Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23
The FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022–23 was 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 | |
|---|---|
.jpg){kind=spacer} Lei Tingjie, the winner of the tournament, advanced to the Women's World Chess Championship 2023 match. | |
| Location | Monaco (First stage, Pool A) Khiva[1] (First stage, Pool B) Chongqing (Final) |
| Dates | 24 October – 11 December 2022 (First stage) 27 March to 6 April 2023 (Final) |
| Competitors | 8 from 4 nations |
| Champion | |
 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 edit
The eight players who qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament were:[4][5]
| Qualification method | Player | Women's world no.(Jun 2022) | Rating on Jun 2022 | Women's Worldchampion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 World Championship runner-up |  Aleksandra Goryachkina[a] | 2 | 2599 | |
| The top two finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021 |  Koneru Humpy[7] | −[b] | 2586[b] | |
| Kateryna Lagno[a] | 4 | 2547 | ||
| The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2021[8] | Alexandra Kosteniuk[a] | 11 | 2510 | 2008 |
| Tan Zhongyi | 9 | 2525 | 2017 | |
 Anna Muzychuk | 8 | 2529 | ||
| The top finisher in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021[9] | Lei Tingjie | 6 | 2535 | |
| The highest-rated player on the January 2022 standard rating list | Mariya Muzychuk | 5 | 2540 | 2015 |
Results edit
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) | ||||||||||||
| Koneru Humpy | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| Anna Muzychuk | 4½ | |||||||||||||
| Anna Muzychuk | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Pool A (Monaco) | ||||||||||||||
| Lei Tingjie | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Lei Tingjie | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Mariya Muzychuk | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Lei Tingjie | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| Tan Zhongyi | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Aleksandra Goryachkina | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Alexandra Kosteniuk | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Aleksandra Goryachkina | 1½ | |||||||||||||
| Pool B (Khiva) | ||||||||||||||
| Tan Zhongyi | 2½ | |||||||||||||
| Kateryna Lagno | 3½ | |||||||||||||
| Tan Zhongyi | 4½ | |||||||||||||
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ "Uzbekistan to host Pool B of Women's Candidates Tournament". womenscandidates.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
- ^ "China to host Women's Candidates Final and Women's World Championship Match". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
- ^ "Lei Tingjie wins the Women's Candidates Final". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2023-04-04.
- ^ "Qualification for FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 announced". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ^ "FIDE Women's World Championship. Cycle 2020-2022". worldchampionshipcycle.fide.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ^ FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
- ^ "Koneru Humpy qualifies for women's Candidates 2022 – All India Chess Federation". aicf.in. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ^ "FIDE expands the World Cups, increases number of players and prize fund". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
- ^ "Isle of Man will host the FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2021". FIDE. Retrieved 12 Nov 2020.
- ^ "FIDE adopts a new system for the Women's Candidates 2022-23". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.
- ^ West (NM_Vanessa), Vanessa. "FIDE Announces New Knockout Format for Women's Candidates". Chess.com. Retrieved 2022-07-02.