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 - Nikosia, Cyprus, March 14-25, 2025
5th - Pune, India, April 13-24, 2025
6th - Grosslobming, Austria, May 5-16, 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.

PUNE

5th leg, Apr. 13 - Apr. 24 , 2025
April, 13
April, 13
Arrival day
TBD - Technical Meeting
TBD - Opening Ceremony
April, 14
April, 14
Round I / 3:00 pm
Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Melia Salome
Zhu Jiner - Dronavalli Harika
Kashlinskaya Alina - Shuvalova Polina
Salimova Nurgyul - Divya Deshmukh
Vaishali Rameshbabu - Koneru Humpy
April, 15
April, 15
Round II / 3:00 pm
Melia Salome - Koneru Humpy
Divya Deshmukh - Vaishali Rameshbabu
Shuvalova Polina - Salimova Nurgyul
Dronavalli Harika - Kashlinskaya Alina
Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Zhu Jiner
April, 16
April, 16
Round III / 3:00 pm
Zhu Jiner - Melia Salome
Kashlinskaya Alina - Munguntuul Batkhuyag
Salimova Nurgyul - Dronavalli Harika
Vaishali Rameshbabu - Shuvalova Polina
Koneru Humpy - Divya Deshmukh
April, 17
April, 17
Round IV / 3:00 pm
Melia Salome - Divya Deshmukh
Shuvalova Polina - Koneru Humpy
Dronavalli Harika - Vaishali Rameshbabu
Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Salimova Nurgyul
Zhu Jiner - Kashlinskaya Alina
April, 18
April, 18
Round V / 3:00 pm
Kashlinskaya Alina - Melia Salome
Salimova Nurgyul - Zhu Jiner
Vaishali Rameshbabu - Munguntuul Batkhuyag
Koneru Humpy - Dronavalli Harika
Divya Deshmukh - Shuvalova Polina
April, 19
April, 19
Free Day
April, 20
April, 20
Round VI / 3:00 pm
Melia Salome - Shuvalova Polina
Dronavalli Harika - Divya Deshmukh
Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Koneru Humpy
Zhu Jiner - Vaishali Rameshbabu
Kashlinskaya Alina - Salimova Nurgyul
April, 21
April, 21
Round VII / 3:00 pm
Salimova Nurgyul - Melia Salome
Vaishali Rameshbabu - Kashlinskaya Alina
Koneru Humpy - Zhu Jiner
Divya Deshmukh - Munguntuul Batkhuyag
Shuvalova Polina - Dronavalli Harika
April, 22
April, 22
Round VIII / 3:00 pm
Melia Salome - Dronavalli Harika
Munguntuul Batkhuyag - Shuvalova Polina
Zhu Jiner - Divya Deshmukh
Kashlinskaya Alina - Koneru Humpy
Salimova Nurgyul - Vaishali Rameshbabu
April, 23
April, 23
Round IX / 2:00PM
Closing Ceremony / TBD
Vaishali Rameshbabu - Melia Salome
Koneru Humpy - Salimova Nurgyul
Divya Deshmukh - Kashlinskaya Alina
Shuvalova Polina - Zhu Jiner
Dronavalli Harika - Munguntuul Batkhuyag

April, 24
April, 24
Departure