The 25th European Women’s Chess Championship starts this Monday in Rhodes, Greece, and will be played from 31 March to 11 April 2025 in *****Rodos Palace Conference Hotel.
The Championship gathers nearly 140 players coming from 34 European federations, including 7 Grandmasters, 22 Woman Grandmasters, 25 International Masters and 20 Woman International masters.
The top seeded players are: GM Nino Batsiashvili (GEO, 2473), IM Teodora Injac (SRB, 2454), IM Meri Arabidze (GEO, 2447), IM Stavroula Tsolakidou (GRE, 2445), IM Dinara Wagner (GER, 2440), IM Olga Badelka (AUT, 2429), IM Lela Javakhishvili (GEO, 2429), GM Anna Ushenina (UKR, 2428), GM Antoaneta Stefanova (BUL, 2426), and GM Bella Khotenashvili (GEO, 2418).
IM Ulviyya Fataliyeva (AZE, 2387) defends the title, after winning the European Women’s Chess Championship 2024 which took place last year in the same venue.
Complete starting list of players can be found here.
The Championship will be played in 11 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes until the end of the game, with 30-second increment for each move, starting from move one.
The European Women’s Chess Championship 2025 is a qualification event for the FIDE Women’s World Chess Cup. According to the decision of the ECU, at least 10 players will qualify*.
*Under the current FIDE Women’s World Cup regulations, FIDE is the only body responsible for rules
of FIDE Women’s World Cup the qualification spots.
The total prize fund of the event is 60.000 EUR, with 10.000 EUR reserved for the Winner.
Live broadcast of the games together with commentaries by GM Alojzije Jankovic and Dragana Nikolovska can be followed through the ECU TV platform, or the ECU YouTube channel.
The event is co-organised with the Region of South Aegean.
