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
1952 Moscow, Russia ? Elisabeth Bykova° Fenny Heemskerk Olga Ignatieva
1955 Moscow, Russia ? Olga Rubtsova° Larissa Volpert Edith Keller-Herrmann
1959 Plovdiv, Bulgaria ? Kira Zvorykina Verica Nedeljković Larissa Volpert
1961 Vrnjačka Banja, Yugoslavia ? Nona Gaprindashvili° Valentina Borisenko Kira Zvorykina
1964 Sukhumi, Georgia ? Alla Kushnir Milunka Lazarević Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1967 Subotica, Yugoslavia ? Alla Kushnir Valentina Kozlovskaya Tatiana Zatulovskaya
1971 Kislovodsk, Russia ? Alla Kushnir Nana Alexandria Tatiana Zatulovskaya
Milunka Lazarević
1974–75 Moscow, Russia ? Nana Alexandria Irina Levitina Marta Shul
Valentina Kozlovskaya
1977–78 Bad Kissingen, Germany ? Maia Chiburdanidze° Alla Kushnir Elena Akhmilovskaya
Elena Fatalibekova
1980–81 Tbilisi, Georgia ? Nana Alexandria Nana Ioseliani Marta Litinskaya
Nona Gaprindashvili
1983–84 Sochi, Russia ? Irina Levitina Lidia Semenova Nana Alexandria
Nana Ioseliani
1986 Malmö, Sweden ? Elena Akhmilovskaya Nana Alexandria Marta Litinskaya-Shul
1988 Tsqaltubo, Georgia ? Nana Ioseliani Elena Akhmilovskaya Irina Levitina
1990 Borzomi, Georgia ? Xie Jun° Alisa Marić Alisa Galliamova
1992–93 Shanghai, China ? Nana Ioseliani Zsuzsa Polgar Maia Chiburdanidze
1994–95 Tilburg, Netherlands ? Zsuzsa Polgar° Maia Chiburdanidze Pia Cramling
1997 Groningen, Netherlands ? Xie Jun° Alisa Galliamova Maia Chiburdanidze
2019 Kazan, Russia € 200,000 Aleksandra Goryachkina Anna Muzychuk Kateryna Lagno
2022–23 Chongqing, China € 250,000 Lei Tingjie Tan Zhongyi Anna Muzychuk
Aleksandra Goryachkina
2024 Toronto, Canada € 250,000[3] Tan Zhongyi Humpy Koneru Lei Tingjie

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.


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