Women’s Tournaments Calendar 2009

Dear Organizers of Women’s Chess Events!

I’m starting a special list with all the women’s tournaments that take place throughout the year. If your tournament is not listed here, please send me an email or post a comment in this blog.

I’m making this list in order to make the women’s chess tournaments calendar as clear as possible and to avoid possible clashes of events.

Women’s chess tournaments calendar 2009:
(tournaments shown in italic have already been finished)

Moscow Open, women’s tournament
Moscow, Russia 31 Jan – 08 Feb, 2009


FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series
Istanbul, Turkey, 5-Mar – 20-Mar, 2009


The winner of the
FIDE Women Grand-Prix Series 2009/2010 will have a chance to challenge the women’s world chess champion 2010 in a match that is scheduled for 2011.

European Individual Women’s Chess Championship 2009
St. Petersburg, Russia 7- 21-Mar, 2009


Women’s Russian Team Cup
Dagomys, Russia, Apr 2 – 11, 2009


Women GM Chess Tournament, Mediterranean Flowers
Rijeka, Croatia, 07 – 15 March, 2009


41st international women’s tournament of 8th March
Belgrad, Serbia 03-11 March, 2009


Puerto Rico Chess Federation Woman Open Classificatory, 29-31 May, 2009
Zone 3.6, Oceanial Zonal Championship, Gold Coast, Australia 20-26 June, 2009

Zone 3.1 Zonal, Open and Women, Sanaa, Yemen 23- 29-Jun-2009

Zone 2.3 Zonal, San Salvador, 10-17 July, 2009

African Women’s Individual Chess Championship, Libya, 20-31 July, 2009

Zone 3.3 Zonal, Open and Women, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam 22-30-Jul-2009

Canadian Women Chess Championship, Guelph, Zonal 2.2, July 30 – Aug 3, 2009

Zone 3.2 Zonal, New Delhi, India, 09 – 18 Aug, 2009

“Baltic Queen” GM Tournament for Women, Saint-Petersburg, August 11 – 20, 2009

Annual Lyudmila Rudenko Chess Cup, Saint-Petesburg, August 25 – September 3, 2009

Continental Women Championship 2009, Cali, Colombia 1 – 7-Sep, 2009

World Women’s Team Championship 2009, Ningbo, China 1 – 12-Sep-2009

Women GM Chess Tournament Krk – Mediterranean Golden Island Baska (CRO), 9-18 Sep, 2009

European Club Cup for Women 2009, Struga, Lake Ochid, FYROM 3-11, Oct, 2009

2nd FIDE Women Grand-Prix Tournament, Nanjing, China Sep 27 – Oct 9, 2009

2009 U.S. Women’s Championship, Saint Louis, USA 2-12, October, 2009

European Team Championship, Novi-Sad/Serbia, 21-30 October, 2009

3rd Asian Indoor Games Halongbay, Quang Ninh, Vietnam 30-Oct – 8-Nov, 2009

Senior World Chess Championship, Italy, Oct 26 – Nov 11, 2009

London Chess Classic Women’s Invitational, London, England, December 7 – 15, 2009 (10 player, 9 round, all play all with WIM norms available. Tournament organiser: Lawrence Cooper)

European Rapid Women’s Chess Championship 2009 open

European Blitz Women’s Championship 2009 open

World Rapid Women’s Chess Championship 2009 open

World Blitz Women’s Championship 2009 open