27 July 2019

FIDE Publishes Information about Women's Grand Prix Series 2019-2020

Participants, venues and dates are announced.

The first leg will take place in Skolkovo. Photo: Sk.ru
The first leg will take place in Skolkovo. Photo: Sk.ru

The International Chess Federation has published the information about the FIDE Women's Grand Prix Series 2019-2020 .

Four tournaments will be held in Skolkovo (September 10-23, 2019), Monaco (December 2-15, 2019), Lausanne (March 1-14, 2020), and Saridnia (May 2-15, 2020).

Participants: Ju Wenjun (China, 2595), Aleksandra Goryachkina (Russia, 2564), Humpy Koneru (India, 2558), Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine, 2551), Kateryna Lagno (Russia, 2549), Anna Muzychuk (Ukraine, 2547), Alexandra Kosteniuk (Russia, 2517), Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia, 2511), Valentina Gunina (Russia, 2497), Dronavalli Harika (India, 2492), Alina Kashlinskaya (Russia, 2492), Zhao Xue (China, 2485), Pia Cramling (Sweden, 2479), Antoaneta Stefanova (Bulgaria, 2474), Elisabeth Paehtz (Germany, 2473), and Marie Sebag (France, 2451).

Each of the sixteen players participate in three out of four WGP tournaments. Each WGP tournament is played with 12 players according to the round-robin system.

Information on Fide.com  

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