23 September 2009
Hello dear lady-tournament players!
Today FIDE announced the final schedule of the Women’s FIDE Grand-Prix Series for 2009/10. There is one such Grand-Prix tournament left in 2009 and there will be 4 more Grand-Prix in 2010. Together with these tournaments I started a special table for open, closed, FIDE and all types of tournaments in 2010. The same table for the year 2009 you can found here.
There are quite a few great tournaments to keep us women chess players busy, practically all year long. Women also have the advantage to be allowed to also play in men’s tournaments, which can be of a very high level and can be useful to get grandmaster practice.
Below are just the main starts for 2010 women-only tournaments, the dates of which I found on-line. If you know the dates of other chess events of if you are organizing a women’s chess tournament, please feel free to let me know by entering a comment in this post and I will include your event in this calendar.
JANUARY
FEBRUARY
MARCH
APRIL
Russian Club Cup, Dagomys, Russia, April 1 – 12, 2010
MAY
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
World Junior and Girls U-20 World Chess Championship, Chotowa Czarna, Poland, August 2 – August 17, 2010
e2e4 Uxbridge International WIM Tournament London, England August 11-15 2010 (Contact Lawrence Cooper)
SEPTEMBER
11th World University Chess Championship, Zurich, Switzerland, September 5 – September 12, 2010
Chess Olympiad, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia, September 20 – October 4, 2010
OCTOBER
European Club Cup for Women, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, October 16 – October 24, 2010
NOVEMBER
16th Asian Games, Guangzhou, China, November 12 –November 27, 2010
DECEMBER
Women’s World Chess Championship, Turkey, December 2 – December 25, 2010.
London Chess Classic, Women’s Invitational, December 8 – December 15, 2010 (Contact: Lawrence Cooper)
Now to all of you I wish a year 2010 full of chess successes, on the chess board and in your lives!
Posted by: Alexandra Kosteniuk
Women’s World Chess Champion
