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Women's Chess World Cup 2025
The Women's Chess World Cup 2025 is an ongoing single-elimination chess tournament, the third edition of the Women's Chess World Cup, taking place in Batumi, Georgia, from 5 July to 29 July 2025. Unlike previous editions, the tournament is not held in parallel with the Chess World Cup 2025. Format The tournament is a 7-round knockout event, with the top 21 seeds given a bye directly into the second round. The losers of the two semi-finals will play a match for third place. The top 3 finishers will qualify for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026. Each round consists of classical time limit games on the first two days, plus tie-breaks on the third day if required. The time limits will be as follows: * Two classical time limit games: 90 minutes, plus a 30-second increment per move from move 1, plus a 30-minute increment on move 40. * If the match is tied after the classical games, players will play two rapid chess games, with 15 minutes plus a 10-second increment per move. ... [...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] |
Kateryna Lagno
Kateryna Oleksandrivna Lagno (born 27 December 1989) is a Russian (formerly Ukrainian) chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, she earned the title Woman Grandmaster (WGM) at the age of 12 years, four months and two days. In 2007, she was awarded the grandmaster title. She is a twice European Women's Champion and won two team gold medals at the Women's Chess Olympiad, in 2006 and 2014, playing for Ukraine and Russia respectively. She also won team gold at the Women's World Team Championship in 2013 playing for the Ukrainian team and in 2017 and 2021 playing for the Russian team. Lagno won the Women's European Team Championship in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021, playing for the Ukrainian team in 2013 and for the Russian team in all following championships. Lagno was the Women's Vice World Champion in 2018, Women's World Rapid Champion in 2014 and Women's World Blitz Champion in 2010, 2018 and 2019. Chess career 1999–2005 At junior level, she won the Girls Under 10 section ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodora Injac
Teodora Injac (; born 26 May 2000) is a Serbian chess player who holds the International Master (IM) title. She was awarded the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 2021, and the IM title in 2023. In 2025 she became the female European champion. Chess career She won the Women's Serbian Chess Championship in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She was the youngest ever to win the Women's Serbian Chess Championship. She won bronze medal at the World Youth Chess Championship held in Porto Carras, Greece in 2018. At the age of 17 she became a part of women's national team of Serbia and so far has represented Serbia in four European Teams Chess Championships (2017. in Hersonissos, Crete, 2019. in Batumi, Georgia, 2021. in Brezice, Slovenia, and 2023. in Budva, Montenegro) At the European Teams Chess Championship in 2023. she took a gold medal for the best performance on the first board (7/9,RP:2596) which has earned her the first GM norm. She is the first-ever female chess player from Serbia to h ... [...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] |
Nino Batsiashvili
Nino Batsiashvili ( ka, ნინო ბაციაშვილი; born 1 January 1987) is a Georgian chess grandmaster and 4-time and the current Georgian women's chess champion. Career In 2012, she won the Group E (women's section of the RSSU Student Grandmaster Cup) of the Moscow Open. In 2013 Batsiashvili won the 3rd Krystyna Hołuj-Radzikowska Memorial in Wrocław, Poland on tiebreak over Joanna Majdan-Gajewska. In 2015, she won the Women's Georgian Chess Championship and finished second in the Women's European Individual Chess Championship. She was a member of the Georgian team that won the gold medal in the Women's World Team Chess Championship 2015, held in Chengdu, China. Batsiashvili also won the individual bronze medal on board four. In December 2015 she drew against the then reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round of the Qatar Masters Open. In 2016 Batsiashvili took part in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix series. She finished second in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Deshmukh
Divya Deshmukh (born 9 December 2005) is an Indian chess player who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster and International Master. She is a three-time gold medalist at the Olympiad. Deshmukh has also won multiple golds at the Asian Championship, the World Junior Championship as well as the World Youth Championship. Early life Deshmukh was born in Nagpur in a Marathi family. Her parents, Jitendra Deshmukh and Namratha Deshmukh, are doctors. She received her early education from Bhavans Bhagwandas Purohit Vidya Mandir. Career Deshmukh became India's 21st woman chess Grandmaster in 2021. She won the 2022 Women's Indian Chess Championship. She also won an individual bronze medal at the 2022 Chess Olympiad. She was also part of the gold medal-winning FIDE Online Chess Olympiad 2020 team. As of December 2024, she is the 2nd ranked woman chess player in India. In 2023, in Almaty she won the Asian Women's Chess Championship. She then finished first in the women's rapid section o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuliia Osmak
Yuliia Vladyslavivna Osmak () is a Ukrainian chess player who holds the title of Woman grandmaster (WGM, 2016) and International master (IM, 2017). Women's Chess Olympiad winner (2022). Biography Osmak won the Ukrainian Girl's Chess Championships several times in different age categories: U10 (2006, 2008), U12 (2010), U16 (2013), U20 (2012, 2013). In 2010, she won the World Youth Chess Championship in the U12 girl's age group. She won silver medals at the European Youth Chess Championships twice: in the U10 girl's age category (2008) and in the U12 girl's age category (2010). At the Ukrainian Women's Chess Championships, Osmak won gold (2017), silver (2019) and four bronze (2014, 2015, 2018, 2020) medals. In August 2021, Osmak won 2nd place in the European Individual Women's Chess Championship. In November 2021, she ranked 21st overall in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021. Osmak represented the Ukrainian team in major team chess tournaments: * Participated in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Kosteniuk
Alexandra Konstantinovna Kosteniuk (; born 23 April 1984) is a Russian and Swiss chess grandmaster who was the Women's World Chess Champion from 2008 to 2010 and Women's World Rapid Chess Champion in 2021. She was European women's champion in 2004 and a two-time Russian Women's Chess Champion (in 2005 and 2016). Kosteniuk won the team gold medal playing for Russia at the Women's Chess Olympiads of 2010, 2012 and 2014; the Women's World Team Chess Championship of 2017; and the Women's European Team Chess Championships of 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017; and the Women's Chess World Cup 2021. In 2022, due to sanctions imposed on Russian players after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she switched federations, and as of March 2023 she represents Switzerland. Chess career Kosteniuk learned to play chess at the age of five after being taught by her father. She graduated in 2003 from the Russian State Academy of Physical Education in Moscow as a certified professional chess tr ... [...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] |
Vaishali Rameshbabu
Vaishali Rameshbabu (born 21 June 2001) is an Indian chess grandmaster. She emerged victorious in the Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2023, securing qualification for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. She won the bronze medal at Women's World Blitz Chess Championship 2024. She is the elder sister of chess grandmaster Praggnanandhaa. Personal life Vaishali was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu on 21 June 2001. Her father, Rameshbabu, works as a branch manager at TNSC Bank, and her mother, Nagalakshmi, is a homemaker. Her younger brother R Praggnanandhaa is also a chess grandmaster. Career Vaishali won the Girls' World Youth Chess Championship for Under-12s in 2012 and Under-14s in 2015. In 2013, at age 12, she defeated future World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in a simul competition that Carlsen held while in her hometown of Chennai for the World Chess Championship 2013. In 2016, she received the Woman International Master (WIM) title, and in October 2016, she was rank ... [...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] |
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] |
