapid Chess Championship. She participated in the first three legs of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-23. In Astana, the first leg, she finished third with a score of 6,5/11, in Munich she tied for fifth place with a score of 5,5/11 and in New Delhi, she tied for first place with Aleksandra Goryachkina and Bibisara Assaubayeva with a score of 6/9. Her New Delhi performance earned her her last GM norm, and she was awarded the title in August 2023. Personal life Zhu currently attends the Shanghai University of Finance and Econom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Pähtz
Elisabeth Pähtz (born January 8, 1985, sometimes spelt Elisabeth Paehtz) is a German chess Grandmaster.4th FIDE Council Meeting: List of decisions FIDE, 6 December 2022Paehtz, Elisabeth FIDE, accessed 6 December 2022 She has been among the strongest German female chess players since her youth. In 2002, Pähtz became the World Youth Champion of the girls' under-18 age group, and in 2005, the World Junior Girls Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Muzychuk
Anna Olehivna Muzychuk (; ; born 28 February 1990) is a Ukrainian Grandmaster (chess), chess grandmaster (GM). She is the fourth woman in chess history to attain a FIDE rating of at least 2600. She has been ranked as high as No. 197 in the world, and No. 2 among women. Muzychuk is a three-time world champion in fast chess, having won the World Rapid Chess Championship, Women's World Rapid Chess Championship once in 2016 and the World Blitz Chess Championship, Women's World Blitz Chess Championship twice in 2014 and 2016. In Glossary of chess#classical, classical chess, she was the 2017 Women's World Chess Championship, Women's World Championship runner-up. Muzychuk grew up in a chess family where her younger sister Mariya Muzychuk, Mariya (the Women's World Chess Championship 2015, 2015 Women's World Champion in classical chess) also became a Grandmaster. Her parents work as chess coaches, having taught her the game from when she was two years old. She soon established herself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
