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FIDE Women's Grand Prix takes place in Grosslobming, Austria Tue 6th May to Fri 16th May 2025. Players: Jiner Zhu, Zhongyi Tan, Anna Muzychuk, Nana Dzagnidze, Mariya Muzychuk, Alexandra Kosteniuk, Rameshbabu Vaishali, Lela Javakhishvili, Olga Badelka and Nurgyul Salimova.

The event is the final in a series of 6. The top two in the final standings will qualify for the Candidates. The leaders are Aleksandra Goryachkina followed by Humpy Koneru, neither play in this final event. Goryachkina seems certain to take one of these places and indeed almost certainly win the series, Humpy Koneru will likely not finish second. Zhu Jiner won't need a very big result to overtake her and Anna Muzychuk & Tan Zhongyi are also still in the race.

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Tue May 06, 2025 3:26 pm

Interesting to see how well Tan has recovered from that rather bruising WC match.

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Thu May 15, 2025 11:05 am

Final round today, Anna Muzychuk leads with Zhu Jiner on 5.5; Tan Zhongyi is on 5; on 4.5 we have Nana Dzagnidze and Rameshbabu Vaishali

Joint first isn't enough for Anna Muzychuk as far as getting into the top 2 in the WGP

Badelka Olga - Dzagnidze Nana
Kosteniuk Alexandra - Zhu Jiner
Tan Zhongyi - Muzychuk Mariya
Muzychuk Anna - Vaishali Rameshbabu
Salimova Nurgyul - Javakhishvili Lela

The event was the final in a series of 6. The top two in the final standings qualifying for the Candidates. The leaders going into the event were Aleksandra Goryachkina followed by Humpy Koneru, neither playing in the final event. Goryachkina looked strong favourite to qualify but if Anna Muzychuk had won and Zhu Jiner finished second then she would have missed out. Zhu started with 0/2 after losing to Anna Muzychuk but came back with five wins in a row before seeing out the event with two draws. Anna Muzychuk took first place on tie-break from Zhu but they shared grand prix points and this was not enough to overtake Goryachkina, only a win alone would have done that. So it was Zhu Jiner who won the Grand Prix and Goryachkina finished second. There are other routes to the Candidates including the Women's World Cup (3 places), the Grand Swiss (2 places) and the FIDE Women’s Events 2024-25 series 1 place. which takes place in 2026 and the complete field is yet to be decided.