Women's World Chess Championship 2022

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Defending champion Challenger
 Ju Wenjun (CHN)
Winner of the
2020 World Championship 		Winner of the
2022 Candidates tournament
← 2020

The 2022 Women's World Chess Championship is an upcoming chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It is contested by the defending champion Ju Wenjun (winning the 2020 match) and her challenger, the winner of the 2022 Candidates tournament.

Candidates tournament[]

The second edition of the women's candidates will be played in the first half of 2022.[1] The format is a double round robin [2] and the eight players to qualify will be:[3]

Qualification method Player Women's
world no.
(Jan 2022)		 Rating on
Jan 2022		 Women's
World
champion
2020 World Championship runner-up Russia Aleksandra Goryachkina 2 2610
The top two finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021 India Koneru Humpy 3 2586
Russia Kateryna Lagno 5 2550
The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2021[4] Russia Alexandra Kosteniuk 12 2516 2008
China Tan Zhongyi 10 2525 2017
Ukraine Anna Muzychuk 9 2531
The top finisher in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021[5] China Lei Tingjie 7 2535
The highest-rated player on the January 2022 standard rating list Ukraine Mariya Muzychuk 6 2539 2015

In each case, if any of the top finishers have already qualified previously or are the incumbent champion, the next-highest finisher qualifies instead. In the case of the World Cup, this rule only applied up to the fourth place. As Aleksandra Goryachkina was already qualified as the 2020 runner-up and finished first in the Grand Prix and second in the World Cup, qualification extended up to third place in the Grand Prix and up to fourth place in the World Cup.

Match[]

The format and host city have not been announced yet.

References[]

  1. ^ "Women's Grand Prix Monaco: Pairings announced". FIDE. Retrieved August 5, 2021.
  2. ^ "FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 - Call for bids". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  3. ^ "Qualification for FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 announced". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  4. ^ "FIDE expands the World Cups, increases number of players and prize fund". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  5. ^ "Isle of Man will host the FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2021". FIDE. Retrieved 12 Nov 2020.

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