European Women’s Chess Trophy 2024.

We inspire to support female chess players to actively take part in the solely women’s tournaments in Europe, especially in the closed (norm) ones and this way to support and promote tournaments’ organizers as well. We had done so by lunching “European Women’s Chess Trophy” in 2023, an initiative that financially rewards women and girls in the categories mentioned below.

CRITERIA – TOURNAMENTS

• Only female tournaments will be considered for the calculation: women’s closed tournaments (at least WIM level and with at least three different federations participating), European Girls’ Youth Championship (U16-U18), European Women Individual Championship, European Women’s Chess Club Cup (only European female players will be considered), Women Chess Olympiad (only European female players will be considered), World Junior’s Championship U20 (only European female players will be considered)

CRITERIA – CALCULATION

• To be based on POINTS (below) and PERFORMANCE system.
• Launching point of calculation: January 1, 2024, reflecting each tournament separately (month), till December 31, 2024.
• To be included in one of the prize categories, the player must participate at least at 2 women’s tournaments (it is not mandatory to score points in both tournaments).
• TOP 3 Best female players per tournament in all four categories will be considered for the prizes.
• Each female player can win only one prize. If two or more players end up with the same number of points, number of games played per year will decide. The next criteria will be overall (better) performance.
• European Women’s Chess Club Cup – the best performance from the official Board prizes
• Women Chess Olympiad – the best performance from the official Board prizes

POINTS SYSTEM (all four categories)

 *For the European Women Championship we will allocate more points: 80/60/40

TOURNAMENT’S CALENDAR (considered for the calculation)

We will quarterly publish a preliminary list with an overview of current points and players after the tournaments (that are included in our calendar) have been finished.

There is no need to register for this initiative, we will automatically include all female players who participate at above mentioned tournaments.

It is in our interest to include as many closed female tournaments as possible. If you would like to be a part of this initiative, as an organizer, and support female players this way, and promote your female event, please drop us a message and we will gladly include you.

The tournament’s list is not definite and will expand throughout the year, as we will also regularly announce an “Open call of interest” for all organizers of women’s tournaments.

The program is “Supported by the FIDE Development fund“

European Women’s Chess Trophy 2023.

We inspire to support female chess players to actively take part in the solely women’s tournaments in Europe, especially in the closed (norm) ones and this way to support and promote tournaments’ organizers as well. We would like to do so by lunching “European Women’s Chess Trophy”, an initiative that will financially reward women and girls in the categories mentioned below.

CRITERIA

• Only female tournaments will be considered: women’s closed tournaments (at least WIM level and with three different federations participating), European Girls Youth Championship (U16-U18), European Women Individual championships, except European Team Championship and European Club Cup.
• Criteria for calculation to be based on points and a performance system:
• Launching point of calculation: rating as of February 2023, reflecting each tournament separately (month), till December 31, 2023
• TOP 3 Best female players in all four categories to be calculated
• Each female player can win only one prize. If two or more players end up with the same number of points, number of games played per year will decide. The next criteria will be overall (better) performance.

• European Club Cup – minimum of 5 games must be played to be included in the calculation
• European Team Championship – minimum of 7 games must be played to be included in the calculation

Points System for all four categories

TOURNAMENT’S CALENDAR (considered for the calculation)

We will regularly publish a preliminary list with an overview of current points and players after tournaments (that are included in our calendar) have been finished. There is no need to register for this initiative, we will automatically include all female players who participate at above mentioned tournaments.

It is in our interest to include as many closed female tournaments as possible. If you would like to be a part of this initiative, as an organizer, and support female players this way, and promote your female event, please drop us a message and we will gladly include you. The tournament’s list will expand throughout the year, as we will also regularly announce an “Open call of interest” for all organizers of women’s tournaments.

The program “Supported by the FIDE Development fund“