Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23

The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 is an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2023. The first stage of the tournament, consisting of the quarterfinals and semifinals, was held from 24 October to 6 November 2022 in Monaco, and from 29 November to 11 December in Khiva.

FIDE Women's Candidates 2022–23
LocationMonaco (First stage, Pool A)
Khiva[1] (First stage, Pool B)
Chongqing (Final)
Dates24 October – 11 December 2022 (First stage)
27 March to 6 April 2023 (Final)
Competitors8 from 4 nations
Champion
China Lei Tingjie

The second stage, i.e. the Candidates final, took place in Chongqing, China from 27 March to 6 April 2023. Lei Tingjie won the match with a round to spare.[2][3]

Lei moved on to challenge the defending Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun, but lost the match in game 12.

Participants

The eight players who qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament are:[4][5]

Qualification method Player Women's

world no. (Jun 2022)

 Rating on

Jun 2022

 Women's

World champion

2020 World Championship runner-up FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[lower-alpha 1] 2 2599
The top two finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021 India Koneru Humpy[7] −[lower-alpha 2] 2586[lower-alpha 2]
FIDE Kateryna Lagno[lower-alpha 1] 4 2547
The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2021[8] FIDE Alexandra Kosteniuk[lower-alpha 1] 11 2510 2008
China Tan Zhongyi 9 2525 2017
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 8 2529
The top finisher in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021[9] China Lei Tingjie 6 2535
The highest-rated player on the January 2022 standard rating list Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 5 2540 2015

Results

In June 2022, FIDE announced the pairings for the quarterfinals.[10] It has been speculated that these pairings were made to prevent a Russia vs Ukraine matchup before the final.[11]

Quarterfinals (best of 4) Semifinals (best of 4) Final (best of 6)
         
India Koneru Humpy 3½
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 4½
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 1½
Pool A (Monaco)
China Lei Tingjie 2½
China Lei Tingjie 2½
Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 1½
China Lei Tingjie 3½
China Tan Zhongyi 1½
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina 2½
FIDE Alexandra Kosteniuk 1½
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina 1½
Pool B (Khiva)
China Tan Zhongyi 2½
FIDE Kateryna Lagno 3½
China Tan Zhongyi 4½

Notes
  1. Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag, as FIDE banned Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[6]
  2. Not included in the rating list because of inactive rating

References
  1. "Uzbekistan to host Pool B of Women's Candidates Tournament". womenscandidates.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  2. "China to host Women's Candidates Final and Women's World Championship Match". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  3. "Lei Tingjie wins the Women's Candidates Final". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
  4. "Qualification for FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 announced". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  5. "FIDE Women's World Championship. Cycle 2020-2022". worldchampionshipcycle.fide.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  6. FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  7. "Koneru Humpy qualifies for women's Candidates 2022 – All India Chess Federation". aicf.in. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  8. "FIDE expands the World Cups, increases number of players and prize fund". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  9. "Isle of Man will host the FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2021". FIDE. Retrieved 12 Nov 2020.
  10. "FIDE adopts a new system for the Women's Candidates 2022-23". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
  11. West (NM_Vanessa), Vanessa. "FIDE Announces New Knockout Format for Women's Candidates". Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.

See also
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