Women's World Chess Championship 2022

The 2022 Women's World Chess Championship is an upcoming chess match for the Women's World Chess Championship title. It is contested by the defending champion Ju Wenjun (winning the 2020 match) and her challenger, the winner of the 2022 Candidates tournament.

Defending champion Challenger
 Ju Wenjun (CHN)
Winner of the
2020 World Championship 		Winner of the
2022 Candidates tournament
← 2020

Candidates tournament

The second edition of the women's candidates will be played in the last quarter of 2022.[1] The eight players who qualified are:[2][3]

Qualification methodPlayerWomen's
world no.
(Jan 2022)		Rating on
Jan 2022		Women's
World
champion
2020 World Championship runner-up Aleksandra Goryachkina[lower-alpha 1]22610
The top two finishers in the FIDE Women's Grand Prix 2019–2021 Koneru Humpy32586
Kateryna Lagno[lower-alpha 1]52550
The top three finishers in the Women's Chess World Cup 2021[5] Alexandra Kosteniuk[lower-alpha 1]1225162008
Tan Zhongyi1025252017
Anna Muzychuk92531
The top finisher in the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2021[6] Lei Tingjie72535
The highest-rated player on the January 2022 standard rating list Mariya Muzychuk625392015

In each case, if any of the top finishers have already qualified previously or are the incumbent champion, the next-highest finisher qualifies instead. In the case of the World Cup, this rule only applied up to the fourth place. As Aleksandra Goryachkina was already qualified as the 2020 runner-up and finished first in the Grand Prix and second in the World Cup, qualification extended up to third place in the Grand Prix and up to fourth place in the World Cup.

Match

The format and host city have not been announced yet.

Notes
  1. Russian players' flags are displayed as the FIDE flag because FIDE banned Russian and Belarusian flags from FIDE-rated events in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4]

References
  1. "FIDE Council meeting: List of decisions".
  2. "Qualification for FIDE Women's Candidates Tournament 2022 announced". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2021-05-06.
  3. "FIDE Women's World Championship. Cycle 2020-2022".
  4. FIDE Condemns Military Action; Takes Measures Against Russia, Belarus, chess.com, 28 February 2022
  5. "FIDE expands the World Cups, increases number of players and prize fund". www.fide.com. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
  6. "Isle of Man will host the FIDE Grand Swiss and Women's Grand Swiss 2021". FIDE. Retrieved 12 Nov 2020.
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