FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2025

The FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament 2025 was the third edition of the FIDE Women's Grand Swiss Tournament, a chess tournament that forms part of the qualification cycle for the Women's World Chess Championship. It was an 11-round Swiss-system tournament with 56 players competing from 4 September to 15 September 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The winner, Vaishali Rameshbabu, and the runner-up, Kateryna Lagno, earned the right to the play in the Women's Candidates Tournament 2026.

The event was held at the same time and venue as the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament 2025. Divya Deshmukh and Aleksandra Goryachkina, who had already qualified for the Women's Candidates, had played in the open event rather than the women's event.

The tournament had an 11-round Swiss format, with pairings made using the Dutch system for Swiss tournaments. The time control for each game was: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 1.^[1] The total prize pool of the tournament was $230,000 USD, with the winner earning $40,000.^[2]

Tie-breaks between players who finished on the same score were determined, in order, by the following criteria:^[1]

1. Average rating of opponents, cut 1;
2. Buchholz system, cut 1;
3. Buchholz system;
4. The results of individual games between tied players;
5. Drawing of lots.

The tournament ran from 3 September to 15 September 2025 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The venue for the tournament was the Silk Road EXPO Hall in Samarkand.^[1][3]

• Official website