TWIC
The city in which the event is being held was renamed from Astana to Nur-Sultan in 2019 but yesterday a decree was signed to restore the city to the name of Astana, so I went with that. This is the first of four Women's Grand Prix events as part of the FIDE Women's World Championship cycle, three are next year. There are 16 players in the series, each play 3 of the 4 events. Players: Aleksandra Goryachkina, Polina Shuvalova, Kateryna Lagno, R Vaishali, Alina Kashlinskaya, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Bibisara Assaubayeva, Zhansaya Abdumalik, Zhongyi Tan, Jiner Zhu, Dinara Wagner and Elisabeth Paehtz.