Grand Swiss Women 2025 participants

he FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 is taking place September 3 – September 16 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. It will be an 11-round Swiss-system tournament and forms part of the qualification cycle for the World Chess Championship 2026. The winner and runner-up of the tournament will earn the right to play in the Candidates Tournament 2026.

FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 is in the Top Chess Events Calendar for the year 2025 and also in the Asia Chess Calendar. For a complete list of events visit the main page of The Chess Calendar

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The 11-round Swiss format tournament will see 56 participants in the Women’s tournament. As per regulations, the top two qualifiers in both the Open and the Women’s competition will qualify for the Candidates Chess 2026 tournament, where the challenger for the title of World Champion will be determined.

From the FIDE women rating list the participants from the top 10 are Lei Tingjie (FIDE President’s Nominee), Anna Muzychuk, Humpy Koneru Former Women’s World Champion Tan Zhongyi, Bibisara Assaubayeva, and Kateryna Lagno. The 2023 winner, Vaishali Rameshbabu is also taking part. The top players that will miss the competition include Yifan Hou, Ju Wenjun, Zhu Jiner, and Aleksandra Goryachkina, who will participate in the open

The Women’s Grand Swiss will also see emerging talents take part, such as world junior champion and runner-up, Divya Deshmukh and also Lu Miaoyi and Leya Garifullina. One more player will join as the highest placed participant in the ongoing Women’s World Chess Cup

Grand Swiss Women 2025 participants (Grand Swiss 2025 open participants here)

	Players qualified by rating
1	Tan, Zhongyi	CHN
2	Koneru, Humpy	IND
3	Muzychuk, Anna	UKR
4	Lagno, Kateryna	FID
5	Assaubayeva, Bibisara	KAZ
6	Muzychuk, Mariya	UKR
7	Dronavalli, Harika	IND
8	Vaishali, Rameshbabu	IND
9	Shuvalova, Polina	FID
10	Kosteniuk, Alexandra	SUI
11	Osmak, Yuliia	UKR
12	Divya Deshmukh	IND
13	Batsiashvili, Nino	GEO
14	Injac, Teodora	SRB
15	Lu, Miaoyi	CHN
16	Garifullina, Leya	FID
17	Javakhishvili, Lela	GEO
18	Yip, Carissa	USA
19	Tsolakidou, Stavroula	GRE
20	Badelka, Olga	AUT
21	Shukhman, Anna	FID
22	Ushenina, Anna	UKR
23	Song, Yuxin	CHN
24	Kulon, Klaudia	POL
25	Wagner, Dinara	GER
26	Maltsevskaya, Aleksandra	POL
27	Danielian, Elina	ARM
28	Stefanova, Antoaneta	BUL
29	Bulmaga, Irina	ROU
30	Girya, Olga	FID
31	Narva, Mai	EST
32	Gaal, Zsoka	HUN
33	Vantika Agrawal	IND
34	Beydullayeva, Govhar	AZE
35	Salimova, Nurgyul	BUL
36	Zhai, Mo	CHN
37	Krush, Irina	USA
38	Fataliyeva, Ulviyya	AZE
39	Efroimski, Marsel	ISR
40	Guo, Qi	CHN
41	Tokhirjonova, Gulrukhbegim	UZB
42	Kiolbasa, Oliwia	POL
43	Balajayeva, Khanim	AZE
44	HIGHEST-PLACED PLAYER OF THE WOMEN’S WORLD CUP 2025
	Four Continent spots
1	Manko, Mariia	SUI
2	Gomez Barrera, Javiera Belen	CHI
3	Nassr, Lina	ALG
4	TBD
	Players nominated by the FIDE President
1	Lei, Tingjie	CHN
2	Wafa, Shrook	EGY
3	Arabidze, Meri	GEO
4	Roebers, Eline	NED
	Players nominated by the Organiser
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