Women's Candidates Tournament 2024

The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024 will be an eight-player chess tournament held to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship 2025. It is scheduled to be held from 2 April to 25 April 2024 in Toronto, Canada, alongside the Candidates Tournament 2024.[1][2]

Women's Candidates Tournament 2024
Tournament information
SportChess
LocationToronto, Canada
Dates2 April–25 April 2024
AdministratorFIDE
Tournament
format(s)
Double round-robin tournament
Participants8

It will be a double round-robin tournament.[3] The winner of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Women's World Chess Championship match in 2025 against the current Women's World Chess Champion Ju Wenjun.

Qualification

The eight players to qualify[4] will be:

Qualification method Player Age Rating Women's
World
ranking
(September 2023)
2023 Women's World Championship runner-up China Lei Tingjie 27 2550 5
The top two finishers in the Women's Grand
Prix 2022–23		 FIDE Kateryna Lagno[lower-alpha 1] (winner) 34 2546 6
FIDE Aleksandra Goryachkina[lower-alpha 1] (runner-up) 25 2558 3
The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World
Cup 2023[lower-alpha 2]		 Bulgaria Nurgyul Salimova (runner-up) 20 2424 39
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk (3rd place) 34 2510 10
The top two finishers in the Women's Grand Swiss
2023		 TBD
TBD
Highest rated female player in the January 2024
FIDE Rating List[lower-alpha 2]		 TBD

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.[5]
  2. Aleksandra Goryachkina finished first in the Women's Chess World Cup 2023, but she had already qualified for the Candidates through the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2022-23. According to the regulations, the third spot for the Candidates via the Women's World Cup will be awarded to the highest-rated woman on the January 2024 FIDE rating list, who has played at least 30 games rated in February 2023 - January 2024 rating lists.[6] The highest-rated woman Hou Yifan has a large rating lead over her compatriots, making her the probable rating qualifier; however Hou has been semi-retired from competitive chess since 2018[7] and will probably not participate even if she meets the required number of games.

References
  1. "Toronto will host the 2024 FIDE Candidates Tournaments". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
  2. "FIDE Candidates, Women's Candidates 2024 To Be Held In Toronto". Chess.com.
  3. "FIDE WOMEN'S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP Cycle 2023 - 2025". FIDE.
  4. "Qualification for the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024" (PDF). FIDE.
  5. FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  6. "Qualification for the FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2024" (PDF). FIDE.
  7. "Hou Yifan –four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time". Retrieved 21 August 2023.
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