9 Women’s Teams at the World Senior Team Championships
FIDE World Senior Team Chess Championships 2024 take place in Krakow, Poland from 1st till 12th July, featuring both 50+ and 65+ categories. Nine women’s teams participate in the event. Playing hall./Photos by Mark Livshitz After 6 rounds the leaders among women are: Teams from small baltic countries Latvia and Estonia are leading after 6 […]
Nine new female teams to compete in 45th Chess Olympiad
The Women’s Commission National Female Team Initiative, a significant step in promoting women’s chess, reached its penultimate stage on Sunday, June 23, 2024. Led by the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess (WOM), this initiative aims to help countries establish female teams for the upcoming Chess Olympiad in Budapest. The online closing ceremony celebrated the successful […]
Selected participants for the ChessMom Project announced
The FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess is pleased to announce the names of the five players selected to participate in the ChessMom pilot project during the 45th Chess Olympiad. This innovative program aims to support mother chess players by covering all expenses related to an accompanying caregiver, enabling them to participate in the tournament. The […]
Humpy Koneru and Nurgyul Salimova met the finalists of the Queens’ Chess Festival
The fourth edition of the Queens’ Online Chess Festival, a series of continental women’s online blitz tournaments, took place from March 09-30, 2024, on Tornelo online platform. Like a year ago, the Queens’ Women Open Tournament saw the triumph of IM Deysi Cori from Peru. Unrated Princesses’ tournament (for girls without FIDE ID competing in U9 and […]
Cairns Cup Begins Today in St. Louis
The fourth Cairns Cup begins Thursday, June 13, hosted by the Saint Louis Chess Club.
Students of the Girls Club qualified for the Refugee Team at Chess Olympiad
The selection for the Refugee Chess Team has concluded at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya
Norway Chess – bringing gender equality to chess
The project has been running online for the last half a year.
Chess4Peace project continues to introduce chess to women from Ukraine
The project has been running online for the last half a year.
FIDE ChessMom Initiative: Call for submissions
FIDE is pleased to announce the start of the application process for the ChessMom project.
Women’s and Girls’ Rapid Chess Championship held in Yerevan, Armenia
On April 7, Armenian Chess Federation in collaboration with the FIDE Commission for Women’s Chess organized a Women’s and Girls’ Rapid Chess Championship, Dedicated to Motherhood and Beauty. The tournament took place in Chess Academy of Armenia, Yerevan. This was the unique event as it welcomed chess players from various age categories ranging from U8 up […]