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Women's Candidates Tournament
The Women's Candidates Tournament is a major women's chess tournament organized by FIDE.
The Women's Candidates Tournament is a major women's chess tournament organized by FIDE.
It is a final contest to determine the challenger for the Women's World Chess Championship. The winner of the Candidates earns the right to a match for the World Championship against the incumbent world champion. The inaugural Women's Candidates tournament was held in 1952 and continued for every Women's World Championship match (except 1958) until 1997, after which the match format was abandoned and replaced by a knock-out tournament. The Women's Candidates tournament was brought back in 2019 when FIDE re-instituted the match format as the sole format for determining the Women's World Champion.
| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|---|---|
| ° | Won the subsequent Women's World Championship |
| Edition | Host city | Prize fund | Winner | Runner-up | Third |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Moscow, Russia | Elisabeth Bykova° | Fenny Heemskerk | Olga Ignatieva | |
| 1955 | Moscow, Russia | Olga Rubtsova° | Larissa Volpert | Edith Keller-Herrmann | |
| 1959 | Plovdiv, Bulgaria | Kira Zvorykina | Verica Nedeljković | Larissa Volpert | |
| 1961 | Vrnjačka Banja, Yugoslavia | Nona Gaprindashvili° | Valentina Borisenko | Kira Zvorykina | |
| 1964 | Sukhumi, Georgia | Alla Kushnir | Milunka Lazarević | Tatiana Zatulovskaya | |
| 1967 | Subotica, Yugoslavia | Alla Kushnir | Valentina Kozlovskaya | Tatiana Zatulovskaya | |
| 1971 | Kislovodsk, Russia | Alla Kushnir | Nana Alexandria | Tatiana Zatulovskaya Milunka Lazarević | |
| 1974–75 | Moscow, Russia | Nana Alexandria | Irina Levitina | Marta Shul Valentina Kozlovskaya | |
| 1977–78 | Bad Kissingen, Germany | Maia Chiburdanidze° | Alla Kushnir | Elena Akhmilovskaya Elena Fatalibekova | |
| 1980–81 | Tbilisi, Georgia | Nana Alexandria | Nana Ioseliani | Marta Litinskaya Nona Gaprindashvili | |
| 1983–84 | Sochi, Russia | Irina Levitina | Lidia Semenova | Nana Alexandria Nana Ioseliani | |
| 1986 | Malmö, Sweden | Elena Akhmilovskaya | Nana Alexandria | Marta Litinskaya-Shul | |
| 1988 | Tsqaltubo, Georgia | Nana Ioseliani | Elena Akhmilovskaya | Irina Levitina | |
| 1990 | Borzomi, Georgia | Xie Jun° | Alisa Marić | Alisa Galliamova | |
| 1992–93 | Shanghai, China | Nana Ioseliani | Zsuzsa Polgar | Maia Chiburdanidze | |
| 1994–95 | Tilburg, Netherlands | Zsuzsa Polgar° | Maia Chiburdanidze | Pia Cramling | |
| 1997 | Groningen, Netherlands | Xie Jun° | Alisa Galliamova | Maia Chiburdanidze | |
| 2019 | Kazan, Russia | € 200,000 | Aleksandra Goryachkina | Anna Muzychuk | Kateryna Lagno |
| 2022–23 | Chongqing, China | € 250,000 | Lei Tingjie | Tan Zhongyi | Anna Muzychuk Aleksandra Goryachkina |
| 2024 | Toronto, Canada | € 250,000 | Tan Zhongyi | Humpy Koneru | Lei Tingjie |
| 2026 | Paphos, Cyprus | € 300,000 | Vaishali Rameshbabu | Bibisara Assaubayeva | Zhu Jiner |
- FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament
- Women's Chess World Cup
- Candidates Tournament
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