Dear Organizers of Women’s Chess Events!
I’m making this list in order to make the women’s chess tournaments calendar as clear as possible and to avoid possible clashes of events.
Moscow, Russia 31 Jan – 08 Feb, 2009
FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series
Istanbul, Turkey, 5-Mar - 20-Mar, 2009
The winner of the FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series 2009/2010 will have a chance to challenge the women’s world chess champion 2010 in a match that is scheduled for 2011.
European Individual Women's Chess Championship 2009
St. Petersburg, Russia 7- 21-Mar, 2009
Women's Russian Team Cup
Dagomys, Russia, Apr 2 – 11, 2009
Women GM Chess Tournament, Mediterranean Flowers
Rijeka, Croatia, 07 - 15 March, 2009
41st international women's tournament of 8th March
Belgrad, Serbia 03-11 March, 2009
Puerto Rico Chess Federation Woman Open Classificatory, 29-31 May, 2009
Zonal 2.4 Absolute and Women, Río de Janeiro, Brazil 8- 18 Jun-2009
Zonal 2.5 Absolute and Women, Asuncion, Paraguay 15-Jun-2009
WIM-Tournament, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-25 June, 2009
Zone 3.4 Zonal, Open and Women, Tashkent, Uzbekistan 16- 27-Jun-2009
Puerto Rico Women's Championship, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 10-27 July 2009
Zone 3.1 Zonal, Open and Women, Sanaa, Yemen 23- 29-Jun-2009
Zone 2.3 Zonal, San Salvador, 10-17 July, 2009
African Women's Individual Chess Championship, Libya, 20-31 July, 2009
Zone 3.3 Zonal, Open and Women, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 22-30-Jul-2009
Canadian Women Chess Championship, Guelph, Zonal 2.2, July 30 - Aug 3, 2009
Zone 3.2 Zonal, New Delhi, India, 09 - 18 Aug, 2009
"Baltic Queen" GM Tournament for Women, Saint-Petersburg, August 11 - 20, 2009
Annual Lyudmila Rudenko Chess Cup, Saint-Petesburg, August 25 - September 3, 2009
Continental Women Championship 2009, Cali, Colombia 1 - 7-Sep, 2009
World Women's Team Championship 2009, Ningbo, China 1 - 12-Sep-2009
Women GM Chess Tournament Krk - Mediterranean Golden Island Baska (CRO), 9-18 Sep, 2009
European Club Cup for Women 2009, Struga, Lake Ochid, FYROM 3-11, Oct, 2009
2nd FIDE Women Grand-Prix Tournament, Nanjing, China Sep 27 - Oct 9, 2009
2009 U.S. Women's Championship, Saint Louis, USA 2-12, October, 2009
European Team Championship, Novi-Sad/Serbia, 21-30 October, 2009
3rd Asian Indoor Games Halongbay, Quang Ninh, Vietnam 30-Oct - 8-Nov, 2009
Senior World Chess Championship, Italy, Oct 26 - Nov 11, 2009
London Chess Classic Women's Invitational, London, England, December 7 - 15, 2009 (10 player, 9 round, all play all with WIM norms available. Tournament organiser: Lawrence Cooper)
European Rapid Women's Chess Championship 2009 open
European Blitz Women's Championship 2009 open
World Rapid Women's Chess Championship 2009 open
World Blitz Women's Championship 2009 open
Did FIDE announce World Blitz and World Rapid Championships? I am unaware of it.
ReplyDeleteThat would be a wonderful event to watch and of course for the women players to play in.
Please Alexandra push FIDE to have that one organized, we could do it here in the USA and maybe ESPN would accept to sponsor it.
Hello Alexandra,
ReplyDeleteI would like to give you my compliments to your chess blogg. It is really interesting and I am looking forward to read more. It looks great and thanks for your iniative and work about this!
I am a chessplayer from Sweden and I noticed the calendar about women chess tournament. In Stockholm there will be a WIM-tournament in the period 17-25 June. The organiser is Mr Peter Hlawatsch, the founder of Scandinavian Chess Tournament ( STC) and he is commited to ladies chess.
I will appreciate if you will list this tournament.
Please let me know if you need more information and the place for the tournament is Scandic Hotel Täby in the north of Stockholm. It is a closed tournament.
Kind regards,
Susanna
hi Alexandra
ReplyDeleteNice to see you have a chess-blog where we can leave you messages too!
nice posting...
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