The 2022–2023 edition of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix was a series of four chess tournaments exclusively for women which determined two players to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024. The winner of the Candidates Tournament played the reigning world champion in the Women's World Chess Championship 2025.
The 2022–2023 edition was the sixth cycle of the tournament series. Each of 16 players had to participate in three out of four tournaments, and every tournament was a twelve-player round robin event. The tournaments were held between September 2022 and May 2023.
Kateryna Lagno and Aleksandra Goryachkina were the top two finishers of the series, and qualified to play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2024.
Players 16 players qualified for the Grand Prix:
Women's World Chess Champion. Four semifinalists of Women's Chess World Cup 2021. The top 4 finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021, excluding those who already qualified for the Grand Prix. 3 players with highest rating in the March 2022 rating list, who played at least 1 rated game counted in one of the Standard FIDE Rating Lists from April 2021 to March 2022 (Humpy Koneru was not eligible because of this condition), excluding those who already qualified for the Grand Prix. 4 organizer's nominees. After Ju Wenjun (Women's World Champion), Lei Tingjie (winner of Women's Grand Swiss) and Hou Yifan (qualified by rating as #1) decided not to participate, replacements were also invited by March 2022 rating list.
InviteeQualifying methodRating (March 2022) Alexandra KosteniukWomen's World Cup2516 Aleksandra GoryachkinaWomen's World Cup2610 Tan ZhongyiWomen's World Cup2525 Anna MuzychukWomen's World Cup2531 Elisabeth PähtzWomen's Grand Swiss2507 Zhu JinerWomen's Grand Swiss2464 Mariya MuzychukWomen's Grand Swiss2544 Kateryna LagnoRating2550 Nana DzagnidzeRating2531 Bibisara AssaubayevaOrganizer's nominee2434 Dinara WagnerOrganizer's nominee2325 Koneru HumpyOrganizer's nominee2586 Alina KashlinskayaOrganizer's nominee2490 Dronavalli HarikaRating (replacement)2517 Polina ShuvalovaRating (replacement)2504 Zhansaya AbdumalikRating (replacement)2493 R VaishaliReplacement2403 Nino BatsiashviliReplacement2472 Bella KhotenashviliReplacement2485 Gunay MammadzadaReplacement2454 Oliwia KiołbasaReplacement2388
Schedule No.Host city Date Winner Points (Win/draw/loss)1Astana, Kazakhstan 17–30 September 2022 Kateryna Lagno 8/11 (+5=6-0)2Munich, Germany1–14 February 2023 Alexandra Kosteniuk7.5/11 (+5=5-1)3New Delhi, India24 March6 April 2023 Aleksandra Goryachkina6/9 (+3=6-0)4Nicosia, Cyprus15–28 May 2023 Dinara Wagner 7/11 (+4=6-1)
Crosstables
Astana
Munich
New Delhi
The tournament only had 11 players after Abdumalik withdrew in protest of the playing venue and her accommodations. FIDE stated they were unable to adjust the pairings or add another player to try to reduce the number of players with 6 whites and 4 blacks or vice versa. Harika stated that many of the players were resistant to another player being added as there were already 3 Indian participants and a reserved player would likely have to also be Indian given the tournament was held in New Delhi and that Goryachkina threatened to withdraw if the pairings were adjusted. Paehtz then withdrew as well in protest of the color imbalances. As a result, the tournament was still held over the original 11 rounds with each player now receiving two byes, and colors were still not adjusted, leaving Zhu and Shuvalova to have 6 white games and Batsiashvili and Harika to have 6 black games.
Nicosia
Grand Prix standings
For each tournament, 160 Grand Prix points were awarded for 1st place, 130 for 2nd, 110 for 3rd and then in steps of 10 from 90 for 4th to 10 for 12th place. If players ended up tied on points, points for those places were shared equally.
The top two players in Grand Prix standings qualified for the Women's Candidates Tournament 2023–2024.
All replacements (in italics) were eligible for Grand Prix points and Candidates qualification.
Rank Player Astana Munich New Delhi Nicosia Total Prize money 1 160 85 80 325 €49,125 2 130 133⅓55 318⅓ €45,146 3 11065133⅓ 308⅓ €40,833 4 90160 30 280 €37,000 5 90 50 110 250 €30,500 6 6065 110 235 €26,083 7 6010 160230 €26,583 8 30 133⅓55218⅓ €23,646 9 110 50 55 215 €19,313 10 10 85 110 205 €19,875 11 130 70 200 €17,750 12 80 65 w/d 145 €12,250 13 30 65 w/d 95 €9,000 14 60 30 90 €8,583 15 30 30 60 €7,000 16 55 55 €4,813 17 50 50 €4,500 18 40 40 €4,000 19 20 20 €3,000 19 20 20 €3,000 21 10 10 €2,500
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