Women's World Chess Championship 2017

The Women's World Chess Championship 2017 is an upcoming match between the 2016 Women's World Chess champion and a challenger. The challenger will be the winner of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16, or runner-up in case the Grand Prix winner is the 2016 world champion.^[1]

The match is played over 10 games from in the second half of the year. No host has been announced yet.

Competitiors

2016 knock-out World Champion

After the world championship match Hou Yifan and Maria Muzychuk in March, another world championship in held in October. The winner of that 2016 knock-out championship qualifies. The tournament will again be held with 64 players from 11 to 31 October 2016.

2015/16 Grand Prix winner

The challenger qualifies by winning the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2015–16. One of four Grand Prix stages have been held. The current leader is Hou Yifan with 160 points.^[2] Her next competitor is Koneru Humpy and Maria Muzychuk with 120 points. The second tournament is currently being held in Iran.

References

↑ "FIDE Women's Grand Prix Regulations". FIDE. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
↑ http://en.chessbase.com/post/hou-yifan-wins-monaco-by-two-points

External links

FIDE calendar

Women's World Chess Championships

FIDE

1927, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937 I, 1937 II, 1939 (Menchik)
1949–50 (Rudenko)
1953 (Bykova)
1956 (Rubtsova)
1958, 1959 (Bykova)
1962, 1965, 1969, 1972, 1975 (Gaprindashvili)
1978, 1981, 1984, 1986, 1988 (Chiburdanidze)
1991, 1993 (Xie Jun)
1996 (Su. Polgar)
1999, 2000 (Xie Jun)
2001 (Zhu Chen)
2004 (Stefanova)
2006 (Xu Yuhua)
2008 (Kosteniuk)
2010, 2011 (Hou Yifan)
2012 (Ushenina)
2013 (Hou Yifan)
2015 (M. Muzychuk)
2016 match
2016 K.O.
2017

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