We are thrilled to announce that the Queens’ Online Chess Festival 2025 returns in March for the 5th edition!
The Queens’ Online Chess Festival is a series of continental women’s online blitz tournaments, open to all women chess players from around the world. In the last edition over 600 participants took part in the Festival!
It is a special opportunity to celebrate women’s chess and all female chess players,
no matter the location, age or level.
The registration is free of charge and the event will take place on-line on the platform Tornelo, from 1st till 28th of March.
Sections of the Festival
The Festival is comprised of two competitions:
- Queens’ Women Open Tournament (open to all female participants with FIDE ID). Continental qualifying events running from the 1st till 9th of Match and Semi-Final and Final scheduled on March 16th and 28th, respectively;
- Unrated Princesses’ tournaments (female players with no FIDE rating) Qualifiers for “East” and “West” with Finals in groups U9, U11, U13, U15 & U17 (for U17 – born on 1.1.2008 or later). The qualification stage is scheduled for March 15th, and Finals will be held on March 28th.
Winners of the previous edition received their trophies during the 45th Chess Olympiad in Budapest.
Awards
The winner of The Queen Festival Chess Tournament will be invited to the 46th World Chess Olympiad 2026 in Uzbekistan. The winner will have a hotel accommodation for 3 nights with full board covered (if the winner is U18 then accompanying person can also stay in the hotel with full board). The official Cup award ceremony for the Queens’ Festival 2025 will take place during the Olympiad 2026.
The Queen Festival Chess Tournament offers a prize fund of 1000 euros. The first-place winner will receive 500 euros, the second-place winner will receive 300 euros, and the third-place winner will receive 200 euros.
The winner of each Qualification in the Queens’ Festival tournaments: Americas, Asia, Africa and Europe, will receive a physical trophy and the title of the Queens’ Festival Continental Queen. The winner of the Princess Festival will receive a physical trophy. Additionally – each participant will receive an electronic certificate of participation.
Top 10 players in all qualification tournaments, 60 players in total (!), will be entitled to two 45-minute training sessions with Women Grandmasters. Details to be announced.
Queens’ Women Open Tournament
Registration form: https://forms.gle/fwespf37anAfSFvj9
Registration deadlines:
The qualification tournaments and semi-finals will be 9 or 11-round Swiss tournaments with 3+2 time control, depending on the number of participants, while the final will be a round-robin with 5+5 time control (7 rounds).
Qualification:
Top 25 places in each from each qualifier has a place in the Queens’ Online Semi-Final Individual Blitz – in total 100 places will participate in the Semifinals. Top 8 finishers of the Semifinals shall qualify for the Finals.
Unrated Princesses’ Tournament
Registration form: https://forms.gle/zNX9Jo7EbFemkzwm6
Registration deadline: March 8th 2025
Unrated players U17 (born on 01.01.2008 or later) can play in both the Queens’ Women’s Open tournament and the Unrated Princesses’ tournament.
We are looking forward to your registrations!
Full regulations can be found here:
