ABOUT THE TOURNAMENT

The Women's FIDE Grand Prix Series 2024-2025 consists of six Women's Grand Prix tournaments held over two years (2024-25):
1st - Tbilisi, Georgia, August 14-25, 2024
2nd - Shymkent, Kazakhstan, October 29 – November 9, 2024
3rd - Monaco, February 17-28, 2025
4th - Cyprus, March 14-25, 2025
5th - India, April 13-24, 2025
6th - Austria, May 6-17, 2025



The Women’s Grand Prix Series 2024-25 will feature a total of 20 players, and each one of them will participate in three out of six WGP tournaments.

Each WGP tournament is played with ten (10) players round robin. In each WGP tournament, every player scores WGP points according to her position in the final standings; the winner of the WGP Series is a player who scores the most cumulative points earned in all three WGP tournaments she played.

The total prize fund for each one of the four events is EUR 80,000, with another EUR 120,000 being distributed among the top 10 finishers in the overall standings for the Grand Prix series.

The two (2) players who score more cumulative points in the WGP series qualify for the FIDE Women Candidates Tournament 2026.

Monaco

3rd leg, Feb. 17 - Feb. 28 , 2025
February, 17
February, 17
Arrival day
TBD - Technical Meeting
6:00 PM - Opening Ceremony
February, 18
February, 18
Round I / 3:00 pm
Kateryna Lagno - Aleksandra Goryachkina
Bibisara Assaubayeva - Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Harika Dronavalli - Humpy Koneru
Elisabeth Paehtz - Zhongyi Tan
Batkhuyag Munguntuul - Alexandra Kosteniuk
February, 19
February, 19
Round II / 3:00 pm
Aleksandra Goryachkina - Alexandra Kosteniuk
Zhongyi Tan - Batkhuyag Munguntuul
Humpy Koneru - Elisabeth Paehtz
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh - Harika Dronavalli
Kateryna Lagno - Bibisara Assaubayeva

February, 20
February, 20
Round III / 3:00 pm
Bibisara Assaubayeva - Aleksandra Goryachkina
Harika Dronavalli - Kateryna Lagno
Elisabeth Paehtz - Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Batkhuyag Munguntuul - Humpy Koneru
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Zhongyi Tan

February, 21
February, 21
Round IV / 3:00 pm
Aleksandra Goryachkina - Zhongyi Tan
Humpy Koneru - Alexandra Kosteniuk
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh - Batkhuyag Munguntuul
Kateryna Lagno - Elisabeth Paehtz
Bibisara Assaubayeva - Harika Dronavalli
February, 22
February, 22
Round V / 3:00 pm
Harika Dronavalli - Aleksandra Goryachkina
Elisabeth Paehtz - Bibisara Assaubayeva
Batkhuyag Munguntuul - Kateryna Lagno
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Zhongyi Tan - Humpy Koneru

February, 23
February, 23
Free Day
February, 24
February, 24
Round VI / 3:00 pm
Aleksandra Goryachkina - Humpy Koneru
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh - Zhongyi Tan
Kateryna Lagno - Alexandra Kosteniuk
Bibisara Assaubayeva - Batkhuyag Munguntuul
Harika Dronavalli - Elisabeth Paehtz

February, 25
February, 25
Round VII / 3:00 pm
Elisabeth Paehtz - Aleksandra Goryachkina
Batkhuyag Munguntuul - Harika Dronavalli
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Bibisara Assaubayeva
Zhongyi Tan - Kateryna Lagno
Humpy Koneru - Sarasadat Khademalsharieh

February, 26
February, 26
Round VIII / 3:00 pm
Aleksandra Goryachkina - Sarasadat Khademalsharieh
Kateryna Lagno - Humpy Koneru
Bibisara Assaubayeva - Zhongyi Tan
Harika Dronavalli - Alexandra Kosteniuk
Elisabeth Paehtz - Batkhuyag Munguntuul

February, 27
February, 27
Round IX / 2:00PM
Closing Ceremony 9:00PM
Batkhuyag Munguntuul - Aleksandra Goryachkina
Alexandra Kosteniuk - Elisabeth Paehtz
Zhongyi Tan - Harika Dronavalli
Humpy Koneru - Bibisara Assaubayeva
Sarasadat Khademalsharieh - Kateryna Lagno

February, 28
February, 28
Departure